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January 17, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed in Expressen’s podcast “Läget” on North Korea and the threat of attacks. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un now says he is abandoning all plans to reunify the country with South Korea, and is increasing his war rhetoric against both South Korea and the US. Is […]

January 16, 2024: The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, the ‘India-Sweden Strategic Compass’. The newsletter focuses on current affairs, highlighting Sweden and India relations, India-Nordic relations, EU-India relations, domestic developments in India, and relevant international updates. The latest issue can be accessed here. How has been the India-Sweden ties […]

January 16, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by the Independent on Western nations increasingly alarmed by the Russia-North Korea alliance. Jagannath Panda said that there is a “growing confidence between Russia and North Korea” and Pyongyang is taking advantage of the Ukraine war. “This […]

January 15, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Yle about the Taiwanese election and China. “It is an extremely tight race, and there could definitely be a change of power.” Listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

January 11, 2024: The recording of the ISDP Taiwan Lecture Series: Analyzing Taiwan’s Three-way Presidential Election in 2024 is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. On January 13, 2024, Taiwanese voters will cast their ballots to elect the president, vice president, and legislators on the island. This election marks the first of over 40 national elections […]

January 9, 2024: ISDP is delighted to welcome Jeonghyeon Kim as a Visiting Fellow! Jeonghyeon Kim is a public official at the Social Education Cooperation Division of the National Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification, in South Korea. During her visiting fellowship to ISDP, Ms. Kim is conducting research on unification policy to strengthen […]

January 8, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by P1 Sveriges Radio on the U.S. saying that Russia is using North Korean ballistic missiles in the war against Ukraine. The relationship between Russia and North Korea has strengthened, says Niklas Swanström in the interview. Listen to it here (in Swedish).

January 2, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was quoted in Swedish media on the return of North Korea’s football star. After years in the international football spotlight, North Korean player Han Kwan-Song disappeared seemingly without trace in Rome 2021. Now he is back in the North Korean national team – but his disappearance remains […]

January 2, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, is one of the signatories of an open letter from a range of prominent members of the Alphen Group to the U.S. Congress urging for more support to Ukraine. Key messages: The United States needs to accelerate the delivery of fighter aircraft and long-range artillery […]

December 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on Japanese Whiskey and Christmas. Japanpodden is a Swedish-language podcast about everything related to Japan. The editors are Göran Edman, Hans Rhodiner, Lars Vargö, and Jon Thunqvist. Listen in here. Language: Swedish