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A Dangerous Precedent Set in South Korea

July 31, 2020 Opinion

On July 7, 2020, the Seoul Central District Court obliged Kim Jong-un and the North Korean government to pay damages to two former prisoners of war for forced labor during the time they were held capt…

Britain Is Following Its Big Brother by Imposing So-Called Humanitarian Sanctions

July 10, 2020 Opinion

The UK's imposition of so-called "humanitarian sanctions" against 49 individuals from Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, and Saudi Arabia that it claims are supposedly involved in "human rights abuses" is …

How the Media Used the Bounty Scandal to Stop the ‘Threat’ of Peace in Afghanistan

July 5, 2020 Opinion

This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career, I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been sh…

Time to Rethink the US-ROK Alliance

July 2, 2020 Opinion

North Korea has blown up the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong. It is threatening an all-out pamphlet war in response to defectors sending anti-regime propaganda to the north. South Korea’s unifi…

Can We Coexist with Asia’s Communists?

June 22, 2020 Opinion

Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met for seven hours at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii with the chief architect of China’s foreign policy, Yang Jiechi. The two had much to talk about. As The…

On Maintaining Perspective in the Year 20 Fucking 20

June 18, 2020 Opinion

“As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn’t quite articulate it, except with the words: if only I was here.…

America the Victim: Are Enemies Lining Up for Revenge in the Wake of the Coronavirus?

May 5, 2020 Opinion

When in trouble politically, governments have traditionally conjured up a foreign enemy to explain why things are going wrong. Whatever one chooses to believe about the coronavirus, the fact is that i…

What’s Going on with Kim Jong-un?

April 29, 2020 Opinion

Recently, we reported about the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on 11 April 2020 and a modest celebration of the Day of the Sun. Since then Kim Jong-un has no…