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Dec 5, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Andrew Yeo |Jen Patja
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Andrew Yeo is a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Asia Policy Studies. Yeo is also associate professor of politics at The Catholic University of America.
Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the and .
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Andrew Yeo
AS the dust settles from the 2024 US elections, many US allies and partners, including South Korea, are wondering what happens next as Donald Trump returns to the White House in January. As with any democratic transition, uncertainty exists as a new leader enters office. But this is not any leader. This is former US President Donald Trump who speaks about dictators in friendly terms, demands up to 20% tariff increases from US trading partners and openly criticises security alliances.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Andrew Yeo
In early October, Ukrainian intelligence reported that several thousand North Korean soldiers were undergoing training in Russia in preparation for deployment to the Ukrainian front line later this year. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) later corroborated Ukraine’s assertions, sharing satellite images of Russian vessels transporting the first batch of 1,500 North Korean special forces to Russia’s Far East.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Sarah Bauerle Danzman |Andrew Yeo
As part of a project on trilateral U.S.-South Korea-Japan relations on economic security, the Center for Asia Policy Studies at Brookings hosted a workshop with experts from these three countries on September 30, 2024. The session focused on trilateral cooperation on national security screening of foreign direct investment.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Andrew Yeo
In the early 1950s, the United States established a series of bilateral security alliances in Asia with the goal of deterring communist aggression and expansion in Asia.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Amy Nelson |Andrew Yeo
Since the 1990s, Beijing has spurned Washington’s invitations to participate in nuclear arms control negotiations. Instead, it has expanded and modernized its arsenal: the country’s estimated 500 nuclear warheads are on track to double by 2030. China’s advances, along with North Korea’s, has had knock-on effects in the region.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Andrew Yeo
Nevertheless, working-level negotiations between U.S. and North Korean officials ensued in October 2019 in Stockholm. However, the talks collapsed within hours over disagreements on how to dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear program. As the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading around the world in 2020, North Korea closed its borders in January 2020 and retreated into isolation, evidently disinterested in engaging with the West or Seoul.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Angela Stent |Andrew Yeo
On June 19, 2024, during a visit to Pyongyang, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a mutual defense pledge with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un. In the Q&A below, Hanna Foreman engages with Brookings scholars Angela Stent and Andrew Yeo to get their different perspectives of the Kim-Putin summit. First impressions of the summit HANNA FOREMAN:What are your initial impressions of the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin?
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Andrew Yeo
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) suffered a major setback in South Korea’s parliamentary election held on April 10, 2024. Of the 300 seats in the National Assembly, the PPP secured only 108 seats through direct and proportional elections. Meanwhile, the major progressive opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and its satellite parties expanded its majority to 175 seats, hampering Yoon’s ability to govern for his remaining three years in office.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | Andrew Yeo
WASHINGTON, DC – For several years, tensions in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, along with the heavy impact of COVID-19 among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies, have posed serious diplomatic challenges in Southeast Asia. But recent developments in Northeast Asia, including escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula and deepening ties between North Korea and Russia, are equally troubling.
