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ROK-DPRK relations
![What Will Success at the Inter-Korean Summit Look Like? What Will Success at the Inter-Korean Summit Look Like?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_18111376308166.jpg)
What Will Success at the Inter-Korean Summit Look Like?
By Anastasia O. Barannikova
At the April 27 summit, there’s room for lowering tensions and making progress on the peninsula.
![What Is South Korea’s Vision for the New Northeast Asian Order? What Is South Korea’s Vision for the New Northeast Asian Order?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-what-is-south-koreas-vision-for-the-new-northeast-asian-order-kakaotalk_photo_2018-04-10-16-25-33.jpg)
What Is South Korea’s Vision for the New Northeast Asian Order?
By Hyunmin Michael Kang
Kim Yong-jae, from the China-Japan-Korea Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, reflects on the upcoming flurry of summits.
![A Season of North Korea Summits: The View from Beijing and Seoul A Season of North Korea Summits: The View from Beijing and Seoul](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_18087216968225.jpg)
A Season of North Korea Summits: The View from Beijing and Seoul
By Clint Work
With a flurry of summits on the schedule, how do China and South Korea view North Korean diplomacy and the U.S. position?
![What's Really Behind Russia's Public Support of the Trump-Kim Meeting? What's Really Behind Russia's Public Support of the Trump-Kim Meeting?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-lavrov-putin.jpg)
What's Really Behind Russia's Public Support of the Trump-Kim Meeting?
By Samuel Ramani
Despite endorsing the talks, Moscow does not expect the potential summit to successfully defuse the Korea crisis.
![Moon’s March 1 Address Pokes Sensitive Issues With Japan Moon’s March 1 Address Pokes Sensitive Issues With Japan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-7779857076_8df355fdc1_z1.jpg)
Moon’s March 1 Address Pokes Sensitive Issues With Japan
By Hyunmin Michael Kang
For the first time in 11 years, the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute made its way into a South Korean president’s March 1 remarks.
![Moon’s PyeongChang Propaganda Coup Moon’s PyeongChang Propaganda Coup](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_18041511166667.jpg)
Moon’s PyeongChang Propaganda Coup
By Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Seoul brought Pyongyang in from the cold for the Olympics, putting President Moon at the helm of peninsular affairs.
![North Korea Diplomacy and the Winter Olympics North Korea Diplomacy and the Winter Olympics](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_18036252832903.jpg)
North Korea Diplomacy and the Winter Olympics
By Leif-Eric Easley
North Korea's upcoming Olympics appearance is both an opportunity and a challenge for South Korea, Japan, and the U.S.
![North and South Korean Ice Hockey Teams Meet For the First Time North and South Korean Ice Hockey Teams Meet For the First Time](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_18026213792536.jpg)
North and South Korean Ice Hockey Teams Meet For the First Time
By Hyunmin Michael Kang
The creation of a joint ice hockey team for the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games has been controversial in South Korea.
![An Olympic Feat: North and South Korea Engage in High-Level Talks An Olympic Feat: North and South Korea Engage in High-Level Talks](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_18009474486333.jpg)
An Olympic Feat: North and South Korea Engage in High-Level Talks
By Hyunmin Michael Kang
The focus was on the upcoming Olympic Games, but North Korea agreed to additional military talks.
![South Korea’s PyeongChang 2018 Olympics at a Crossroads South Korea’s PyeongChang 2018 Olympics at a Crossroads](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-1024px-gold_medal_of_the_2018_winter_olympics_in_in_pyeongchang.jpg)
South Korea’s PyeongChang 2018 Olympics at a Crossroads
By Hyunmin Michael Kang
The lack of recent launches from North Korea has raised the South's hopes for an “Olympic for Peace."
![North Korean Soldier Makes Dramatic Defection Across the DMZ North Korean Soldier Makes Dramatic Defection Across the DMZ](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-09-26_13-19-29.jpg)
North Korean Soldier Makes Dramatic Defection Across the DMZ
By Hyunmin Michael Kang
South Korea’s loudspeaker broadcasting system, pumping K-Pop northward, may have played a role in the man’s defection.
![Democracy vs North Korea Democracy vs North Korea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-1026976538_17e1b0044d_b.jpg)
Democracy vs North Korea
By David Straub
Why have democracies proven unable to halt the North Korean dictatorship’s development of nuclear weapons?