By Victor Cha — North Korea launched a new missile on May 14th, the same day the Chinese were hosting their biggest event of the year, the “Belt and Road Forum (BRF)” for International Cooperation in Beijing. According to North…
By Lisa Collins & Victor Cha — Exit polls from the May 9th election in South Korea indicate that Moon Jae-in will be the country’s next president. Moon will enter office after more than six months of domestic political turmoil…
By Murray Hiebert — For the first few months of the Donald Trump administration, Southeast Asia wondered where it would fit in the new president’s global calculus. Trump had given few clues during the election campaign about engaging this dynamic…
By Matthew P. Goodman, Michael J. Green, & Nicholas Szechenyi — Vice President Mike Pence will travel to South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and Australia from April 15 to 25, including for the launch of a new economic dialogue with Japan’s…
By Rupakjyoti Borah — The decision by the Trump administration to send the USS Carl Vinson Strike Group to the Korean peninsula marks a new phase in the United States’ involvement in the region. This comes on the heels of…
By Junya Nishino — Ever since war broke out on the Korean Peninsula in 1950, Japan’s security ties with South Korea have been structured through the U.S.-Japan alliance. There has been a continued recognition over the decades of the importance…
By Victor Cha, Bonnie Glaser, Matthew P. Goodman, Michael J. Green, Christopher K. Johnson, & Scott Kennedy — Background President Donald Trump will host President Xi Jinping of China at Mar-a-Lago on April 6–7. This will be the first opportunity…
By Marie DuMond — A PreData-Beyond Parallel prediction indicates there is a 43 percent chance of North Korean WMD activity taking place in the next 14 days. In the next 30 days, there is a 62 percent chance for North…
By Heejun Tae — Unprecedented political turmoil has engulfed South Korea for months and the public is concerned about how the forthcoming presidential election will affect the future. However, up to this point attention has primarily been focused on the…
Who is he? Kim Jong-nam was the son of Kim Jong Il and Song Hye Rim. He was the half-brother of Kim Jong-un. Kim was initially homeschooled in North Korea before attending international schools in Moscow and Geneva. In the…
