Reading Kim Jong-Un’s Face
Understandings of culture can help us better understand attempts to study Kim Jong-Un’s character via physiognomic readings, which are widely practised in South Korea.
Opinion – North Korea’s Nuclear Tests and Potential Human Rights Violations
Despite regime propaganda asserting safety, multiple groups have raised accusations concerning radioactive leakage within, and beyond, North Korea.
The Emperor’s Dignity: A Candid Primer on Korean Reunification
North and South Korean leaders alike pine for reunification, yet the peaceful realization of this aspiration remains in doubt due to nuclear proliferation and human rights violations in the North.
Review – Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict
Wheeler puts forward a theoretical framework to understand trust-building at a time when trust, and distrust, are at the forefront of prominent international relationships.
Forecasting the Future: Prospects of a Negotiated Settlement with North Korea
Approaching the negotiations between the United States and North Korea through a systematic fashion, the harsh reality is that these negotiations are very likely to fail.
North Korea’s Nuclear Quest
The United States may not be able to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear program, but it can encourage them to use diplomacy instead of throwing nuclear tantrums.
Does North Korea Want to Be Attacked?
As the Trump administration considers North Korea’s recent belligerence, it should bear in mind that launching limited strikes might be exactly what Kim Jong-un wants.
Xi and the North Korea Challenge in the Trump Era
The United States and China must jointly address the North Korea challenge, based on the consensus that North Korea is a common security threat and peace is possible.
‘The Interview’ and the Popular Culture-World Politics Continuum
In the wake of this scandal, it is possible that other states may use novel tools and techniques to extinguish negative representations of national identity in film.
North Korea’s New Legacy Politics
North Korea’s future depends on how creatively it brings its sovereign heritage before the 1970s to the fore, and on how it can leave the past legacy politics of 1994–2011 behind.
