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Donald Kirk

Relationships - diplomatic, economic or personal - evolve. The U.S.-Korea relationship is not cast in stone. U.S. diplomats can go on all they want about the tightness of the bond, “no daylight between us” and all that, but it's got to change with the times.

2020-10-22 17:46

Protests amid pandemic

The pandemic assumes strange forms under strange conditions. No one knows who will be next to catch the bug. It's difficult to criticize the rules set forth in Korea for making as sure as humanly possible that COVID-19 won't spread. For the second time this year, I've been quarantined for two weeks at my place in Seoul, under orders not to leave for so much as a cup of coffee or a stop at a convenience store.

2020-10-15 17:59

One crazy campaign

WASHINGTON - There's never been an American presidential campaign like this one. In fact, there may not have been a campaign like this one in any other country.

2020-10-08 17:13

America's 'perfect storm'

PHILADELPHIA - The Independence Hall where 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence is a vision in red brick, its clock tower looking over a park where the Liberty Bell is now encased in glass. It was that bell, famed for its hairline crack, that rang out the news of the 56 members of the continental congress approving the declaration on July 4, 1776.

2020-09-24 17:06

Woodward's take on Trump

Acclaimed journalist Bob Woodward offers inside stories that escaped all of us while covering the three Trump-Kim meetings in 2018 and 2019. In the course of 18 interviews, and in 27 messages that he obtained between Trump and Kim, he provides details that make his latest book, “Rage,” enthralling reading for anyone, whether a scholar, journalist, government official or a total newcomer to the scene, and outlines the issues that have made it impossible to bring about permanent peace and tranquility on the Korean Peninsula.

2020-09-17 17:27

President 'bone spur'

NORFOLK, Virginia - President Donald Trump is noted for his outrageous remarks, none more absurd than his claim to have averted another Korean War by meeting Kim Jong-un three times for nothing more than a bonanza of breathless media coverage.

2020-09-10 17:26

Protests inflaming politics

WASHINGTON - A wooden barrier was blocking the street, and a policeman was standing beside his patrol car. Accident? Arrest? Nope, “protests,” the cop told me. A few blocks toward the center of the capital, more police cars cut off main avenues. Over the radio came word that demonstrators were near the White House shouting slogans.

2020-09-03 17:21

Pandemic of violence

NEW YORK - The latest news crackles over my car radio. Five killed in a night of violence, 40 injured. Two dead in another shootout, three injured. Two policemen suffering gunshot wounds.

2020-08-27 17:19

Korean baseball on ESPN

NEW YORK - One thing about waking up early in the U.S. is you get to see Korean baseball on ESPN. Six days a week, beginning about 5:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. in Korea, ESPN carries a Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) game with play-by-play and commentary by two American announcers keeping their eyes on the screen by link from Korea.

2020-08-20 18:24

Media freedom at stake

If “truth is the first casualty,” newsrooms around the world are piled high with the wounded, the dying and the dead. The whole concept of a truthful, free and objective press has always been more myth than reality, a goal held up by politicians and journalists alike but never remotely realized. What's true to one bunch is fake news to another. The line between truth and falsehood wavers every day in Washington while President Donald Trump accuses his worst enemies in the media of purveying lies, and they fire off editorial barrages that sometimes make their opinion pages look like propagand...

2020-08-13 17:44

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