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Andrei Lankov

  • Director and Contributor, NK News
  • Professor, Kookmin University
Seoul
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Director of @nknewsorg and Professor at Kookmin University in Seoul
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Managing The North Korean Problem

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By Andrei Lankov, Peter Ward
| Statecraft & Strategy
Is North Korea a strategic threat to the United States? For the time being, probably not. To be sure, North Korea is an adversary—one that is hostile, heavily armed, and prone to inflammatory rhetoric. It possesses both nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. Yet to describe North Korea as a real danger to the American homeland in peacetime is to misunderstand both the logic of the North Korean regime and the nature of its strategic behavior.
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Kim Jong-un has escaped Xi Jinping’s nuclear leash

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By Andrei Lankov
| Yahoo Verified
Xi Jinping's recent summit with Kim Jong-un once again highlighted the paradoxical nature of relations between North Korea and its giant neighbour. At first glance, the Chinese leader should have arrived in Pyongyang as the dominant partner, since relations between the two countries appeared highly asymmetrical. China is immeasurably more powerful, and in recent years it has also been North Korea's most important sponsor.
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Lee Jae-myung’s Tokyo First: Symbolism Loud, Structure Quiet

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By Hao Nan, Andrei Lankov, Taisuke Abiru
| valdaiclub.com
Lee’s Tokyo swing is best understood as a calibrated use of timing and leverage: an effort to align with Japan sufficiently to present a coherent posture amid a Trump-era mix of tariff brinkmanship, firm industrial bargaining, and heightened defence-spending demands, Hao Nan writes. The author is a participant of the Valdai – New Generation project.
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