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America’s Domestic Turbulence Unlikely to Hamper the Korean Peace Process

The United States Democratic party won a House majority in the 2018 Midterm Elections, with at least 233 seats to the GOP’s 199 and three seats still undecided. With the GOP’s increasing Senate majority

Featured ArticlesInternational Strategy CenterNovember 27, 2018USA, politics, midterm election

Peace, A New Beginning — National Security Law, Our Task Ahead

On April 27, 2018, Chairman Kim Jong-un crossed the military demarcation line to be greeted by President Moon Jae-in in the South Korean side of Panmunjom.

Is a Korean Spring Around the Corner?

Since Korea’s Candlelight Revolution of 2016, the changes on the peninsula seem to herald a spring. Amid high hopes that the country, divided for over 70 years…

Reclaiming Peace of Mind: The Fight Over Yongsan’s U.S. Military Base

My father and his family moved to the US from South Korea when he was just eleven years old. Now, at twenty, I made my first-ever trip to Korea.

Peace in the Korean Peninsula, but War in Soseongri

With the South-North Korea summit in April and the upcoming North and US summit in June, the winds of peace are blowing over the Korean peninsula. There is even talk of “complete denuclearization” and “ending the war by the end of this year”. However, in Soseongri, a southern city in Seongju where the Terminal High Altitude…

Korean NewsInternational Strategy CenterMay 25, 2018thaad, USA, North Korea

GM Korea a Sacrificial Lamb for Dine-and-Dash GM: Our Union’s Fight for Another Five Years

GM Korea and its union reached a tentative agreement on April 23, one hour before the deadline to file for court receivership (the first step in declaring bankruptcy).

Featured Articles, Publications, The [su:p]International Strategy CenterApril 27, 2018Korea, USA, union, GM, Labor, labor rights, worker's rightsComment

Mindanao, Philippines: The Téduray Path to Peace

Since 1970, over 100,000 have been killed, and 11.31 billion dollars spent by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), in the armed conflict with Filipino Muslim revolutionary groups (the Moro) in Mindanao. The forty-eight year conflict is rooted…

Featured Articles, The [su:p]International Strategy CenterMarch 29, 2018Philippines, Asia, Peace, Peace Process, USA, colonialismComment

Move Over, Corporate Democrats. A New Wave of Left Populists Is on the Rise

IN SPRING 2016, a U.S. presidential candidate made the above prediction to Businessweek. That candidate was none other than Donald Trump, and he was speaking of the GOP.

Featured Articles, The [su:p]International Strategy CenterMarch 29, 2018USA, Donald Trump, unionComment

The Mausoleum: Chavez Lives

A gentle breeze blows, and the sun is warm. I soak the Caribbean into my skin and bones. Today is my first day out of the conference area and the last in Venezuela. I hop onto the petite car of my attache…

GM Plans on Shutting Down GM Korea Plant That Would Impact Thousands of Workers

The U.S. multinational General Motors (GM) is planning on shutting down GM Korea’s Gunsan plant. This would mean a loss of 2,000 jobs. GM has requested bailout funds from the Korea Development Bank.

Korean NewsInternational Strategy CenterMarch 29, 2018Korea, USA, GMComment

Telling the Government to First Solve North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Problem Is Absurd

On Jan. 9, high level North-South Korea took place for the first time in two years. In his New Year's address, President Moon Jae-in even mentioned the possibility of a North-South Summit talk.

PEOPLE POWER: 12 struggles of resistance and hope in 2017

The bad news streaming through our media in 2017 has been relentless. Behind the headlines, though, social movements are on the rise and scoring impressive victories. Here are 12 struggles that inspire…

Why North Korea developed nuclear bombs: US-North Korean relations (1990 to today)

Few people are aware that before taking out its nuclear card, North Korea had approached the United States in earnest. As Communism crumbled and the Soviet Union established diplomatic…

A world without nukes: The UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons

On July 11, 2017, 122 (63 percent) of United Nations member countries ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Thus, the majority of the world’s people called for denuclearization…

Featured Articles, Solidarity activities, The [su:p]International Strategy CenterNovember 28, 2017Nuclear, UN, USA, Japan, Asia, Nagasaki, Peace, Peace Process, banComment

Dongpo: Korean Education and Exposure Program

For twenty-three years, KEEP has immersed Korean diaspora into Korea’s social movements and struggles on a nearly two week trip. Adoptees, multiracial, Korean-born, he, she, they, 1.5, 2nd generation…

The truth about Venezuela: Interview with Yadira Hidalgo, Venezuela’s Charge D’Affaires in South Korea

The International Strategy Center is launching a Venezuela Solidarity campaign to dispel the mainstream media’s blackout and misinformation about Venezuela’s Revolutionary process.

Is the Korea-U.S. FTA really unfair for America?

Many Korean proponents of the country’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States believe it will boost our economy by spurring consumer demand for imported goods through lower prices and…

ISC Activity, The [su:p]International Strategy CenterOctober 30, 2017Korea, FTA, free trade agreement, USA, North Korea, Donald TrumpComment

“What Will We Do?”: The Charge to Defend Venezuelan Sovereignty Ahead of OAS and US Aggression

“Venezuela is important not only for what [the Bolivarian Revolution] has done for the Venezuelan people but also…

Venezuela in the eye of the storm: An open letter for solidarity to grassroots movements in the United States and the world

How can an oil producing nation diversify its economy and respond to fundamental material needs?

Why we want reunification

Sept. 2, 1945 two weeks after Korea’s independence from Japan, the US Military’s General Order Number One officially divided Korea. Then, the division was cemented by war. Since then, Korea’s democracy…