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Looking Past CVID with North Korea
July 2018
While the Trump administration may still believe in CVID, Gi-Wook Shin and Joyce Lee argue that–at present–it is no longer a realistic goal.In an article for for 38 North, Shin and Lee explain why...
Stanford scholars discuss diplomacy’s future after U.S.-North Korea summit is canceled
May 2018
What led to the U.S. canceling the planned summit with North Korea? Could a meeting realistically be rescheduled?
North Korea summit diplomacy
March 2018
"Moon's proposal of a trilateral summit between the two Koreas and the United States, undermining China's influence, turned out to be nothing more than a pipe dream," said researchers at the...
Shorenstein APARC Director Gi-Wook Shin Says U.S-North Korea Rhetoric "Dangerous"
September 2017
NBC Bay Area spoke with Shorenstein APARC director Gi-Wook Shin on the danger of the increasingly heated language between the United States and North.
New North Korea sanctions a plausible step yet unlikely to break long-standing deadlock
July 2017
North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on July 3, a first for the country that has increasingly advanced proliferation and testing over the last three years...
Shorenstein APARC experts assess the Trump-Moon summit, bilateral challenges
July 2017
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S.
US Pacific Command hosts Stanford group for Asia security dialogue
May 2017
The mission of the Department of Defense (DoD) in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region recently became a bit clearer for 22 faculty and military fellows from Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of...
Korea experts encouraged by Moon Jae-in election win, hopeful over prospects for inter-Korean dialogue
May 2017
Researchers from the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) said they are optimistic about the election of South Korean president Moon Jae-in who assumed office last week following waves...
National security scholars participate in MOOC on South Asia
May 2017
Shorenstein APARC Fellow Thomas Fingar, FSI Senior Fellow Siegfried Hecker, and CISAC Senior Fellow Scott Sagan are part of a group of 80 national security experts included in a Massive Open Online...
Shorenstein APARC scholars offer comment as tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula
May 2017
Northeast Asia relations are increasingly under strain as South Korea and China await shifts in political leadership and the threat of a sixth nuclear test by North Korea looms large.
Shorenstein APARC Director Gi-Wook Shin comments on North Korea to Yonhap News
April 2017
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) Director Gi-Wook Shin spoke with Yonhap News about the situation on the Korean Peninsula, following a visit to U.S.
Shorenstein APARC experts offer analysis, insights on Xi-Trump summit
April 2017
President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping last week at Mar-a-Lago for their first meeting which set out to address economic, trade and security challenges shared between the two countries...
Stanford experts offer policy proposals, insights on US-Asia relations
February 2017
Stanford scholars are encouraging the new administration to consider steps to alleviate the uncertainty and anxiety felt by countries in East Asia about U.S.
North Korea's nuclear ambition carries a strategic and military logic
September 2016
North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test in the wake of the G20 summit earlier this month.
Impact of North Korea sanctions reflected in luminosity gap
June 2016
In a recent television interview with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), SK Center Fellow Yong Suk Lee said that tougher economic sanctions on North Korea are not achieving their intended...
Would the U.S. Drop the Bomb Again?
May 2016
Public opinion supported the strike on Hiroshima—and if provoked, many Americans might well back nuclear attacks on foes like Iran and al Qaeda, Scott Sagan and Benjamin Valentino write in the Wall...
Stanford experts discuss Sino-American relations in wake of North Korea provocations
March 2016
Stanford experts from the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) spoke with media in Asia and the United States about the dynamics on the Korean Peninsula following recent provocations by...
Stanford scholars assess North Korea's nuclear test
February 2016
North Korea claimed it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on Jan. 6, according to a broadcast from the nation’s Korean Central Television.
Why South Korea closed its industrial park in North Korea
February 2016
In an interview with South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper, David Straub, associate director of the Korea Program, argues that South Korea's closure of its joint industrial park at Kaesong was a...
Responding to North Korea's fourth nuclear test
February 2016
In a recent interview with Yonhap News, David Straub, associate director of the Korea Program, says "Although the United States and the PRC certainly have differences [in dealing with the North...
North Korean Nuclear Test Destabilizing for Region
January 2016
Stanford nuclear policy experts say that economic sanctions alone might not be enough to curtail the country's nuclear program.
CISAC Nuclear Expert Analyzes North Korean Hydrogen Bomb Claims
January 2016
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker assesses North Korea’s claim to have detonated a hydrogen bomb in an underground nuclear test this week.
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