Events

Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss the crowd-sourced mapping of North Korea, which resulted in one of the most detailed maps of North Korea that has ever been available to the public. Melvin will present "North Korea Uncovered: The Crowd-Sourced Mapping of the World’s Most Secret State" […]

The United States and Korea see tremendous regional flux in 2016. Tensions in East Asia have grown with China's military activities in the South China Sea and East China Sea and North Korea's January 6 nuclear test and February 7 missile test. South Korea's relations with Japan may warm after the December 28 announcement aimed […]

How has North Korea managed to experience numerous foreign policy crises without escalation to war?  Why has North Korea been willing to repeatedly engage in small-scale attacks against the United States and its South Korean ally?  And why have U.S. officials in liberal and conservative presidential administrations only rarely taken North Korean threats seriously?  In […]

Unfinished Apologies: Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves of Wartime Asia March 1, 2016 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM Kenney Auditorium 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036 The US-Korea Institute at SAIS and Asia Policy Point invite you to attend a discussion on the unexamined and unresolved history of Imperial Japan’s system of sex slavery in wartime […]

Frayed relations between Korea and Japan appear to be on the mend with the late December announcement aimed at drawing the comfort women issue to a close. In conveying his apology to President Park, Prime Minister Abe voiced hope for a new era in relations with South Korea. The US hailed the step forward by […]