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8 Sep 2025
The Hyundai plant raid in Georgia exposes a contradiction. The Trump administration wants to restore U.S. manufacturing through foreign investment and technology, but immigration rules choke off the skilled labor needed to get these investments off the ground. Short 🧵
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8 Sep 2025
Solutions include:
✔ Stronger oversight by prime contractors to ensure immigration compliance
✔ A South Korea-specific high-skill visa channel to match investment timelines
✔ Administrative fixes to modernize visa categories and training pathways
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8 Sep 2025
👉 The investment is here in America; immigration policy needs to catch up. Read my take on the Hyundai plant raid on Substack: koreaeconomicinstitute.subst…
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9 Dec 2024
Brief thoughts from me about South Korea's martial law fiasco in @east_asia_forum
9 Dec 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law has devastated South Korea’s reputation but not its democracy.
eastasiaforum.org/2024/12/09…
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6 Nov 2024
Rep. Andy Kim won the seat vacated by Robert Menendez. He will become the first Korean American senator.
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31 Oct 2024
56th US-ROK Security Consultative Meeting joint statement: “complete denuclearization” nowhere to be seen; instead, “dissuade and delay” NK nuclear development. A small step in the right direction (realism). defense.gov/News/Releases/Re…
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24 Oct 2024
“AUKUS, U.N. Command, and weapons trade provide platforms for middle power cooperation and alignment between South Korea and Australia while defanging accusations…these platforms are exclusionary.” @AriusDerr & Hannah Cho @WarOnTheRocks warontherocks.com/2024/10/ho…
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23 Oct 2024
We argue that South Korea will be a key partner for AUKUS Pillar 2 and is exactly the sort of state Australia needs buy-in from to maximize AUKUS’ appeal and effectiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Thanks to @NicholasDanfort for the fantastic edits.
23 Oct 2024
“Expanding ties between Australia and South Korea is an opportunity to bring skeptics on board with the AUKUS deal,” write @AriusDerr and Hannah Cho ow.ly/1cIy30sHosF
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14 Oct 2024
A big thanks to @matisaksk for inviting me on his show to talk about all things Russia, Ukraine and North Korea!
14 Oct 2024
Can #NorthKorea afford to send a large number of soldiers to #Ukraine's battlefield to help #Russia? Listen to another episode of my #podcast #TheGlobalAgora. I talked to @AriusDerr from @nknewsorg. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s… #Putinswar
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13 Sep 2024
As @ColinZwirko reported, the @JamesMartinCNS OSINT team concluded last night that this facility was most likely the presumed uranium enrichment plant at Kangson. I spent the morning quadruple-checking. I think they're right.
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27 Aug 2024
"A great virtue of America’s security network is that Washington can summon global responses to pressing challenges. The flip side is that regionalizing US foreign policy could, ironically, undercut America’s ability to out-compete Beijing." bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…
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20 Mar 2024
I will die on this hill. Living abroad for 10 years, I'm fully on board with the metric system for weight and distance. Temperature? No way.
20 Mar 2024
Sorry, world, this is not up for debate. Fahrenheit is just better for daily temperature.
Both Celsius and Fahrenheit acknowledge the utility of measuring across 0-100 scales—Celsius just does it for water. But that’s useless for daily temperature, bc the air never boils.
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18 Mar 2024
North Korea has accepted the reality that unification with South Korea while Kim Jong Un remains in power is impossible. This does not mean war is any more likely than before. My latest for @east_asia_forum eastasiaforum.org/2024/03/11…
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4 Mar 2024
Kim Jong Un may say he's "sorry," but truly fixing the economy requires just a modicum of political reform, which is anathema to the regime. So maybe "sorry but not sorry enough" hits closer to the mark. Graphic below shows how they bang their head on the same wall over and over.
3 Mar 2024
ICYMI: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was “ashamed and sorry” for neglecting economic development outside the capital during his time in power, promising to reverse the trend by building factories in every county over the next 10 years.
nknews.org/2024/02/kim-jong-…
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1 Mar 2024
The best part of the American spirit is represented in guys like Anthony Bourdain, who not only loved other cultures but ran towards them and enjoyed breaking bread with other people.
Trump: People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them
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Arius Derr retweeted
19 Jan 2024
🎙️Exciting news: We have a podcast now.
Uploading every Friday. We highlight the top news of the week and dissect the most complex ones for you, in just 15 minutes.
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19 Jan 2024
🎉 Introducing the KOREA PRO Podcast, a new weekly dive into the most pressing stories shaping South Korea.
Join @jeongminnkim & @koreanforeigner every Friday — to dissect the most complex issues of the week.
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16 Jan 2024
On the nuke front, @AriusDerr believes we could see unofficial Russian support for DPRK nuke programs if 🇰🇵 support in Ukraine is to expand.
- e.g. Russia could help DPRK modernize vintage Soviet facilities at Yongbyon, framed as civil energy cooperation.
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