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Thu, October 29, 2020 | 06:12

Moon's troubled green energy policy

While President Moon Jae-in has been praised for his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, his efforts to address another global issue - climate change - appear to be sputtering.

2020-10-26 17:11

Election rigging

U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed he can only lose the presidential election on Nov. 3 if it is rigged against him. Similar claims about the conservative opposition's landslide defeat in Korea's April parliamentary elections have already been made by some of its supporters in both Korea and the United States.

2020-10-12 17:23

Topsy-turvy ties

As the 2020 U.S. presidential elections approach, it is extraordinary to see how the Trump administration has transformed America's relations with the Korean Peninsula over the past four years.

2020-09-28 17:21

No need to worry

The Seoul stock market has been the world's third-best performing bourse so far this year, just behind China and the U.S. One reason is that like China, Korea is seen as getting COVID-19 under control despite occasional renewed outbreaks. Another reason is that like the U.S., Korea has invested lots of financial resources to stabilize the economy.

2020-09-14 17:12

Until recently, North Korea appeared to have kept COVID-19 until control. Like other countries, such as Vietnam, that have reported few cases or fatalities, North Korea recognized early the danger that the pandemic posed and took draconian measures to contain it by closing its borders in late January. It afterwards claimed it was virus-free.

2020-08-17 16:56

Crisis in 2021?

Could the Korean Peninsula see a renewed nuclear crisis in 2021? The probable election of Joe Biden as the next U.S. president in November will be viewed as unfavorable by North Korea. Biden has historically adopted a tougher stance on North Korea than Donald Trump, whose conciliatory approach to Pyongyang has reduced tensions since early 2018. North Korea may be emboldened to resist further U.S. pressure on the nuclear issue if it receives increased support from Beijing as Sino-American relations continue to deteriorate.

2020-08-03 17:24

It could get worse

There are many times when I wish I was back in Korea after I left the country for the U.S. in late 2016, but never more so than now. I compare how Korea has been able to contain COVID-19 while the disease appears to be spiraling out of control in the U.S.

2020-07-20 17:20

Rise of the rest

Korea and several other nations in the Asia-Pacific region - Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam and Thailand - have successfully contained the COVID-19 outbreak. The leadership of these middle-sized powers in responding to the pandemic has provoked talk of the “rise of the rest,” meaning countries that can play a more influential and independent global role between the superpowers of the U.S. and China.

2020-07-06 17:28

It's all about sanctions

By John Burton The theatrical destruction by North Korea of the inter-Korean liaison office in Gaeseong last week carries a clear message: Pyongyang is frustrated about its apparent inability to get the international sanctions regime against it eased.The crisis has been building for some time. To understand why, it is useful to briefly review the history of the sanctions policy. Although the U.S. has been applying unilateral sanctions against North Korea for decades, it was only in 2006 that the United Nations began applying international sanctions in response to North Korea's first nuclear ...

2020-06-22 17:18

N. Korea's cruel dilemma

North Korea is confronting the same dilemma that more advanced countries are facing when it comes to COVID-19: whether the cure will prove more damaging than the disease.

2020-06-08 17:12

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