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North Korea’s Pandemic Conundrum: Self-Containment and Humanitarian Crisis
...after acknowledging the pandemic cases, a humanitarian crisis has loomed. To prevent the crisis, this issue brief posits that the international community should consider providing sufficient necessities to the North...
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South Korea’s Relations With China and the US Under President-elect Yoon
...over Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party. The election has been portrayed in the South Korean press as choosing the least unpopular candidate. Any regular election in South Korea...
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North Korean Nationalism: Reading the Paleolithic Text
...cultural and historical frames of reference of North Korea as a state and people leads to stereotypes, misperceptions, and even contributes to confrontation. The purpose of this brief paper is...
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Not a Sovereignty Issue: Understanding the Transition of Military Operational Control between the United States and South Korea
...October 2009 and March 2012. In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak agreed to delay OPCON transition to December 2015. However, as North Korea...
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Taiwan-Marshall Islands Relations: Against the Tide
...as the RMI’s status-seeking efforts, which often trump material considerations. * The ROC will intermittently be referred to as Taiwan throughout this issue brief. To date China refuses to acknowledge...
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Negotiating North Korea’s Nukes
...also deteriorated as the conservative administrations of Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye insisted on North Korea’s denuclearization as a precondition for engagement. With the incoming Trump administration, 2017 was a...
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How to Score the U.S.-DPRK Hanoi Summit
...further denuclearization measures by showing clearly the benefits of inter-Korean economic cooperation once North Korea makes serious progress in their denuclearization efforts. Read the full article in the Seoul Economic...
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Economic Cooperation Can’t Lead to Denuclearization
Summary: A long-awaited second Trump-Kim summit will be held in Hanoi soon. Despite the high expectations, experts are worrying about the possibility that the summit will end in...
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Window of Opportunity: Breaking Impasse on the Korean Peninsula
...North Korea’s willingness to improve ties and deescalate tensions with South Korea after a decade of largely frosty relations under the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations. Yet whether it...
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South Korea’s Air Pollution: Gasping for Solutions
...priorities. For instance, President Lee Myung-bak’s “Green Growth Policy” – a flagship policy aimed at achieving a carbon-free society – was de facto jettisoned by his successor, President Park Geun-hye....