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Is Trump Right to Suggest that South Korea and Japan Should Go Nuclear?

As Donald Trump beings to lay out more of his thinking on U.S. foreign policy, one issue that is gaining attention is his suggestion that...

Troy Stangarone

March 30, 2016

Analysis

Why China Will Implement the New UNSC Resolution

In the face of a North Korean missile volley protesting the recent passing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2270, China has once again called...

Thomas Lee

March 9, 2016

Analysis

Comprehensive List of the International Community’s Response to North Korea’s Missile and Nuclear Tests

On January 6 North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test and its second successful satellite launch on February 7, 2016. The following is a collection...

March 4, 2016

Analysis

North Korea’s Increasing Disregard for China

When senior Chinese diplomat Wu Dawei left for North Korea in early February to persuade Kim to step down from his threat of launching a...

Thomas Lee

March 3, 2016

Analysis

How Might North Korea Respond to the New UN Sanctions?

With the passage of a new round of sanctions against North Korea, there is an expectation that Pyongyang will not go gracefully into negotiations over...

Troy Stangarone

March 2, 2016

Analysis

Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2015

This is the full PDF of the 2015 edition of Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies. Please click here to download the individual chapters included in this...

February 29, 2016

Publication

Dealing with North Korean Provocations: A Chinese Perspective

For a variety of reasons, North Korea at times behaves in a provocative fashion. This chapter starts with a discussion of the concept of provocation...

Cheng Xiaohe

February 29, 2016

Publication

Defense Cooperation Among Japan, the United States, and the ROK: Dealing with the DPRK

This chapter is about how Japan prepares to respond to provocations from North Korea. As background factors, we need to consider how Japan is altering...

Ohara Bonji

February 29, 2016

Publication

Reinforcing Deterrence: The U.S. Military Response to North Korean Provocations

When speaking to a Korean audience, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) invariably inserts the Korean phrase katchi kapshida ( 같이 갑시다), “we go...

Terence Roehrig

February 29, 2016

Publication

A South Korean Perspective on Dealing with North Korean Provocations: Challenges and Opportunities

Despite President Park Geun-hye’s efforts to improve inter-Korean relations, Kim Jongun’s North Korea has never shown any willingness to give up its nuclear ambitions and...

Hong Kyudok

February 29, 2016

Publication

Introduction | Dealing with North Korean Provocations

Provocations by North Korea can take various forms: weapons tests, acts of direct violence, cyber attacks, threatening force buildups, etc. Individually and as a group,...

Gilbert Rozman

February 29, 2016

Publication

Japanese National Identity and the Search for Realism Toward North Korea and Russia

North Korea and Russia are seen as posing an increasingly dangerous military threat as we enter 2015, and the responses of other states to them...

Gilbert Rozman

February 29, 2016

Publication

Family, Mobile Phones, and Money: Contemporary Practices of Unification on the Korean Peninsula

Moving from the powerful and abstract construct of ethnic homogeneity as bearing the promise for unification, this chapter instead considers family unity, facilitated by the...

Sandra Fahy

February 29, 2016

Publication

Introduction | National Identities and the Future of North Korea

North Korea is a country easy to approach emotionally. For anyone with even a little twinge of conscience toward human rights, it evokes disgust. For...

Gilbert Rozman

February 29, 2016

Publication

Korea Between the United States and China: How Does Hedging Work?

“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies.” The words of the 19thcentury British statesman Lord Palmerstone seem to resonate in 21st-century...

Park Jin

February 26, 2016

Publication