According to news reports, the State Department will soon publish a new regulation to ban Americans from visiting North Korea for tourism.

Last week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released its Summary of Objectives for the NAFTA Renegotiation, providing a window into how the administration may pursue updating the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA).

Last March, President Donald Trump directed the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to prepare an Omnibus Report on Significant Trade Deficits within 90 days.

Since the end of the Korean War, over 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted around the world.

While sanctioning Chinese entities that are evading sanctions to do business with North Korea is a key step, the administration should continue to go after non-Chinese actors engaged in sanctioned activities with North Korea.

With summer already well underway, KEI staff members wanted to share a few books that are on our personal reading lists before autumn is on our doorstep!