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Fri, April 3, 2020 | 08:41

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

Conflicting signals

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a common enemy to all of humanity that is still spreading globally, North Korea was busy last week, disclosing what it is doing internally but showing no signs of change on the nuclear issue or its path to self-reliance. It was sending seemingly conflicting signals to the South. Washington is trying to make sure that the North does not cross the red line.

2020-03-09 17:03

Concern and uncertainty

We are going through an uneasy period of concern and uncertainty. We don't know when or how the coronavirus epidemic will end. However, we know that when the epidemic subsides, the North Korean issue will resurface. We don't know how the current flux in the security order in the region may evolve in the coming years.

2020-02-24 17:42

Two Koreas and US

As a protracted stalemate is settling on nuclear negotiations, it's been quiet on the North Korean front - with no provocations. Pyongyang appears focused on its internal agenda. It is busy realigning its party apparatus, shuffling party cadres; and carrying out its self-reliance policy to breach the barriers of sanctions to economic development.

2020-02-10 17:01

Test in March on N. Korea

North Korea is staying the hardline course: refusing calls for talks without U.S. acceptance of its demands and waging an all-out self-reliance campaign for a “head-on” fight against sanctions, while developing nuclear weapons. This head-on policy was opted for by Kim Jong-un during an expanded Central Committee meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea held at the end of December.

2020-01-29 17:44

N. Korea hunkering down

It was a good thing that Iran and the United States backed down from the verge of war, after a U.S. drone strike killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, a known mastermind of terror who killed many Americans. It was a tragedy that Iran mistakenly shot down a Ukraine airliner, killing all 176 aboard, most of whom were Iranians.

2020-01-13 17:32

N. Korea's new strategy

This column was written before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's New Year's announcement that will impact the prospect of nuclear diplomacy and the security situation on the Korean Peninsula for 2020. Christmas passed without any onerous gift that North Korean officials threatened to deliver.

2019-12-30 17:17

Back to tensions on peninsula

A familiar pattern of harsh rhetoric between North Korea and the United States is back - literally, a war of words that does not help resuscitation of nuclear talks. The rhetoric from both sides appears to be backed up by mutual demonstrations of military might.

2019-12-16 17:07

N. Korea's shifting demands

Last April North Korean leader Kim Jong-un set a year-end deadline for U.S. flexibility to accept Pyongyang's demands. Last week Stephen Biegun, top U.S. nuclear negotiator and a nominee for deputy secretary of state, said the deadline was “an artificial one” - an implication that the U.S. won't make a major policy adjustment to meet the deadline and that the current stalemate may pass over the year-end.

2019-12-02 17:41

Volatility on Peninsula

South Korea is again facing multiple challenges to its security and peace from friends and foes alike, including the U.S., Japan, North Korea, and China. Not a surprise from the viewpoint of history and its geopolitical destiny.

2019-11-18 17:24

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