Search results for: Mark Byung Moon Suh
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New Year’s Thaw on the Korean Peninsula: Will It Last?
…a diplomatic breakthrough for Seoul, which under the Moon Jae-in government, elected last May, has sought to reassert its role after having seemingly become largely eclipsed in the war of…
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GSOMIA and The Regional Implications of Worsening ROK-Japan Relations
…Moon on the side-lines of a trilateral meeting with China in December. For Washington this was welcome news, a situation where two U.S. allies are at each other’s throats is…
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A Jilted Japan: Developments on the Korean Peninsula
…as their nuclear weapons program continues and bilateral concerns, such as the abduction issue have not been solved. Although the new South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, stressed the need for…
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New Dawn or False Hope on the Korean Peninsula?
…arms. First is a new leadership under President Moon in South Korea (since May 2017). Moon has clearly been willing to try and engage North Korea in a dialogue in…
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Reducing Risk: What Inter-Korean Military Talks Need to Address
…on how armistice-related issues are conducted in South Korea. Another practical activity would be to try to engage North Korea in a project to correctly mark the MDL separating the…
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Ethnic Minorities and the Fight Against Poverty in China: The Case of Yunnan
…that some claim misses the mark by as many as hundreds of existing minority groups. In Yunnan Province, the officially recognized ethnic minorities number 25 – half of the official…
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U.S.-DPRK Relations: Two Years after the Singapore Summit
…of inter-Korean exchanges, a key objective of President Moon’s engagement policy, ground to a halt as Pyongyang punished Seoul for a lack of progress as well as pressured it into…
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The Way to College: Is South Korea Ripe for Educational Reform?
…(Korean language source) among young people aged 9 to 24. Ripe for Reform In his inaugural address in May 2017, President Moon Jae-in acknowledged the need for educational reform to…
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Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephaly: Moscow’s Proxy Dispute
…various spheres. The establishment of an independent UOC during the Ukrainian church council meeting on December 15 will mark a day in the Orthodox and political world, that is promising…
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A New Dawn for Sino-Japanese Relations? Lessons for Japan-South Korea
…victims of forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula in 1910-1945. Unless Abe and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in take active steps in reinforcing future-oriented bonds and…