Kim Heung-kyu is a professor of political science and diplomacy and director of the US-China Policy Institute at Ajou University in Suwon, South Korea. He is also founder and president of the Plaza Project, a bipartisan think tank affiliated with the Korean National Assembly, and was a policy adviser for the South Korean presidential office. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here.
How do you assess the Korean peninsula situation as North Korea continues to advance its nuclear and missile programme, with no denuclearisation negotiations either with the United States or South Korea for more than five years?
