Abstract South Korea’s alliance strategies for the past several years have demonstrated that Seoul has a strong desire to maintain the US–South Korean alliance and…
Country or Region: North Korea
Abstract Science can serve as an attractive mode for trust building and cooperative engagement between countries where formal political or diplomatic relations have been strained…
Abstract In this article I present competing patterns of discursive reconstruction of German reunification in South Korean public spheres and the methods of mobilizing them…
Abstract The contested Sino-Korean border issue has received very little study. Making use of presently available sources in the several different archives in China and…
Abstract Nowhere is China’s aid program both more important and yet less understood than with North Korea. This article examines two puzzles: China’s aid to…
Abstract The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in 2011 presents Russian president Vladimir Putin with an opportunity to regain influence on the Korean…
Continue reading Park, Chang Kyoo, Er-Win Tan, and Geetha Govindasamy
Abstract Compared with the first North Korean nuclear crisis in the mid-1990s, the second North Korean nuclear crisis of the early 2000s reveals very different…
Abstract I review the principle of reciprocity in South Korean security policy with regard to North Korea and the United States and analyze how the…
Abstract The George W. Bush administration resorted to war to respond to the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, whereas it virtually ruled…
Abstract While the thought of a regional community in East Asia comparable to the European Union is premature, I consider the transforming international relationships among…
Abstract After Kim Jong-il’s confession in 2002 that North Korean agents had abducted thirteen Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s, North Korea has become…
Abstract As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama boldly promised to enhance US engagement with North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; DPRK). But in his…
Abstract Once described as ‘as close as lips and teeth’, in recent years the relationship between China and North Korea has become more strained. Beijing…
Abstract The security environment surrounding Japan grows ever more complex and diversified, combining traditional and non- traditional security challenges as never before. China’s robust and…
Abstract Even if the immediate Korean crisis eases, the underlying problem of a crippled but dangerous North Korean state will remain. The state, as we…
