South Korea
Between Scylla and Charybdis: US Cold War Strategy and the Question of Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1972
June 05, 2012 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Wilson Center History and Public Policy Scholar Sang-Yoon Ma will present on "Between Scylla and Charybdis: US Cold War Strategy and the Question of Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1972" more
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 7: East German Documents on Kim Il Sung’s April 1975 Trip to Beijing
May 16, 2012
NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 4 new documents on Kim Il Sung’s 1975 visit to Beijing to the Digital Archive. Introduced by Ria Chae, the documents demonstrate Kim’s changing unification strategy and his increasingly distant relationship with China in the mid-1970s. more
Wilson Center Seeks Japan Expert for Associate Position
May 14, 2012
The Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program is seeking applications from all qualified candidates for the position of Asia Program Associate, whose duties will focus on the Center's Northeast Asia programming, particularly regarding Japan. The deadline for applications has changed. It is now Friday, May 18, 2012. more
Wilson Center Seeks Japan Expert for Associate Position
May 14, 2012The Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program is seeking applications from all qualified candidates for the position of Asia Program Associate, whose duties will focus on the Center's Northeast Asia programming, particularly regarding Japan. The deadline for applications has changed. It is now Friday, May 18, 2012.
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 5 on Pueblo Incident Featured in South Korean Press
Apr 25, 2012Recently released NKIDP e-Dossier No. 5, "New Romanian Evidence on the Blue House Raid and the USS Pueblo Incident," was reported on widely by the South Korean press.
NKIDP Research Assistant Yong Kwon published in Asia Times
Apr 25, 2012Yong Kwon, a research assistant with the Wilson Center's North Korea International Documentation Project, recently published a piece on Asia Times Online.
Wilson Center Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman Makes Visit to South Korea
Apr 25, 2012From April 23 to 25, Wilson Center President Jane Harman was in Seoul, South Korea, at the invitation of Kyungnam University, which awarded her an honorary doctorate. While there, she met with Prime Minister Kim Hwang-Sik, Chairwoman of the Saenuri Party, Park Geun-hye, and Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan.
Between Scylla and Charybdis: US Cold War Strategy and the Question of Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1972
June 05, 2012 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Wilson Center History and Public Policy Scholar Sang-Yoon Ma will present on "Between Scylla and Charybdis: US Cold War Strategy and the Question of Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1972"
Return to China or "Return to Taiwan": The Chinese POWs Who Derailed the Korean War Peace Talks
March 22, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
David Cheng Chang, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University will give a presentation based on his recent work entitled Return to China or “Return to Taiwan”: The Chinese POWs Who Derailed the Korean War Peace Talks.
Regional Perspectives on the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit
March 21, 2012 // 3:00pm — 5:30pm
On March 26-27, Seoul will host the second Nuclear Security Summit, an initiative established by the Obama administration in Washington in 2010. Fifty world leaders, as well as scores of NGOs and industry and business representatives on the periphery of the central meeting, will discuss the summit’s main aim: to prevent loose nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists. Naturally, different regional actors will have different agendas and priorities for the summit, and it is therefore important to consider the issues and concerns for Northeast Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, and former Soviet states and stakeholders.
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 7: East German Documents on Kim Il Sung’s April 1975 Trip to Beijing
NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 4 new documents on Kim Il Sung’s 1975 visit to Beijing to the Digital Archive. Introduced by Ria Chae, the documents demonstrate Kim’s changing unification strategy and his increasingly distant relationship with China in the mid-1970s.
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 6: The Origins of the Northern Limit Line Dispute
NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 16 new documents on the Northern Limit Line (NLL) Dispute to the Digital Archive. Introduced by Terence Roehrig, the documents provide insights into North Korean and United States thinking on this contentious maritime boundary in Korea.
East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism, and far-reaching ambitions for regional importance. East Asian National Identities compares national identities in terms of six dimensions encompassing ideology; history; the salience of cultural, political, and economic factors; superiority as a model national community; displacement of the U.S. in Asia; and depth of national identity.
Bernd Schaefer
Dr. Bernd Schaefer is Cold War International History Project Senior Research Scholar. Previously he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and the Hannah Arendt Institute at the Technical University of Dresden. He also served four years as secretary for the East...
Bryce Wakefield
Bryce Wakefield is docent (assistant professor) of modern Japanese politics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is no longer with the Wilson Center. As program associate for Northeast Asia and the Pacific from January 2009 to May 2012. He researched, conceptualized, develope...
Giwon Kwon
Staff Director, Korean National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification.
