Search results for: Sangsoo Lee
-
Window of Opportunity: Breaking Impasse on the Korean Peninsula
...North Korea’s willingness to improve ties and deescalate tensions with South Korea after a decade of largely frosty relations under the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations. Yet whether it...
-
South Korea’s Air Pollution: Gasping for Solutions
...priorities. For instance, President Lee Myung-bak’s “Green Growth Policy” – a flagship policy aimed at achieving a carbon-free society – was de facto jettisoned by his successor, President Park Geun-hye....
-
-
North Korea’s Third Hereditary Succession: Determining Factors and Hidden Meanings (in Korean)
North Korea appointed Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, to the position of vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of...
-
North Korea’s Third Hereditary Succession: Determining Factors and Hidden Meanings
North Korea appointed Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, to the position of vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of...
-
After the Election: Can Moon Revitalize Inter-Korean Relations?…mandate to reinvigorate his engagement policy with North Korea. However, with Pyongyang in seemingly no mood to reciprocate, Sangsoo Lee urges caution on the prospects ahead. On April 15, South…
-
New Dawn or False Hope on the Korean Peninsula?…will be to maximize concessions at every opportunity; but this will not involve conceding on anything that it views as undermining the regime’s security. Sangsoo Lee, Head of ISDP’s Korea…
-
Post-Strategic Patience…its voice, reminding all sides – above all the U.S. and North Korea – that loose talk of military action is not the right way forward. Sangsoo Lee is Senior…
-
The Fifth Nuclear Test: Weapons first, Negotiation later…In light of North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, Dr. Sangsoo Lee delves into Pyongyang’s greater strategy. Late last week, the US Geological Survey detected a 5.3-magnitude earthquake in the…
-
The Oscar-winning Chinese American Director Chloé Zhao…losing everything during the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad”. Ms. Zhao reminds of the Taiwan-born director Ang Lee, who grew…