Tag: Geopolitical Affairs

Political Forecast 2016: Korea and Its Neighbors

The United States and Korea see tremendous regional flux in 2016. Tensions in East Asia have grown with China’s military activities in the South China

North Korea: The End of “Patience”?

      February 23, 2016   North Korea: The End of “Patience”? Ambassador Thomas Hubbard North Korea’s detonation of a nuclear device on January

North Korean Human Rights: Two Years beyond the COI Report

The Korea Society marks two years since the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report (COI) with a message from South Korea’s Ambassador on

Intl Reaction to North Korea’s Missile Launch

      February 7, 2016   Intl Reaction to North Korea’s Missile Launch Stephen E. Noerper A month and a day after conducting its

Invisible Children: The Stateless Children of North Korean Refugees

Sylvia Kim, a human rights lawyer and policy advisor with the European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea, offers an overview of the international

The Invitation-Only Zone with Robert Boynton

Robert Boynton, Director at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, discusses his new book, The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North

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North Korea Nuclear Test

      January 6, 2016 North Korea Nuclear TestStephen E. Noerper On January 6, the DPRK tested what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb

The Honorable Ahn Ho-young, Ambassador to the United States

      December 29, 2015 The Honorable Ahn Ho-young Ambassador to the United States Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States

Progress in Korea-Japan Relations

      December 28, 2015 Progress in Korea-Japan RelationsStephen E. Noerper The 28 December 2015 agreement to resolve the lingering issue of World War

North Korean Human Rights Revisited: Perspective of a Former North Korean Elite

Mr. Kim Hyung-Soo, a biophysicist from an elite cadre in North Korea, defected to South Korea in 2009. Though his wife was able to escape,