
Telling the Complex History of Korea’s Occupation
Hwang Sok-Yong’s novel Mater 2-10 chronicles Korean resistance to–and collaboration with–Japanese occupation.
Hwang Sok-Yong’s novel Mater 2-10 chronicles Korean resistance to–and collaboration with–Japanese occupation.
Pundits seem more concerned about the North driving a “wedge” between the U.S. and the South than about preventing nuclear war.
South Korea severed its last important economic link with the North, as governments on both sides of the DMZ extinguish what little remained of the “sunshine era” of engagement.
South Korea should focus less on extracting apologies from North Korea and more on pursuing pragmatic projects with Pyongyang.
Withdrawing U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula could kickstart diplomatic progress in Northeast Asia–and save billions of dollars to boot.
New U.S. documents reveal Washington’s complicity with dictators around the Kwangju uprising of 1980 in South Korea.
The Pentagon is restructuring its bases in South Korea. Welcome to the future of the U.S. global military presence.
A peace structure in East Asia is both impossible and inevitable.
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