In 2017, attention turned to the Korean Peninsula as South Korea removed Park Geun-hye from office and North Korea advanced its weapons programs.

It is more likely North Korea will seek to raise tensions in the rub up to the 2018 Winter Olympics than to embrace dialogue or more extreme measures.

There was little reason to believe that North Korea had halted its ICBM tests in the hopes of opening the door to dialogue.

China failed to realize that the dispute over THAAD wasn’t about bilateral relations with China, but the need to defend against North Korea.

The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang could provide an avenue for China to signal a softening of its position on sanctions over THAAD.

The decision by the Moon Administration to shift from coal and nuclear power to LNG has long-term implications for South Korea’s trade surplus with the United States.