The Korean Odyssey

  * With the situation on the Korean Peninsula deteriorating, we need to freeze military training on both sides.  ⓒOhmynews   Il Young Jeong Research Professor_Institute of Social Sciences_Sogang University Dialogue has long been missing on the peninsula, while the number of armed protests between the two Koreas only continues to increase. This article criticizes the South Korean government's policy of simply "patience" without any alternative plans and proposes a simultaneous suspension of North Korea's nuclear testing and South Korea-U.S. joint drills.   Can we call waiting for North Korea’s next nuclear test a ‘strategy’? Since the beginning of 2022, the South Korean government and media have been working themselves up predicting when North Korea will conduct a nuclear test and guessing at dates. For example, On September 28th, 2022, the National Intelligence Service reported to the National Assembly Intelligence Committee that North Korea could conduct a nuclear ...