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Sandip Kumar Mishra

China's role in making Indo-Pacific Strategy possible

The idea of an Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), which was initially considered to be an impossible proposition, appears to be increasingly becoming more real. Although it is still not a definite strategy and there are multiple names for it such as strategy, outlook, vision, idea or framework, in recent years there are more and more countries which have declared their IPS and Sout...

2023-01-01 16:40

. Donald Kirk

Winners and losers in war and peace

“All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Maybe we should go back to that maxim about happy and unhappy families at the opening of "Anna Karenina," the Russian classic by Leo Tolstoy. To paraphrase Tolstoy, all happy victors in war are alike, but every unhappy loser is unhappy in his or her own way. Let us consider how wars have ended...

2022-12-29 16:50

Jeon Su-mi

Now is the time to protect Korean citizens

Recently, in response to a written inquiry by Voice of America (VOA) asking about the U.S. government's position on resolving the issue of the six South Korean citizens detained in North Korea, the U.S. State Department spokesperson's office said, “We continue to ask the DPRK [North Korean] government to release all political prisoners and to investigate the disappearance of ...

2022-12-29 16:45

. Steven L. Shields

Cheers to Seoul Metro

The rainy season in Korea in the summer of 2022 reminded me of the biblical story of the great flood and Noah's ark. So much rainfall came in mid-August of 2022 that reporters first said it was the most rainfall in 80 years, then 100 years and then more than 100 years. Korea had too much rain all at once.

2022-12-28 16:50

. Bernard Rowan

Approaching 2023

As the peoples of the world move closer to a new year, there is time to reflect on opportunities, challenges and successes. The United States and South Korea are but two of many, many global partners and nations. There's no perfect place or perfection under the sun, moon and stars.

2022-12-27 17:00

Lee Jong-eun

To restrain Japan, South Korea should embrace greater security partnership

Despite being allies of the United States, South Korea and Japan did not have a direct security partnership during the Cold War. During the Korean War, South Korean President Syngman Rhee threatened to shoot Japanese forces first if they arrived to “help” Korea from the communist invasion. Japan, officially a pacifist state with “self-defense forces,” also did not affirm its ...

2022-12-27 16:45

. Jason Lim

Certainty addiction

My family was driving to Vermont to ski for a few days now that the kid was out of school for winter break. It was one of those hazy shade of winter days as the sun struggled to break through its own ennui to care barely enough to shed some light with only grudging warmth. While plowed, the roads were still slippery, decorated with the brilliantly white remnants of a furious ...

2022-12-26 16:50

Bernhard J. Seliger

From Zero-COVID policy to no COVID policy - can North Korea follow China´s lead?

One of the most stunning reversals of health policy anywhere in the world happened in early December, when the three-year-old Chinese strict zero-COVID policy was effectively abandoned, to such an extent that the Chinese Center for Disease Control had to admit, after less than a week, that they had no more clue where and how frequent the COVID virus was infecting citizens.

2022-12-26 16:45

Eugene Lee

On patriotism, nationalism and other -isms, or, let's not burn the house down

What motivation drives a decision maker's choices in his policies? A number of theories in the field of public administration, ranging from the psychological ones all the way to the grand development theories, may provide an answer. However, in order for one to understand what public administrators in South Korea have on their minds, one must do their fair share of digging.

2022-12-25 16:50

. Jang Da-wool

7 key climate commandments

The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held from Nov. 6 to 20 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, near Mount Sinai.

2022-12-25 16:45

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