After returning from China where he had a successful meeting with President Xi Jinping, the DPRK’s head of state Kim Jong-un is set to hold his first face-to-face meeting with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in. This will be only the third time in history where heads of state from […]
DPRK (North Korea) Leader Kim Jong-un has concluded a three day visit to China where he held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of The People. This was Kim Jong-un’s first visit abroad since becoming his nation’s head of state in 2011. Comparing Socialism With Chinese […]
The following is an interview conducted by Seymur Mammadov who spoke with Dr. Sangsoo Lee. Dr. Sangsoo Lee joined The Institute for Security and Development Policy in 2007. He is Senior Research Fellow, and Project Manager of the Korean Peninsula Project. His areas of interest are Security and Conflict issues […]
Long serving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is currently embroiled in a cronyism scandal involving selling government land to the Moritomo Gakuen school for a price discounted well below market value. Making matters worse, the Prime Minister’s wife Akie Abe was the honorary principal of the school who has subsequently resigned since the […]
South Korea’s National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong was the first to make the historic announcement that a sitting US President would meet with a North Korean head of state. He made his statement on the White House lawn after concluding meetings in Kim Jong-un and his colleagues in Pyongyang. Tomorrow, Chung Eui-yong […]
The announcement that Kim Jong-un has invited Donald Trump for a personal meeting and denuclearisation is now a mutual goal, has caught many by surprise. This is after all the same Kim Jong-in who in an official statement called Trump a “mentally deranged dotard” who would be tamed “with fire”, while […]
South Korea’s National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong has read a short statement at the White House stating that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made a commitment to denuclearisation. It was also stated that Kim Jong-un has extended a personal invitation to speak personally with Donald Trump and that Trump has […]