Leif-Eric Easley, Professor at Ewha Womans University, examines the new Lee Jae Myung administration’s initial foreign policies and explains the calculation behind their continuity with the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. Despite expectations that the progressive government would overturn the previous diplomatic initiatives, Professor Easley observ...

Minghao Zhao, Professor and Deputy Director at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, underscores the urgent need for strategic vigilance on the Korean Peninsula amid a confluence of destabilizing factors. Professor Zhao examines the deteriorating security environment shaped by North Korea’s military expansion, U.S.-China strategic ...

Jihwan Hwang, Professor at the University of Seoul, analyzes the Lee Jae Myung administration's pragmatic, national interest-centered diplomacy toward North Korea and its implications for the inter-Korean relations. Professor Hwang assesses the strategic opportunities and limitations facing Seoul’s inter-Korean initiatives and calls for an approa...

Seong-ho Sheen, Professor at Seoul National University, analyzes the different political goals of four countries' leaders surrounding the outbreak and development of the Korean War and their implications. Sheen explains that while South and North Korea fought a total war with the pursuit of unification, the U.S. and China engaged in a defensive lim...

Dong Ryul Lee, Chair of EAI’s China Research Center and Professor at Dongduk Women's University, analyzes the priorities that the Lee Jae Myung administration should set in its China policy. Professor Lee suggests that the government restore strategic communication between South Korea and China and realistically readjust expectations of China's r...

Professor Hanbyeol Sohn emphasizes that North Korea's declared “new course” is a strategic shift toward the actual deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and the acquisition of the capability to conduct limited nuclear warfare, suggesting that Pyongyang is seeking a qualitative leap in military power and the institutionalization of an offensive...

Sang Ki Kim, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, assesses that inter-Korean relations have reached their lowest point in 2025, largely due to DPRK’s “Two Hostile States” doctrine. Kim attributes the shift in DPRK’s ROK policy to several factors, including the perceived power imbalance between Seoul and Pyongya...

Hyeong Jung Park, a visiting research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, examines North Korea's policy toward South Korea under Kim Jong Un, linking it to the legacies of Kim Jong Il’s regime. While Kim Jong Il advanced nuclear and missile capabilities, it was not until Kim Jong Un's rise of power that North Korea began adopt...

Ho Ryung Lee, Director of the Center for Security and Strategy at KIDA, explains that North Korea’s recent military actions are aimed at delineating the inter-Korean border, rather than introducing territorial amendments or removing “unification” from the constitution. Lee assesses that such decision is an effort to reinforce the border while...

Kyung-young Chung, professor at Hanyang University, argues that the division of the Korean Peninsula is the root cause of regional instability and calls for a renewed approach to unification. The author highlights moral, humanitarian, and economic reasons for unification, noting the potential for Korea to become a global economic powerhouse. A unif...