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North Korea's nuclear chest-beating has achieved the seemingly impossible by aligning the concerns of South Korea, Japan and even China, three Asian neighbors that have a long history of strained ties. While all those countries have separate aims and...

South Korea’s county of Seongju is famed for its melons. The plump, yellow Chamoi variety account for 70% of commercial output and 60% of labor. The local government’s website also trumpets the area’s apples, pears, tomatoes and “charcoal dropwort,”...

In the context of North Korea’s fifth nuclear test earlier this month, China-North Korea relations warrant deeper examination. Despite their vast asymmetries, much of the future of international security depends on an accurate reading of their relationship...

(Photo: Gabriel Britto / Flickr) Policy analysts, pundits, and politicians have long predicted that the North Korean government will go the way of East German Communism. Just as the seemingly impregnable Honecker regime rapidly disintegrated along with...

December 22, 2013 Vol. 8 No. 4 | December 2013 The Future of East Asia: Four Risks to Long-Term Stability by Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, JCIE Earlier this year, I wrote about the opportunity that the ascent to power of a cadre of leaders around...