Search results

Rupture of accord will raise Seoul-Pyongyang tensions

Location:

NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA

An unrelated ballistic missile test shortly afterwards failed. Seoul responded by partially suspending September 2018’s North-South military agreement -- whereupon Pyongyang…

US rhetoric outstrips North Korea policy options

Location:

NORTH KOREA/US

The Trump administration has been keen to distinguish its nascent policy towards Pyongyang from that of former President Barack Obama. US officials have stated that Pyongyang…

Prospects for East Asia (ex-China) in 2023

Location:

PROSPECTS 2023

His approval rating has sunk to the critical 30% level. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval ratings have also sunk to around 30%, even though he has only been in post…

US plan will test South-east Asia on digital trade

Location:

SOUTH-EAST ASIA

In a last-minute move, seven South-east Asian countries -- Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei -- were added to the initiative, joining…

Purge in Pyongyang suggests Kim still not secure

Location:

NORTH KOREA

North Korean politics.

Pyongyang pivots as loyal ally of China and Russia

Location:

NORTH KOREA

Besides Russia, only Syria has gone that far. This marks a major shift in Pyongyang’s posture. Long proudly non-aligned, it now stresses solidarity against the West. Its motives…

Seoul’s quest for new growth engines may prove elusive

Location:

SOUTH KOREA

The New Growth Strategy 4.0 is the latest of several industrial strategies over the past decade and a half, as successive presidents have sought responses to gradually slowing GDP…

Pyongyang's missile tests gain pace amid diversions

Location:

NORTH KOREA

This comes during a particularly bumpy transition in Seoul from an outgoing administration to a new one. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s five-year term starts on May 10.

Seoul-Havana relations will hurt Pyongyang

Location:

SOUTH KOREA/CUBA

South Korea’s business ties with Cuba have improved in recent decades, while Havana-Pyongyang relations have long been uneasy. Cuba’s decision came amid North Korea’s increasingly…

Pyongyang’s Beijing and Moscow ties will be complex

Location:

NORTH KOREA/CHINA/RUSSIA

The PoE has since 2009 reported regularly on North Korea’s violations of UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions. Beijing and Moscow are resisting an ineffective UN sanctions…