Search results for: Sang Hyun Lee
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‘Strategic Talks’ – A Report by Stockholm Korea Center
...as a final talk on June 20 with Lieutenant General (ret.) Chun In-Bum, Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, and Dr. Lee Sang Hyun from the Sejong Institute. All three talks...
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Two Tines, One Fork: China’s De-dollarisation and Bond Issuance Drive Economic Independence
...Policy. Retrieved from: https://www.isdp.eu/publication/beyond-debt-how-chinas-ultralong-bonds-could-reshape-global-geopolitics/ Lee, A (2024). What makes China’s ‘ultra-long’ bonds special? Here’s what we know about Beijing’s trillion-yuan offering to stabilise economy. South China Morning Post. Retrieved from...
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The fragile state of democracy in Korea: Martial law, division and an uncertain future
...alongside former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, appears to have orchestrated what I am calling a “palace coup.” This betrayal of democratic norms has sent shockwaves throughout the nation. While Yoon...
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Denuclearizing North Korea: Challenges and Opportunities after Hanoi
...Sang Hyun Lee dissects the non-deal outcome between the U.S. and North Korea at the Hanoi Summit and what the future prospects for diplomacy are. Lee argues that, despite...
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Politics in East Asia Today: Between Democracy, Debates, and Discourse
...in the world goes hand in hand with a global power shift; and Yeau-Tarn Lee discusses how the democratization in Taiwan impacts the prospects for peace across the Taiwan Strait....
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“A People’s Peace”: Inclusive Peacebuilding and the Role of Civil Society in Korea
...politicized. Subsequently, under the conservative administrations of Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, which took a more conditional approach to engagement with North Korea, progressive civil society groups lost favor and...
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Not a Sovereignty Issue: Understanding the Transition of Military Operational Control between the United States and South Korea
...Hyun requested the United States return wartime OPCON as a means of regaining South Korean national sovereignty and pride by “overcoming the nation’s psychological dependence on the United States”. The...
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How to Score the U.S.-DPRK Hanoi Summit
Summary: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un will soon meet for the 2nd U.S.-DPRK summit in Hanoi. How should we score the outcome of this historic...
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Economic Cooperation Can’t Lead to Denuclearization
Summary: A long-awaited second Trump-Kim summit will be held in Hanoi soon. Despite the high expectations, experts are worrying about the possibility that the summit will end in...
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Taking Back Control: South Korea and the Politics of OPCON Transfer
...the U.S., thus shedding the image in Pyongyang of Seoul as Washington’s junior partner, would facilitate North-South rapprochement. The subsequent conservative president, Lee Myung-bak, postponed the OPCON transfer to 2015,...