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December 21, 2018 National Commentaries
A Japanese Perspective

What Do the Midterm Elections Mean for Trump’s East Asia Policies? The 2018 midterm elections have revealed that President Trump has only Plan A for his reelection campaign […]

Akimoto Satohiro

America First, free and open Indo-Pacific, Meng Wanzhou, Singapore Summit
December 20, 2018 Special Forum
Democracy is More than a Political System: Lessons from South Korea’s Democratic Transformation

An assessment of South Korea’s democratization requires acknowledging juxtaposing patterns. On the one hand, the shadow of an authoritarian, Cold War state hangs over the country’s politics. State-society […]

Erik Mobrand

April Revolution, Candlelight Movement, Conservative democratization, De-authoritarianization, Kwangju Uprising, National Security Law
December 20, 2018 Open Forum
Thirty Years of Japan’s Diplomacy toward the Korean Peninsula

When considering Japan’s politics and diplomacy toward North Korea over the thirty years from the second half of the 1980s four important developments warrant attention: 1) Nakasone’s approach […]

Miyagi Taizo

Cold War, Korean War, North Korean nuclear crisis, North-South Cross-recognition
November 26, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2018)

The 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly President Moon Jae-in’s New York itinerary was all about sharing the meeting results from the Pyongyang summit he had […]

Kim Kimberly

Asia-Europe Meeting, comfort women, Panmunjom Declaration, Pope Francis, Pyongyang Declaration, UN General Assembly, US-DPRK summit
October 16, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I

After North Korea’s sixth and most-powerful nuclear test last September, few would have expected to see President Moon Jae-in step off a plane to embrace Chairman Kim Jong-un […]

Kathryn Botto

Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in, Panmunjom Declaration, Pyongyang Declaration, Pyongyang summit
October 16, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I

In what is considered one of Pyongyang’s most potent propaganda events—a mass performance called the “Glorious Country”—Moon Jae-in addressed some 150,000 North Koreans, who erupted in teary applause […]

Eun A Jo

Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in, Panmunjom Declaration, Pyongyang Declaration, Pyongyang summit
October 16, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
The Aftermath of the Third Inter-Korean Summit of 2018

Editorial Staff

September 27, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2018)

The second half of the summer saw the build-up to the third summit of Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un as well as more wide-ranging diplomacy in North-South relations […]

Kim Kimberly

ASEAN Regional Forum, inter-Korean summit, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Mount Geumgang, Panmunjom Declaration, Pyongyang Declaration
August 31, 2018 Special Forum
US-China Rivalry and the Future of the Korean Peninsula

The ongoing “trade war” between the United States and China is not just a trade dispute in light of the two sides’ intensifying rivalry in the area of […]

Kim Sung-han*

alliance transition, CVID, Panmunjom Declaration, Quad, THAAD, US-ROK alliance, value alliance
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Diplomacy II

Reviewing the most recent developments in security and military cooperation as well as diplomacy over the Korean Peninsula and the rise of China, this second view of the […]

Tanaka Hitoshi*

HA/DR, Japan-China Maritime and Aerial Communication Mechanism, Singapore Summit, US-Japan alliance