The North Korea Factor
Comparative Connections Daily Digest North Korea emerges as a factor in South Korea-Japan relations North Korea only recently became a factor in South Korea-Japan ties. Prompted by a shared concern...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest Standstill: Pyongyang-Tokyo relations At the end of April, there was increasing optimism that North Kora and Japan might pursue diplomatic normalization in the...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest Japan responds to the Trump-Kim summit Notwithstanding President Trump’s declaration that “there is no nuclear threat from North Korea,” the Trump-Kim summit...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest Japan adjusts its North Korea policy Kim Jong Un’s April visit to Russia left Japan as the last major regional power without a serious engagement process with North...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest South Korea’s Court ruling and Japan’s export restrictions In the early months of 2019, the dispute over the Korean forced labor compensation rulings by South...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest Importantly, this progress came in a different strategic context from previous months, raising the possibility that both countries were influenced by a desire to...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest North Korea’s Short-Range Projectiles and Kim Jong Un’s Whereabouts Even while the world was tackling COVID-19, two major developments concerning North Korea...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest Japan’s 2020 Defense White Paper and North Korea Defense of Japan 2020 is noteworthy for its assessment that “North Korea is considered to have miniaturized nuclear...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest South Korea reached out to Japan, perhaps with eyes on the planned Tokyo Olympics in 2021, to use the occasion as a platform for a diplomatic breakthrough between...
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Comparative Connections Daily Digest Figure 1 Protesters call for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics in front of the organizing committee’s offices in Tokyo, February 2021. Photo: Reuters/Kim...
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