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Mon, June 1, 2020 | 02:57

Escalating tensions on Korean Peninsula

The strategic situation on the Korean peninsula is getting more complicated because of a recent chain of ill-advised actions and reactions by the relevant adversaries including the two Koreas, the United States, and China. Tensions have escalated, threatening the uneasy peace in Korea, making it more difficult to seek any peaceful resolution to the North Korean issues of nuclear and missile development, and human rights abuses. Forget about unification.

2016-07-17 17:08

Completion of Kim Jong-un's control

The Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) - the legislative branch of the North Korean government that rubber-stamps decisions made by the Korean Workers’ Party and the DPRK government - elected Kim Jong-un as “chairman of the State Affairs Commission” (SAC). Kim Yong-nam, president of the presidium of the SPA, said the new title represents “the top post” of the DPRK.

2016-07-03 16:55

To prevent nuclear war

As Seoul and Washington stopped talking about dialogue with Pyongyang, some security experts are talking about the worst-case scenario: a nuclear war that could breakout on the Korean peninsula. North Korea continues advancing its nuclear and missile programs, while some call for Seoul’s own nuclear armament. Discussions of a nuclear war are taking place at a time when the Obama administration is distracted from its foreign policy in an election year, and the Park government is crippled by a defeat in recent parliamentary elections. Both administrations are resorting to the dubious efficacy ...

2016-06-19 16:05

Pyongyang between China, US

As tensions continue on the Korean peninsula, and while there is no prospect of a breakthrough to the worsening confrontation between Seoul and Pyongyang, the whole issue of North Korea - including its nuclear and missile programs - is getting out of control for South Korea, becoming an issue of strategic competition between Beijing and Washington.

2016-06-05 16:27

What to do after party congress

A couple of points of observation ought to be made from the 7th Workers Party Congress that was recently held in Pyongyang. First, the denuclearization of North Korea will not be achieved by negotiation. Second, the young and relatively inexperienced Kim Jong-un has firmly consolidated power, and his regime is not likely to collapse in a foreseeable future.

2016-05-22 16:50

Trump on South Korea

As Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, his foreign policy statements - including those on U.S. alliances with South Korea and Japan - that he made during his campaign are now under close scrutiny.

2016-05-08 17:05

For stability and peace

With the outcome of the National Assembly elections on April 13, which handed a major victory to the opposition parties over the Saenuri Party of President Park Geun-hye, there appears to be a better chance for defusing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

2016-04-24 16:55

North Korean factor in elections

On April 13, South Korea will elect 300 representatives to a new National Assembly amid concerns of a worsening relationship with the North and the woes of a stagnant economy. The general election will be carried out in a three-way race between the ruling Saenuri Party, the major opposition Minjoo Party of Korea (MPK) and the newly created Party of the People, a splinter opposition party.

2016-03-27 16:48

Only way out is talks with N. Korea

Washington - The only possible way out of the current deadlock with North Korea is to negotiate and see if the North is prepared to suspend arming in return for satisfying some of its security concerns, a well-known American expert said.

2016-03-17 14:26

If the current escalation of tension continues, and if mutual hostility continues to mount on the Korean Peninsula, one should be legitimately concerned of the possibility of a costly confrontation between them, limited or all out. With all lines of communication cut off and the abrogation of all economic agreements between the North and South, Korea once again is in a crisis of war, perhaps the most dangerous one so far.

2016-03-13 16:25

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