North Korea sends a delegation to Iran in a growing effort to break its diplomatic isolation apnews.com/article/north-…

📺ICYMI: Our recording of 'An Expert Analysis of South Korea's Legislative Election' is now live on NCNK's YouTube channel. Thanks to Dr. Duyeon Kim Andrew Yeo & Scott Snyder for such an insightful event! youtube.com/watch?v=pinn5h…

NEW: Stunning The New York Times story with a deep look at how Biden and the US are doing a military buildup with allies around China to deter a potential invasion of Taiwan. Blinken just raised issues with Xi in Beijing. A team effort w/ John Ismay Pablo Robles. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I addressed US policy towards Taiwan in my CUA Politics POL438 class on Mon. night, only to wake up and find Brookings China produced this great roundtable on Tues. Self-note next time to check w/the guy 4 doors down if he has anything in the pipeline Ryan Hass 🤣

The dust has settled a week after the ROK elections, but not necessarily the fallout. Foreign policy will still be Yoon's 'safe space' as he looks to host the AI summit and CJK trilateral summit next month. Brookings Foreign Policy brookings.edu/articles/will-…

Examining North Korea’s digital surveillance capabilities, how they have developed, and worrying trends for the future. stimson.org/2024/digital-s… Center

A terrific collection of short takes on hot issues in ROK including demographics/welfare, unification, and defense industrial policy. tohttps://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/south-koreas-elections-navigating-internal-challenges-and-global-ambitions-169260

Will be sharing domestic and especially foreign policy implications following 🇰🇷elections on Monday with Dr. Duyeon Kim Scott Snyder National Committee on North Korea Brookings Foreign Policy KEI

I've been skeptical of the 'new Cold War' narrative, but lately as geopolitical alignments solidify, we're see the return of 'bloc' dynamics - though more transactional and fluid than Cold War 1.0 nytimes.com/2024/04/12/bri…

Expectations of slower economic growth in 2024 may dampen China’s urge to pursue a high-risk confrontation with the United States or its East Asian neighbors over maritime and economic disputes, Andrew Yeo of The Brookings Institution writes. bit.ly/3VUhWzO

Putin and Xi’s Unholy Alliance foreignaffairs.com/china/putin-an… via Foreign Affairs

South Korea, Japan and China are in the process of finalizing a date for a trilateral summit that has not taken place since December 2019, South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said Monday.
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Posting this here for those Americans who missed the ROK's greater willingness to stand up for itself to the PRC in recent years.
'South Korea's Coast Guard seized five Chinese vessels for allegedly fishing illegally in the country's waters...' newsweek.com/south-korea-se…

Oof! Walter Mead doesn't mince words hudson.org/politics-gover…

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Some thoughts of mine on Trump & US forces in Korea, if/when he's elected...Jeongmin Kim KEI The Diplomat CSIS Korea Chair Andrew Yeo Frank Aum Jenny Town
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Don't necessarily agree or disagree with what's implied here, but definitely worth discussing and reading more scholarship in Global IR

Andrew Yeo also usefully highlights the risk of a northern triangle and southern triangle emerging in NE Asia, pitting PRC-DPRK-Russia vs. US-ROK-Japan. I personally am not losing sleep over this risk for three reasons...