Bringing TRANSPARENCY and UNDERSTANDING to Korean Unification
Future of the U.S.-Korea Alliance
The CSIS Korea Chair analyzes the U.S.-Korea alliance, one of America’s most successful postwar security institutions, which faces new challenges and opportunities in an era of U.S.-China strategic competition, summit diplomacy with North Korea, trilateral relations with Japan, and revisions in the bilateral security and trade relationship.
Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Korean War
In the year commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, CSIS gathered acclaimed experts to reflect on the ROK-U.S. alliance.
In this first episode of 2021, Andrew Schwartz, Dr. Victor Cha, and Dr. Sue Mi Terry discuss the new Biden administration’s Korea policy and what to expect from North and South Korea.
In this special episode, Ambassador Mark Lippert and Victor Cha bring together an all-star cast of Korean baseball experts to talk about the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), its games being broadcast live in America on ESPN, and the importance baseball has played in people-to-people relationships between the U.S. and Korea and their alliance.
This virtual session moderated by Ambassador Mark Lippert, Senior Advisor at the CSIS Korea Chair and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, features a discussion about the status of U.S.-ROK alliance in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War.
This virtual session, moderated by Dr. Young-kwan Yoon, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, features a discussion on opportunities for the future-oriented U.S.-ROK collaboration in new concepts of security including cyber, AI, and outer space. This is Session III of CSIS's three-part ROK-U.S. Strategic Forum 2020, that took place on June 24th and June 25th, 2020.
The unexplained periodic absences of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the past two months are troubling. Presumed health ailments for this obese smoker and drinker could leave his nuclear-armed dictatorship potentially leaderless overnight.
