Pyongyang has exaggerated damage reports after floods swept through the North in an effort to receive a larger amount of international aid, a South Korean government official told the JoongAng Ilbo yesterday. “We were informed that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered ruling party officials in late July to make announcements exaggerating rain damages, including [...]

North Korea’s Brinkmanship Threatens South Korea (Cheon Soengwhun (KINU Senior Research Fellow) North Korea’s criticism and threats against South Korea have gone to extremes. The communist country’s scathing denunciation of the South Korean leadership has long been commonplace. The North has made every onceivable kind of verbal threat against the South; it seems that words no longer [...]

By:Ko young Hwan (Senior research fellow, Institute for national secutity strategy) Upon his assumption of the chairmanship of the National Defense Commission in 1998, Kim Jong-il promulgated “construction of a strong and prosperous nation” as the goal of his era. This was ostensibly meant for North Korea to “join the ranks of strong and prosperous socialist nations that have [...]

The second Nuclear Security Summit will be held in Seoul on March 26 – 27, 2012. Leaders of 53 countries and international organizations will take part in the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, the largest of its kind ever in Korea and the largest summit on world peace in the world. The fact that Seoul will [...]