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Wed, August 21, 2019 | 20:23

Does Kim need Trump?

U.S. President Donald Trump is facing such excruciating trouble on his own home front that you have to wonder when he's going to get enough time off to see Kim Jong-un. For that matter, you wonder if Kim will really want to see him all that much, knowing that he's besieged by enemies and may not even survive the remaining two years of his presidency, much less get elected to a second term.

2019-01-17 16:56

North Korea's win-win strategy

As the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon won a reputation for diplomatic blandness. He took pains not to tread on the sensitivities of all the disparate, often hostile, sometimes warring, states that make up the U.N. That's not easy considering the explosions, brush fires and blood-letting that goes on every day.

2019-01-10 17:14

Forecasting Korea's future

The French have two expressions that capture the essence of Kim Jong-un's New Year address. First, there's “deja vu” - or maybe “deja vu all over again,” as the American baseball player Yogi Berra famously put it. And then there's "plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose” - “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

2019-01-03 17:21

Missing Mattis on North Korea

The departure of Jim Mattis as defense secretary by the end of the year has grave implications for Korea. If there was one voice of reason, calm and common sense when it came to North Korea and the U.S. defense of the South, it was that of Mattis.

2018-12-27 17:07

Looking at South-North rail service

The notion of opening rail service between South and North Korea is captivating. You have to hope that someday the dream will come true and trains will be hauling passengers and freight from South to North and back again as they should have been doing for many years.

2018-12-20 17:31

Asking hard questions

It's fine to talk to the North Koreans about their nukes and missiles. Go ahead and tell them they're a threat to the world, the human race, to civilization. No problem. The North's stock retort, as we all know, is they're needed for self-defense against the Americans, who bombed the hell out of us in the Korean War.

2018-12-13 17:23

Talking about summitry

Summitry is in the air. Excitement and speculation are rife. Everyone is talking about talking. How about talks between the leaders of the two Koreas, between each of them and the U.S. president, maybe a meeting of all three together?

2018-12-06 17:35

All aboard for Pyongyang

WASHINGTON - Rail travel has a special fascination for me. My home in New Jersey was near the tracks of the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad, about 45 minutes from New York. I remember watching the trains roar by as a kid, counting the number of cars on the long freight trains with names of different railroad lines painted on the side, waving at people staring out the windows of the passenger trains. A lot of them waved back, leading me to wave longer, as if bidding farewell to friends and relatives.

2018-11-29 18:01

Too busy for North Korea

NEW YORK - Controversy surrounding President Trump is so intense, you have to wonder whether he's going to want the job beyond his current four-year term. Surfing the morning news here, you get to listen to non-stop attacks from MSNBC on the left, equally hard-hitting defenses from Fox on the right - and not that much in between.

2018-11-22 16:43

Okinawa's quest for peace

WASHINGTON - We hear so much about North Korea's secret bases that it's sometimes easy to forget the ruckus over U.S. bases in the region. They may not be secret, but they can be controversial.

2018-11-15 18:18

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