Earlier this month, three U.S. senators took on North Korea (DPRK) by introducing a broad sanctions bill aimed at addressing concerns about cyberwarfare and the North’s continued nuclear ambitions.
Earlier this year in state of the nation addresses, both presidents stressed the importance of enhancing the lives of middle class families and their centrality to revitalizing their national economies. The work-family balance is no longer a matter of individual life, but a national (even global) issue that governments and policymakers should pick up and do something about.
Still in the nascent stage of planning, a Northeast Asia Development Bank would serve as a multilateral development bank (MDB) to attract investment in Northeast Asia, specifically intending to incentivize the DPRK to denuclearize through access to external capital for development.
After the month of August featured shooting, shouting, and a negotiated joint statement, September mainly focused on laying the groundwork necessary to implement the August 25 agreement or to scuttle it.
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.
Thinking through the international effects of the British election is also a reminder that Korea has global interests, and therefore events anywhere in the world can make a difference to Korea’s peace and prosperity.
There is a desire to replicate the Helsinki process in Northeast Asia as a tool to decrease tensions on the Korean peninsula and to improve the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
With Republicans winning a majority in the Senate for the first time in eight years, President Obama will face a Republican Congress for his final two years in office.
If the budget battles of recent years become a more permanent feature of U.S. domestic politics, the risk exists that the United States’ partners in Asia begin to see the U.S. as politically dysfunctional and as a result U.S. influence in the region wanes over time.
Kim Jong Un’s responses to U.S. offers of engagement with missile and nuclear tests effect the relationship more that his love of basketball.