Chung Min Lee

Nov 1, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Chung Min Lee

At 10:23 p.m. local time on December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law. As Koreans across the nation sat glued to their TVs—shocked and stupefied—the opposition liberal party, the Democratic Party (DP), denounced Yoon’s move. And the leader of Yoon’s conservative ruling People Power Party (PPP), Han Dong-hoon, immediately attacked Yoon’s decision and said he would stop it “together with fellow Koreans” around 10:45 p.m., when no one really knew what was going on.

Jul 25, 2024 | nbr.org | Chung Min Lee |Evans J.R. Revere |Andrew Scobell |Hideya Kurata

North Korea’s Strategic Choices amid Shifting Geopolitics Jenny Town The Gathering Storm: A Confluence of North Korea’s Looming Crises Chung Min Lee The United States and North Korea: New Threats, New Challenges, and the Need for New Resolve Evans J.R. Revere Grappling with Great-Power Competition: China Bandwagons with Petulant North Korea Andrew Scobell Going Tactical: North Korea and Two-State Theory in War Strategy Hideya Kurata The Korean Peninsula’s New Geopolitics: Why North Korea Is...

Apr 29, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Chung Min Lee

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continues to accelerate the country’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. At the same time, North Korea has been a key supplier of arms to Russia as the war in Ukraine progresses. Both of these actions are critical threats to South Korea, the United States, and Japan. But the outside world is missing an equally important development with immense implications for stability on the Korean Peninsula—the slow and irreversible breakdown of the Kim dynasty.

Apr 15, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Chung Min Lee

Just a few weeks short of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s two-year anniversary in his single five-year term, the ruling People Power Party (PPP) suffered one of the biggest losses in Korean political history. The opposition Democratic Party (DP), led by former presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, already held 162 of the 300 National Assembly seats prior to the April 10 election, forcing Yoon to work with an opposition-led assembly for the past two years.

Mar 1, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Chung Min Lee

As the United States and the ROK prepare to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of their security and defense alliance in 2025, forging a durable technology alliance is going to become an increasingly critical element of their cooperation. program The Asia Program in Washington studies disruptive security, governance, and technological risks that threaten peace, growth, and opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region, including a focus on China, Japan, and the Korean peninsula.