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Thu, July 7, 2022 | 13:05
Donald Kirk
Third-world-style leadership
Donald Trump would have been a great leader of a small third-world country. That's the type of job for which he would have been a natural, at least to judge from what we're hearing about removing him from his perch at the helm of a much larger, first-world country.
2020-01-30 16:53
Undiplomatic diplomacy
A young ensign is reputed to have told Admiral Bill “Bull” Halsey, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific in World War II, “Your every wish is my command,” to which Halsey replied, “You're damn right it is.”
2020-01-23 17:21
That 'axis of evil'
A detail generally overlooked in all we've been reading about the misfired Iranian missile that brought down the Ukraine airliner with 176 people aboard: It was almost certainly made in North Korea and sold to Iran or made in Iran from a North Korean design and technology.
2020-01-16 17:02
Killing by other names
People who split hairs over semantics ask if decapitation is the same as assassination. The debate assumes relevance in the wake of the killing of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. No, he wasn't exactly decapitated, meaning his head wasn't literally cut off from the rest of his body though probably not much was left of either after the vehicle in which he was riding from Baghdad airport was struck by a missile fired by a U.S. drone. Was he, however, assassinated or simply a casualty of a war in which thousands have died?
2020-01-09 17:35
Shocks of modern Korea
One of the axioms of modern Korean history is that the future is hard if not impossible to predict. We've had so many surprises since the division of the Korean Peninsula by U.S. and Soviet diplomats in 1945 and the North's invasion of the South nearly five years later that it would be impossible to list them all. Not all unforeseen happenings have been bad. Nobody after the Korean War ended in 1953 would have dared predict the rise of South Korea as a major industrial power. Nor would anyone have imagined at the height of the presidencies of Park Chung-hee and then Chun Doo-hwan from May 19...
2020-01-02 17:27
N. Korea's human rights
We've been hearing a great deal about North Korea's “gift” to the U.S. in the form of the test of a long-range missile or satellite launch as punishment for the failure to agree to sanctions relief. Considering all that's at stake, a “step-by-step” deal under which Kim Jong-un slowly surrenders his nuclear program while the U.S. and U.N. let up on sanctions might seem sensible. Why not, it's tempting to ask, deprive the North of a rationalization for making good on its threats?
2019-12-26 17:50
China's strategy for Korea
In the first annual “Transactions” published by the venerable Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1900, James S. Gale, one of the early missionaries here, wrote, “The more we read, the more we are forced to the conclusion that Korea was under a mesmeric spell at the hands of the Great Middle Kingdom.” In refutation, H,B. Hulbert, another notable missionary, author of a classic history of Korea, argued that “the points of similarity with the Chinese are the exception and that the survival of things purely native and indigenous are the rule.”
2019-12-19 18:18
Korean masterpiece
Unlike just about every Korean, I had not heard of “Parasite” when I walked into the E Street Cinema in Washington a few weeks ago with every intention of seeing another film also being shown. Then I heard a person asking for tickets to “Parasite” and learned it was a highly rated, popular Korean film. In fact, it was so popular that showings on two screens in the cineplex were sold out. I had to see it another night.
2019-12-12 17:30
N. Korea's New Year's deadline
By my rudimentary arithmetic - which is by no means infallible - as of Friday (Dec. 6), we're 25 days away from the end of the year. When the clock strikes midnight, Dec. 31, we'll pass the deadline set by the North Koreans for the U.S. to cave in to their demands and come to terms on a nuclear deal.
2019-12-05 17:25
ASEAN 'co-prosperity'
BUSAN - Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, had his hands in his pockets and a bored expression on his rugged face as President Moon Jae-in extolled high-tech Korean manufacturers on the big day of his summit with the leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries.
2019-11-28 17:46
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