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Wed, September 18, 2019 | 06:42

Beijing-Seoul ties after Xi's Pyongyang visit

There are some qualitative differences in the way China treats South Korea since Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to Pyongyang. The visit to Pyongyang, which took place in late June, itself was a significant event in Sino-North Korea ties; China signified it was raising its stake in the geopolitical dividends of the North Korea nuclear matter. Interestingly, without any publ...

Na Jeong-ju | 2019-09-17 17:47

Moon's biggest mission in New York

President Moon Jae-in will leave for New York City, Sunday, to attend the U.N. General Assembly and hold talks with his U.S. counterpart on the sidelines.

2019-09-17 17:36

Africa: multilateralism's secret champion

African countries' commitment to multilateralism has often gone unnoticed. But, at a time when the world is increasingly turning its back on shared institutions, this could change, with Africa emerging as a vocal - and empowered - champion of multilateralism at the regional, continental, and global levels.

2019-09-17 17:35

Kashmir will be paradise on earth again

“If there is a paradise on earth; It is this, it is this, it is this” - Amir Khusrau, an iconic Indian mystical musician, poet and scholar, thus dedicated a paean to Kashmir in the 13th century.

2019-09-17 14:01

N.Korea's spat with UN

It might seem perverse for a country where 40 percent of the population faces the risk of going hungry that North Korea should request a reduction in the number of United Nations humanitarian aid workers there by the end of 2019.

2019-09-16 18:22

Sacking of Bolton comes at critical time

Donald Trump sacked his national security adviser John Bolton last week. The sacking of the hawkish Bolton, Trump's third such adviser, comes as the president is now entering a critical few weeks for his foreign policy which will determine whether he enters his re-election year on the crest of a wave, or facing a further setback.

2019-09-16 18:14

Latin America's missing middles

Once the world's most prosperous emerging-market region, Latin America is in danger of being overtaken by its peers, owing to its sluggish and unevenly distributed growth. To break that pattern and make growth more dynamic and inclusive, Latin American economies must fill two “missing middles”: a lack of medium-size firms that can foster competition, and too few middle-class ...

2019-09-16 16:00

Schadenfreude, Korea style

I have to admit that I am surprised at the groundswell of outrage that seemed to take over the Korean society against recently appointed Minister of Justice Cho Guk's alleged hypocrisy. More specifically, outrage against how his daughter managed to do a student internship at a medical lab and be listed as the primary author on a paper that was published in a respected medical...

2019-09-15 17:34

Who is to blame for bad economic policies?

Recently, I read some newspaper articles criticizing the economics department of Seoul National University. The criticism appears based on the controversial economic policies of the Moon administration that are squeezing the private sector of the economy to a painful and gradual path toward disappearance. These economic policies are mostly, if not all, allegedly designed by e...

2019-09-15 17:27

Remembering miracle of 1989

This year marks 30 years since Europe - and human civilization generally - began to undergo a miraculous transformation that is now etched in the world's memory. By the summer of 1989, the Soviet Union was already in terminal decline. The only question was whether communism would disintegrate peacefully, or amid an explosion of violence and devastation.

2019-09-15 17:25

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