When tensions rise, history illuminates U.S. and ROK fears of entrapment and abandonment.

Postwar dynasties in Asia have been remarkably persistent.

In the name of security, the people of South Korea are losing a crucial element of their national identity.

Latent within South Korea’s state-controlled history textbook controversy, a Game of Thrones

Polling data suggests South Koreans approve of Park Chung-hee himself, but disapprove of the system he used to rule.

The alliance is about more than just deterring Pyongyang.

South Korea has at times had reason to fear the strength of its alliance with the United States. Part II in a series.

A South Korean court ruled in favor of allowing the Ministry of Education to mandate history textbook revisions.

The methods of Seoul’s meteoric rise could help spur Indian growth.

The transfer of wartime operational control is part of larger questions about the US-ROK alliance.

The conventional military balance on the Korean Peninsula best explains North and South Korea’s nuclear trajectories.

North Korea has stooped to a new low in its ongoing sexist tirades against South Korean President Park Geun-hye.

Park enters office in South Korea facing a daunting array of domestic and foreign policy challenges. She may very well prove up to the task.