SEOUL — In August, the leaders of the United States, South Korea and Japan met at Camp David for their first trilateral summit.

SEOUL — The geopolitical terrain in Northeast Asia is shifting, and, fortunately, the region’s two great democracies, Japan and South Korea, are moving in a similar direction.

SEOUL — Has North Korea’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, made a strategic decision to trade away his nuclear programme, or is he just engaged in another round of deceptive diplomacy, pretending that he will denuclearise in exchange for material benefits for his impoverished country?This is,

The impeachment, and removal from office, of South Korean president Park Geun-hye on charges of corruption and abuse of power has rocked the country’s political establishment and divided the electorate.Not since the Asian financial crisis of 1997, rooted partly in the flawed econ

US President Donald Trump’s surprisingly restrained reaction to North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test has left many observers wondering what his next move will be.Trump has publicly declared that North Korea’s goal of developing a nuclear-capable missile that can reach the

Last month, North and South Korea narrowly avoided a catastrophic military confrontation.After 40 hours of strenuous negotiations, the South agreed to stop loudspeaker broadcasts into the demilitarised zone between the two countries, in exchange for the North expressing “regret”

In his State of the Union address to the US Congress in 2002, then-president George W.Bush famously described Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as an “axis of evil”. In the years since, however, America has not treated each in the same way.