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April 27, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Expressen TV about the Moon-Kim summit. “Man kommer definitivt att diskutera en normalisering av relationerna och det kommer i förlängningen förhoppningsvis att leda mot ett fredsavtal. Ett fredsavtal skulle vara en slutpunkt som båda partnerna ser som mycket intressant.”

May 5, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by TT with articles in Svenska Dagbladet, UNT and Aftonbladet among others about the release of prisoners from North Korea. “Det är en signal från Nordkorea om att man visar en kompromissvilja och tar samtalen seriöst.” 

On April 26-27, 2018, the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) organized the second installment of the conference series East Asia Research in Sweden. The first conference in the series took place in May 2017 in Stockholm and provided an arena to discuss the current state of East Asia Research in Sweden. This year, […]

May 9, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Nippon Television Network about Kim Jong-un’s trip to China and the at the time yet to be disclosed location of the meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un potentially being Singapore. “This is the first time a North Korean leader arrives by plane. This could be a […]

May 7, 2018: Niklas Swanström and Sangsoo Lee gave presentations at a joint roundtable between ISDP and the Ilmin International Relations Institute, ROK, in Seoul. The topic of the roundtable was the role of UN agencies for Korean unification.

On April 23, 2018, ISDP hosted a forum at the Jernkontoret conference center in Stockholm, on combatting violent extremism. The event was held in coordination with the Moroccan Embassy in Stockholm, and featured a number of experts on counter-terrorism and Islamic extremism. The forum was moderated by Dr Niklas Swanström, Executive Director of ISDP. Introductory […]

April 26, 2018: Mats Engman was interviewed by Radio Sweden’s P1 Morgon about Kim Jong-un’s upcoming meeting with Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom. “Det förefaller som att man har en ambition att komma bort från vapenskramlet som har karaktäriserat den senaste tiden, och att man är beslutsamma att hitta en väg som leder mot avspänning.”

April 26, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Radio Sweden about the summit between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un. “Det är klart att den frågan kommer att hamna på bordet, ganska tidigt. Sen är det ett problem här. Hur ska man göra det här, i vilket steg ska en sådan här normalisering av relationerna komma […]

April 19, 2018: Svante Cornell, S. Frederick Starr and Julian Tucker’s new Silk Road Paper on secularism in Kazakhstan was cited in the Astana Times. “As the survey shows, religion has a prominent place in present-day Kazakh society, but believers stand in opposition to political religious expression. Only 10 percent of the nation’s Muslims support Sharia […]

April 18, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Radio Sweden about the role China can play on the Korean Peninsula. “Man har det ekonomiska inflytandet, men det politiska inflytandet är rätt begränsat. Vi har nu en kinesisk toppdiplomat som åker fem dagar till Sydkorea för att prata om Koreahalvön, och han är nu vägrad inträde […]