News & Media

On March 27, 2018, ISDP hosted a forum on Inter-Korean relations after the Pyeongchang Olympics. The forum featured presentations by Jon Min Dok, Director at the Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP), Pyongyang, and Park Hyeong Jung, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), Seoul. Both were Visiting Fellows at ISDP […]

March 28, 2018: Elliot Brennan was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about succession issues in Myanmar. “Despite the aging NLD leadership, there’s no comprehensive or clear agenda for the Lady’s successor […] While her president may be replaceable, she’s just not.”

ISDP is happy to have had Huang Fang from the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) as a Visiting Fellow from January to March 2018. She will now go back to China to finish her disseration on the American Middle Class. Keep in touch!

March 22, 2018: Svante Cornell was interviewed by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting  about Central Asia-Caucasus cooperation. “Right now, cooperation between the states of Central Asia and the Caucasus is underdeveloped, as is the case for regional cooperation more broadly. The main forms of cooperation in each region are bilateral, as in Azerbaijan-Georgia, or trilateral, as in […]

March 21, 2018: Elliot Brennan was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about changes in Myanmar. “The leadership is living on borrowed time […] They are all past the average life expectancy in Myanmar and they’ve all had very difficult lives.”

March 19, 2018: Mats Engman gave a lecture on the security situation in East Asia attended by Visiting Fellows from the DPRK and ROK, as well as ISDP interns and staff.    

March 16, 2018: Lars Vargö was interviewed by Aftonbladet (02:46) about the North Korean foreign minister’s visit to Sweden. “Jag utgår ifrån att detta har varit planerat ganska länge […] jag tror inte att förlängningen av besöket kommer plötsligt, utan detta har nog också varit planerat länge.”

March 16, 2018: ISDP was pleased to host a roundtable with Visiting Fellows Jon Min Dok and Sin Hyok from the Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Pyongyang. Discussions centered around developments on the Korean Peninsula since the end of the Pyeongchang Olympics.

March 15, 2018: Sangsoo Lee was interviewed by Radio Free Asia (Korean) about the visit by the North Korean foreign minister to Sweden. “If I go by my experience, official contact between the US and the DPRK in Stockholm is not likely to happen.”

March 15, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by the Associated Press with appearances in Fox News, the Washington Post, and The Telegraph, among others, talking about the meeting in Stockholm between the North Korean and Swedish Ministers for Foreign Affairs. “The assumption is of course that (they) will speak a bit about the proposed talks […]