The Australia - Korea bilateral relationship is successful but lacks the foundations upon which stronger relationships are built, including people-to-people, cultural and education links.
Can you be an expert on a place without speaking the main language? In the case of North Korea, of course, that means Korean, and whether an analyst can read, write and speak Korean.
South Korea is set on a policy course that seeks to balance its economic relations with China and its security relations with the United States and this approach has attracted the Biden administration’s attention.
It’s time to admit that US North Korea policy has failed. Democrats and Republicans have repeatedly sailed into the headwind of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions to no avail.
With public attitudes towards fact shifting, fiction presents the opportunity to communicate policy - and historical fiction, ethnographic fiction, creative non-fiction and even ‘fictional international relations’ all invoke a deeper, less literal kind of truth.
Over the past year, long-suppressed strategic debates re-emerged in South Korea: accepting a less-involved United States, strengthening relations with China, securing an independent nuclear weapons capacity, or combining all of these and steering a path towards a unified Korea that could sustain some form of armed neutrality.
Without middle power diplomacy, South Korea's diplomacy will ultimately end up battling the same diplomatic crises with North Korea it has in the past — or worse
Who is watching, researching, analyzing and reporting on the potential for the next Korean Peninsula crisis to occur?
