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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
June 10, 2016 Review Article
Russian Authors on the Korean Peninsula and on Japan in Joint Publications

25-ia Godovshchina Ustanovleniia Diplomaticheskikh Otnoshenii mezhdu Respublikoi Koreia i Rossiei: rezul’taty i vyzovy (25th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Korea and Russia: […]

Gilbert Rozman

NAPCI, Putin, Resolution 2270, Russo-DPRK relations, Shinzo Abe, Suzuki-Muneo scandal, Trustpolitik
June 7, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2016)

Kawakami Takashi in the March Kaigai Jijo assessed the Obama presidency, faulting him for high-sounding language on a non-nuclear world while doing nothing to stop North Korea from […]

Editorial Staff

G7, GSOMIA, Ise-Shima summit, Japanese-Russian relations, Minsk Accord, Northern Territories, Nuclear threat
May 27, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 4, No. 3)

In April and May 2016, the extension and reinforcement of the international system drew repeated attention in Washington: bringing the Europeans into Asian security, solidifying cohesion with Japan […]

Editorial Staff

EEU, Japan-US relations, OBOR, SREB
May 26, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2016)

Implementation of Sanctions against North Korea Chun Young-woo opined in the March 25 DongA Ilbo that rigorous implementation is the key to denuclearization of the North. Chun says […]

Editorial Staff

CICA, Economic sanctions, non-proliferation, Resolution 2270, THAAD
May 10, 2016 Open Forum
Synopsis of the Asan Plenum, “The New Normal,” April 26-27, 2016

[Asan Plenum 2016 Agenda] “North Korea Out of Control, China Overextended, the United States Arousing Doubts, South Korea Sobering Up” The 2016 Asan Plenum put “gloom and doom” […]

Editorial Staff

Donald Trump, New Normal, Nuclear insecurity, Resolution 2270, SIno-US talks, TPP
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
Reviving the US-Japan-Korea Triangle in South Korean Diplomacy

On March 31, 2016, President Obama, President Park, and Prime Minister Abe held a summit in Washington, DC on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit. They agreed […]

Park Cheol Hee*

December Accord, Fourth nuclear test, History consciousness, Japanese militarism, Northeast Asian Trilateral Summit, UNSC resolution 2270
April 14, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2016)

In the late winter of 2016, the Japanese mainstream was pleased with US foreign policy, if nervous about campaign rhetoric: reassured about triangularity opposed to North Korea, but […]

Editorial Staff

December 28 Japan-ROK agreement, History textbooks, JICA, South China Sea, Takeshima, Trump
March 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2016)

Whereas relations with Japan remained a preoccupation throughout 2015, the December 28 agreement on the “comfort women” issue left more room for attention in 2016 to turn in […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Kaesong Industrial Complex, THAAD
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 4, No. 1)

The end of 2015 and start of 2016 brought many surprises in international affairs regarding the Indo-Pacific region. The North Korean nuclear and missile tests, the Japan-South Korea […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN, China's Power, CJK summit, G7 Summit, Kaeseong Industrial Complex, North Korean Sanctions, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)