korean unification studies

The draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup preliminary competition was held in Durban over the weekend. And in an announcement that drew gasps from the crowd, both North and South Korea were drawn to compete against each other in Asia’s Group 3, with Jordan and Turkmenistan. Watching how this plays out could be extremely […]

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Good article by Andrei Lankov on Korean unification over at Asia Times. To sum it all up - Romania style collapse is coming soon to country near you (if you’re in South Korea). Give it a read!

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The South-North Summit came up with a Declaration that potentially could have a large impact on unification. But ultimately, any progress towards unification - both material and immaterial aspects - can be measured by progress in just one field - support for divided families.
In the Declaration, point number 8, entitled ‘Promotion of Humanitarian Cooperation’ includes […]

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As Roh heads North for the Summit, some sobering statistics have come out on German unification. Apparently, around one in five Germans want the Berlin Wall back!
Emnid, an opinion research firm, found that around 19 percent of respondents to a poll thought the country was better off when it was divided and 21 percent were nostalgic for […]

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One Free Korea has a must read interview with Andrei Lankov. Check it out!!!
“Some people see all these exchanges as a “reward” to Pyongyang. But it is not [a] reward. The goals of these policies are, first, to shatter the foundation of dictatorship, and, second, to facilitate the evolution of the country after the unavoidable […]

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Comments posted by Baltimoron on this site have forced me to read more about the role of middle powers in Korean affairs. Do they really have a role to play? Does South Korea’s position as a middle power change anything with respect to Korean unification, and peninsula affairs in general?
First of all, what are middle powers? […]

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Which should be first, ending the Korean War with a Peace Treaty or disarming North Korea’s nuclear programs?
Ask anyone from the US and they will more than likely say that disarming North Korea should be first. North Korea’s nuclear programs are potentially a threat to their interests.
Ask a South Korean and you may well get a different answer. […]

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Asia Times online has an interesting article regarding the problems that North Korean defectors have adapting to life in South Korea. The article by, Sunny Lee, is based on a telephone interview with Jeon Woo-Taek, a psychiatrist at Yonsei University Medical School. Lee writes that Jeon has been responsible for a study of North Korean defectors’ mental […]

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