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November 22, 2024

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Kwak Tae-Hwan

Kwak Tae-Hwan

Dr. Kwak Tae-Hwan, Professor Emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University, former President of KINU (Korea Institute for National Unification), Chair-Professor and former Director of IFES, Kyungnam University, is a specialist on Northeast Asian affairs, inter-Korean relations, and Korean peace and unification issues. He taught international relations for over thirty years at Eastern Kentucky University and Korean universities. Dr. Kwak is a recipient of Global Peace Foundation's 2012 Innovative Scholarship for Peace Award. He has worked for more than fifteen NGOs. He is now Chairman, Institute for Korean Peninsula Future Strategies. Chairman of the Korean Peninsula Unification Council through Neutralization, Executive Adviser of the Northeast Asian Community Studies Institute, and President of Korean Unification Strategies Research Council (LA, USA). Dr. Kwak is the author, editor, and co-editor of 31 books, including One Korea: Visions of Korean Unification (Routeledge, 2017), North Korea and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia (Ashgate, 2014), etc. He has authored more than 250 scholarly articles and is a freelance writer for Korean daily newspapers, monthly magazines, and the Internet.

Opinion

Will THAAD impede China-U.S. cooperation over North Korea?

THAAD has driven a wedge between the two - but working for peace in Korea is still possible

Kwak Tae-HwanKwak Tae-HwanApril 27, 2017
Opinion

Will North Korea ever abandon nuclear weapons?

Compromise, not force, is the only way Pyongyang will be convinced to disarm

Kwak Tae-HwanKwak Tae-HwanMarch 26, 2017
Opinion

A pre-emptive strike against North Korea would be a disaster

The Trump administration's openness to military action against the North is concerning

Kwak Tae-HwanKwak Tae-HwanFebruary 27, 2017
Analysis

Analysis: Is there still hope for the Six-Party talks?

The talks, first attempted in 2003, would be essential to achieving peace on the peninsula

Kwak Tae-HwanKwak Tae-HwanJanuary 20, 2017
Opinion

How a neutral, unified Korea would come into being

Through a neutral international outlook, the two Koreas could settle their differences and unite

Kwak Tae-HwanKwak Tae-HwanOctober 24, 2016
Opinion

Peace through neutrality: Unification through a non-aligned Korea

"Neutralization" of the peninsula could end the decades-long division of the peninsula

Kwak Tae-HwanKwak Tae-HwanOctober 4, 2016
Opinion

The need for a new approach to peace-building on the Korean peninsula

Simultaneously discuss North Korea’s denuclearization and a unification-oriented peace regime

Kwak Tae-HwanKwak Tae-HwanAugust 8, 2016