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South Korea's Coronavirus Elections are a Litmus Test for President Moon's Political Future
Commentary
For South Koreans, postponing elections is unimaginable because of their dark past. But little did they know that simply exercising their inalienable right to improve their li...
By Duyeon Kim
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Breakthrough or Crisis? How Will Coronavirus Impact Tensions with North Korea?
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The novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated geopolitical tensions first in Northeast Asia, with the original outbreak in China, and now around the world as the United State...
By Duyeon Kim
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Trump has three options with North Korea to avoid a dangerous perfect storm in Asia
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In the next few weeks, the Korean Peninsula will face a watershed moment -- one which could upend the United States' alliances in northeast Asia and regional stability as a wh...
By Duyeon Kim
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Situation Report: U.S.-North Korea Negotiations to Resume This Weekend
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After months of stalled talks, U.S. and North Korean representatives will meet this weekend to resume negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Just this week, ...
By Duyeon Kim, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kristine Lee, Van Jackson & Neil Bhatiya
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How to Make Proportionate Bargains with North Korea on Denuclearization and Peace
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The United States and North Korea will finally sit down for nuclear talks on October 5, according to an announcement by Pyongyang. Three months had passed without negotiations...
By Duyeon Kim
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Why North Korea is going ballistic with short-range missiles
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North Korea is on an arms-testing binge. It began to fire short-range ballistic missiles in May, flaunted what apparently is a ballistic missile-carrying submarine on July 23,...
By Duyeon Kim
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As Talks Stall, North Korea Appears to Expand Its Nuclear Arsenal
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Talks between the U.S. and North Korea raised hopes that Kim Jong Un will stop developing or even surrender his nuclear weapons. But security experts point to satellite images...
By Duyeon Kim
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Can North Korea Be Deterred?
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Each time the world witnesses cycles of North Korean provocations or nuclear diplomacy, or both, Korea watchers and specialists question whether deterrence is possible or feas...
By Duyeon Kim
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Trump and Kim’s Interactions Aren’t Transactional Anymore
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There’s a Korean saying that goes “Chop 10 times, and there isn’t a tree that won’t fall over.” Sometimes that number goes up to 100, but the underlying point—fundamental to c...
By Duyeon Kim
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North Korean Ship Seizure - Supporting North Korea in the face of human rights violations
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The United States has seized the North Korean ship Wise Honest. Duyeon Kim joins VOA Korea to examine the significance of this ship seizure in response to sanctions violations...
By Duyeon Kim
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The United States Needs a Gray-Zone Strategy Against North Korea
North Korea’s firing of short-range ballistic missiles on May 4 and 9 and testing of a new “tactical guided weapon” on April 17 are stark reminders that the Kim Jong Un regime...
By Duyeon Kim, Nicholas D. Wright & Kristine Lee
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Summit Datebook 2: After Hanoi, relieved but still curious
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Kim Jong Un undisputedly won the first round of summitry in Singapore last June. He was masterful at playing US President Donald Trump by pocketing a key American bargaining c...
By Duyeon Kim
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Summit datebook: From Hanoi, with curiosity
I landed in Hanoi a few days ago, curious. Curious about a once-divided country, now a growing economy, with South Korean footprints all over its business and pop culture, tha...
By Duyeon Kim
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The Trump-Kim Summit and Beyond: What Positive Outcomes Look Like
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On February 27, United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet for a second time in Hanoi in a bid to make concrete progress on their June ...
By Duyeon Kim
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North Korea Needs a Real Deal, Not a Trump Special
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The second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be a decisive moment. Another meeting that ends, as Singapore did, with faux pea...
By Duyeon Kim
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What North Korea wants from the next US summit
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Following their historic meeting in Singapore last June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are preparing for another summit in late February. Their...
By Duyeon Kim
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How to tell if North Korea is serious about denuclearization
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Since the Singapore summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June, Pyongyang has made gestures and statements suggesting that it will cu...
By Duyeon Kim
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N. Korea expert Duyeon Kim says "whether N. Korea is sincere about disarmament remains to be seen"
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North and South Korea say they have moved into an era without war on the Korean Peninsula, after leaders from the two countries signed agreements on a "way to achieve denuclea...
By Duyeon Kim
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Pyongyang Declaration: Bringing peace to the Koreas beyond symbolism
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Symbolism and atmospherics are often just as important as literal deliverables in Korean culture. This symbolic approach is not necessarily understandable to Western minds acc...
By Duyeon Kim
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What's in a name? Korean 'peace' and breaking the deadlock
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Everyone wants peace on the Korean Peninsula. But what does “peace” mean and how is it achieved? This is where it gets tricky and political, dividing the hawks and the doves. ...
By Duyeon Kim
