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Negotiations on Negotiations Redux
The North Korea community has been stirred up over a piece by Alastair Gale and Carol Lee at the Wall Street Journal. The story argues that “days before North Korea’s latest nuclear-bomb test, the...
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China, famine, and authoritarianism
Famine was the issue that originally got me and Steph Haggard collaborating and food security issues remain central to this blog. So a story, which I believe was originally reported by Tom Phillips in...
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The Pyongyang Republic
Amid the recent tumult on the Korean peninsula, a look at Robert Collins’ report for the Committee on Human Rights in North Korea, Pyongyang Republic: North Korea’s Capital of Human Rights Denial, was...
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Do South Koreans Perceive Themselves Accurately?
We’ve recently covered South Korean income distribution trends in the context of growing global income inequality (here and here). South Korea is becoming more and more unequal and has a looming...
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Peace Regime Proposals
Last week, I reviewed the story broken by the Wall Street Journal that the United States might have entertained the possibility of negotiations combining denuclearization with a peace regime to end the...
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Slave to the Blog: Exchange Gone Awry
“We’re a superpower and don’t you ever, ever forget it!” --Russian ambassador to the UN to the other 14 members of the Security Council OK, I fabricated that quote. But while we’re waiting for Samantha...
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Asset Markets and Geopolitical Tensions: Is it Really Different this Time?
In a piece last week for Goldman Sachs, “Korea Views: Elevating Geopolitical Tensions—This time may be different,” Goohoon Kwon and Irene Choi argue that while markets tend to dismiss geopolitical...
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The Security Council Resolution
(Note: the following works off of the provisional version of the resolution dated February 29 available here). The Bottom Line Assessing the effects of sanctions encompasses at least four elements:...
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Sources: Accessing UN Documents
After every round of North Korean nuclear and missile tests and satellite launches, the UN Security Council gains center stage through statements and resolutions; we covered the UNSC resolution...
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Sanctions Aftermath: Escalation Risks, North Korean Politics, and Implementation
If past cycles surrounding UNSC resolutions are any indication, we are about to enter a phase of escalation in both rhetoric and in military actions or other asymmetric probes. The rhetorical dimension...
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