70 Years of Two Koreas: The ’47 UN Vote For Elections
The past year of 2017 has been one of great change, tension and uncertainty on the Korean Peninsula. The...
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Trade or No Trade: China’s DPRK Dilemma
Nuclear weapons expert and founder of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), David Albright, recently published a...
Peninsular Denuclearization: Facing Historical Odds
Since the end of the Cold War, the North Korean nuclear program has dominated not only regional, but also...
Going Against the Grain: Japan’s Choice of Self-Restraint
In much of the world, the political current has changed course from globalization towards nationalism. While military spending and...
Candidate Moon Jae-in: The good, the bad and the ugly
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed the impeached president, Park Geun-hye, from office, and a general election for the new...
Why THAAD is Good for Nothing
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is once again in the news in South Korea, the US, China and...
North Korea’s ICBM Development
North Korea recently announced through its state-run Central News Agency that it had successfully created and tested an intercontinental...
The role of Ideology in North Korea.
What is ideology in North Korea? It is, as the author Hyung Gu Lynn wrote, a monumental illusion characterized...