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
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…
January 27, 2026
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s attendance at China’s Victory Day parade in September reflects a potentially ominous development in Northeast Asia’s regional security landscape. At Tiananmen Square, Kim stood alongside Chinese and Russian leaders—just as his grandfather did in 1959—a display widely interpreted as a gesture of opposition to the United States and the Western-led…
December 4, 2025
On October 28, U.S. President Donald Trump visited Gyeongju, South Korea, for a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. This visit, which follows his trips to Malaysia and Japan, marks Trump’s second state visit to South Korea since the first one in 2017.…
November 1, 2025
The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) led a delegation to visit Grand Rapids, Michigan, from September 30 to October 2, hosted by the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan. The trip was the fifth and final Future of Korea (FOK) program KEI held this year to foster greater public understanding and appreciation of South…