Oct 12,2015 National Commentaries

The South Korean Perspective

"The Challenge for Park’s Summit with Obama after Abe’s Summit."   As President Park Geun-hye prepares for her meeting with President Barack Obama on October 16, her visit will bring to a close a year of intensive summitry between the US president and his key counterparts in Asia.1 On April 26-May 3, Prime Minister Abe […]

Lee Chung Min*

China's military parade , Japan-US alliance , Japanese SDF , National security , North Korea , Sino-ROK Relations

Sep 17,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: South Korea (September 2015)

Three themes concerning relations in Northeast Asia preoccupied the South Korean media in the late summer. Before and after the Abe statement, there was considerable interest in dealing with an unsatisfactory narrative without sacrificing what is now a two-track approach to Japan. Later in August, in the aftermath of the agreement with North Korea ending […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

8.25 Agreement , Abe Statement , National security , Regionalism , Sino-ROK Relations

Aug 13,2015 Open Forum

Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 4)

The Cold War era is looking different from before in hindsight of the 2010s. The key breakthroughs in bilateral relations now seem less transformative, even to a degree fleeting. The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty seems shakier, given Abe’s revisionism. The 1965 Japan-ROK normalization is under duress, given the rulings by Korean courts on “comfort […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Obama summit , Japan-US relations , Regionalism , Sino-ROK Relations , unification

Jun 23,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: China (June 2015)

In Heping yu Fazhan, no. 2, 2015, Li Hongcai and Yang Guanghai took a broad view of security in Asia, citing Xi Jinping’s May 21, 2014 statement on the contours of such thinking. Xi had called on Asian countries to discard traditional thinking and forge new types of security relations. Recognizing that security in the […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

constructivism , SCO , Sino-ROK Relations , Sino-US Relations

Jun 11,2015 Special Forum

Option 4: Resuming the Six-Party Talks

The Korean Peninsula has been divided for over seventy years, and there is no sign that the division will end any time soon. The ROK and the DPRK are bogged down in a drawn-out competition, in which neither side has made decisive progress in pursuit of national unification. Recently, the competition entered a new stage, […]

Cheng Xiaohe*

NAPCI , Sino-ROK Relations , Six-Party Talks