News & Media

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 […]

March 15, 2018: Lars Vargö appeared on P4 Extra (05:50) to talk about the visit by the North Korean foreign minister to Sweden. “Det är ett möte som förhoppningsvis kan leda bort från konfrontation, mot avspänning.”

March 15, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by SVT about the North Korean foreign minister coming to Sweden.   ”Nordkorea har en stor respekt för Sverige vilket underlättar. Frågan är om USA har en färdig strategi för Nordkorea och vilken roll Sverige spelar i den. Men det är mycket möjligt att man sonderar terräng”

March 15, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter about the possibility  of a meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump happening in Sweden. “Vad Sverige kan göra är att erbjuda en plattform för dialog. Vi slår väl lite över vår viktklass. Sveriges möjligheter är begränsade. Vi jobbar med förtroende mer än något annat.”

March 15, 2018: Gareth Jenkins was interviewed by Al-Monitor about Turkey’s foreign policy ambitions. “What we’ve seen in the Aegean and with the detention of the two soldiers is symptomatic of something larger in Turkey, rather than being specifically related to Greece. We have seen the same brinkmanship in Afrin and in taking nationals of Germany and […]