A landmark agreement allowing the Japanese and South Korean militaries to share intelligence that had been set expire on Saturday has been extended by Seoul at the last moment. South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s administration, engaged in a highly emotive historical/diplomatic/trade dispute with Japan, had bounced the rift into the security sphere when it announced in […]
Author Archives: Tara O
Dr Tara O is a Fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS). She is the author of The Collapse of North Korea: Challenges, Planning and Geopolitics of Unification. She serves on the board of directors of the International Council on Korean Studies and was the editor-in-chief of its International Journal of Korean Studies. An air force veteran, her research areas include the Korean contingency and unification, US alliance, human rights in North Korea, North Korean defectors, and South Korean politics.