Search results for: Mark Byung Moon Suh
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Understanding North Korea’s Internal Strategy
...DPRK closed its main nuclear test site at Punggye-ri (admittedly, under pressure from China). Moreover, President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have both assured the world that North...
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Gender Equality on the Korean Peninsula
...OECD country, but also that women are significantly underrepresented both in politics and in leadership positions in private companies. Declaring himself to be a “feminist president,” President Moon Jae-in has...
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Are China and the U.S. Heading for Open Confrontation?
...prompted the U.S. scholar Mark Valencia to argue that these two countries are in a new “cold war”, and if not controlled well, the “cold war” might escalate into “hot...
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The Washington-Seoul Alliance in the Time of North Korea’s Denuclearization
...is arguably at its strongest when North Korea is deemed to be the greatest threat. Accordingly last year, responding to a succession of missile and nuclear tests, President Moon Jae-in...
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Amending Japan’s Pacifist Constitution
...as to mark a new era for the country. In recent years, support for altering the constitution has steadily risen, and some polls have estimated that the Japanese populace is...
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Religion and the Secular State in Kazakhstan
...misses the mark, because it rejects the very premise of Kazakhstan’s policies – the Skeptical/Insulating model of a secular state. Because of this, much of Western criticism falls on deaf...
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China’s Role in UN Peacekeeping
...office as Chinese leader from the late 1970s to the end of the 1980s did mark a softening in China’s position on peacekeeping and its broader engagement with the outside...
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Breaking the Mould: Trump’s China Policy
...trustworthy partners. For the most part, this premise turned out to be false.” Passages like this mark a clear departure from the Obama administration, making reference to China as a...
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Containing Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
...The day after the nuclear test, the South Korean navy engaged in live-fire drills in a show of strength. President Moon, in a dramatic reversal of his previous position, has...
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Human Rights in China
...China, September 29, 2016, http://english.gov.cn/archive/publications/2016/09/29/content_281475454482622.htm [7] Ibid. [8] Ibid. [9] Cheng, Tiejun, and Mark Selden. “The Origins and Social Consequences of China’s Hukou System.” The China Quarterly, no. 139 (1994):...