Tag: North Korea

Can A Multilateral Security Organization, Modeled on NATO, Be Established in Northeast Asia?

Changsung Lee, Emerging Security December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 Changsung Lee

NATO has always been a collective defence organization, aimed at repelling an external threat to Alliance members. However, ever since the Harmel Report of 1967, and certainly since the end of the Cold War, NATO’s purview has widened to include a much more prominent diplomatic role, related to a much broader understanding of what constitutes a security concern, without compromising its original mission. Changsung Lee considers whether this latter-day understanding of NATO’s purpose might serve as a template for a future multilateral security structure in Northeast Asia that could facilitate a rules-based order in that region, and perhaps help catalyze the reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Is Russia the Last Lifeline of North Korea?

Emerging Security June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 Dani Belo

With the ascendance of Vladimir Putin as president, Russia and North Korea have substantially resurrected their Soviet-era relationship, with both countries realizing the mutually beneficial economic and political potential. Russia, unlike the United States and the Soviet Union, does not have global ambitions such as export of an ideology but possesses a strong interest in […]

The Asian Web: A New Perspective with the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Canada

Asia-Pacific, Diplomatic Relations, North Korea, Republic of Korea, Security, Trade and the Economy, Yun Sik (James) Hwang March 28, 2018April 22, 2018 Yun Sik (James) Hwang

In this series of podcast interviews, Yun Sik (James) Hwang interviews His Excellency Maeng-ho Shin, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Canada, about his personal experience as a diplomat, Canada-South Korea relations, and South Korea’s foreign policy on North Korea.