Korea’s Regional Relations and Global Korea

  • New Thinking on Korea's Aging, Shrinking Society with Professor Youngtae Cho

    Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | 7:00 PM
    Join us for a virtual program exploring new thinking on Korea’s aging, shrinking society with Dr. Youngtae Cho, Director of the Population Policy Research Center and professor of demography at the School of Public Health at Seoul National University (SNU). Although South Korea’s total fertility rate rebounded slightly to reach 0.8 babies per woman, it remains the lowest in the world and well below the replacement rate of 2.1 needed to maintain the population level. Consequently, Korea’s population structure is... Read More

  • Assessing North Korea's Developing Nuclear Program

    Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 5:30 PM
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    Join us for a discussion with Sarah Laderman, Senior Analyst for Open Nuclear Network, a PAX sapiens programme, on the rollout of a recent series of reports examining North Korea’s nuclear program. In conversation with policy director Jonathan Corrado, Laderman discusses a myriad of findings on North Korea's nuclear fuel cycle and weaponisation capabilities, including the research project’s development of innovative methodologies to assess an otherwise opaque program. The discussion reviews the high-level... Read More

  • Privileged but Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness

    Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 4:00 PM
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    Join us for a discussion with Dr. Jieun Baek, author of “Privileged but Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness.” In conversation with policy director Jonathan Corrado, Baek reveals a world of forbidden information, simmering resentment, and survival-driven masks, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with high-level escapees. Baek argues that this performative loyalty, born of fear and a desire to survive, obscures a critical vulnerability within the regime’s core.... Read More

  • America's Taiwan Dilemma: Allies' Reactions and the Stakes for US Reputation

    Thursday, April 23, 2026 | 4:00 PM
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      Program Brief America's Taiwan Dilemma During a discussion regarding his newest book, America's Taiwan Dilemma: Allies' Reactions and the Stakes for US Reputation, Mark Christopher argued that Washington policymakers often project their own assumptions onto allies. For instance, U.S. officials believe that allies demand a military defense of Taiwan to preserve America's reputation. However, through interviews with over 100 regional experts, Christopher challenged this narrative by detailing how South... Read More

  • Prospects for Relations with North Korea

    Tuesday, February 3, 2026 | 6:30 PM
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      Program Brief Prospects for Relations with North Korea This program examined prospects for relations with North Korea, including US-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance coordination, inter-Korean relations, the impact of North Korea's close relations with China and Russia, security concerns, and diplomatic opportunities. North Korea's Workers' Party of Korea held its Ninth Party Congress in February. The Congress occurs approximately once every five years and results in the announcement of important policy... Read More

  • Rapid Reaction: APEC South Korea 2025

    Monday, November 3, 2025 | 8:00 AM
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    Join us for a rapid reaction analysis of The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) 2025 summit, held in Gyeongju, South Korea from October 31 to November 1. Our discussion examines all the most significant outcomes in terms of trade and geopolitics, with special emphasis on the US, Korea, and the US-Korea relationship. The priorities for this year’s forum are: “Connect, Innovate, Prosper.” In a preparatory meeting, senior officials from APEC members discussed “strategies for digital economy integration,... Read More

  • What to Expect: The 2025 APEC Summit in South Korea

    Thursday, October 23, 2025 | 12:00 PM
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    Join us for a scene setter that explores the stakes and the storylines for The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) 2025 summit, held in Gyeongju, South Korea from October 31 to November 1, 2025. This discussion, held one week prior to the summit, unpacks the most significant agenda items including trade, investment, and geopolitics, with special emphasis on the US, Korea, and the US-Korea relationship. The discussion features senior experts with firsthand experience, including: Ambassador (Ret.)... Read More

  • Korea's Compressed Modernity and Its Risks

    Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 8:00 AM
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    Join us for our second conversation with Seoul National University sociology Professor Chang Kyung-Sup who will discuss various challenges posed by South Korea’s “compressed modernity.” He writes that the same strategies and conditions that enabled explosive development and modernization in South Korea and other Asian societies also produced “existentially hazardous consequences in virtually all areas of public and private life, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles to sustained advances in the future.” And he... Read More

  • Unpacking South Korea’s Snap Presidential Election

    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | 8:00 AM
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    Join us for a rapid reaction analysis of South Korea’s 2025 Presidential election. This snap election was triggered by the impeachment of South Korea’s 13th democratically elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol, after he declared martial law last December. This conversation unpacks the issues, the candidates, the voters, and the results, seeking to understand the domestic political undercurrents and consequences of a 60 day race occurring at a pivotal moment for Korea and U.S.-Korea relations. It features Dr. Aram... Read More

  • The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon with Ankit Panda

    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | 12:00 PM
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    Join us for a conversation with Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on his newly published book: The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon. The book describes how “nuclear weapons are returning to the fore of international statecraft in ways unseen since the Cold War… The prospect of nuclear escalation is again shaping how political decision-makers and military establishments around the world think and act.” The book... Read More

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