Leif-Eric EASLEY (Professor, Ewha Womans University) and Dabin CHOI (Graduate Student, Ewha Womans University) examine South Korea’s sovereign AI ambitions and assess the accompanying vulnerabilities within its cybersecurity posture.
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This commentary series by EAI experts critically examines Dr. Cha’s "Cold Peace" framework from the perspective of South Korean foreign policy and security.
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Hyeong-jung PARK diagnoses that inter-Korean relations have entered a new long-term phase since 2018 as North Korea adopts the 'hostile two-state' narrative amid structural shifts in the Northeast Asian balance of power.
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Ihn-Hwi PARK diagnoses that North Korea's recent constitutional amendment represents an unprecedented shift by defining inter-Korean relations as separate states and rejecting the pursuit of unification.

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Jihwan HWANG, draws essential lessons for the Korean Peninsula by comparatively analyzing historical cases of national reunification since the twentieth century.
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Inhwan Oh analyzes the Korea-U.S. Shipbuilding Partnership Initiative (KUSPI), signed on May 8, within the context of the U.S. Navy's President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2027 Shipbuilding Plan.
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Adam Mount and Toby Dalton highlight the security risks associated with South Korea's domestic support for nuclear weapons and its pursuit of latent nuclear capabilities.

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Jaewoo JUN argues that U.S. policy toward North Korea over the past 30 years should be reinterpreted not as a "failed denuclearization" but as a deliberate "active management" within the broader context of U.S. strategy against China.

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Won Gon Park analyzes the strategic context in which North Korea's "hostile belligerent state" declaration discards the peaceful unification discourse and brings the policy of armed occupation against South Korea to the forefront.
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[EAI] Reading the Beijing Summit (9 AM, May 22, KST)
The East Asia Institute (EAI) has convened distinguished experts representing South Korea, the U.S., and China to conduct an in-depth examination of the U.S.-China summit.
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Chaesung CHUN calls for a fundamental paradigm shift in South Korea's North Korea policy by analyzing the structural transformation of the international order and the hostile two-state narrative that has solidified since North Korea's 9th Party Congress.
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Jaewoo Jun critically re-examines the conventional narrative of the 1994 Yongbyon crisis, arguing that the U.S. military option at the time was less a seriously considered course of action than a strategically calibrated instrument of coercive diplomacy.

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Seungho Jung analyzes the background of North Korea's new five-year plan announced at the 9th Party Congress, which prioritizes stability and management over aggressive growth in response to internal and external uncertainties.

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Seunghee HA analyzes the phenomenon in which the media has replaced severed direct inter-Korean dialogue channels and drives real-time reactions.
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Youngsun JEON analyzes the internal and external implications of North Korea's constitutional name change, which was enacted for the first time in 54 years.
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"북한의 미래지도자: 김주애는 후계자인가?"
● 일시: 2026년 4월 27일(월), 오후 1:30 ~ 오후 3:30
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Kyung-young CHUNG assesses that the security of the Korean Peninsula is more grave than ever before.
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Ho Ryung Lee evaluates North Korea's 9th Party Congress, noting that Pyongyang has shifted to a "two hostile states" system that prioritizes regime survival and anti-South hostility over economic growth.
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Inhwan Oh diagnoses the current world order not as a new Cold War or multipolarity, but as an "unstable hybrid order" where the U.S. and China compete without strategic settlement.
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Hyeong Jung Park analyzes the broader structural context of North Korea's 9th Party Congress and its strategy for establishing a permanent hostile coexistence between the two Koreas.

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