Korean Unification StudiesKorean Unification StudiesA site for discussion and debate regarding issues relating to the unification of South and North Korea. The site brings together policy makers and academics from both Asia and the West to teach and to learn about Korean unification. Articles
David C. Kang on North Korea?s trade potential
2007-12-27 09:25:00 …a lot of these exchanges are beginning to incorporate more and more North Korea ns into the experience. For instance, these twenty-one thousand workers at Kaesong who are North Korea ns, eventually are going to go home and tell their families and friends what they experienced. At this point what we?re seeing is very initial steps on ... More About: Trade , David
ICG on Lee Myung Bak
2007-12-21 23:13:00 The International Crisis Group has a decent briefing on what they expect LMB will do for the Korean peninsula. Pretty much the same old stuff, including: Lee is expected to continue South Korea?s efforts at rapprochement with North Korea but to press more firmly for reciprocity than his predecessor. He has outlined a plan to narrow ...
Guest post: Introducing new blog ?Korea Report?
2007-12-21 12:01:00 A guest post by a reader and now once again blogger… —————— ;—————̵ 2;—————R 12;————— 212;—————- Dear Fellow Blog gers and Blog Readers, Greetings. I have enjoyed reading this and other blogs on Korea policy issues. Inspired by the second inter-Korea summit in October and other fast-paced changes that have brought renewed promises for peaceful settlement and further reconciliation in Korean peninsula, the ... More About: Post , Report , Guest
Unification policy under Lee Myung-Bak
2007-12-21 11:41:00 Many suspected that differences in North Korea policy between a Lee Myung-Bak administration and the Roh Moo-Hyun administration were going to be largely cosmetic. Most thought it as an open secret that North Korea policy would largely remain the same… Stability is after all, much more valuable to most South Koreans than any chance of a North Korean ... More About: Policy
Clinton?s freeze versus Bush?s disablement
2007-11-28 10:28:00 Kenneth Quinones, former US State Department North Korea specialist, has a very interesting piece comparing the ‘freeze’ on North Korean nuclear facilities that the Clinton administration sought and the ‘disablement’ on North Korean nuclear facilities that the Bush administration is seeking. Here is a taste: In November 1994, I accompanied the first U.S. delegation to visit the ... More About: Versus , Freeze , Linton
Sports and Korean Reunification
2007-11-27 04:26:00 The draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup preliminary competition was held in Durban over the weekend. And in an announcement that drew gasps from the crowd, both North and South Kore a were drawn to compete against each other in Asia?s Group 3, with Jordan and Turkmenistan. Watching how this plays out could be extremely ... More About: Sports , Korean
Kim Jong in Berlin
2007-11-25 08:57:00 OK… Away from the serious stuff for a while. I once heard that Kim Jong Il was once heard to say that he thought another dynastic succession would make the DPRK the laughing stock of the world… well… it’s too late to stop that now… Share This More About: Berlin
Kim Jong-Chol - guitar playing heir to communist dynasty?
2007-11-25 03:06:00 Before I go into all of my Japanese tabloid theories on the successor to Kim Jong -Il, I’ll let you guys read it yourself. From Reuters: TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has named his second eldest son to a major post, making him the top candidate to eventually take over as head of the ... More About: Guitar , Communist , Dynasty
North Korea: cheap labor and land
2007-11-24 00:05:00 I reckon this extract from a Reuters report on the re-establishment of rail links says a lot about what drives South Korea n unification policy: Cargo trains will cross the heavily fortified border dividing North and South Korea every day from next month, restoring a link severed for more than half a century, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said on ... More About: North Korea , Labor , Land
UN on Human Rights in North Korea
2007-11-21 23:26:00 South Korea abstained from a vote to adopt a draft resolution at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee, which condemned human rights abuses in North Korea . A draft resolution entitled Situation of human rights in the Democratic People?s Republic of Korea (document n0760137.pdf) would have the Assembly express its very serious concern at continuing reports of systematic, widespread and grave ... More About: Human , Rights , Human Rights
Rimjingang coming to a press stall near you
2007-11-20 23:24:00 I can’t wait to read this new magazine! According to AFP, Asia Press has sent North Koreans trained in journalism in China back to North Korea to report undercover in the country. The result, a Korean language magazine called “Rimjingang“. From AFP: A North Korean defector Tuesday announced the launch of a magazine carrying undercover reporting by citizens ...
Ministers of Unification (1969 - 2007)
2007-11-19 02:56:00 What does this long list of South Korean ministers responsible for unification tell you? Has there ever been a period in which the civil service has been led by a minister for unification for more than a few years? Or does it say more about the position of ‘unification minister’ and the fact that policy ... More About: Ministers
Inter-Korean prime ministerial meeting results
2007-11-16 22:13:00 From korea.net: the following is the gist of the agreement issued Friday (Nov. 16) after the three-day talks between the prime ministers of two Koreas in Seoul. South and North Korea will establish the Yellow Sea Special Zone for Peace and Cooperation. South and North Korea will commence in the first half of 2008 the establishment of ... More About: Inter , Results , Korean , Prime , Meeting
North Korean prediction season?
2007-11-15 22:38:00 Seems like everyone is making predictions on the future of North Kore a at the moment. The end of December is after all a decisive point when we will have a slightly better idea as to whether North Korea has really made a political and strategic decision to give up its nuclear weapons program. According to a colleague in ... More About: Season , Korean
Lankov on Korean unification
2007-11-15 06:30:00 Good article by Andrei Lankov on Kore an unification over at Asia Times. To sum it all up - Romania style collapse is coming soon to country near you (if you’re in South Korea). Give it a read! Share This
Roh just loves meeting commies?
2007-11-14 22:52:00 In all seriousness though, the meeting between Roh Moo-Hyun and Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-General of the Vietnamese Communist Party, after the latter’s visit to North Korea is quite significant. Vietnam could be held up as a model for North Korea. Although the fundamental economic conditions are very different between Vietnam and North Korea (in particular labor ... More About: Meeting
North Korean economic cooperation
2007-11-13 11:56:00 I guess this is one reason why South Kore a is so eager to ensure that inter-Korean economic projects proceed - North Korea is well on the way to becoming a Chinese province. A North Korean investment group and a Chinese bank will set up a 10 billion dollar fund to help Chinese firms build infrastructure…The deal ... More About: Cooperation , Economic
Espionage in the DPRK
2007-11-13 10:57:00 This is a video on the September arrest of foreign spies in the DPRK, detailed in earler posts, compiled by the kindly comrades at http://www.freewebs.com/dprk/ Share This More About: Espionage
Korean defense chiefs to meet
2007-11-12 22:29:00 The ROK Defense Ministry has announced that defense chiefs from North and South Kore a will meet during 27-29 November in Pyongyang. ROK Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo and DPRK Vice-Marshal Kim Il-chol (also Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Commission), will discuss implementation of the Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity, agreed to at the ... More About: Korean , Meet , Chiefs
Sungwoo Kim on North Korea?s international trade
2007-11-12 09:27:00 In the most recent Yonhap Vantage Point: Developments in North Korea (October 2007, Vol. 30, No. 10, p42) Sungwoo Kim takes an analytical look at North Korea ’s trade during the period 1995 to 2005. Sungwoo Kim, a professor of economics at Boston’s Northeastern University, has written several very good analytical pieces in the past and is one of the ... More About: International , Trade
Mr Toilet?s house opens
2007-11-11 23:07:00 While there has been a lot said about the psychological effects that unification could have on North Koreans when they come face to face with their materially driven southern brethren, I can’t help but think things like this could leave a scar for generations to come… Mr. Toilet ’s house opens in South Korea SEOUL (AFP) ? A South ... More About: House , Mr T
North Korean spys were Christians
2007-11-09 12:18:00 A report from the Christian Newswire claims that the ‘native citizens working for a foreign intelligence service’ that were exposed in an unprecedented press conference by a DPRK security organization last September were in fact North Kore an Christians . As noted in an earlier post, North Korean spokesperson Li Su Gil announced the arrests at a press conference ... More About: Were
Working level military talks next Monday
2007-11-09 00:33:00 There are several events coming up that will demonstrate how strong both North and South Korea are committed to the Declaration on the Advancement of South-North Korean Relations, Peace and Prosperity, agreed to at the South-North Summit 2-4 October 2007. First amongst these will be the working level talks between South and North Korean military officials ... More About: Military , Monday , Working , Workin
The differing ?threat? of North Korea
2007-11-07 23:51:00 The differing views of the United States and South Kore a on the nuclear issue were very evident at the press conference after talks between ROK Defense Minister Kim Jang-Soo and US Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The key point to make is that Gates believes that the anticipated resolution of the nuclear issue reduces the threat posed by North Korea . Kim ... More About: Threat
Bolton: Surrender is not an option
2007-11-06 22:41:00 You gotta love John Bolton . He may not have proven to be the best diplomat, but damn does he have a way with words. On the subject of Kim Jong-Il, he was reported in the Hankyoreh Shimun as stating: If I were Kim Jong-Il, I would not be optimistic… his death will be dirty and contemptible, like ... More About: Surrender
KINU Insights
2007-11-06 01:41:00 The October edition of KINU Insights has been released. The Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) publication, KINU Insights brings you up to date with issues relating to Korean unification with a fair amount of well informed views. This month’s edition brings views from Jeung Young-Tai a Senior Research Fellow at KINU, Park Hyeong-Jung, Senior ...
Economic implications of the summit
2007-11-06 00:47:00 Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard on the economic implications of the Summit over at the Nautilus Institute Policy Forum. Well worth a read. Share This More About: Economic , Inter-Korean Summit , Implications
Resource: Security Council Report on Korean affairs
2007-11-05 04:49:00 There is a new Security Council Report Monthly Forecast on North Korea available now. For those that weren’t aware, the Security Council Report is an independent external reporter on the work of the Security Council and its overall performance. According to SCR itself, it is: …an independent not-for-profit organisation in affiliation with Columbia University’s Center on International ... More About: Korean , Resource
Guest post: The State of North Korean Studies
2007-11-04 23:53:00 Another guest post, this time on somewhat of a different subject. But I must say, it does give me food for thought as an aspiring student! —————— ;—————̵ 2;—————R 12;————— 212;- The State of North Korean Studies I would like to present readers with an objective opinion on the state of scholarship relating to North Korea - it is very poor. In the ... More About: Post
Cambodia between Japanese money and North Korean solidarity
More articles from this author:2007-11-01 23:33:00 According to the Bangkok Post, Japanese money is worth more than North Korean solidarity to Cambodia ’s Prime Minister Hun Sen: “Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to his North Korean counterpart Kim Yong Il to release remaining Japanese citizens abducted by that country nearly 30 years ago, a government spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Khieu Kanharith made the ... More About: Money 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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