The Pandemic and North Korea’s Tourism Industry: Another Shock for the Regime
Just when its numbers were booming, and it had become a solid source of foreign currency for the regime, the…
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The Kaesong Industrial Complex: Setting the Stage for a Successful Second Act
This article draws from research conducted in the preparation of International Crisis Group’s recent report, “The Case for Kaesong: Fostering…
One Year After the Singapore Summit: A Breakthrough in Search of a Strategy
An exchange of personal insults and a mutually reinforcing cycle of escalation brought the United States and North Korea to…
Trust or Bust: What is Park Geun-hye’s Real Nordpolitik? (Part II)
On March 28, 2014, ROK President Park Geun-hye made a much-trailedspeech in Dresden, Germany. To suggest that she “made history”…