Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security

Significance and Key Discussions of the 2025 World Emerging Security Forum: Emerging Technologies and Rising Hybrid Threats

1. 2025 World Emerging Security Forum: First International Conference on “Hybrid Threats” in the Indo-Pacific
2. Hybrid Threats: Stealthy, Global Challenges
3. Cognitive Warfare: Hacking and Manipulating the Human Mind
4. Perpetual Security Threats from Emerging Technologies and Sabotage of Critical Infrastructure
5. Significance and Implications

Assessment of the August Korea-Japan Summit and Challenges for Japan Policy

1. Implications and Key Points of the Korea-Japan Summit 2025
2. Assessments and Challenges
3. Response Measures.

Economic Security Implications of the US AI Action Plan

1. The US AI Action Plan and the Three Executive Orders
2. Key Points of the US AI Action Plan from an Economic Security Perspective
3. Economic Security Challenges for South Korea

Strategic Implications from the July Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting: Prospects for Indo-Pacific Cooperation under the Second Trump Administration

1. Introduction   
2. Major Developments and Assessment
3. Policy Implications

Russia’s Deepening Footprint in Southeast Asia: Regional Perceptions and Responses

1. Introduction
2. Russia’s Broadening Engagement in Southeast Asia
3. Southeast Asia’s Perceptions and Responses
4. Regional Impact and Policy Implications

North Korea’s Politics of Troop Deployment and Hyper-strategy

1. Introduction
2. Diagnosing North Korea’s Politics of Troop Deployment
3. North Korea’s Troop Deployment and Hyper-strategy
4. Diplomatic and Security Implications

Prospects for North Korea-U.S. Relations and Nuclear Talks

1. An Outlook for Relationship between North Korea and the U.S.: Revitalization of North Korea-U.S. Summit Diplomacy 
2. An Outlook for North Korean Nuclear Talks: Realistic Control through ‘Simultaneous and Parallel’ Approaches
3. Policy Considerations

Assessments and Implications of the Korea-Japan Summit at G7

1. First Korea-Japan Summit Following the Inauguration of the New Korean Government
2. Key Outcomes and Implications

Prospects of Discussions on Economic Security in Trade Negotiations with the US

1. Current Status of US Bilateral Trade Talks
2. Analysis of Economic Security Agenda within the Framework Agreement
3. Considerations for Prospective Discussion on Economic Security in Trade Negotiations