Young-sun Ha, Chairman of the East Asia Institute (Emeritus Professor at Seoul National University), discusses South Korea's options in responding to the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea adopted an aggressive nuclear doctrine and law declaring itself to be a nuclear weapons state, and demonstrated its ability to carry out ...

Jia Qingguo, Professor at Peking University, claims that the sanctions imposed on North Korea have failed to achieve the goal and the rising tension between the U.S. and China and the Russia-Ukraine war would continue to make it difficult to resume the denuclearization process of North Korea. Dr. Jia argues that Beijing will highly likely not coope...

Mr. Ken Gause, Research Program Director of the Center for Naval Analyses claims that while the Great Power competition has been Washington’s top priority, the North Korea issue has been put on the back burner. As North Korea was likely to be ignored in the interest of the status quo, Pyongyang strengthened its military capabilities to show off t...

In this interview, Jean Lee, Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center, discusses North Korea’s cyber-attacks and how they finance Pyongyang’s missile developments despite the international sanctions against the regime. Ms. Lee notes that Kim Jong-un, early on in his rule, has overseen the cultivation of “cyber warriors,” who have stolen mo...

In this interview, Dr. Richard K. Betts, Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, discusses the implications of North Korea’s provocations and suggestions for maintaining security on the Korean peninsula. On North Korea’s provocations, Dr. Betts claims that North Korea’s recent provocations are in fact, not tr...

In this interview, Dr. Richard K. Betts, Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, discusses the implications of the Russia-Ukraine War on the global security environment and pressing security threats in Northeast Asia. Dr. Betts states that the ongoing Ukraine War, with no end in sight, has been a test for military ...

interviews leading North Korea experts for timely analysis on North Korea once a month. For this month, we invited Andrew Yeo (SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, Brookings Institution; Professor, Catholic University of America) to analyze the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war on East Asia and discuss prospects for the Biden and Yoon a...

Under the context in which studies on North Korea continue to be led and dominated by Western institutions, the East Asia Institute (President Yul Sohn) operates its English-based website as an alternative to Western-led research on North Korea. The project aims to promote a more balanced perspective on the subject and conduct in-depth research on ...

Global NK Zoom & Connect has met with leading South Korean researchers who study North Korea and listened to their voices to understand current research on North Korea. For this issue, we interviewed Young-Sun Ha (Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the East Asia Institute and Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University). Based on the public s...

Global NK Zoom & Connect has met with leading South Korean researchers who study North Korea and listened to their voices to understand current research on North Korea. For this issue, we met Sang Hyun Lee, President of the Sejong Institute, which has been closely analyzing the changing security environment and suggested alternatives to contribute ...