While it is natural for there to be a desire for justice after a regime such as North Korea’s collapses, practical matters often intervene.

In the first and only free elections in the German Democratic Republic’s history East Germans, voted for political parties that ran on a platform of unification.

Looking at Germany today, one key takeaway from its experience is that unification will come quickly, but the integration of the two economies and societies will be a multi-generational process.

Although short of being a treaty, potential new new norms being negotiated by China and the United States could have longer-term implications, including for addressing cyber threats from North Korea.

With China now South Korea’s most significant export market, how responsible is the economic slowdown in China for the sharp decline in South Korean exports?

On September 1 new trade figures for the month of August indicated that South Korea’s exports had dropped 14.7 year-on-year continuing a trend since January that has seen year-on-year monthly declines.