Khang Vu
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Khang Vu is a visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at Boston College. He was a 2023-2024 Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Khang received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2024 and his master’s degree from Dartmouth College in 2019. His other writings have appeared in International Security, the Journal of Contemporary China, The Diplomat, War on the Rocks, The National Interest, East Asia Forum, Fulcrum, to name a few. His expertise is in East Asian security, arms control, alliance politics, inter-Korean security issues, and Vietnam’s foreign policy.
The North Korea tourist trap
The border opened to foreign visitors for only a month before being sealed again. North Korean troops in Russia might be the reason.
Will North Korea support a US-Russia deal to end the war in Ukraine?
It’s another party to the conflict, after all.
This time, Russia stands in the way of any US‑North Korea deal
If Donald Trump wants to revive his showpiece negotiation, he will find the calculation has since changed.
Explaining North Korea’s silence amid South Korea’s political turmoil
Pyongyang has made plain that its attention is firmly elsewhere.
North Korean troops in Russia: The first test of the Russia-North Korea alliance
Should the deployment be confirmed, history offers three ways to gauge the cohesion of Pyongyang’s ties to Moscow.
North Korean elite defectors on the rise?
South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North.
Family ties? How Kim Jong‑un is going his own way
Every leader wants a legacy.
Putin’s diplomacy roadshow in North Korea and Vietnam
Despite Moscow’s charm offensive, regional states are keeping their options open, and China remains the partner of choice.
The News Lens
14 February 2023
