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Despite their evident differences, it is not difficult to draw certain parallels between India and the Republic of Korea (ROK).  The emergences of both states from decades of colonial rule...
Publication Type: Korea Compass
Author(s): Dhruva Jaishankar
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May 7 2012 - 11:37
The U.S. pivot to Asia is emerging as one of the organizing principles for Washington’s future foreign policy as it views its own economic destiny becoming increasingly intertwined...
Publication Type: Korea Compass
Author(s): S. Amer Latif
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May 7 2012 - 11:36
For the first time in its history, South Korea is experiencing the challenge of extremely low fertility and a rapidly increasing number of elderly persons. This dramatic shift in population...
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Apr 18 2012 - 10:27
  In 2006–08 Pyongyang had two kinds of markets. The first were “official” markets that had started out many years earlier as farmers markets selling only food but...
Author(s): John Everard
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Apr 2 2012 - 13:29
  This work analyzes economic reforms in North Korea (DPRK) and Cuba. These countries, ruled by single parties, have tried to maintain economic systems that advocate central planning...
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Apr 2 2012 - 13:28
  The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) and the Korea-European Union Free Trade Agreement (Korea-EU FTA) are the major FTAs for the Korean economy. Although both FTAs share many...
Author(s): Yeongkwan Song
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Apr 2 2012 - 13:26
  Since the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty in 1953, the U.S.-ROK alliance has been tremendously successful in deterring a large-scale attack by the DPRK. Even during national...
Author(s): Abraham M. Denmark
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Apr 2 2012 - 13:22
  The March 2012 Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in Seoul, Korea comes at a critical juncture: continued global terrorist attacks prompt concerns about the threat of nuclear terrorism,...
Author(s): Duyeon Kim
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Apr 2 2012 - 13:12
  Relations on the Korean Peninsula are at their coolest level in more than 20 years. Since 2006, when the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced that it had...
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Apr 2 2012 - 13:08
  This study was undertaken to assess possible futures for the North Korean regime and the Korean peninsula that could affect U.S. and regional interests, and to consider which U.S....
Author(s): Michael J. Mazarr
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Apr 2 2012 - 11:19
An axiom of U.S. global strategy is that continued stability and economic prosperity in East Asia are core national interests. While the spectacular rise of China may be the most profound...
Author(s): Balbina Y. Hwang
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Apr 2 2012 - 11:15
When the Internet became accessible to the international public in the 1990’s, it forever revolutionized the way people exchange information and communication. Demands for connection to the...
Author(s): Jane Kim
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Apr 2 2012 - 11:08
Until the recent passing of Kim Jong-il, the world thought of North Korea as a Stalinist, Hermit Kingdom run by a crazy, nuclear weapon-building, grey jumpsuit-wearing dictator known as the Dear...
Author(s): Peter Nesbitt
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Apr 2 2012 - 11:07
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) President Kim il-Sung explained to his counterpart Erich Honecker, President of the German Democratic Republic, in 1977 that building socialism in...
Author(s): Ian Rinehart
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Apr 2 2012 - 11:04
Natural disasters are known to draw nations closer together. The 2004 tsunami relief efforts of various states, especially the United States, were widely credited with improving relations with...
Author(s): Andrew Kim
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Apr 2 2012 - 11:00
There is no doubt that the United States has been a dominant economic power in the world. U.S. troops are deployed in the various corners of the world, and their military presence is often a strong...
Author(s): Gloria Koo
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Apr 2 2012 - 10:45
Northeast Asian countries compete against one another in order to procure natural resources from abroad. Moreover, competition surrounding energy-related technologies is getting overheated in this...
Author(s): Eunjung Lim
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Apr 2 2012 - 10:44
Northeast Asian countries including Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan, have recently considered adopting the U.S.-style legal education as a revolutionary remedy to dissolve chronic problems of the Pre-...
Author(s): Yukyoung Choe
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Apr 2 2012 - 10:37
Korea’s economic development since the 1980s has occurred in the context of capital controls and a strong governmental role in achieving sustained growth. The experiences of two financial...
Author(s): June Park
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Apr 2 2012 - 10:35
Conflict and cooperation are constants in the discipline of international relations. In the case of the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) and Japan’s bilateral military relations, the...
Author(s): Jiun Bang
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Apr 2 2012 - 10:31
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