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October 18, 2019 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 7, No. 5

No topic stirred as much interest in DC think tanks as the US-Japan-South Korean triangle. In the background loomed North Korea, leading to overlapping interest in the Sino-North […]

Editorial Staff

Act East Policy, free and open Indo-Pacific, GSOMIA, New Southern Policy, Trump-Kim summit, US-China trade war, US-ROK alliance
August 28, 2019 Special Forum
Moon’s Failed Balancing Act

The mood was decidedly upbeat in South Korea around this time last year: following the “historic summit” between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore, many praised Moon […]

Eun A Jo

“No Japan” movement, G20 summit, GSOMIA, Korea Passing, nuclear diplomacy, Panmunjom handshake, THAAD, US-China trade war
July 29, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2019)

In the summer of 2019, South Korean media discussed the country’s relations with China, the United States, North Korea, and Japan. Specifically, they covered: (1) the Xi-Kim summit; […]

Editorial Staff

G20, GSOMIA, Trump-Kim summit, US-China trade war, US-ROK alliance, Xi-Kim summit
July 1, 2019 Open Forum
China and the Korean Peninsula after the Hanoi Summit

The Hanoi summit between President Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un had been expected to deliver concrete results on the nuclear negotiations and/or US-North Korea bilateral […]

Yun Sun

byungjin, G20, Hanoi summit, Osaka Summit, THAAD, trade war, Xi-Kim summit
June 4, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2019)

Since the diplomatic collapse in Hanoi, talks between the US and North Korea have remained at an impasse throughout April and May, while President Moon Jae-in kept seeking […]

Kim Kimberly

Hanoi summit, Kaesong Industrial Complex, maximum pressure, Mount Geumgang, Six-Party Talks
May 28, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2019)

In the first half of spring 2019, in the face of a difficult environment for diplomacy with North Korea, Sino-US relations, and ROK-Japanese relations, Abe Shinzo continued to […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20, Northern Territories, Putin-Kim summit, Reiwa
May 15, 2019 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 7, No. 2

Exchanges in DC are increasingly torn between a focus on bilateral relations—in particular, US relations with China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan—or on trilateral relations. If the […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Hanoi summit, Singapore Summit, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance, US-ROK alliance
May 14, 2019 Special Forum
Introduction

The subject of interests versus values figures importantly in queries on international relations in Northeast Asia. Four prime examples are: 1) What is driving the tensions in Sino-US […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in, Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping
May 10, 2019 Special Forum
Korea’s Choice: Synopsis of the Asan Plenum 2019

The theme of this year’s Asan Plenum was Korea’s Choice, and the core question regarded a choice between reaffirmation of the ROK-US alliance and prioritization of reunification with […]

Editorial Staff

Donald Trump, Global Korea, inter-Korean summit, Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in, US-ROK alliance
April 22, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2019)

In early spring Japanese media noted the upcoming transition to the Reiwa era on May 1, the plan for Donald Trump to come in late May for a […]

Editorial Staff

2020 Tokyo Olympics, comfort women, conscripted labor, Dokdo /Takeshima, shinilpa, US-China trade war