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Donald Kirk

Let's all get 'flexible'

Time now to return to North Korea, the topic having been all but forgotten during campaigning for congressional elections seen as testing President Donald Trump's grip on power.

2018-11-08 17:50

Waging America's war

WASHINGTON - The news reports on the radio sounds like shots from a war zone. Someone killed in a shooting in a high school. A police officer killed by someone he was chasing. A civilian killed by a police officer.

2018-11-01 17:25

Trump's moment of truth

WASHINGTON - In the furor over the murder of Saudi activist critic Jamal Khashoggi, headlines about North Korea and "denuclearization” have disappeared from front pages.

2018-10-25 17:17

Courting dictators

WASHINGTON - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, meet North Korea Chairman Kim Jong-un. These two have a lot in common. They're both in their early 30s. Both have almost unbridled power in their own kingdoms and ways of getting rid of their enemies.

2018-10-18 17:35

Bargaining for peace

WASHINGTON - How about Pope Francis inspiring millions of the faithful in North Korea as he did in South Korea four years ago? Can we picture highly organized throngs cheering him on the way in from Pyongyang's sparkling new international airport, blessing one and all while host Kim Jong-un smiles happily beside him in the limo?

2018-10-11 17:19

All news, all day

WASHINGTON _ Foreign observers may be wondering why the case of a teen-aged boy molesting a teen-aged girl 36 years ago should sweep other news off American front pages. Koreans in particular might want to know why this transgression reaches the same proportions as did their Candlelight Revolution of two years ago when a million or so turned out nightly to protest a regime seen as corrupt and abusive.

2018-10-04 17:03

On the road to peace

WASHINGTON - The road to peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula is so full of potholes and pitfalls, twists and turns, that it's impossible to imagine where and how the process will end.

2018-09-27 17:48

Awakening from nuclear nightmares

Stephen King, author of global best-selling novels of horror and fantasy, has written about the craving for horror stories, books and films. He thinks all of us are more or less "mentally ill," but most of us hide or sublimate our worst instincts. From there he tries to answer why we sit through horror movies that frighten us.

2018-09-20 17:57

NY Times versus Trump

WASHINGTON - We hear so much speculation as to who wrote the infamous, anonymous New York Times op-ed, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” it's surprising we hear not a word about whether the piece was actually an inside job.

2018-09-13 17:03

No trusting Trump

WASHINGTON - Here in the swamp of the American capital, you appreciate how easy it is to forget about Korea when North Korea isn't firing missiles and testing warheads or, conversely, when no one's talking about another summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un.

2018-09-06 17:28

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