Korean Unification

A country on the precipice of war with its neighbors would not be selling arms and sending troops off to fight in a distant conflict.

With road demolitions and direct threats, North Korea has further cemented its belligerent stance toward the South.

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

The rejection of unification marked a massive paradigm shift for the North Korean state and its sympathizers – including Japan’s pro-North Korean community.

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

Ankit Panda, the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at CEIP, on North Korea’s military build-up, the international response, and the potential for South Korea to go nuclear.

Insights from Soo Kim.

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.

“Finlandization” for the North and “Austriazation” for the South provide a path toward unification – and denuclearization.

Support for unification has been weakening for a while. Will changing attitudes be reflected in the next presidential administration?

No South Korean president in the last 38 years has trodden outside the elite blueprint for interacting with North Korea.

South Korea’s population is aging fast, and even Korean unification won’t be enough to fix it.

A view from Beijing on Korean unification.

With the risk of inter-Korean conflict now close to zero, time to think about what phased integration will look like.

Getting a sense of what an under-represented constituency might think of the North Korean overtures.

Moon's administration seems to have overestimated the young generation's appetite for outreach to North Korea.

A recent proposal sparked controversy, but it's more feasible than it appears at first glance.

South Korea's new leader unveiled his strategy in an important speech in Berlin.

U.S. and Chinese experts weigh in.

South Korean policymakers refuse to acknowledge three basic realities that should shape foreign policy.

Plans to 'solve' the Korea issue by taking out key leaders are tragically oversimplified.

If Kim Jong-un's regime collapses, how will China, the U.S., and South Korea react?

An idea put forward by Korean President Park Geun-hye deserves support.