May – June 2024

The Asan Forum > North Korea

North Korea

Select the date
August 3, 2016 Open Forum
Russia’s Korean Policy since 2012: New Hopes, Achievements, and Disappointments

This article focuses on Russia’s Korean policy since 2012. That year was very important: in North Korea, Kim Jong-un had just come to power at the end of […]

Serghei Golunov

Gaeseong Park, Rajin-Khasan, Resolution 2270, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, THAAD, USSR
August 3, 2016 National Commentaries
Implementing Sanctions against North Korea：A US Perspective

By all accounts, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2270 represents a significant and unexpected advance of the authority given to the UN and member states to pursue […]

James Walsh

Resolution 2270, South China Sea, THAAD, UN Panel of Experts
August 3, 2016 National Commentaries
Implementing Sanctions against North Korea：A South Korean Perspective

North Korea’s latest nuclear and missile tests have compelled the international community to issue the most comprehensive round of sanctions against it. UNSC Resolution 2270 not only strengthens […]

Go Myong-hyun*

Agreed Framework, Kaesong Industrial Complex, nuclear policy, Resolution 2270, THAAD, WMDs
August 3, 2016 National Commentaries
Implementing Sanctions against North Korea：A Chinese Perspective

North Korea’s repeated nuclear and missile tests have invited international sanctions, including those by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Since 2006, the UNSC passed six resolutions against […]

Cheng Xiaohe*

Agreed Framework, China-DPRK bilateral relations, China-DPRK trade, Non-proliferation treaty, Resolution 2270, Six-Party Talks
July 27, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2016)

Three international thunderbolts of late June and early July drew intense responses in the South Korean media. The decision to deploy THAAD in South Korea was recognized as […]

Editorial Staff

Cold War, Russia-China-North Korea, South China Sea, THAAD, US-Japan-South Korea
June 30, 2016 Special Forum
The NATO vs. East Asian Models of Extended Nuclear Deterrence? Seeking a Synergy beyond Dichotomy

Amid North Korea’s apparent progress in its nuclear weapons program and China’s military build-up, including the modernization of its nuclear arsenal, experts and officials in East Asia, particularly […]

Michito Tsuruoka

DCA, DSC, EDD, NATO model, NPG, Nuclear allergy, Nuclear burden-sharing, Nuclear deterrence, Saber-rattling
June 24, 2016 Open Forum
The Pivot vs. the “Progressives”

For more than a decade the two most divisive issues in East Asia have been the gap over how to deal with: 1) the Sino-US relationship and which […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asia for the Asians, China first, G2, hegemonism, Kurt Campbell, Six-Party Talks, Sunshine Policy
June 16, 2016 National Commentaries
A View from the United States: Defending Camelot

President Obama’s final G7 summit meeting occurred against the backdrop of a world in which the core values espoused by the G7—democracy, the free-market economy, and respect for […]

Frank Jannuzi

Brexit, Consensus-building, International norms, Musudan IRBM, TPP, UNCLOS Tribunal, US nuclear deterrence
June 16, 2016 National Commentaries
A View from Germany

The summit in Ise-Shima was already the third G7-meeting without Russia. (Germany had hosted the previous gathering in Elmau in 2015.) Japan, thus, worked particularly closely with Germany […]

Hanns W. Maull

German-Russian cooperation, ITLOS, Leaders' Declaration, Quantitative easing, Three arrows, UN sanctions regime, Wandel durch Annäherung
June 15, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2016)

In the spring of 2016, Chinese analysts considered the repercussions of North Korea’s latest nuclear test. They assessed the prospects for China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) policy, […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

Afghan reconstruction, Cuban missile crisis, enuclearization, Japanese intervention, Sino-Iranian relations, SLOC, Sustainable security, THAAD