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South Korea’s demographic crisis could be Yoon Suk-yeol’s biggest challenge
Super-low birth rate poised to reduce workforce and undermine national defense without major policy changes
A very North Korean way to die
The Kim personality cult has penetrated the most intimate aspects of North Korean life, even the mourning of the dead
The movement to return the Japanese wives of Zainichi repatriates from N. Korea
Letters sent to Japan revealing the reality of life in the DPRK sparked demands abroad for the wives to be brought home
Going “home”: why 87,000 Zainichi Koreans moved from Japan to North Korea
From 1959 to 1984, thousands of Koreans in Japan were promised a better life in the DPRK, only to be met with suffering
Halfway through his presidency, Moon must rethink his inter-Korean strategy
The South Korean President needs a new way to engage the North to recover in the polls, even if it risks U.S. reprisal
Living with a nuclear North Korea: how to move beyond the impasse
Demanding complete denuclearization has long been a diplomatic dead-end
Why South Korea treats North Korean defectors differently to other refugees
Ethnic nationalism, culture likely major reasons
Shinzo Abe’s legacy building in the age of the new-look North Korea
Japan's Prime Minister faces dilemma over domestic agenda and changes on Korean Peninsula
Why unification offers the best chance for improving North Korean human rights
Only when Kim Jong Un feels secure can real reform take place in the DPRK
Even fashion is authoritarian in North Korea
Fashion on the streets, while showing more diversity, still takes its cues from above
