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Fri, October 18, 2019 | 01:07

No big expectations for talks

Vice-ministerial talks between the two Koreas scheduled for December 11 at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, are without a fixed agenda. The objective set is to have dialogue on a range of issues within inter-Korean relations, but this is not expected to break new ground. It is still possible to make a positive step toward mutually beneficial cooperation by moving away from tension and volatility to stability and peaceful coexistence.

2015-12-06 16:54

N. Korea: forget-me-not

In the midst of an unending series of ferociousattacks by ISIL and other “extreme Islam terrorists” - in Paris, Turkey, and most recently in Mali - that keeps shocking a divided international community with respect to how to eliminate the sources of global terrorism, North Korea refuses to be forgotten.

2015-11-22 16:49

South Korea's balancing act

South Korea continues to play a delicate balancing act in its increasingly complicated relationships with China, Japan and the United States. At the ASEAN defense ministers’ meeting in Kuala Lumpur last week, the South Korean defense minister supported the U.S. secretary of defense in proposing a statement for inclusion in a joint statement that called for restraint from further militarization of reclaimed islands in the South China Sea and the protection of the conventional freedom of navigation as guaranteed by international law.

2015-11-08 16:14

'Abject failure' on North Korea

One positive outcome of President Park Geun-hye’s recent visit to Washington was that it brought Washington’s attention back to the Korean peninsula issue, which had long been on the backburner due to other urgent issues around the globe _ including Crimea, ISIS, Iran, and Syria.

2015-10-25 17:29

Stagnant US policy on Korea

During his visit to Seoul last week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken very much summed up what the current U.S. policy is toward the Korean Peninsula and the East Asian region and how it is being carried out. Nothing new, but an update of where the things are after the visits to Washington by the leaders of Japan and China and before the visit by the South Korean president.

2015-10-11 16:53

For inter-Korean relations

North Korea is expected to hold a large military parade, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of its Korean Workers Party on Oct. 10. Through such show of force, the North Korean regime demonstrates the capabilities of its military equipment and personnel to defend the country and the military's loyalty to its leader.

2015-09-13 16:58

Dialogue decreases tension

Another crisis that could have caused an outbreak of war in Korea was avoided by a dramatic inter-Korean agreement reached on Aug. 25. The two Koreas agreed to reduce tension and avoid a military confrontation, while pursuing dialogue to improve inter-Korean relations. The leaders of both sides, President Park Geun-hye and Kim Jong-un, welcomed the breakthrough as a new opportunity to resolve their differences peacefully through dialogue.

2015-08-30 16:58

US politics and Korea

President Barak Obama still has more than a year and five months left of his term, but the general mood of the American public treats him as a lame duck that cannot do much to turn around the country’s pessimistic state of affairs.

2015-08-16 15:53

Inconsistent foreign policy

Under a presidential system, democratic states can enter treaties or agreements with sovereign foreign states on important security issues, normally with the consent of their legislatures. However, the implementation of an agreement by an incumbent administration is not necessarily guaranteed by its succeeding administration.

2015-08-02 17:33

Iran deal's impact on N. Korea

In the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal - a long-term, multi-faceted plan to prevent Iran from making a nuclear weapon - attention is drawn to the North Korean nuclear issue. Would Pyongyang or Washington try one more time to settle the denuclearization issue through negotiation? Iran and North Korea are certainly different cases in several ways. Yet, the process of negotiation and the substance detailed in the final agreement reached by P5+1/EU and Iran could suggest how a resumed nuclear negotiation with North Korea might lead to success.

2015-07-19 17:00

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