ROK-DPRK relations

Sending soldiers to fight in the Vietnam War fundamentally transformed South Korea's economy. The deployment of North Korean soldiers to the Russian-Ukraine War will likely do the same.

The National Intelligence Services aid it has detected unusually heavy activities at a North Korean facility that produces solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles and at another site related to liquid-fueled ICBMs.

By announcing the USS Kentucky’s visit to Busan, the U.S. temporarily rendered one of its key assets more vulnerable, showing that it is willing to run risks on behalf of South Korea. 

The Korean Peninsula remains divided, but in South Korea at least there are “wide-ranging and serious reflections on the meaning and consequences of the war,” says historian Gregg A. Brazinsky.

After Kim’s statement belittling Yoon in August, this was her second discourteous statement toward the South Korean president.

Has the time finally arrived to confirm that the KIC is a dead project or does it have a future?

The North Korean regime’s repression of South Korean culture reflects a logic that equates foreign culture with a threat to the regime’s stability. 

North Korean intelligence capabilities, tactics, and targets have evolved over the decades.

The key remains the U.S. president’s ability to articulate a clear vision to both the American and South Korean publics.

Trump enjoys flattery, so the South Koreans are flattering him into engaging North Korea diplomatically.

The most likely outcome is that we will essentially end up where we began.

Ultimately, South Korea’s engagement strategy comes down to the realities of the Korean Peninsula.

To be successful, North Korean denuclearization must be verifiable and enforceable.

At the April 27 summit, there’s room for lowering tensions and making progress on the peninsula.

Kim Yong-jae, from the China-Japan-Korea Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, reflects on the upcoming flurry of summits.

With a flurry of summits on the schedule, how do China and South Korea view North Korean diplomacy and the U.S. position?

Despite endorsing the talks, Moscow does not expect the potential summit to successfully defuse the Korea crisis.

For the first time in 11 years, the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute made its way into a South Korean president’s March 1 remarks.

Seoul brought Pyongyang in from the cold for the Olympics, putting President Moon at the helm of peninsular affairs.

North Korea's upcoming Olympics appearance is both an opportunity and a challenge for South Korea, Japan, and the U.S.

The creation of a joint ice hockey team for the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games has been controversial in South Korea.

The focus was on the upcoming Olympic Games, but North Korea agreed to additional military talks.

The lack of recent launches from North Korea has raised the South's hopes for an “Olympic for Peace."

South Korea’s loudspeaker broadcasting system, pumping K-Pop northward, may have played a role in the man’s defection.