Search results for: Seonhwa Kim
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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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North Korea’s Pandemic Conundrum: Self-Containment and Humanitarian Crisis
...they decided to loosen border control on trade with China last autumn. Since Kim Jong Un and other leaders of North Korea declared an extreme national emergency regarding COVID-19 just...
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Did Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Close the Thucydides Trap?
...an isolated North Korea coupled with enhanced American alliances with Japan and South Korea portends an even trickier situation given Kim Jong Un’s impending seventh nuclear test. The absence of...
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Ukraine-Russia War: A prelude to a post-Western international order?
Abstract: This Issue Brief analyzes how the collective action of developed countries in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated just how dominant the so-called “Western” international...
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How Will the Ukraine War Affect the Korean Peninsula?
...North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he no longer felt bound by his self-moratorium on nuclear and ICBM tests. Pyongyang may also consider an ICBM test to send a...
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U.S.-North Korea Denuclearization Negotiations: An Irresolvable Issue?
...then CIA director Mike Pompeo travelled to Pyongyang for preparatory talks on a summit meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim. Additional confidence-building measures were North Korea’s self-declared moratorium on...
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Obligations & Roles of the U.S. and Neighboring Countries for the Reunification of Korea
...the DPRK, Chairman Kim Jong Un illustrated, “When reunified, our country will demonstrate its grandeur as a dignified world power with an 80 million population and enormous national strength, a...
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Window of Opportunity: Breaking Impasse on the Korean Peninsula
...signal a change in Pyongyang’s direction, which would later become apparent in Chairman Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s Speech. In it he announced that “our Republic has at last [emphasis...
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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...