Mar 18, 2021 | Publications
18 March 2021 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINSDr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin have wrapped up the second day of their visit to South Korea. Blinken then departed to Alaska for a meeting with China, while Austin is...
Mar 8, 2021 | Publications
February 2021 | REPORTEditors: Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Carolina Urrego-SandovalContributors: Jean-Marie Chenou and Ralf J. Leiteritz Our focus on the Pacific Alliance (PA) challenges the far-from-accurate idea of Latin America as a group of homogenous countries....
Jan 14, 2021 | Publications
14 January 2021 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINSDr. Tongfi Kim On 4 January 2021, less than a week before the scheduled visit of South Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun, Iran seized the South Korean chemical tanker Hankuk Chemi and its 20-member crew near the...
Jan 13, 2021 | Publications
13 January 2021 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINSDr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo The 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held from 5 to 12 January in Pyongyang. A total of 7,000 delegates participated in the congress, almost five years after the 7th congress of May 2016....
Jan 11, 2021 | Publications
11 January 2021 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINSDr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo President Moon Jae-in delivered the traditional presidential New Year’s Address on Monday. With his non-renewable five-year presidential term coming to an end in 2022, the speech served Moon to highlight...
Dec 14, 2020 | Publications
14 December 2020 | KF-VUB KOREA CHAIR POLICY BRIEFDr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo The EU and South Korea are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their strategic partnership this year. Throughout the past decade, South Korea has become the Asian country with the deepest...
