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Opinion
Tue, January 21, 2020 | 10:01
Editorial
North Korea is likely to shift further away from dialogue and return to brinkmanship in the face of the U.S.'s firm po...
India's Mahindra Group, the largest shareholder of SsangYong Motor Co., has called for fresh loans from the government...
Thoughts of the Times
A creditor would never forget a loan provided, while a debtor easily forgets his financial obligation. A favor is remembered longer by the...
A while back I began classroom ESL teaching to immigrants here in south-side Virginia. It is important that they learn a certain amount of...
China Watcher
Greeting the New Year, as Korea's biggest holiday approaches, suddenly I was interested in “our own” culture. Visiting the Han Sang Soo Em...
Today in History

1077-German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness

1793-Prussia, Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)

1846-First edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"

1903-"Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City

1910-British-Russian military intervention in Persia

1919-Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland

1941-British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned

1952-Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India

1954-First atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower

1960-Rock falls trap 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning

1968-U.S. B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland

1977-U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

1977-Italy legalizes abortion

1978-Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks

Columns
John Burton
One of the puzzles about North Korea is that while it has the scientific talent to make nuclear bombs and missiles and launch satellites, ...
Without becoming too defensive about America at this rocky passage in its political history (well, it is difficult to defend), I nonethele...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) starts its landmark 50th anniversary summit at Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday. Yet, while the session is a lan...
Mark Peterson
My colleague at BYU, Kirk Larsen, recently made a presentation on the destruction of the ship, the General Sherman, delivered at a confere...
Chang Se-moon
One of my all-time favorite movies is “Fiddler on the Roof” of 1971, which won the best motion picture and best actor awards from Golden G...
Blogs
In a country with one of the world's lowest birth rates, one would assume the news of a beloved celebrity announcing plans for marriage an...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Westerners living in Korea kept dogs. They were used in hunting, for protection and compan...
In the early 1880s, Westerners began to arrive in Korea. Most were diplomats or employees of the Korean government but there were also a h...
The application process for U.S. universities is different from that in Korea. So if you want to become a student at one of the leading Am...
Cartoons
The Senate oath
Russian government resigns
Tribune Service
If the administration of President Donald Trump did indeed try to bully Europe into doing the right thing on Iran's dangerous brinkmanship, this reflects poorly on both...
You almost felt sorry for them, the six Democratic presidential candidates having their last debate before the Iowa caucuses. The subject ...
A dramatic election that produced a stunning victory for democracy got too little attention here last weekend, as Americans focused on Ira...
Once upon a time in Hollywood, there was a slate of Oscar nominations populated by directors and performers of reasonably diverse ethnic b...
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MarkPeterson
LeeSeonghyon
DonaldKirk
DeauwandMyers
StephenCostello
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