Search results for: Sukjoon Yoon
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Did Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Close the Thucydides Trap?
...President Yoon Suk-yeol and his foreign minister during Pelosi’s visit to South Korea, which was noted by China, is a signal to avoid any unnecessary diplomatic controversy with Beijing. Japan’s...
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Japan’s Stance on a United Korea: Ambivalence or Realpolitik?
...the increasing hostilities with some neighbors; South Korea’s election of the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol as the country’s 20th president, which has raised hopes and fears; and North Korea’s resumption of...
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Seoul’s Changing Indo-Pacific Manifesto and India: Policy Prescriptions for India-ROK Ties
...forefront challenges that Seoul must overcome to raise its global profile. Panda explores the potential impact of the Yoon administration’s initiative of aligning with the US Indo-Pacific strategy on the...
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South Korea’s Foreign Policy in Changing Times: Reversing Course?
Abstract: The tragedy currently unfolding in Ukraine may be a symptom of new dynamics in global geopolitics. The changing balance of power epitomized by the rise of China...
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What to Make of Kim Yo Jong’s Verbal Attack of South Korea’s Defense Minister
...new South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has explicitly taken a hawkish stance on North Korea and showed more conservative responses to the North’s missile tests. Thus Seoul’s Defense Ministry is...
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1325 NAPs Beyond East and West: Institutionalizing the WPS Agenda in Sweden and South Korea
Abstract This brief is the latest outcome of a collaboration between the Institute for Security and Development Policy’s (ISDP) Korea Center and Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). The...
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North Korea Is Preparing to Confront the US in 2022
...and possibly even nuclear tests in response to U.S. sanctions, the upcoming South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises, and the potential victory of South Korean main opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol...
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Not a Sovereignty Issue: Understanding the Transition of Military Operational Control between the United States and South Korea
...of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and ROK Minister of National Defense Yoon Kwang Ung agreed that wartime OPCON of ROK forces under a U.S.-led command would be handed over sometime between...