Search results for: Sangsoo Lee
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Path to Inter-Korean Development Cooperation
…As witnessed though Lee Myeong-bak’s “Vision 3000: Denuclearization and Openness” Plan, consisting of development assistance provision as a trade-off for denuclearization efforts, the new plan is unlikely to bring about…
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New Year’s Thaw on the Korean Peninsula: Will It Last?
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…
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South Korea’s Presidential Election: Candidates and Key Policies
…top of the list being managing the mounting crisis with North Korea. In this two-part series, ISDP profiles the five presidential candidates and their declared policies, while Dr. Sangsoo Lee…
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North Korea’s Crisis: Sanctions over Disaster Relief
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….
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Shut Up or Shut Down: Significance of the Hong Kong Primaries Case
…the territory now. It is not surprising that the voter turnout had been low and Hong Kong people voted with their feet. In the meantime, the John Lee administration has…
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Bo-jiun Jing
Associated Research Fellow
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Kim Jong Un and the Complex Chapter of Covid-19 Measures in North Korea
…North Korea in 2021. Lee In-young, a Minister of Unification under the Moon administration, sent ₩10 billion KRW ($7,830,000 USD) worth of Covid aid to North Korea but North Korea…
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Sri Lankan Crisis between Debt-trap and Strategic-trap: The Chinese Stake
…Sri Lankan case, as being inadequate. Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri authored the Chatham House paper Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’, pointing to five misconceptions. First, the Hambanthota Port…
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Why South Korea’s New President Yoon Seok-yeol Is not a ‘K-Trump’ but ‘K-Clinton’
…a baseless propaganda from an opposition that voted for Lee Jae-myung. Yoon’s current policy based on what is known until now is like a double-edged sword. If it works, his…