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Sat, August 8, 2020 | 15:34

To resume talks with NK

Nuclear talks with North Korea are on hold. There is no inter-Korean dialogue. North Korea is piling up more fissile material and perfecting its strategic warheads and missiles. The United States keeps toughening up on sanctions. Nobody knows how long this standoff will last. We all know that this does not bode well for any party.

2020-07-27 17:27

It's up to North Korea

Recently, we have heard a flurry of discussions about the possibility of resuming negotiations or holding another summit between the U.S. and North Korea. It would be safe to conclude at this point that despite positive statements from Washington seeking dialogue with Pyongyang, a fourth summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un is unlikely to take place before the U.S. elections.

2020-07-13 16:58

Deciphering North Korean tactics

North Korea has just run through another pattern of escalating and de-escalating tensions with the South. The recent escalation - which started over the scattering of leaflets by some North Korean defector groups living in the South - was ended by Kim Jong-un's decision at the June 23 “preliminary meeting” of the Workers' Party's Central Military Commission to call off military action plans against the South.

2020-06-29 17:58

Cycle of Korean confrontation

North Korea's strategic offensive against the South is back in full swing, cutting off ties and threatening to take military retaliation because of the scattering of leaflets by two defector groups in the South, for “insulting and defaming the absolute prestige and the great dignity” of its leader Kim Jong-un.

2020-06-15 17:15

Tumultuous time for S. Korea

U.S. President Trump's May 29 decision to revoke U.S. preferential treatment of Hong Kong following China's national security legislation for the city of “one country with two systems” confirms the beginning of a fierce Cold War between the two most powerful nations in the world. Washington is also withdrawing from the World Health Organization, which Trump has said was “China-centric” and incompetent in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. China says these measures will backfire to hurt the United States.

2020-06-01 17:14

US-China Cold War

Perhaps Sino-American relations are at their lowest since Nixon's opening of China in 1972. The bitter recriminations on the handling of the coronavirus between Washington and Beijing, with neither party backing down as it aggravates the deterioration of their relations, are raising the specter of a new Cold War. This danger comes at the wrong time and for the wrong reason.

2020-05-18 16:58

Kim Jong-un reappears

On May 1, Kim Jong-un attended the completion ceremony for the Suncheon Phosphate Fertilizer Plant near Pyongyang. His reappearance effectively put to sleep three weeks of swirling speculation on his health, his whereabouts, and even the discussion of a succession prospect in anticipation of his death.

2020-05-04 17:47

Exemplary election

Democracy is working in South Korea amid the global coronavirus pandemic. The general election for the National Assembly was conducted safely and calmly last week, with meticulously built-in measures against COVID-19.

2020-04-20 17:16

Reflections during COVID-19 crisis

On April 3, North Korea's “state emergency anti-epidemic headquarters” claimed there were no confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and only around 500 people remained in quarantine across the country.

2020-04-06 17:35

Politics of coronavirus

The coronavirus has spread to over 150 countries, with over 306,000 confirmed cases and more than 13,000 fatalities. The world already seems like it's heading for recession because of the virus. What political impact the coronavirus will have on the countries it has infected is not knowable at this point.

2020-03-23 18:00

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