The March First Movement reminds us that a nation can be occupied, but not erased; that words, when grounded in justice, can ...

It took just over 14 months for Yoon Suk Yeol to go from South Korea's presidential residence to a life behind bars. It took ...

Korea's two largest political parties set completely differing priorities on the recent arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. While the liberal Democratic Party (DP) emphasized the need to ...

South Korea’s government or the U.N. Command – has evolved into a full-fledged institutional and political confrontation.

Analysts will be poring through the party congress reporting for any semblance of external signaling and indications of what to expect from the Kim Jong Un regime in the coming years. While there are ...

The U.S. Congress approved the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) on October 12, 2011, but it remains deadlocked in South Korea’s National Assembly. Despite the Lee Myung-bak administration’s ...

“This is truly disrespectful. The fact that (Cho Kuk) leader was sent a text message proposing political collaboration is, well… typical of Lee Jun-seok leader. (Omitted) Formally, it feels like… ...

Woo Jung-yeop is a Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. With a presidential election looming next year in Seoul, the South Korean news media has begun to speculate who ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has exceeded expectations in 2025 by stabilising foreign relations and securing pragmatic gains with the United States, China and Japan after a period of domestic ...

The Korean Peninsula Update is a joint product of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). It supports the AEI–ISW Coalition Defense of Taiwan project’s ...