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Anthony V Rinna is Senior Editor at the Sino-NK research group. He is a widely published scholar and policy analyst on Korean geopolitical affairs and provides expert commentary to media outlets including CNN and the Wall Street Journal. Rinna participated in a strategic assessment project pertaining to the Korean Peninsula at the request of the Joint Staff the United States Department of Defense.
Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. is an award-winning professor of political science at Angelo State University and a retired Marine. He was an intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1997 until 2003, eventually serving as the senior analyst for Northeast Asia in the Intelligence Directorate (J2) on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. He is the current president of the
Handcuffed, Shackled and Moved to Unknown Detention FacilityMonrovia – Two Liberian Maritime Program officials recently arrested by the police in the South Korean City of Busan, have been formally charged with the crime of "two-person joint rape."The
South Korea Should Reassess Its Push for Inter-Korean Engagement Has Pyongyang ever reciprocated Seoul or Washington’s goodwill gestures or concessions in the past? Unfortunately for Lee, copious evidence from prior negotiations demonstrates not only that North Korea has consistently failed to do so, but that concessions only further embolden North Korea. Lee In-young, the Republic of Korea (ROK)’s minister of unification, continues his push to revitalize inter-Korean engagement. In early June, Lee met with senior South Korean business leaders to reopen the Keumgang Mountain Resor...
U.S. officials long have treated diplomatic relations as a reward. It is not. It is the best means of dealing with other governments, friend and foe alike.