North Korea
Security Roundtable: Dealing with Outliers
We convene our security roundtable to discuss the best ways to deal with the “outlier states” of North Korea and Iran with Haleh Esfandiari, Robert Hathaway, and Robert Litwak. more
Media Briefing: President of South Korea to Visit Washington
May 01, 2013 // 10:30am — 11:00am
Wilson Center experts answer questions from the press about President Park's visit to the U.S. and the state of U.S. relations in East Asia in this media briefing. more
2013 IFES-WWICS Washington Forum on Korea
June 14, 2013 // 9:30am — 3:30pm
The 2013 IFES-WWICS Washington Forum on Korea will include several keynote addresses, a roundtable on leadership changes in East Asia moderated by veteran ABC anchor Sam Donaldson, and a panel discussion on North Korea's crisis diplomacy. more
Why John Kerry Could be a Better Secretary of State than Hillary Clinton
Apr 26, 2013Aaron David Miller writes that John Kerry may prove to be a more successful U.S. Secretary of State than Hillary Clinton.
NKIDP Senior Adviser Mitchell Lerner Publishes in The Diplomat
Apr 23, 2013NKIDP Senior Adviser Mitchell Lerner writes in The Diplomat that "patience, not peemption," is what is needed on the Korean Peninsula.
Database on Inter-Korean Relations
Apr 15, 2013Using fresh and policy-relevant historical data, the Database on Inter-Korean Relations informs and supports current and future efforts to reunify peacefully the Korean Peninsula and achieve reconciliation in post-unification Korea.
Kerry in Asia: Fleshing Out the Rebalance
Apr 12, 2013Newly-minted Secretary of State John Kerry is in Asia this week amidst a rising sense of crisis prompted by weeks of bellicose rhetoric and increasingly dangerous threats by regional bad boy North Korea.
Media Briefing: President of South Korea to Visit Washington
May 01, 2013 // 10:30am — 11:00am
Wilson Center experts answer questions from the press about President Park's visit to the U.S. and the state of U.S. relations in East Asia in this media briefing.
2013 IFES-WWICS Washington Forum on Korea
June 14, 2013 // 9:30am — 3:30pm
The 2013 IFES-WWICS Washington Forum on Korea will include several keynote addresses, a roundtable on leadership changes in East Asia moderated by veteran ABC anchor Sam Donaldson, and a panel discussion on North Korea's crisis diplomacy.
South Korea and the U.S. Pivot to Asia
April 03, 2013 // 12:45pm — 1:35pm
As the United States focuses more attention to Asia politically, economically, and militarily, South Korea is reassessing its own role in ensuring stability in the region. Can Seoul and Washington work more closely together to further security and prosperity between the two countries and across the Asia-Pacific? How will the U.S. pivot toward Asia impact Washington’s security alliance with South Korea? Will the possibility of South Korea joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership help or hinder the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement?
North Korea and the American Radical Left
NKIDP e-Dossier no. 14, "'Our Common Struggle against Our Common Enemy': North Korea and the American Radical Left," is introduced by Benjamin R. Young and features ten documents from the personal papers of Eldridge Cleaver, a former Black Panther Party leader, which describe Cleaver's fascination with and travels to the DPRK during the "long 1960s."
North Korean Perspectives on the Overthrow of Syngman Rhee
NKIDP e-Dossier no. 13, "North Korean Perspectives on the Overthrow of Syngman Rhee, 1960," is introduced by Jong-dae Shin, Christian F. Ostermann, and James Person and features twenty translated documents cataloging North Korea’s immediate responses to the April 19 Revolution in South Korea and how the DPRK attempted to take advantage of the events which ultimately led to the resignation of President Syngman Rhee.
North Korea and the Cuban Missile Crisis
NKIDP e-Dossier no. 12, "The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Origins of North Korea’s Policy of Self-Reliance in National Defense," is introduced by James F. Person and features 6 translated documents which demonstrate how the Cuban Missile Crisis transformed North Korea’s relations with Moscow and Beijing and nudged the country down a path of unsustainable military buildup that, in part, resulted in a nuclear weapons program and was responsible for the country’s economic difficulties in later decades.
Security Roundtable: Dealing with Outliers
We convene our security roundtable to discuss the best ways to deal with the “outlier states” of North Korea and Iran with Haleh Esfandiari, Robert Hathaway, and Robert Litwak.
Moynihan’s Moment & North Korean Sabre Rattling
We look back at the legacy of the late great Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan with the help of Gil Troy, author of Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism, and Maura Moynihan, daughter of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Abraham Kim
Vice President, Korea Economic Institute
Abraham Kim is vice president of the Korea Economic Institute. Formerly, Kim was the research manager of government services and the principal Korea analyst at the global political risk consulting firm, Eurasia Group. There he managed a group of analysts and editors that supported a variety of US go...
Andrei Lankov
Professor of History at Koomkin University in Seoul, South Korea
Affiliation:Former Assistant Professor, Oriental Studies Department, St. Petersburg State UniversityWilson Center Project(s):North Korea History: Soviet Advisers in North Korea 1945-62