SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean lawmakers from the Saenuri Party, the country’s conservative ruling party, stepped up their battle cry at the National Assembly this week: It’s time for South Korea to man up and make its own nuclear weapons, they said.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Feb 21, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — He was once thought to be a Swiss-educated cosmopolitan taking the side of reform in North Korea. But some say Tuesday’s nuclear test has squandered hopes that Kim Jong Un will open the militarized nation to the world.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Feb 15, 2013

SEOUL — So, we now know that Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt is heading to North Korea this month. As with virtually anything surrounding North Korea, the journey has triggered speculation and intrigue.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jan 4, 2013

By Geoffrey Cain
Foreign Policy

Dec 18, 2012

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Dec 17, 2012

What the first systematic survey of North Korean refugees tells us about life inside the Hermit Kingdom, and about whether the regime might be ready to fall.

By Geoffrey Cain
Washington Monthly

Jul 1, 2011

Seoul, South Korea — On a Korean War battlefield in 1950, the young, patriotic Kim Chin-kyung, then just 15, lay limp on the ground, wounded by shrapnel. In the months leading up to that moment, nearly all of the 800 troops in his South Korean Army unit had been wiped out. He wasn’t sure if he would make it, either. So he struck a deal with his creator.

By Geoffrey Cain
The Christian Science Monitor

Feb 16, 2010

Anh Nguyen Khanh, a motorbike driver in the mountains outside Da Nang, a city in southern Vietnam, is only fifty-three, but he looks much older. His fourteen-year-old son was born with severe spina bifida and cannot walk; his seventeen-year-old daughter has Downs syndrome.

By Geoffrey Cain
Washington Monthly

Jan 1, 2010