A Monthly Publication of the Initiative · NPSI-PL Series
The Pacific Ledger
A monthly account of the Canada–Korea relationship.
Two countries do twenty-five billion dollars of merchandise trade a year, and nobody keeps the books. Korean media covers Canada when a prime minister lands; Canadian media covers Korea when a submarine surfaces. In between — the cargoes, the contracts, the fifty-year partnerships — the account goes unrecorded. The Ledger records it: monthly, every entry sourced, both sides of the account kept honestly.
A ledger records both sides. So do we.
Current Issue
№ 01 · Premier Issue · July 2026 · NPSI-PL-001
The Submarine We Lost. The Friendship We Kept.
How July posted, after the loss.
On July 6 Canada named TKMS preferred supplier for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project over Hanwha’s KSS-III — and the relationship spent the rest of the month posting new entries anyway. The ledger records LNG Canada’s first KOGAS cargo, a 3.3× expansion of Canadian crude to Korea, the NextStar battery plant at full ownership, a joint critical-minerals stockpiling plan, fifty years of CANDU collaboration, Defence Cooperation Agreement negotiations — and Kapyong at 75. Issue closed 28 July 2026.
Issue Archive
№ 01 · July 2026 · Premier Issue
The TKMS decision, the entries that kept posting, the Hormuz exit, and Kapyong at 75.
№02 closes late August. The Ledger is the imprint’s one product with a stated cadence: it posts monthly. Working papers and briefings continue to publish only when the work is ready.