North Korea’s “Christmas Gift” That Wasn’t
The Kim dynasty has a knack for making some of the most respected North Korea analysts look like amateurs. Predictions…
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Inter-Korean Relations: How North Korea Is Conditioning South Korea for Its Own Strategic Benefit
It looks like 2019 will be a year filled with disappointments for South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Beset by domestic…
Abe’s Longest November: Japan, North Korea and the Growing Urgency for Diplomacy
Historians will remember November 2019 as the month that Japan’s Shinzo Abe became his nation’s longest-serving prime minister (nearly eight…
Failed Attempts at Cross-Border Economic Integration: The View from Dandong
This two-part series aims at deciphering the irreconcilable Chinese and North Korean economic integration strategies, using the Dandong-Sinuiju area as…