Assessing One Year of Lee Jae Myung Administration | The Capital Cable #138

Please join the CSIS Capital Cable for a look at one year of the Lee Jae Myung administration. President Lee took office in June 2025 with no transition, inheriting a trade fight with the United States, and a fractured domestic landscape recovering from the December 2024 martial law. One year on, Lee's pragmatic diplomacy has stabilized ties with the second Trump administration, steadied relations with Japan and China, and managed international crises, including the Iran conflict, while facing mounting economic issues domestically and a continued deadlock on the Korean Peninsula. 

Host Mark Lippert is joined by CSIS's Victor Cha, Duyeon Kim, adjunct senior fellow at CNAS and Ramón Pacheco-Pardo, Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair to take stock of where the Lee administration stands and what comes next.

Duyeon Kim is an adjunct senior fellow with the Indo-Pacific Security Program at CNAS based in Seoul. Her expertise includes the two Koreas, nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, East Asian relations and geopolitics, U.S. nuclear policy, and security. She is a columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a Visiting Professor at the Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies. 

Ramón Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also King's Regional Envoy for East and South East Asia, helping to shape and implement the university's strategy for the region. He is also Adjunct Fellow (Non-Resident) with the Korea Chair at CSIS, Scientific Council member at Elcano Royal Institute, Steering Committee member at CSCAP EU, Advisory Committee member at Jeju Forum and Advisory Committee member at the Reset Korea Campaign of JoongAng Ilbo.
 

This event is made possible by general support to CSIS.