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Is Tehran that similar to Pyongyang? Our post responds to PM Netanyahu's claim that a nuclear armed Iran means "another 50 North Koreas"
As we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the 1953 ROK/U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty we should keep in mind that celebrate is the right word for...
This PDF is the full publication and contains all of the following sections: KEI Board of Directors KEI Advisory Council Preface Bilateral Competition and Cooperation...
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...
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 April 2013 North Korea was determined to show the world that it was prepared to stop at nothing in order to be accepted as...
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...
When in November 2012 the CCP unveiled its new Political Standing Committee, with Xi Jinping at its head, Russian Prime Minister and the Chairman of...
The relationship between South Korea and Japan resembles a seesaw or a pendulum. Ups and downs are normal. The Lee Myong-bak administration is no exception,...
The U.S.-South Korea alliance has flourished under Presidents Obama and Lee Myungbak. It is difficult to find words of criticism for the alliance in either...
In his recent work Gilbert Rozman explains the growing tensions between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and United States in terms of the symbolic...
How do the Japanese view the Sino-U.S. national identity gap? Their views are naturally informed by their own national identities and their national identity gaps...
Despite turbulence in its bilateral relations with Japan and South Korea over the past several years, China has expressed a continuing and growing interest in...
As with many complex situations, any effort to address the question of how competing regional interests would play out in response to Korean reunification begins...
The Park Geun-hye administration’s foreign policy/North Korean policy keyword is “trust,” which is intended to be the base on which to build a “New Korean...