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Thu, October 29, 2020 | 05:27

Hard choices for South Korea

While North Korea's nuclear arsenal is being advanced, South Korea struggles to keep the cohesion of its alliance with the United States, to close the gaps in divergence of views, and to enlist U.S. support for its policy on the North.

2020-10-19 18:23

North Korea chooses hard way

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is back on a busy schedule. On Oct. 3, he reportedly sent “a message of sympathy” to U.S. President Donald Trump who had tested positive for COVID-19, wishing him and his wife a quick recovery. The North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that Kim, “sincerely hoped that they would be recovered as soon as possible.”

2020-10-04 17:57

New approach to North Korea

This column continues, from a previous one, to discuss the potential contribution of a Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (NEA-NWFZ), consisting of the two Koreas and Japan, to the realization of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and to the settlement of peace and stability in the region.

2020-09-20 17:50

Risk of nuclear war and N. Korea

With the continuing nuclear and missile development by China and North Korea, amid a prolonged stalemate on nuclear talks with the North, the existential risk of a nuclear conflict - either between China and the U.S. or between North Korea and the U.S. - is lingering, if not rising, in Northeast Asia.

2020-09-07 17:15

N. Korea's endless struggle

North Korea is going through a triple-crisis from sanctions, the pandemic and recent flood damage - collectively hampering the development of its economy. The regime publicly admitted that its five-year economic plan, adopted by the 7th Congress of the Workers Party in 2016, has failed to achieve its goal of “improving the national economy and the people's living standard” due to “severe internal and external situations and unexpected manifold challenges.”

2020-08-24 17:17

US election and two Koreas

With less than three months left before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, there is a growing interest to see who is going to win - Donald Trump or Joe Biden, and what the winner might do for denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula. Polls show that if the election were held today, Biden would win. However, polls could be wrong, as they were in 2016.

2020-08-10 17:17

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

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