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Comparing the Successions: Kim Jong Il vs. Kim Jong Un
By Luke Herman As the Kim Jong Un regime completes its eighth month in power following Kim Jong Il’s death in December 2011, there seem to be a number of differences between how this succession is...
View ArticleNorth Korea Rocket Launch: Shunning Prospects for Better Relations in 2013
By Nicholas Hamisevicz North Korea’s decision to launch a satellite in the midst of important regional political transitions underscores its disregard for building better relations with new leaders...
View ArticleDr. Strangelove and the Special Economic Zone: Balance and Imbalance in...
By Adam Cathcart, Roger Cavazos, and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga No one knows if Kim Jong-un’s favorite films extend into the acerbic oeuvre of Peter Sellers, but the young North Korean dictator’s...
View ArticleRodman Doesn’t Understand the Big Picture with North Korea, and He May Have...
By Nicholas Hamisevicz Last week former NBA player Dennis Rodman, along with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters and Vice Media, traveled to North Korea to play and promote basketball as well as...
View ArticleAfter South Korea’s Call for Dialogue with North Korea: Preparing a New Game...
By Jinho Park While North Korea ratchets up the tension in Northeast Asia, Kim Jong-un made the bold—though not surprising—decision of withdrawing all North Korean workers from the Kaesong Industrial...
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Has North Korean Rhetoric Changed Under Kim Jong-un?
By Troy Stangarone, Andrew Kwon, and Peter Taves With the passing of Kim Jong-il in December of 2011, the United States and South Korea entered into a new period of uncertainty with North Korea....
View ArticleIs North Korea Finally Ready To Talk?
By Troy Stangarone After December’s satellite launch, February’s nuclear test, and months of talk of war, is North Korea finally beginning to turn the corner in the first full scale crisis under Kim...
View ArticleCould Mongolia Serve as a Mediator with North Korea?
By Troy Stangarone As the only Northeast Asian nation not involved in the nuclear talks with North Korea, Mongolia is often left out of discussions about resolving the region’s most intractable...
View ArticleJang Song Taek’s Public Purge from North Korean Leadership
By Nicholas Hamisevicz It looks like South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) got it right when they suggested to National Assembly members that Jang Song Taek had been removed from his...
View ArticleThe Korean Peninsula in 2013 in Review
By Troy Stangarone In a sense, the events of 2013 on the Korean peninsula began in December of 2012. In the days leading up to South Korea’s presidential election, North Korea successfully put its...
View ArticleIs Kim Jong-un Being Pushed Out … or Just Recuperating?
By Nicholas Hamisevicz After not being seen in public for over a month, surely Kim Jong-un would be at the 69th anniversary celebrations for the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea today. But,...
View ArticleRodman and Rogen Have Made the Same Mistake on North Korea
By Nicholas Hamisevicz Dennis Rodman and Seth Rogen have made the same mistake on North Korea. Both have mistakenly viewed North Korea as a helpless entity. Rodman viewed North Korea as so helpless...
View ArticleInter-Korean Relations in 2014 and Impact for 2015
By Nicholas Hamisevicz After the New Year’s announcements by Park Geun-hye and Kim Jong-un, there is a lot of anticipation and analysis for the year ahead in inter-Korean relations. However, many of...
View ArticleThree Questions About North Korea’s Latest Execution
By Troy Stangarone In the pantheon of executions, one would not expect to see a niche devoted to disagreements over forestry policy, which makes the news that Vice Premier Choe Yong-gon was executed by...
View ArticleBang Bang Bang: Taking on the North Korean Regime through K-pop
Tensions have been high on the Korean Peninsula over the past few weeks after a mine blast that maimed two South Korean soldiers set off a series of escalations from both sides of the DMZ. One of the...
View ArticleNorth Korea Blinks
No one apart from the representatives of the North Korean and South Korean governments who took part in the marathon talks over the weekend of August 22 can know exactly what took place. But there is...
View ArticleOf Landmines, Loudspeakers, and Submarines on the Korean Peninsula: What We...
By Troy Stangarone With the announcement of a deal shortly after midnight on August 25 the most recent inter-Korean crisis averted a military conflict on the Korean peninsula. Though the two sides...
View ArticleWhy North Korea’s “Non-Apology” Apology is Significant
In the aftermath of the recent tensions on the Korean peninsula some commentators have contended that South Korea is spinning the idea that North Korea apologized for maiming two South Korea soldiers...
View ArticleSeptember 2015: Tough Rhetoric between Deal and Potential Meetings in...
By Nicholas Hamisevicz After the month of August featured shooting, shouting, and a negotiated joint statement, September mainly focused on laying the groundwork necessary to implement the August 25...
View ArticleCongress Wants to Up the Pressure on North Korean Human Rights Violators
By Jenna Gibson Earlier this month, three U.S. senators took on North Korea (DPRK) by introducing a broad sanctions bill aimed at addressing concerns about cyberwarfare and the North’s continued...
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