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North Korean sports officials announced last week that the country would not be sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics due to Covid-19 concerns. The brief statement, buried at the bottom of a post on North Korea’s quaint Sports Ministry website, instantly flashed across news bulletins around the world.    While it’s almost surprising that more nations haven’t been withdrawing from the Tokyo Games due to the pandemic, this step seems to be part of a general slide into isolationism on the part of North Korea. The announcement comes after a notable few weeks in Pyongyang. First, there we...

I Took Part in the US-South Korean War Drills. They Make All of Us Less Safe. Korean Americans outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in March 2021. Echo Today, as the United States and South Korea begin their annual combined military exercises, I’m reminded of the two years I spent in South Korea as a member of the U.S. Army and my participation in military war games in 2004. Like most Americans, I was blissfully ignorant of how these joint military exercises — which simulate war on the Korean Peninsula and have involved tens of thousands of troops — damage the psyche of...

February 15, 2021 Regarding the Interpretation Guidelines of the Amendments of the Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act We are writing in response to your call for comments regarding the Interpretation Guidelines for the Scope of Application of Article 24(1)3 of the Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act.[1] The Amendment to the Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act (the “Act”) imposes strict limitations to some activities of North Korean escapee and civil society organizations that aim to send and receive information and ideas to people in North Korea. Most of these restricte...