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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

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

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