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Navigating Difficult Waters: President Moon Jae-in’s Berlin Speech
(Photo: Cheong Wa Dae) South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in unveiled his North Korea strategy in a long-awaited speech in Berlin, Germany on July 6. Moon’s policy represents an interesting mix of...
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Will the US or China Rain on the North-South Parade?
A Great Power competition is brewing on the Korean peninsula. In some ways, it is like centuries past, in which trading and security architectures are at stake. But there is a new component:...
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Back to the Basics: Above and Beyond CVID with North Korea
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s high-profile post-summit visit to North Korea—the first to follow Kim and Trump’s initial meeting—ended without much progress, revealing the Trump administration’s...
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Kim Jong Un’s New Formulation
On September 6, 2018, North Korean media reported what amounts to a new formulation on the nuclear issue from Kim Jong Un: Noting that it is our fixed stand and his will to completely remove the danger...
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From CVID to CRID: A Russian Perspective
The US has allowed an unrealistic goal—complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization (CVID-or, in Trump era parlance FFVD[1])—to drive its diplomatic engagement with North Korea. It has...
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Advancing Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula: The Case for Koreanization
Seven months after President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Singapore for a historic summit to accelerate negotiations on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, both countries...
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