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July 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Omni about Kim Jong Un’s Sister, Kim Yo Jong. The article is titled “A powerful princess” – then the world understood who she was”. You can find the article here (in Swedish).

July, 2024: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, participated in the Korea Europe Peace Platform – Berlin Forum 2024, together with experts from South Korea, Europe, and the U.S. He was invited to present a paper at the third panel on, “Prospects for Inter-Korean relations, North-South relations […]

July 2024: In-bum Chun, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, spoke on Deutsche Welle (DW) about “Berlin to commit personnel to tense North-South Korea border”. “Maintaining peace on the Korean Peninsula has always been a challenge, so the more nations that get involved in the maintenance of the armistice is beneficial not only to South […]

July 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in Swedish and international news outlets on the NATO summit. About the expectations for the summit in Dagens Nyheter About the opening of the summit for SVT Comments for BBC News on the results of the NATO Summit with regard to Ukraine

July 4, 2024: The recording of the webinar “Beyond the Game: Taiwan’s Soft Power Through Sports Diplomacy” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics offers a global stage for countries to advertise themselves through sports. What is the future of Taiwan’s sports diplomacy and what do international sporting events mean […]

July 2, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a panel titled “A Year of Elections: From the Strategic Communications Perspective” organized by the Strategic Communications Education and Research Unit (SCERU), Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) at the University of Tokyo on 28 June 2024. […]

July 1, 2024: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, participated in a webinar on the European experience and how it can be brought to bear on the search for peace on the Korean peninsula, organized by the Universal Peace Federation – UK. In Europe’s rich tapestry, diverse […]

June 27, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated and spoke in a panel at the Indian Ocean Regional Workshop organized by the Near East South Asia (NESA) of the Center for Strategic Studies in Washington DC, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu, and […]

June 27, 2024: The recordings of the second and third Korea Strategic Talk Webinars are now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Here, you can access the recording of the second webinar. Here, you can find the recording of the third webinar. To further promote dialogue and exchange of views related to the developments on the […]

June 27, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Expressen on the continuing “balloon battle” between North and South Korea. Now South Korea’s military says it has found 350 new trash balloons sent by its neighboring enemy. What is this battle about? “The big loser on this has been North Korea,” says Niklas […]