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Making up for lost time, two slaves to the blog in one week! ForeignPolicy.com’s lede for 27 January, pretty much says it all: “North Korea warned the South of “full-scale war,” but accepted food aid.” The conventional wisdom is that South Korean financial markets and its economy more broadly are vulnerable to North Korean provocations. [...]
Victor Cha has argued that North Korea does not commit provocations when engaged; a short paper “Has South Korea’s Engagement Policy Reduced North Korea’s Provocations?,” in the current North Korea Review, disputes that notion, at least when it comes to the Northern Limit Line. Kim Insoo and Lee Minyong say forget about the big picture: [...]
Two North Korean ships have been caught fishing illegally in internationally protected waters off the coast of Antarctica. Both had been previously blacklisted due to prior infractions. To add insult to injury, one of the ships was using an illegal deep-sea gillnet. In its statement, the government of New Zealand indicated that it planned to [...]
