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Donald Kirk

Living with the bomb

WASHINGTON - No way can President Trump dream of a foreign policy success on North Korea's nukes and missiles as a break from the cacophony of one revelation after another of his dubious dealings with Ukraine, China too, and maybe other foreign powers.

2019-10-10 17:14

North Korea's fight-talk strategy

WASHINGTON - Those naughty North Koreans. Imagine them having the temerity to test-fire another missile from a submarine just as U.S. and North Korean negotiators are about to sit down for another round of talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program. Might the North Koreans really be capable of affixing a nuclear warhead to one of those things, sneaking up close to American shores and annihilating everyone for miles around wherever it landed?

2019-10-03 17:09

Decoding Trump at UN

President Donald Trump's thinking on a deal with North Korea is difficult to figure out. He's less transparent, actually, than Kim Jong-un.

2019-09-26 16:18

Appeasing North Korea

President Moon Jae-in, in his anxiety to appease North Korea, faces difficult choices. North Korea is easily offended.

2019-09-19 09:58

Shooting down war-crazy hawk

Kim Jong-un must be happy now. What could have made him feel better than for his friend President Donald Trump to dump John Bolton as national security adviser? As Trump made clear, he and Bolton disagreed on many things, notably the Middle East, Iran and Afghanistan. Bolton's hawkish instincts would have appeared to fit in perfectly with Trump's views, but Bolton was considerably more extreme.

2019-09-11 15:39

Corruption in high places

Corruption is so endemic in Korean ruling circles that it's hard to remember a time when one politico or another wasn't mired in accusations of fraud, bribery, influence-peddling and all that. In fact, cases come and go with such regularity that we often forget them soon after they dominated the headlines.

2019-09-05 17:34

Flag-waving for Trump

More American flags fly on a typical Saturday afternoon in central Seoul than in an American downtown on the Fourth of July.

2019-08-29 17:35

Waging rhetorical war

MANILA - The Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, has a lot in common with President Donald Trump. He upsets people with tough talk, flays his foes with harsh words, and is accused of numerous offenses against women, against the media, also against the U.S.

2019-08-22 17:14

Stocking up on missiles

So much is said and written about North Korea's missile tests that it's possible to forget they are hardly the most dangerous threats posed by flying “projectiles.”

2019-08-15 17:38

'Improving human rights in North Korea can lead to unification'

American silence on Jeju 4.3

JEJU - You have to wonder what a typical U.S. embassy does with a petition pleading a cause that some people don't want to know about. That's the question asked by activists crusading for the families of victims of “4.3,” the revolt that began on April 3, 1948, in which about 30,000 died in clashes with the Korean army and police. Two years ago, members of the 4.3 Victims' Family Association dropped off their petition with 100,000 signatures at the American embassy in Seoul blaming the U.S. for backing the revolt and demanding reparations.

2019-08-08 16:48

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