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Korean Unification
![The Collateral Victims of Kim Jong Un’s About-Face on Korean Unification The Collateral Victims of Kim Jong Un’s About-Face on Korean Unification](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-24-142208.jpg)
The Collateral Victims of Kim Jong Un’s About-Face on Korean Unification
By Meredith Shaw
The rejection of unification marked a massive paradigm shift for the North Korean state and its sympathizers – including Japan’s pro-North Korean community.
![Moon Chung-in on Escalating Inter-Korea Tensions and What Lies Ahead Moon Chung-in on Escalating Inter-Korea Tensions and What Lies Ahead](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-01-17-163924.jpg)
Moon Chung-in on Escalating Inter-Korea Tensions and What Lies Ahead
By Kenji Yoshida
The former special adviser to the South Korean president believes recent moves by Kim Jong Un represent a “brave new world.”
![How Serious Are the Latest Threats From North Korea? How Serious Are the Latest Threats From North Korea?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-01-29-133859.jpg)
How Serious Are the Latest Threats From North Korea?
By Shannon Tiezzi
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.
![Tensions Set to Rise as North Korea Drops Unification Goal Tensions Set to Rise as North Korea Drops Unification Goal](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-07-06-143407.jpg)
Tensions Set to Rise as North Korea Drops Unification Goal
By Mercy A. Kuo
Insights from Soo Kim.
![Kim Jong Un’s Declaration of a Hostile Relationship Between North and South Korea Is a Big Deal Kim Jong Un’s Declaration of a Hostile Relationship Between North and South Korea Is a Big Deal](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-01-17-163924.jpg)
Kim Jong Un’s Declaration of a Hostile Relationship Between North and South Korea Is a Big Deal
By Lee Min-yong
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.
![Pyongyang Wants to Be DPRK, Not North Korea Pyongyang Wants to Be DPRK, Not North Korea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-04-23-8.jpg)
Pyongyang Wants to Be DPRK, Not North Korea
By Mitch Shin
Underneath the belligerence, the reframing by Pyongyang actually opens an opportunity, if Seoul can seize it.
![Dual Neutralization as a Pathway to a Denuclearized Korea Dual Neutralization as a Pathway to a Denuclearized Korea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-05-06-120748.jpg)
Dual Neutralization as a Pathway to a Denuclearized Korea
By Heinz Gärtner and Pascal Lottaz
“Finlandization” for the North and “Austriazation” for the South provide a path toward unification – and denuclearization.
![South Korea’s Weakening Consensus on Unification South Korea’s Weakening Consensus on Unification](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-01-13_17-47-48.jpg)
South Korea’s Weakening Consensus on Unification
By Dylan Stent
Support for unification has been weakening for a while. Will changing attitudes be reflected in the next presidential administration?
![Moon’s Plan for Inter-Korean Relations Is Actually 40 Years Old Moon’s Plan for Inter-Korean Relations Is Actually 40 Years Old](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-01-17-3.jpg)
Moon’s Plan for Inter-Korean Relations Is Actually 40 Years Old
By Dylan Stent
No South Korean president in the last 38 years has trodden outside the elite blueprint for interacting with North Korea.
![North Korea Can’t Solve South Korea’s Demographic Crisis North Korea Can’t Solve South Korea’s Demographic Crisis](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-03-13_13-05-35.jpg)
North Korea Can’t Solve South Korea’s Demographic Crisis
By Troy Stangarone
South Korea’s population is aging fast, and even Korean unification won’t be enough to fix it.
![Would Korean Reunification Threaten China? Would Korean Reunification Threaten China?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-01-13_17-47-48.jpg)
Would Korean Reunification Threaten China?
By Bonnie Girard
A view from Beijing on Korean unification.
![Don't Forget About the Panmunjom Declaration Don't Forget About the Panmunjom Declaration](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-20180427081908187_komwtm8h.jpg)
Don't Forget About the Panmunjom Declaration
By Patrick Monaghan
With the risk of inter-Korean conflict now close to zero, time to think about what phased integration will look like.
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