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Wed, February 1, 2023 | 19:13

Oh Young-jin

Moon's faux pas

“Even with 10 mouths, there can be nothing to say,” an old Korean saying meaning an inexcusable mistake, may apply to a series of gaffes made during the recent presidential visit to Brunei, Malaysia and Cambodia. Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon admitted that it showed a lack of professionalism and promised to ameliorate it, while Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-hwa apologized. The Fo...

2019-03-22 17:52

Oh Young-jin

Why our North Korea policy always fails

The biggest loser in the no-deal Hanoi summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and U.S.'s Donald Trump was neither of the two but South Korean President Moon Jae-in. It means his reconciliatory North Korea policy is in trouble and may be doomed with no second chances as Trump appears to be leaning to the usual insider Washington regimen with his presidency to be boxed in by ...

2019-03-15 17:26

Oh Young-jin

Korea will miss Trump's flair

U.S. President Donald Trump could have pulled it off, cutting the Gordian knot on the North Korean nuclear conundrum once and for all. But the chance of such a dramatic Trumpian resolution appears slipping after his no-deal Hanoi, Vietnam, summit with North Korea's young dictator Kim Jong-un.

2019-03-08 10:30

Oh Young-jin

Can we see Kim Jong-un again?

After his no-deal Hanoi summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, one question worth pondering, however implausible it may sound in the immediate and confusing aftermath, is: would Kim Jong-un, the youthful North Korean leader, be able to hang on to power? Kim was reportedly ditching some of his remaining itinerary to go home early after splitting from Trump without having lun...

2019-03-01 14:11

Oh Young-jin

Trump-Kim dictatorial love affair

Trump's dictatorial love for Kim and the latter's willingness to follow Trump's lead are not bad for the rest of the world by some modest standards. Next week's Hanoi, Vietnam, summit between the two will surely prove it.

2019-02-22 16:40

Speculation abound as Hanoi summit approaches

Oh Young-jin

Prize that belittles winner

Which is wrong, the award or its recipient? That is the question I had as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to Seoul to receive the 14th Seoul Peace Prize that has a handsome cash award. My answer is that the award is more wrong than the winner.

2019-02-22 16:35

Korea, India to strengthen defense cooperation

Korea, India agree to strengthen defense, economic ties [PHOTOS]

Oh Young-jin

Foreign minister's misplaced modesty

Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has left much to be desired over the way she handled herself at the conclusion of ROK-U.S. cost-sharing talks for U.S. forces stationed here. Call it serendipity, but it is possible to correlate Minister Kang's lack of a poker face with U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for an additional increase in Korea's share of costs Tuesday. Kang was c...

2019-02-15 17:16

Oh Young-jin

Trump right on spot on North Korea

By most measures being floated now, the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un is doomed to fail. One common feature among those measures is the need for the North to take concrete steps to achieve complete (permanent), verifiable and irreversible destruction of its nuclear program - C(P)VID - or FFVD, fully verifiable denuclear...

2019-02-08 15:36

Hanoi selected as venue for 2nd US-North Korea summit: Trump

'Not yet': No Trump-Xi meeting before March 1 trade talks deadline

Oh Young-jin

Forgiving Japan without forgetting

There are countless reasons to dislike Japan, but Korea needs a strategic mind to set them aside to identify areas of common interest and push their joint agenda together. So far, the two have been caught in a severe case of myopia, overly focusing on their differences and wasting precious energy.

2019-02-01 17:31

Oh Young-jin

Let's pay Trump off

Conspicuous by its absence is the leadership of the government, which obviously is falling back on the “candlelight mentality” to follow the masses' power and wisdom as it did during the popular protests to topple the Park Geun-hye government. This time, that populist approach is wrong and the government should take a cool-headed approach, even at the risk of alienating its s...

2019-01-25 14:25

Rodong Sinmun hits US for demanding Korea pay bigger share in USFK costs

Moon dismisses reports of Trump's $1.2 billion bill for USFK

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