Minghao Zhao, Professor and Deputy Director at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, underscores the urgent need for strategic vigilance on the Korean Peninsula amid a confluence of destabilizing factors. Professor Zhao examines the deteriorating security environment shaped by North Korea’s military expansion, U.S.-China strategic ...

Jihwan Hwang, Professor at the University of Seoul, analyzes the Lee Jae Myung administration's pragmatic, national interest-centered diplomacy toward North Korea and its implications for the inter-Korean relations. Professor Hwang assesses the strategic opportunities and limitations facing Seoul’s inter-Korean initiatives and calls for an approa...

Seong-ho Sheen, Professor at Seoul National University, analyzes the different political goals of four countries' leaders surrounding the outbreak and development of the Korean War and their implications. Sheen explains that while South and North Korea fought a total war with the pursuit of unification, the U.S. and China engaged in a defensive lim...

Dong Ryul Lee, Chair of EAI’s China Research Center and Professor at Dongduk Women's University, analyzes the priorities that the Lee Jae Myung administration should set in its China policy. Professor Lee suggests that the government restore strategic communication between South Korea and China and realistically readjust expectations of China's r...

Inhwan Oh, Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director at EAI, analyzes the Trump administration’s 2025 Maritime Action Plan (MAP) as a watershed moment in U.S. grand strategy, interpreting it as a response to China’s rapid naval buildup and the erosion of America’s maritime industrial base. Dr. Oh notes that while the United States retains...

Seunghee Ha, Research Professor at Dongguk University, contends that the culture of lyrical parody among North Korean residents functions as a form of cultural praxis that dismantles the symbolic language of state propaganda and confronts lived reality. Professor Ha argues that the emotions and creativity expressed through these adaptations embody ...

Chaesung Chun, Chair of the EAI National Security Research Center and Professor at Seoul National University, characterizes the Trump administration’s negotiation strategy as broker-style, privileging narrow tactical gains over structural resolution. Professor Chun asserts that future U.S.-North Korea summits are likely to adhere to this paradig...

Jaewoo Jun, Associate Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, argues that the recent signs of estrangement between North Korea and China should not be interpreted as a straightforward rupture, but rather as an extension of North Korea’s long-term strategic posture. Drawing on historical patterns of realignment within the Nort...

Young-seon Jeon, Professor of Konkuk University, argues that North Korea’s leadership perceives the younger generation, defined by attenuated loyalty and a faint sense of revolutionary consciousness, as a serious threat to regime stability. In response, the Kim Jong Un regime has elevated ideological and cultural indoctrination targeting youth as...

Seung-ho Jung, Professor of Incheon National University, contends that despite North Korea’s extensive provision of manpower and military materiel in support of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the resultant economic compensation has remained markedly limited. Professor Jung attributes the constraints impeding substantive economic cooperation between P...