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…in the context of President Lee Teng Hui’s checkbook diplomacy. Burkina Faso is far from being the only country to have switched back and forth between Beijing and Taipei. A…

…which Moon helped to organize under his then boss, former president Roh Moo-hyun. Given that Pyongyang had rebuffed all of Moon’s overtures for engagement since he became president last May,…

The meeting between high-level North and South Korean officials on January 9 was the first inter-Korean dialogue since December 2015. Following months of escalating tensions over North Korea’s…

…conditional line towards Pyongyang, Moon aspired to return to the “sunshine policy” period under his predecessors Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun – an ultimately short-lived era which nonetheless witnessed unprecedented…

Although many have cried foul over human rights abuses in North Korea, few took up the cause when its citizens suffered from a natural disaster earlier this year….