Search results for: Sung Kyung Kim
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Negotiating North Korea’s Nukes
...Soviet support, a nuclear research center in 1962, and had managed to produce a small amount of plutonium by 1975. Despite Kim Il Sung’s appeals to the Soviet Union and...
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Sustaining Dialogue on the Korean Peninsula
...And in the DPRK, Chairman Kim Jong Un may need to choose maintaining support and saving face with his citizenry, over tolerance for unilateral demands from the U.S. A review...
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What to Make of Kim Yo Jong’s Verbal Attack of South Korea’s Defense Minister
...Introduction: Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a leading voice on inter-Korean relations, said on Sunday that “South Korea may...
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North Korea’s Overture on Nuclear Talks and Inter-Korean Relations for 2022: ‘Strategic Patience’
...North Korea held the 4th Plenary Meeting of the Workers’ Party’s 8th Central Committee from December 27 to 31. According to the North’s state media, Kim Jong Un mostly...
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Denuclearizing North Korea: Challenges and Opportunities after Hanoi
...normalization of relations as the end points of a long-term process.* The long awaited second summit on February 27-28 in Hanoi between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President...
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Understanding North Korea’s Internal Strategy
...In light of the recent, positive developments on the Korean Peninsula (chief among them the apparent 180-degree turnaround by Chairman Kim Jong Un on the issue of denuclearization)...
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“A People’s Peace”: Inclusive Peacebuilding and the Role of Civil Society in Korea
...talks between Seoul National University and Kim Il Sung University. In 1989, Reverend Moon Ik Kwan, an advisor to a new umbrella constellation of groups called the National Alliance of...
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South Korea as a Nuclear State: Trade-Offs and Choices
...via intensified missile attacks on the ROK and its revised nuclear strategy. China’s influence further complicates the nuclearization debate. Not only has Beijing has been instrumental in supporting the Kim...
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Russia-DPRK Space Cooperation: It’s Politics, Not Science
...The recent Vostochny summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin has attracted much international attention. The fact that both leaders pledged to strengthen...
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What Comes Next for North Korea-Russia Relations?
...Moscow have enjoyed close ties since the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1948, the relationship is seeing a significant upgrade. The visit by Kim Jong...