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Tue, December 12, 2023 | 03:13

. Andrew Hammond

Foreign affairs dominates domestic policy at EU summit

With the EU’s big 2024 election year fast approaching, there is much important domestic policy business for the bloc to attend to. However, foreign policy ultimately topped the agenda at the European summit of 27 presidents and prime ministers in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, in what may be a prelude of troubled months to come, internationally.

2023-10-31 16:35

Mitch Shin

Don't suspend Sept. 19 Inter-Korean Military Agreement

Since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol took office in May 2022, Seoul has prioritized strengthening its military alliance with the United States. In the wake of a series of meetings between Seoul and Washington, they agreed to deploy the U.S. strategic assets including its nuclear aircraft carrier and nuclear-capable bomber regularly on the Korean Peninsula as a demonstra...

2023-10-31 16:30

How Africa can make the most of diaspora finance

How Africa can make the most of diaspora finance

LONDON - The African diaspora is the biggest funder of change on the continent. Since remittances are informal, often unreported, and narrowly targeted, they tend to be overlooked. But their scale is large, sustained by diasporic Africans’ powerful commitment to improve the lot of family members and communities they love. Formal givers like me should not only learn from this,...

2023-10-31 16:20

. John J. Metzler

Political tsunami sweeps Southern Hemisphere

“It’s the last bus stop in the world,” a former New Zealand prime minister once told me while he was visiting New York. Indeed a remote South Pacific island nation of merely 5 million souls, known for the Kiwi, its All Blacks rugby team and some pretty good wines, was sadly hobbled by a woke progressive government who turned the once-idyllic place into a land beset by inflati...

2023-10-30 16:35

Lee Jong-eun

South Korea, US should not overreact to Russia-NK partnership

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, the Russia-North Korea partnership has visibly expanded. Already since last year, North Korea has been accused by Western intelligence agencies of supplying arms and munitions to Russia’s military operations. Russia, in return, has used its veto in the U.N. Security Council to protect North Korea from international resolutions...

2023-10-30 16:30

To save democracy, fight inequality

To save democracy, fight inequality

ITHACA, NEW YORK - In these tumultuous times, it often feels like one shock quickly eclipses another. Before one problem can be solved, another crisis emerges. Just a few weeks ago, the war in Ukraine dominated headlines, but the recent outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas has since taken center stage.

2023-10-30 16:20

. Bernard Rowan

Northern lights and Korea

This month I visited Iceland for the first time. It's a wonderful place of varied cultures, including the Vikings, and marvelous for viewing nature’s beauty and grandeur across the seasons. My wife and I tasted delicious seafood, lamb and other things. We enjoyed a dip in the Blue Lagoon and another geothermal spa. The people are uniformly welcoming and tolerant of lost forei...

2023-10-29 16:45

Lest we forget

One year ago, the name Itaewon entered our collective catalog of national trauma. Many young people had gathered in Itaewon to celebrate the first Halloween since the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. One hundred fifty-nine of them never made it back home. Three hundred more are still suffering from the aftermath. One year on, after a failed ministerial impeachment, one speci...

2023-10-29 16:40

The crisis of African peacekeeping

The crisis of African peacekeeping

PRETORIA - Last month, Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi demanded that the United Nations begin withdrawing its 17,000 peacekeepers from his country by December. In June, Colonel Assimi Goita’s military regime in Mali made the same demand; the U.N. will complete the withdrawal of its 12,000 peacekeepers from that country by January. Meanwhile, the Af...

2023-10-29 16:20

. Jason Lim

How did the Koreans and Jews endure?

It’s impossible to not feel affected by the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, with photos of innocent men, women and children from both sides dying due to horrible violence, whether they are Jews intentionally butchered by Hamas on that fateful Saturday or Palestinian children buried under the rubble of concrete and steel crumbling after a bomb has been dropp...

2023-10-26 16:50

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