Could North Korea Become the Breakthrough in the US-China Relations?
The informal summit between the leaders of China and the US concluded pretty much according to most expectations, namely no breakthroughs or unpleasant surprises. According to some reports, Presidents...
View ArticleObama-Xi Summit Extends to the Korean Peninsula
The Xi-Obama summit has to be viewed as a success for one reason that was actually a post-summit sideshow far beyond the lovely confines of Sunnylands at Rancho Mirage in southern California. That was...
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China’s North Korean Pivot
After a spring of heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, a flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks has brought some hope of a meeting of the minds, at least between China, South Korea, and...
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Park’s China Trip Presents Opportunities and Challenges for the US-ROK Alliance
Americans generally welcomed South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s recent four-day trip to China. They understand that solving the North Korean problem will probably require persuading the Chinese...
View ArticleNew Thinking Needed for Korean Crisis
Six decades after the Korean War (1950-53) was ended by the signing of an armistice agreement, the two Koreas are still technically at war. The fragile truce, signed on July 27, 1953, has contributed...
View ArticleA New Type of Major Power Relations on North Korea
Earlier this year it appeared to some that US and Chinese approaches to North Korea were converging. More recently, however, the gap between Beijing and Washington in their policies toward Pyongyang...
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China’s North Korea Conundrum
It has become clear that North Korea is raising the stakes further on the Korean peninsula. According to a report issued on October 23 by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School...
View ArticleWhat Is the Guarantee of Peace on the Korean Peninsula?
The issue of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea vs. the Republic of Korea is a leftover from the Second World War. Because of a decision made by a few big powers at the Yalta Conference in...
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North Korean Politics as Blood Sport: China May be a Target Too
North Korea has never been an easy ally for the People’s Republic of China. With the execution of Jang Song-taek, Kim Jong-un’s uncle and supposed mentor, Beijing’s uncertain clout in Pyongyang is at...
View ArticleNorth of North Korea: Notes on The Political Geography of Dandong
Last week, my colleagues and I visited Dandong, Liaoning province, together with 10 international postgraduate students. On April 25th, 2014, when President Obama laid a wreath at Seoul’s Korean War...
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