Search results for: JeongWon Bourdais Park
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THAAD on the Korean Peninsula
...Summary The decision to deploy the anti-missile defense system THAAD was made in July 2016 by the previous South Korean government under President Park Geun-hye. The first launchers became...
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Taking Back Control: South Korea and the Politics of OPCON Transfer
...citing budget limitations and security concerns following the Cheonan incident with North Korea in 2010. On similar grounds, Lee’s successor Park Geun-hye requested yet another postponement in the aftermath of...
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Hong Kong in China’s Geopolitical Gaze
...Park (where annual vigils, in remembrance of victims in the crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, take place) to Chater Garden (location of the Hong Kong Court of Final...
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Looking Forward: South Korea-Japan Dialogue and East Asian Security…was reached on March 6 of this year when Foreign Minister Park Jin proposed a public compensation fund financed primarily by Korean companies. Japanese PM Kishida Fumio appreciated the outcome, calling…
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Friends, Whether They Like It or Not: U.S.-ROK-Japan…was signed under less-than-ideal circumstances and by the then military dictator of Korea, Park Chung-hee, a former member of the Manchukuo Imperial Army. Korea claims that Japan never seems to…
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“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...
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The Case for Multilateralism: The Korean Peninsula in a Regional Context
...key pillar of the “trustpolitik” policy initiated by former South Korean President Park Geun-Hye – simultaneously with the Korean Peninsula Trust-building Processs and the Eurasia Initiative. The initiative espoused a...
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After the Pyeongchang Olympics: Prospects for Inter-Korean Relations
...In his essay, Hyeong Jung Park, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, ROK, places greater emphasis on the motivations and dynamics behind the thaw in relations....
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South Korea’s Air Pollution: Gasping for Solutions
...the Seoul metropolitan area.[3] This action has been welcomed by both the public and the media. These actions are in stark contrast to the previous Park administration, which appeared industry-friendly...
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Ticking Clocks: Erdoğan and Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum
...a shopping mall in Istanbul’s Gezi Park by announcing that he would await the outcome of a court case about the project. Instead, Erdoğan vowed that he would push ahead...