Search results for: Sung Kyung Kim
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Has Moon Jae-in’s North Korea Peace Process Failed?
...Introduction: Since the current South Korean President Moon Jae-in took office in May 2017, he has strived to engage in talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to...
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North Korea Conducts Its Sixth Round of Missile Tests This Month
...military might on the birth anniversaries of Kim Jong Il (February 16) and Kim Il Sung (April 15), the current North Korean leader’s father and grandfather, respectively. North Korea usually...
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Northeast Asian Regional Cooperation: An Elusive Necessity
...weakened leverage over North Korea, with Chairman Kim Jung-Un arguably masterfully exploiting the divisions. Today there is little, if any, possibility to force North Korea to denuclearize unless a major...
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A Reset for U.S.-DPRK Relations: The Path Ahead
...A hugely anticipated meeting of longtime adversaries, the June 12 Summit in Singapore between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un combined momentous gravity with theatrical spectacle. Resulting in...
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North Korean Women as New Economic Agents: Drivers and Consequences
Abstract This Issue Brief explores the changing social and economic role of women in North Korea since the so-called Arduous March of the 1990s. With the breakdown of...
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Rehabilitating North Korea’s Forests: The Struggle to Balance Conservation with Livelihoods
...past the statue of North Korea’s founding father Kim Il Sung and the moribund Kaesong Industrial Complex (a joint economic project both Koreas hope to revive), severely denuded slopes stand...
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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 Is Preparing to Confront the US in 2022
...Introduction: Since Pyongyang rejected the Biden administration’s proposal of diplomatic talks as insufficient to entice Kim Jong Un back to the negotiating table, North Korea seems to have recalibrated...
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The art of compromise: picking up the pieces after Hanoi
...The no-deal outcome between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong-un at the Hanoi summit in February was regarded by most as a failure. This is...
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What Does Denuclearisation Really Mean?
...announced the cancellation of the June summit in Singapore via Twitter, posting his letter to Kim Jong-un expressing regret over the need to cancel ‘inappropriate talks’ after statements from Pyongyang...