News & Press
Selected coverage of RPI’s work in international peacebuilding — interviews, op-eds and commentary featured in The Korea Times, China Daily, Arirang News and other media.
British peacemaker presents idea to break stalemate in Korea
Published on 8th December 2022 by The Korea Times
After two Pyongyang-Washington summits that ended without an agreement, North Korea has refused to talk over the last three years, while intensifying its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. This situation paints a bleak future for the Korean Peninsula and the world. The chances of a conflict escalating into a…
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No Other Way to Peace: Author presents a new peace equation for South, North Koreas
Published on 5th December 2022 by Arirang News
Tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula, with North Korea continuing to launch ballistic missiles that threaten the South, the U.S. and Japan. Having rejected Seoul and Washington’s offer to hold dialogue and instead only issuing hostile rhetoric, it seems the idea of discussing peace and reunification of the…
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Pelosi’s Taiwan visit ill-advised and provocative
Published on 10th August 2022 by CHINA DAILY
The United States’ stance on the Taiwan question has been characterized by “strategic ambiguity” and China has been aware of this ambiguity for a long time. But China may no longer be expected to sit idly by while the US violates the very principle on which Sino-US relations are based…
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Looking at the future of China-UK ties
Published on 20th July 2022 by CHINA DAILY
In a recent article, Fu Ying, vice-chairperson of China’s National People’s Congress Foreign Affairs Committee, has written about the possibilities and challenges of long-term relations between China and the United Kingdom. We agree with her that China-UK issues fundamentally revolve around trust…
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A bilateral free trade deal between two Koreas
Published on 15th August 2021 by KOREA TIMES
We should never give up on the hope for long-term peace, and even eventual unification of the Korean Peninsula, even though it might be easy to do so. Indeed, there are a number of reasons for believing that this is just the time to look for a major move forward. More importantly, as we outline below, there is a way to overcome the obvious obstacles in the path to achieve this…
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