"'Without a currency swap, if we were to withdraw $350 billion in the manner that the U.S. is demanding and to invest this all in cash in the U.S., South Korea would face a situation as it had in the 1997 financial crisis,' he said through a translator."

MAGA media set their sights on South Korea | Media Matters for America www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal...

Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies on "#NormContestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. CfP below 👇https://www.adamkochanski.com/jceas-cfp

FYI for anyone who would like to no longer be on the academia dot edu site 👇

What a way to make the APEC summit in Korea next month awkward for the 🇺🇸 president.

🚨New online! Srdjan Vucetic analyses how various European far right groups view "the Anglosphere". ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #Politics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Size of progressive leaning groups protesting yesterday outside US embassy over ICE treatment of Koreans in Georgia is moderately small (about 500), but will have to wait n see if it grows in size and volume (currently they’re demanding US forces to w/draw & pay up). naver.me/5NMxWzIg

산업장관 방미 협상 마치고 귀국…대미투자 이견 못 좁힌듯

After 14 years, I think the time has come to acknowledge that the "Rebalance to Asia" has failed. I've spent the last decade writing and thinking about how to make the rebalance successful, so this is a painful realization. A thread on my new piece for RSIS...

Those Hyundai-LG Ensol workers who were caught in that big ICE raid are back in Korea, and really, it’s amazing to hear what they’re saying. “I’m back! Freedom!” Hard to express what a nightmare this has been for opinion of America. m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

RSVP (in thread) to attend virtually The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy's Sixth Annual Conference, "Complex Diplomacy in Turbulent Times," on October 23 & 24, 2025 at 9:30-13:30 CDT on both dates.

李대통령 "구금 한국인, 오후 출발…'수갑 이송' 막다 늦어져"

BREAKING South Korean president says detained workers due to be released at 0600 GMT, warns US raid could have 'significant impact' on future investment

Join us on Monday at 12pm for an event titled "Pole Possessions in International Relations: Status and Geopolitics in the Scrambles for Polar Pre-eminence" Featuring @nupinytt.bsky.social researchers @halvardl.bsky.social & @bdecarvalho.bsky.social, & chaired by @srdj.bsky.social > bit.ly/3VpAZQU

The South Korean government said on Sunday that it would send a charter plane to the U.S. to retrieve hundreds of workers detained in an immigration raid on an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia.

BREAKING: Japanese PM says he has decided to quit 石破首相 総理大臣を辞任する意向を固める | NHK www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20...

Trump preparing to visit S. Korea next month for APEC summit: report | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

South Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo expressed regret over the US release of video showing over 300 Korean workers arrested in a Georgia immigration raid, shortly after the leaders’ first summit. www.koreaherald.com/article/1056...

Gift article because I encourage everyone to read this account of SEAL Team 6 murdering a group of North Korean fishermen in a failed espionage mission that was hidden from Congress.

Something for ROK government to ponder and consider as it pledges to MASGA and make billions of dollars investments in the US: demand the US to make employment-based visa either a non-issue or an eased procedure.

The Chosun Ilbo is using AI for translation, so we get this piece on a September 3 meeting that quotes a remarkably forward-looking report on the event that was published on .... July 3. I get that AI can help, but surely someone should be proofreading the output? www.chosun.com/english/worl...

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Front and center with Xi are Putin and Kim. #victorydayparade

Wait, so is Jong Un no longer deserving of his affection?

Kim Jong Un invites Belarusian leader to North Korea. The axis is shaping up.

"김정은, 벨라루스 대통령에 방북 초청"

As China holds its largest-ever military parade, Trump posts on Truth Social: "May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration. Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America."

South Korean negotiators struggle to close gaps with US despite summit, tariff deal reut.rs/45H2s6I

As we remember the 80th Anniversary of the End of World War II, see our special collection of "Critical Reflections" from a number of prominent scholars of East Asian studies. Look for a second batch of essays appearing soon!

Summits to look out for that will shape the future of the Indo-Pacific order as China seeks closer relations w regional countries: SCO summit (8/31) and Military Victory Parade (9/3), both in China, along w bilats involving Putin, Xi, and Kim. These come after Trump's summits w Putin and ROK Lee.

me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal

Just the beginning of a long list of things to come out. And bribery is on the more 'benign' side of it.

The Kim dynasty returns to multilateral diplomacy www.chosun.com/english/nort...

This will be Kim’s multilateral summit debut. Not that it matters but would be interesting to observe Kim navigating among a group of world leaders he has never met. On a separate note, topic of Trump-Kim meeting could be discussed w/ Xi, as they had done ahead of US-NK summits in 2018-9.

So, KJU will participate China’s Victory Day. President Lee Jae-myung will not attend. However, National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik will go there. Is there a possibility that Kim Jong-un and Woo Won-shik might meet?

[2보] 中 "北 김정은, 9월 3일 열병식 행사 참석"

North Korea's Kim Jong Un to attend China military parade www.bbc.com/news/article...

국민 53.1%, 한미정상회담 '긍정 평가'…60.7%는 "성과 있었다"[리얼미터]

I have a short working paper titled "Democratic backsliding does not threaten *nominal* central bank independence" (there are very few cases). Now it could be ill-timed.

[Breaking News] "South Korea-U.S. Presidents Activate 'Chief of Staff Hotline' with Kang Hoon-sik and Suzy Wiles" | Yonhap News www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...

Post-summit presser live right now by ROK policy director Kim Yong-bum, nat sec advisor Wi Sung-lack, and chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik is impressive. So much information and clarification. www.youtube.com/live/3jsshxW...

This evening, @korea.csis.org hosted His Excellency Lee Jae Myung, President of the Republic of Korea, for an address on foreign policy and U.S.-Korea relations following his White House meeting with President Donald J. Trump. Read his remarks here: www.csis.org/analysis/sta...

In light of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's state visit to the US today, check out our latest thematic section in the Sept issue of Critical Asian Studies, "The Martial Law Crisis and Democratic Renewal in South Korea" (now online): www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/toc/rcra20/c... 1/

Lee managed well. ROK avoided a "Zelensky moment" which is a diplomatic accomplishment. In hindsight, it's a relief for ROK that Trump cancelled his meeting with Lee during Canada G7 summit in June. It bought Lee and administration time to prep and strategize for this first summit. #USROKsummit

And now we wait for the deliverables and outcomes.

also Trump blames South Korea for being "stuck" on the issue while Japan wants to move on. Would like Lee to explain more.