Search results for: Sang Hyun Lee
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South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, Atmanirbhar Bharat, and the IPEF: Convergence and Commonality
...Economic Relations,” (last updated) August 18, 2023, https://www.eoibeijing.gov.in/eoibejing_pages/MjQ, (accessed on August 19, 2023) [6] Korea International Trade Association (KITA), “All Countries,” http://kita.org/kStat/byCount_AllCount.do (accessed on August 20, 2023) [7] Song Seung-hyun,...
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What Comes Next for North Korea-Russia Relations?
...partners. The development is particularly noteworthy in the context of an increasingly strong Japan-South Korea-U.S. trilateral. Read this piece by Gabriela Bernal and Sangsoo Lee published in The Diplomat....
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Seeking Pivotal Partnership: India and Korea
...call for a more active and global Korea is not necessarily a new one. In that sense, the transition from Lee Myung-bak’s “Global Korea” – also pursued by subsequent leaders...
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Denuclearizing North Korea: Challenges and Opportunities after Hanoi
...Sang Hyun Lee dissects the non-deal outcome between the U.S. and North Korea at the Hanoi Summit and what the future prospects for diplomacy are. Lee argues that, despite...
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Politics in East Asia Today: Between Democracy, Debates, and Discourse
...in the world goes hand in hand with a global power shift; and Yeau-Tarn Lee discusses how the democratization in Taiwan impacts the prospects for peace across the Taiwan Strait....
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“A People’s Peace”: Inclusive Peacebuilding and the Role of Civil Society in Korea
...politicized. Subsequently, under the conservative administrations of Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, which took a more conditional approach to engagement with North Korea, progressive civil society groups lost favor and...
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Not a Sovereignty Issue: Understanding the Transition of Military Operational Control between the United States and South Korea
...Hyun requested the United States return wartime OPCON as a means of regaining South Korean national sovereignty and pride by “overcoming the nation’s psychological dependence on the United States”. The...
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Taking Back Control: South Korea and the Politics of OPCON Transfer
...the U.S., thus shedding the image in Pyongyang of Seoul as Washington’s junior partner, would facilitate North-South rapprochement. The subsequent conservative president, Lee Myung-bak, postponed the OPCON transfer to 2015,...
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How to Score the U.S.-DPRK Hanoi Summit
Summary: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un will soon meet for the 2nd U.S.-DPRK summit in Hanoi. How should we score the outcome of this historic...
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Economic Cooperation Can’t Lead to Denuclearization
Summary: A long-awaited second Trump-Kim summit will be held in Hanoi soon. Despite the high expectations, experts are worrying about the possibility that the summit will end in...