North Korea

The people of Yeonpyeong Island remember with trepidation the devastating attack of November 2010. Since the Cheonan incident in March 2010 and chastened by the attack last year, South Korea has beefed up its military arsenal and strengthened its defence preparedness.

• Rajaram Panda
• November 29, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Not engaging North Korea is no more seen as an option even as it continue to build its nuclear capabilities.

• Preeti Nalwa
• November 13, 2011
• IDSA Comments

North Korea is unlikely to abandon its nuclear weapon development programme which has deterrence value especially considering that it does not trust China to come to its rescue in case of a threat to its security.

• Rajaram Panda
• June 01, 2011
• Issue Brief

The summit ended with the hope of increased cooperation in East Asia, bolstered popular support for Sino-Japanese friendship, and set out a strategy for maintaining regional peace, stability and prosperity.

• Pranamita Baruah , Rajaram Panda
• May 26, 2011
• IDSA Comments

If peace is to prevail in East Asia, Pyongyang must abandon its uranium enrichment programme and all aspects of its nuclear programme should be placed under international monitoring.

• Rajaram Panda
• May 19, 2011
• IDSA Comments

In response to increasing North Korean hostilities, South Korea’s Defence Minister Kim Kwan-jin unveiled a 73-point military reform measures in early March 2011

• Rajaram Panda
• March 31, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The temporary hope of peace returning to the Korean peninsula following North Korea’s peace overtures dissipated no sooner than it started when North Korean negotiators walked out of the meeting room at the DMZ in Panmunjam.

• Rajaram Panda
• February 14, 2011
• Issue Brief

Gates has steered Japan and South Korea towards aligning their shared threat perceptions about North Korea and China.

• Preeti Nalwa
• January 18, 2011
• IDSA Comments

North Korea’s offer of a dialogue is unlikely to elicit a positive response from South Korea which instead is militarily drawing closer to Japan to enhance deterrence.

• Rajaram Panda
• January 14, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Soon after naming the North Korean regime as its “enemy”, South Korea has, quite abruptly, invoked the desirability of reverting to the Six-Party Talks.

• Preeti Nalwa
• January 04, 2011
• IDSA Comments