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Donald Kirk

Overcoming the colonial past

Can we really be sure Korea's relations with Japan are improving under the newly installed conservative government? The answer is we can't be sure of anything. We can only hope they can work together in the context of trilateral cooperation

2022-06-16 16:31

US vs. China in South Pacific

The South Pacific is again a battleground. China is not nearly at the stage of taking over any of the 15 islands stretching across the region of Oceania, but it's definitely disturbing the foes of Chinese expansionism.

2022-06-02 17:00

Biden's promises to Northeast Asian allies

U.S. President Joe Biden projected a superficial image of firmness in defense of America's Northeast Asian allies during his five-day mission to Korea and Japan while trying not to inflame regional tensions.

2022-05-26 16:59

Democracy in action, Korea and the Philippines

Comparisons between South Korea and the Philippines can be tempting. I can't help but succumb to the temptation after covering last week's election of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos as president of the Philippines and then observing, via the internet, the inauguration in Seoul the next day of Yoon Suk-yeol as president of the Republic of Korea.

2022-05-19 16:25

Waging 'war by proxy'

WASHINGTON - The phrase “war by proxy” is in vogue. It's not a new term, but you see and hear it all the time now. That's what the U.S. and its NATO allies are doing in Ukraine, getting Ukrainian forces to fight the Russians on their behalf.

2022-05-05 16:30

Remembering Asia's bloodiest war

WASHINGTON - The Korean War is less and less “forgotten.” You don't hear people calling it “the Forgotten War” nearly as much as we did years ago. For elevating awareness of the worst calamity ever to befall the Korean Peninsula, we can thank North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, who's done his best to alert the world to the dangers of a second Korean War by staging missile tests and threatening nuclear annihilation.

2022-04-21 16:32

Why missile testing matters

WASHINGTON - North Korea is escalating the rhetoric in the run-up to two dates of huge importance in the confrontation of forces on the Korean Peninsula.

2022-04-07 17:00

Watching in horror as Mariupol falls

Images of the Russian army strangling the cruelly crushed Ukrainian city of Mariupol pull at heartstrings around the world, evoking indignant cries of “stop it” and “do something” to rescue the survivors, drive out the invaders and save what's left of a shattered community of more than 400,000 souls, many now dead or dying.

2022-03-24 16:15

Putin and Kim love their nukes

Nuclear weapons have an irresistible allure. Nations stake their prestige on them. Crowds have cheered at the news of a country's first nuclear test. For a nation to be called a “nuclear power” is evidence it's as strong as any other country, ready to annihilate enemy forces and hostile citizens by the millions.

2022-03-10 16:59

Edging into war

The descent of Eastern Europe into war is like an excruciating movie in which you have to fear the worst.

2022-02-24 16:29

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