The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) is pleased to issue Vol. 3, Issue 2 of its new flagship journal, Korea Policy. Our new online journal carries forward the objective…
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Ellen Kim is director of academic affairs at KEI. Previously, she was deputy director and senior fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Her research focuses on U.S.-Korea relations, North Korea, and U.S.-China strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific. She joined the Korea Chair upon its inception in 2009 and previously served as associate director and fellow before her departure in 2015. “She is the coauthor of North Korea’s Sea-Based WMD Capability: The Second Leg of the Nuclear Triad (with Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr. and Victor Cha, Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2025) and China’s Weaponization of Trade: Resistance Through Collective Resilience (with Victor Cha and Andy Lim, Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2026).
She holds a PhD in political science and international relations from the University of Southern California, an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a BA in international relations and Japanese studies from Wellesley College.
December 15, 2025
The war in Iran is shaking the world. As the conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran shows signs of spilling over into neighboring Middle Eastern countries, concerns are growing that a surge in oil prices resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will provoke a prolonged global energy security crisis. At…
March 23, 2026
The inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial was held in Washington, DC, on February 4, drawing significant attention to multilateral cooperation on securing mineral resources. The Donald Trump administration, which restructured the Mineral Security Partnership (MSP) into the Forum on Resource Geostrategic Engagement (FORGE), proposed to the fifty-four participating countries and the European Commission the creation of…
February 24, 2026
The U.S.-South Korea relationship underwent profound changes in 2025 due to a myriad of factors, including new leadership, protectionist trade policies, and continued volatility on the Korean Peninsula and across the Indo-Pacific. As both countries grapple with new realities in the bilateral relationship, Seoul faces the challenge of strengthening alliance credibility while expanding strategic autonomy…
February 2, 2026
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung began 2026 with active regional diplomacy, visiting China and Japan in the first two weeks of the year. Lee’s trips were critical for assessing whether South Korea can sustain pragmatic diplomacy at a moment when tensions between China and Japan are intensifying over Taiwan, and both countries seek to…