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Donald Kirk

Gwangju's place in history

The memories never fade. The stories of the 10 days of defiance, of suffering and bloodshed, live on in a city that still seethes with resentment 40 years after the uprising that began with a student demonstration on May 18, 1980.

2020-05-21 17:17

Fighting the coronavirus is like advancing through a minefield in which explosions can kill and wound if not defeat the entire offensive. South Korean health experts would acknowledge the hazards after the bug spread through crowds in bars and clubs in Seoul's Itaewon district just as new cases had fallen to a few a day.

2020-05-14 18:21

Misreporting North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has dodged a bullet, meaning the onslaught of speculation about whether he was dead or alive, ill or just avoiding the coronavirus.

2020-05-07 17:04

How's Kim doing?

The vanishing act of Kim Jong-un provokes one inevitable question. With all the billions that the U.S. puts into gathering intelligence by all those “agencies,” why can't any of them come back with the definitive answer on the state of his health?

2020-04-30 17:07

Lessons in battling COVID-19

You have to admire the efficiency with which Korea is managing its campaign to stop the coronavirus from spreading.

2020-04-23 17:44

Last flight from Washington

The phrase has a certain drama, overtones of life-or-death struggle: “The last plane out of” a city under attack, under siege, on the brink of surrender.

2020-04-16 18:08

Washington's springtime nightmare

WASHINGTON D.C. - The scene is deceptively tranquil: People cruising down near-empty streets on bicycles, young parents playing with their kids, joggers puffing along on sidewalks.

2020-04-09 18:40

COVID-19 inspires gun sales

WASHINGTON - Here's an oddity about the American response to the coronavirus crisis that foreigners will find difficult to understand.

2020-04-02 18:11

US forces at COVID-19 war

NORFOLK, Virginia - America's mightiest warships, including the carrier John C. Stennis, line up grey and forbidding here at the world's largest naval base at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. A few gate-keepers, security people, stand guard on the piers, but otherwise almost no one is visible.

2020-03-26 18:04

Americans facing coronavirus

WASHINGTON - The mere idea of the nation's capital more or less shutting down would have been beyond imagination if anybody had talked about it seriously two months ago.

Na Jeong-ju2020-03-19 17:36

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