Sun Xingjie

Deputy Dean, Institute of International Relations, Jilin University

Sun Xingjie is a professor of international relations and the deputy dean of the Institute of International Relations at Jilin University, China.

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 25 January 2022, after North Korea fired two suspected cruise missiles according to the South's military. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP)
Politics

The world needs to pay attention to renewed Korean peninsula confrontation

By Sun Xingjie 27 Jan 2022
With its latest “final test-fire” of a hypersonic missile, the DPRK has shown that its nuclear capabilities have increased significantly since the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi in 2019. In fact, US-DPRK relations have regressed to pre-Pyeongchang Winter Olympics levels with the US imposing new sanctions. It may seem like just another trough in the instability of the Korean Peninsula, but if the world looks away, the situation may just reach boiling point before anyone realises it.