The Wilson Center Fellow, Sung-Yoon Lee, author of the recently published book The Sister, offers insights into North Korea's fourth-generation succession. Highlighting that the North Korean regime will likely promote Kim Yo Jong to conduct a new “charm offensive” against the international community in the near future, Lee warns that the global...

Yungho Kim, the Minister of Unification, elaborates on the ROK’s vision of a “free and peaceful, unified Korea.” He emphasizes that the Trilateral Camp David Summit in August 2023 marked a significant milestone for the ROK’s North Korea policy, reaffirming the “values-based” approach that prioritizes freedom, democracy, and human rights...

Ho-ryung Lee, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, explores the possibility of a conventional warfare on the Korean Peninsula by drawing comparisons with the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict. Based on the analysis of North Korea’s weapons and tactics, the consolidation of an anti-U.S. coalition, an...

Chaesung Chun (Chair, EAI National Security Research Center; Professor, Seoul National University) and Yang Gyu Kim (Executive Director, EAI) assess that while the recent U.S.-China bilateral summit during the APEC Leaders’ Week showed that strategic competition between the two countries will persist, the inauguration of a nuclear arms control di...

Bora Park, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy, analyzes the evolving North Korean cyber threat since the Gulf War in 1991 and discusses South Korea’s response measures. Park argues that cyberattacks have significantly diversified following the adoption of six UN Security Resolutions in 2016, coupled with strengthene...

Dong-Yub Kim, a professor of Military and Security Studies at the University of North Korean Studies, analyzes the motive behind DPRK’s unabated pursuit for improvement of nuclear capabilities. Highlighting that the DPRK will continue developing its nuclear arsenal to address external security threat and improve regime stability, Kim cautions tha...

Antoine Bondaz, the Director of Korea Program on Security and Diplomacy at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), explores the state of North Korea’s diplomatic relations with the international community. The author points out that despite severing relations with numerous countries due to international sanctions, North Korea maintains diplo...

Bumsoo Kim, Director of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University, analyzes the shifting South Korean public perceptions toward the unification of the peninsula. Based on the results of “2023 IPUS Unification Consciousness Survey,” Kim explains that with the newer generation reluctant or even indifferen...

Won Gon Park (Chair of North Korea Studies Center, EAI) analyzes the significance of North Korea's constitutionalization of the nuclear force-building policy in September 2023. Park explains that North Korea's persistent drive to elevate its nuclear status reaffirms that its ultimate goal is to communize the entire Korean Peninsula. At the same tim...

Fudan University’s Center for Korean Studies discusses ROK-China cooperation measures for crisis management on the Korean Peninsula amidst intensifying U.S.-China strategic competition. While the ROK-U.S. alliance is strengthening, the Center recommends that South Korea pursue multilateral diplomacy based on pragmatism and persuade the U.S. to dr...