Insights from German Unification: Dealing with Political Prisoners after Unification
During East Germany’s 41 years of the existence there were some 250,000 political prisoners.
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During East Germany’s 41 years of the existence there were some 250,000 political prisoners.
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...
Looking at Germany today, one key takeaway from its experience is that unification will come quickly, but the integration of the two economies and societies...
Like the standoff over the Kaesong Industrial Complex when North Korea pulled its workers in April 2013, the Park Geun-hye administration was able to stand...
What do the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Guantanamo Bay, and the Galapagos islands have in common? While two of the three serve important national security...
According to at least one poll, South Korea has a higher opinion of the United States than the United States has of itself.
When it’s a hot summer day in July, one often has to make the strategic calculation of what particular circumstances would require one to leave...
Many of the inter-Korean related activities that took place in May involved Kaesong in some way.
“Survive and advance” is a phrase often associated with the month of March with the NCAA basketball tournament in the United States, but the phrase...
March was expected to be a difficult month for inter-Korean relations with the joint U.S.-ROK military exercises taking place and the lack of progress between...
With Koreans returning from the Lunar New Year holidays, another opportunity to return to a better state of inter-Korean affairs passed as well.
Are inter-Korean already headed down the path of lost New Years' Resolution in 2015?
One venue for international cooperation with the DPRK is through a United Nations regional agency headquartered in South Korea, the United Nations Economic and Social...
Looking back on inter-Korean relations in 2014 could give insights to help improve the possibility for a better year between the two Koreas in 2015.
After the disappointment of not getting a high-level meeting following the Incheon Asian Games agreement, it looked like inter-Korean relations would remain stalled until 2015.