National Strategy for Post-Division Process The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was electrifying news as the year ended, but it hardly alarmed South Koreans. They have become accustomed to dramatic events suddenly happening in the North and had anticipated the death. And while Pyongya...

Post-Kim Jong-il Crisis Management Upon the sudden death of Kim Jong-il, chairman of North Korea’s National Defense Commission, uneasiness prevails both at home and abroad about the possibility that the Pyongyang hierarchy will become rife with unpredictable changes, souring relation...

Change in North Korea is a Blessing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died a few days ago at the age of 69, three years after suffering a stroke. Although many experts expected him to live only three to five years more, his death was somewhat abrupt. He died younger than his father and r...

A Wider Window of Opportunity for the Korean Peninsula Chapter 2 in the history of Korean national division has just ended. The first chapter represented by North Korea's invasion of South Korea and the systemic rivalry of the two Koreas ended with the North’s regime founder and supreme leader Kim Il-su...

China’s Perception and Policy toward the Post-Kim Jong-il Regime Since North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's sudden death, attention has been focused at home and abroad on what will become of the regime he left behind. People are perking up their ears to figure out whether their own "sudden change" scenarios are mater...