Opinion
Wed, September 18, 2019 | 06:36
Expectations are high that North Korea and the United States will finally resume their denuclearization dialogue after...
Saudi Arabia, the largest supplier of crude oil to Korea, shut down about half of its production Saturday following a ...
Recently on Sept. 3 to 11, the Seoul Catholic Theater Association performed “Jeong Ha-Sang” at the Consolation Hall at the Seosomun Shrine...
The sun was glaring down on me as I sat down on the benches of the tennis courts, a drop of sweat dripping down my face every minute that ...
As a representative specialist in Japanese security and foreign policy as well as security issues on the Korean Peninsula, Narushige Michi...

1739-Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks

1793-Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building

1810-Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1851-NY Times starts publishing

1914-Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WWI

1926-Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250

1942-Canadian Broadcasting Corp. authorized for radio service

1959-Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit

1977-US Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth and Moon together

1979-Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect

1980-Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station

1982-Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon

1984-Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic

1989-Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico

1990-Atlanta chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics

There are some qualitative differences in the way China treats South Korea since Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to Pyongyang. The visit...
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 o...
African countries' commitment to multilateralism has often gone unnoticed. But, at a time when the world is increasingly turning its back ...
“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...
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 r...
On October 16, 1866, a large French military expedition attacked Ganghwa city. The attack was relatively unchallenged - only a few shots f...
What is freedom and why did I risk my life to find it? What is freedom when combined with the words: “private property,” “mobility,” and “speech”? Today, I am going to ...
When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it movin...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the history of Westerners in Korea focused on men. Women were rarely mentioned and, if they wer...
Yemen war and Saudi oil attack
Plastic Island
Will California show the nation how to take on the enormous problem of single-use plastic? Or will state lawmakers chicken out under heavy lobbying by plastic makers wh...
It's scarcely over yet, this effort to grab President Donald Trump around the head for things that weren't his fault, drag him through the...
It's probably good news that President Donald Trump smothered his over-the-top-as-usual plan for a summit meeting with the Taliban and the president of Afghanistan at t...
Kudos to the Pentagon for shedding more light on an enduring mystery of Donald Trump's administration: Who will pay for building a wall along the 2,000-mile U.S. border...