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Sun, May 29, 2022 | 04:27

North Korea's nuclear doctrine

The past several months have been a particularly frustrating time for a large number of North Korea watchers. North Korea began the year with the repeated testing of missiles of various ranges and capabilities, many of them capable of evading interception by missile defense systems deployed in the South. After the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, North Korea tested intercontinen...

2022-04-19 16:26

Forming bipolarity

Sadly, the evil and tyrannical foolishness of Putin and the Russian leadership has reached a new low with the war in Ukraine. War crimes occur on the backs of conscripts. Civilian targets suffer indiscriminately. Far from “Making Russia Great Again,” Putin has sealed his fate as the 21st century's worst international leader, with damning parallels to Hitler. Nevertheless, Ukr...

2022-04-19 16:21

Going nuclear

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's decision to revive Korea's nuclear power program is a pragmatic one and reverses what some argue was an unrealistic policy by the Moon Jae-in administration to phase out nuclear energy.

2022-04-18 16:15

Feed more hungry people for less money - help them plant!

A few weeks ago, we all woke up to a global milieu that we thought already belonged to history.

2022-04-18 16:11

BTS Army can wait

The mandatory military service for all Korean men is the third rail of South Korean politics and society. Everyone hates it and tries to find ways to escape it. At the same time, you will be socially ostracized and professionally penalized if you actually do find some way to escape since it's a mutually binding social compact of misery that everyone has equity in. If I had to...

2022-04-17 16:23

Cum-ex affair: Tax with greed

In Germany, following the financial crisis, scandals around banks and financial institutions have almost become a norm. The cum-ex affair, for example, that was revealed a few years ago, overshadowed all previous controversies. It is reported that more than 100 banks are currently under investigation in Germany alone in relation to cum-ex deals. These deals involve illicit ta...

2022-04-17 16:15

China's abortion problem can't be regulated away

Recent official pronouncements in China have sparked speculation that tighter restrictions on abortion may be in the offing. Six months ago, the Chinese State Council issued guidelines to lower the number of abortions performed for non-medical reasons. And in February, China's family-planning association announced that the authorities would launch a special abortion intervent...

2022-04-17 16:11

North Korea's nuclear annihilation threat and Biden's timely 2022 Nuclear Posture Review

Recently, we had both good news and bad news on the nuclear postures of nuclear-armed states. Good news, the long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) of the Biden administration will soon be released as its classified version was sent to Congress last month.

2022-04-14 16:29

Writing recommendation letters

By Casey Lartigue Jr. I haven't been a student in many, many moons, but every year I know when university application deadlines are approaching. That's because I start receiving requests to write recommendation letters and to review statements of purpose (SOP) as part of applications.I can only blame myself for many outstanding people asking me to vouch for them. In the last ...

2022-04-14 16:25

Applying double standards in Ukraine is risky business

Russia's suspension from the United Nations Human Rights Council was long overdue, even without the mass killing of innocent civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. A country that poisons or otherwise does away with its critics at home and abroad and stifles freedom of the press, expression and association should not qualify for a seat on the council.

2022-04-14 16:17

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