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Sun, August 18, 2019 | 18:06

US views Moon with concern

Are relations between Washington and Seoul heading for a train wreck when they should be cooperating more closely than ever in dealing with the threat of the North Korean nuclear and missile program?

2017-05-03 16:29

Korea's gilded age

In 1873, Mark Twain, the famous American writer, coined the term the“Gilded Age” to describe the rise of big business in late 19th century United States. The phrase suggested that rapid economic growth was masking serious social problems under a thin gold gilding of prosperity. It was an era of empire builders, robber barons and great tycoons who brought both power and wealth to the U.S., but also created the conditions for increasingly inequality that led to protests and violent strikes. Fearing a social revolution, Theodore Roosevelt sought to curb the power of big business after he became...

2017-04-05 17:15

Day of reckoning

Analysts are debating the meaning of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s remarks on North Korea during his trip to Northeast Asia last week. Were his comments that the “policy of strategic patience has ended” and that the U.S. was “exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures” just a blunter restatement of the Obama policy or did it signaled a new hardline approach? The fact that Tillerson’s statements are provoking such contrasting reactions indicates that reading the Trump administration’sintentions may prove to be as difficult to determine asthose of Pyongyang. ...

2017-03-22 16:54

When North Korea launched its new solid-fuel medium-range missile on Feb. 12, the U.S. cable news networks immediately gave the event full-blown coverage. They portrayed the launch as the first serious foreign policy test for the new Trump administration, highlighting the fact that the president was entertaining at that very moment Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the southern White House in Florida. Speculation was rampant whether the unconventional and mercurial Trump would take some type of dramatic action in response to what seemed to be a clear provocation by Pyongyang. Instead, Tr...

2017-03-08 17:20

Missile Mystery

North Korea’s launch of the Pukguksong-2 ballistic missile is another example of the steady advancement that Pyongyang has made in developing its nuclear and missile arsenal. But it also raises the question of how Pyongyang has been able to master such technology. Pyongyang’s propaganda proclaimed the test of the intermediate range missile as an example of “a new strategic weapon of our own style,” implying that North Korean technicians had developed the missile from scratch. But most analysts believe that North Korea has always received help from other countries in developing its nuclear an...

2017-02-22 17:55

Samsung's testing times

It is somewhat ironic that Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of the Samsung group, has borne the brunt of populist public anger against the family-run conglomerates, or chaebol, unleashed by Choigate and its exposure of alleged corrupt ties between business and government. Since taking over leadership of the group after his father’s heart attack in 2014, Lee has done more than any other chaebol boss in restructuring holdings to the benefit of shareholders. This has primarily consisted of selling off some struggling businesses while forging entry into new sectors, such as automotive electronics...

2017-01-25 15:36

Trump's Korea contradictions

What is fascinating in analyzing the forthcoming Trump presidency is how many of his policy goals contradict each other, which makes it harder to achieve any or most of them. North Korea provides a perfect case in point.

2017-01-11 15:56

Trump's tax threat

When he was campaigning as a candidate for the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump vowed that on day one of his administration you would declare China to be a currency manipulator, which gives the U.S. the authority to restrict Chinese imports by slapping tariffs on its products.

2016-12-28 17:08

Bright side of Choigate

Although Koreans are complaining that Choigate has brought the state of the country’s democracy to its lowest point since 1987, there are also reasons for hope that it could trigger important and positive changes.

2016-12-14 16:18

Echoes of Watergate

I was a university student in Washington D.C. in the early 1970s and so witnessed at first hand the unfolding of the Watergate scandal that brought down the administration of Richard Nixon.

2016-11-30 16:50

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