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October 6, 2022: Sangsoo Lee, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center, was quoted in Radio Free Asia on North Korea’s missile tests. He explains that he thinks that North Korea is likely to conduct more missile tests, even a 7th nuclear test before the U.S. mid-term election. In response, the EU will also increase its […]

October 6, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in Dagens Nyheter on Hungary and Sweden’s NATO application. “It may be that Hungary is in the shadow of Turkey and is waiting. But for now, I think it’s a bit early to be worried,” said Anna Wieslander. You can read the whole […]

October 5, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, participates in the Warsaw Security Forum 2022 (October 4-5, 2022), one of the leading European security conferences devoted to transatlantic cooperation and focused on elaborating shared responses to common challenges, with an emphasis on the security of Central and Eastern Europe. Here you can find […]

October 5, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the Swedish Expressen on the increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula after the latest missile test. In the interview, Niklas Swanström explains that it is North Korea’s  most significant test since 2017. You can find the interview here (in Swedish).

October 4, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the Swedish news agency TT on North Korea’s latest missile test. Niklas Swanström explained that it was a convenient opportunity for North Korea to conduct the missile test and that a nuclear test is likely in the near future. You can read the article […]

October 4, 2022: Sangsoo Lee, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center, was quoted in Radio Free Asia: “I don’t think security issues would be a topic for the meeting. North Korea already knows the EU’s position on urgent international issues, such as the Ukraine-Russian war, China’s military rise and its (North Korea’s) nuclear weapon and […]

October 4, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted in The Print’s article “All eyes on India as Quad allies US, Japan, Australia call out China, Russia at Hawaii meet”: Jagannath Panda said the Hawaii TDMM is a reflection of how Australia, Japan and the US […]

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September 27, 2022: Sangsoo Lee, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center, participated in the annual conference of Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies on September 22, 2022. The topic of the conference was “Asia after the War in Ukraine: Re-imagining multilateralism and the risk of high-intensity conflict”, Sangsoo Lee was part of the panel “Will war […]

Larissa Stünkel (Research Fellow with ISDP’s Stockholm China Center), was invited to speak at the Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies in Ngapur, India. She discussed the current state of affairs in Cross-Strait relations and its impact on the global world order and later held a Q&A session with students. The talk was organized and hosted […]