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Paradise Jeju Island: a Tahiti in the South Pacific?

Jeju Island is one of Korea’s most attractive tourist destinations for Koreans and foreign visitors. Its reputation of unique beauty and majesty has been widely...

Kim Young-mok

March 20, 2012

Analysis

The Inconvenient Truth of North Korea’s Missile Test

By Sarah K. Yun On Friday, March 16, 2012, North Korea announced that it will launch a long-range rocket in April which will carry a...

Sarah Yun

March 16, 2012

Analysis

New Boss, Same as the Old Boss in North Korea, But Progress on Nukes

We now know that the “modest progress” after the U.S’s first meeting with North Korea after the death of Kim Jong-il actually meant that a...

Nicholas Hamisevicz

February 29, 2012

Analysis

Russia and the Six-Party Process in Korea

The stagnation of the six-party process has produced great anxiety in Russia over the future of the Korean peninsula. Indeed, in September 2010, even before...

Stephen Blank

February 15, 2012

Publication

South Korea and the Six-Party Talks: The Least Bad Option?

The six-party talks have been hindered by political shifts in the states involved, and especially by changing levels of support for the talks in Washington...

Charles K. Armstrong

February 15, 2012

Publication

Going Global: Issues Facing South Korea as an Emerging Nuclear Exporter

In the last year, South Korea has won a number of contracts for foreign nuclear sales against stiff competition from traditional nuclear suppliers, putting it...

Chen Kane

February 15, 2012

Publication

Korea, ASEAN, and East Asian Regionalism

As actors dwarfed in size by China and Japan, and reliant on a regional balance of power for security, Korea and ASEAN have parallel economic...

David Arase

February 15, 2012

Publication

U.S.-Russian-Chinese Cooperation for the Security of Korea

The United States, Russia, and China have cooperated to help deter North Korea from again invading the South and thus preventing Korean tensions to become...

Doug J. Kim

February 15, 2012

Publication

Tomorrow’s East Asia Today: Regional Security Cooperation for the 21st Century

Security cooperation in East Asia lags behind other forms of regional coopera- tion. The relationship among China, Japan, and the United States—the most powerful security...

Andrew L. Oros

February 15, 2012

Publication

North Korea and the Assassination that Wasn’t

By Troy Stangarone On February 10, rumors that Kim Jong-un had been assassinated at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing began to rapidly spread across...

Troy Stangarone

February 15, 2012

Analysis

Inter-Korean Tensions Affecting ROK Stock Market and Foreign Exchange Markets

The news of heightened military readiness in the North on May 25 reverberated through the Republic of Korea’s stock market and foreign exchange markets, prompting...

Marc Moson

February 14, 2012

Publication

The List of State Sponsors of Terrorism (Guide)

The Secretary of State has the responsibility to designate countries as state sponsors of terrorism. This document outlines the legal framework, background, and applications of...

Andrew Selman

February 14, 2012

Publication

Korea’s Defense Exports to India: The Tough Part of a Strategic Partnership

By Nicholas Hamisevicz Last month South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) commissioner Noh Dae-lae stated that DAPA had exceeded its defense exports goals last...

Nicholas Hamisevicz

February 3, 2012

Analysis

Pyongyang has an App for That: Sanctions and Luxury Goods in North Korea

Despite years of sanctions and isolation, foreign goods and modern consumer technologies continue to flow into North Korea providing elites with luxury goods and fueling...

Dr. Abraham Kim

January 20, 2012

Publication

Gateway to Inter-Korean Summits

Winston Churchill coined the term “summit” in the early 1950s to define meetings between leaders of great powers in the Cold War. While summits have...

Sarah Yun

January 20, 2012

Publication