WPS 09-07: Economic Cooperation between South Korea and Kazakhstan, by Lee Jae-young (October 2009). As 97 percent of South Korean energy comes from imports, Central Asia is a very important area for developing and securing foreign energy resources. Among the countries in Central Asia, Kazakhstan has shown the highest tangible economic development results. Moreover, Kazakhstan, […]

“The White Paper on North Korean Human Rights” On October 8, 2009, the US-Korea Institute at SAIS and the National Endowment for Democracy co-sponsored a seminar on the status of human rights violations in North Korea, featuring Dr. Yoon Yeo-sang, President, Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB); and Mr. Kim Sang-hun, Chairman, Board […]

WPS 09-09: The Origins of Korean Adoption: Cold War Geopolitics and Intimate Diplomacy, by Eleana Kim, Ph.D. (October 2009). The adoption of children from South Korea to the West has been ongoing since the end of the Korean War in 1953. During the past half century, more than 200,000 children have been adopted into predominantly white […]

On October 1, 2009, the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS hosted a discussion between and Robert Carlin strategies for successful dialogue and reengagement with North Korea. Wit and Carlin drew on their personal and professional experiences with the North Korean regime, as well as on Wit’s latest report, “U.S. Strategy Towards North Korea: Rebuilding Dialogue and […]

A U.S. policy based on containment and isolation alone only concedes that North Korea will remain nuclear-armed and that its weapons programs will further develop. That, in turn, will undermine stability in East Asia, sow doubts in Tokyo and Seoul about relying too much on the United States for their security and jeopardize cooperation with […]