inter-Korea relations

Officials question the delayed response and foreign ministry involvement in the alleged drone incidents.

In North Korea, unification has been erased from monuments and textbooks, but not from hearts and minds.

South Korean media reported the employee gave a Chinese national thousands of confidential documents, including information about South Korean spies operating abroad.

How should South Korea handle balloon clashes against the backdrop of Trump’s possible re-election? 

“With Kim now emboldened, the prospect of unconventional acts like terrorist attacks on South Korean infrastructure and civilians is a real possibility,” says Dr. Cho Sung-min.

South Korean officials said the suspension of the 2018 deal would allow it to stage frontline military drills but didn’t publicly elaborate on other steps.

The alternative is to do nothing and drift into an even more serious crisis as North Korea further builds up its nuclear and missile capabilities.

The former special adviser to the South Korean president believes recent moves by Kim Jong Un represent a “brave new world.”

Pyongyang’s increased hostility and Seoul’s unyielding posture have set the stage for 2024 to be a dangerous year.

With a decisive change in the North’s policy toward the South, the Korean Peninsula has now devolved from a state of armistice to one where conflict could loom at any moment.

Underneath the belligerence, the reframing by Pyongyang actually opens an opportunity, if Seoul can seize it.