The breakdown of the U.S. North Korea nuclear talks was a setback for South Korean president Moon Jae-in who has to battle with both hawks at home and Democrats in Washington who don’t know or care about his agenda of ending the Korean War and denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. From KBS WORLD Radio Moon instructed...
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Democrats Abandon South Korea’s President in Favor of Hawks
As Democrats in Washington reflexively “get tough” on North Korea, they kick away a chance a for peace on the Korean peninsula. Eager to criticize President Trump, they overlook the reality that denuclearization and ending the Korean war are popular ideas in South Korea. As Ploughshares director Joe Cirincione explains, Trump’s diplomacy is is worth...
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NBC’s ‘Secret’ North Korean Missile Site Is Well-Known in Korean Press
An NBC News report on a “secret” North Korean missile base isn’t news in South Korea. The base in the village of Sino has been cited repeatedly in the South Korean press in the past 20 years, according to The Hankyoreh, a South Korean daily. The NBC story appears to have been based on a new...
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South Korea’s National Security Act Goes On Trial
Writing in the Nation, Max Kim explains one of the biggest obstacles to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula: the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service and the notorious National Security Act that it enforces. The NIS is the successor to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which played a bloody role in the country’s political life....
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South Korea’s Intelligence Service Has a Different Way of Doing Things
As I follow the Korea denuclearization story in the Korean media, I am finding the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service does something remarkably responsible and sane: they provide elected officials with timely intelligence, in a classified and unclassified setting, on a regular basis. When the New York Times published an overhyped story last month that North...