korean unification studies

There is a very good article at korea.net on economic cooperation and its role in the unification of the two Koreas. Nicole Bastian, a correspondent for the Düsseldorf based Handelsblatt financial newspaper, has written an article that is both realistic and inspiring. The article, entitled ‘Closing economic gap between the Koreas is a good idea’, supports the […]

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Unification flags in Paju from Yonhap Photo News 28 September 2007

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A new Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) Insight article is now available. The article, by Cho Han-Bum, a Senior Research Fellow at the institute, looks at the implications and prospects of the Second Inter-Korean Summit. The opening lines set the tone of the article:
If Kim Jong-Il kept his word of making a visit to Seoul for the […]

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Kwon Ho-Ung (aka Kwon Min), pictured on the left, was born in 1959 and attended Kim Il-Sung University. In terms of those in powerful positions in North Korea today, he is relatively young.
In 1998 he was Bureau Chief for the Beijing branch of the Committee for Asia-Pacific Peace and in 1999 he became both the Bureau Chief for Europe and Americas in […]

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The Ministry of Unification has stated that a second advance team consisting of 34, mostly security, protocol and communications specialists have left for North Korea to prepare for the 2-4 October South-North Korean Summit. Their aim is to visit the venues and accommodation centres to ensure North Korea has implemented the requests previously made by South Korean officials. […]

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Young people from 23 Asian countries make a formation resembling the Korean Peninsula at a resort in Gyeonggi Province on Saturday (Aug. 11) where they gathered to participate in 2007 Youth Camp for Asia’s Future.
I wonder how they handled the placing of three young people on Dokdo? Were Japanese youths allowed to stand there? And […]

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Korean.net has a good commentary on the upcoming North-South Korean Summit by Jae H. Ku, the director of the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The commentary plays it straight down the line, warning against using the Summit for domestic political purposes while at the same time recognizing the tremendous opportunity that […]

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Let’s hope everyone has a great chuseok holiday!!!
During this chuseok there is even more to celebrate. There is only six days to go until the South-North Korean Summit! Whether you support the policy behind it or not, the Summit will be only the second ever meeting of the leaders of the two Koreas - a […]

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