►In his National Liberation Day speech on August 15, President Yoon Suk Yeol outlined his administration’s North Korea policy. The announcement has positively assessed the Yoon administration's policy and South Korea's North Korea policy to be more aligned than ever with the international community's view of North Korea. However, there are still some lingering questions from Korean and foreig...

►The keyword for the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's North Korea policy, which was unveiled by President Yoon's transition team, was "normalization of inter-Korean relations." To achieve this goal, the Yoon administration has proposed four different strategies.    ►The Yoon administration's North Korea policy may depend on whether North Korea ends up carrying out its seventh nuclear test. Currently...

► In his recent National Liberation Day speech, President Yoon Suk Yeol proposed implementing an “audacious initiative that...will significantly improve North Korea’s economy and its people’s livelihoods in stages if the North ceases the development of its nuclear program and embarks on a genuine and substantive process for denuclearization.” ► Due to its “conditional and phased” nature, ...