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Public Opinion in South Korea: Insights into Relations with U.S., China and Japan

Public opinion can help to both shape and inform public policy. A president with strong approval numbers across ideological divides has significant scope to make policy decisions. While a national…

October 24, 2013

North Korea’s Satellite Launch: Mark Fitzpatrick - IISS

With North Korea announcing to the world that it will be attempting to launch a second satellite for 2012, many analysts have been speculating as to why Pyongyang is so…

December 7, 2012

How Korea’s English-Language Media is Changing the World: A Discussion with Sohn, Jie-Ae, Arirang TV

In this episode, Korean Kontext speaks with Ms. Jie-ae Sohn, President of Arirang TV & Radio, Korea’s first English language international broadcast system. Ms. Sohn worked as the former CNN…

April 5, 2012

Ambassador’s Wolsetenholme and Choo

This episode of Korean Kontext has a distinctly British flavor, featuring interviews with two leading Ambassador’s that work closely on UK and Korea related affairs. While recently in London, Korean…

February 23, 2012

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Bilateral Competition and Cooperation Under New Leadership

In the first months of 2013 the leadership transitions in Northeast Asia were completed. After a year in office Kim Jong-un was consolidating his grip on power and clarifying, through…

September 3, 2013

Robert Sutter, Scott Snyder, Sergey Radchenko, Cheol Hee Park

China's National Identity and the Sino-U.S. National Identity Gap: Views from Four Countries

The countries bordering China are in the forefront in facing the challenge of a widening divide between China and the United States. Others, including those in Parts I and III,…

September 3, 2013

Gilbert Rozman, See-Won Byun, Ming Wan, William Callahan

Prospects and Challenges for Korean Reunification

In April 2013 North Korea was determined to show the world that it was prepared to stop at nothing in order to be accepted as a nuclear power. Instead of…

September 3, 2013

Ho-Yeol Yoo, Dr. John Park, Dr. Abraham Kim

The United States and China

2012 was a year of leadership transition in China and a presidential election in the United States. At the 18th Congress of China’s Communist Party in November, Hu Jintao passed…

September 3, 2013

This briefing comes from Korea View, a weekly newsletter published by the Korea Economic Institute. Korea View aims to cover developments that reveal trends on the Korean Peninsula but receive little attention in the United States. If you would like to sign up, please find the online form here. What Happened For the fifth year in a row, the…