For the first time, Korean, Japanese and U.S. Forces conducted a tri-lateral exercise in the Yellow Sea. China released a carefully worded statement emphasizing that the exercises took place “beyond the territorial waters of any country.” Those seven words are… Read More ›
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Options Abound: Weekly Digest
The big news around Seoul this week was the arrival of Barack Obama for the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, his visit to the DMZ (predicted several weeks ago on One Free Korea) and the flurry of stories related to North… Read More ›
Opportunity for Engagement and Reform: An Interview with Dr. Park Young-jun
The speed with which facts, currencies, ideas and rumors flow through and weave around the Korean peninsula has clearly accellerated in the information age. Students in Pyongyang trace (if vaguely) the spread of revolution in Syria; a grainy drone strike… Read More ›