Search results for: Sung Kyung Kim
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Allies should find new policy on North Korea
...North’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un. In August, Yoon publicly offered Pyongyang “economic packages” once it shows its “will” to denuclearize the country. Under the name, the “Audacious Initiative,” Yoon showed...
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With New Law on Nuclear Forces Policy, North Korea Says Its Nuclear Status Is ‘Irreversible’
...Introduction: A day before the 74th anniversary of the country’s founding, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un publicly declared that his nuclear weapons are no longer a bargaining...
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Yoon Suk-yeol’s Audacious Initiative for Denuclearization Will Fail
...plan and said it does not want to engage in any dialogue with the current South Korean administration. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong...
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North Korea Likely to Lift Pandemic Border Restrictions in 2023
...Abstract In his speech at the Workers’ Party at the end of December 2022, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stressed that 2023 is the third year of...
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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)...