An investigation has revealed that thousands of South Korean mothers were coerced into giving up their babies for international adoption during the 1960s-1980s.
The Bank of Korea (BoK) remains cautious about gold purchases, prioritizing dollar reserves, while domestic demand for gold surges through retail sales.
Most don’t know they’re engaged in espionage until it’s too late and the better the recruitment process, the less likely that the agent is even aware they are being recruited.
Espionage, often depicted as a world of intrigue and danger, is actually boring and emotionally draining. It’s about waiting and human weakness.
While South Korea still values its alliance with the US, it is taking steps to reduce its vulnerability and prepare for scenarios where US support might not be as robust as it once was.
Every year, Seoul hosts a number of large-scale government and/or think-tank conferences focused on foreign policy and the Korean Peninsula, which routinely fall short of expectations.
Anyone watching South Korea’s politics is aware that the landscape has become increasingly polarized, with a deepening and importantly dynamic divide between progressives and conservatives.
The Washington Declaration will sooner or later become irrelevant because it doesn’t address the behavioral justifications in the pursuit of nuclear weapons
Without a commensurate education and publicity campaign, the Washington Declaration will never address the broader, underlying sense of vulnerability ingrained in the language, geography, history and culture.
There are a plethora of studies on South Korea as a middle power. Some argue Korea needs to change to fit the term, some reinvent the term to fit Korea, and still others just use the term without questioning.
