Search results for: Sangsoo Lee %EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD
-
Missile Deployments on the Korean Peninsula: An Accelerating Arms Race
...Introduction South Korea’s significant improvements in its conventional force capabilities are an important driver of North Korean efforts to accelerate its development of more advanced ballistic missile and nuclear...
-
North Korea’s Economy is Recentralised and China-reliant
...a result, centralised economic policies have reasserted themselves, particularly after the United States refused North Korean demands for sanctions relief during the Hanoi Summit in February 2019. Kim has embraced...
-
“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...
-
New Roadmap for Denuclearization and Peacebuilding
...completes the process of denuclearization. However, there are also growing debates within the US that it could be more effective to take incremental steps and a parallel approach by providing...
-
U.S.-North Korea Denuclearization Negotiations: An Irresolvable Issue?
...that this publication was generously supported by the Korea Foundation. Introduction Despite previous efforts, the North Korean nuclear issue has remained unresolved for six decades since the country, with the...
-
Taiwan-Japan (Unofficial) Relations: In a Sea of Troubles
...afterwards Japan’s former Maritime Self-Defense-Force chief of staff, Tomohisa Takei pledged to strengthen military ties between Japan and Taiwan. Additionally, former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui expressed his wish “for the...
-
North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions Have Turned Into a Status-Quo Show
...in November. Meanwhile, Kim Jong-un is also not interested in meeting with Trump, who could leave the White House in early 2021, unless there is a prospect of sanctions relief....
-
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,...
-
The Dynamics of Democratized South Korean Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
In 1987, South Korea initiated a successful transition to democracy that has played a critical role in determining the government’s domestic and foreign policy. Paradoxically, the dynamics of...
-
What Does Denuclearisation Really Mean?
In full view of the international media, the destruction of North Korea’s nuclear testing ground at Punggye-ri went ahead on 24 May. Yet hours later, US President Donald...