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Tue, August 16, 2022 | 19:25
Oh Young-jin
Days shaking the world
It is difficult to fathom how big the change is that not just Koreans but people of the world have been experiencing over the past couple of months. The difficulty lies in the fact that we stand at the entrance to a historical vortex that may deliver a brave new world, but we really don't know what to expect.
2018-04-20 16:42
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  • Moon optimistic about denuclearization deal
Oh Young-jin
Beware! North Korean invasion under way
An attack by North Korea is under way but not in the way we have feared most. Instead of employing guns and rockets, this one involves an elaborate set of public relations (PR) moves, which, when lumped together, proves a major charm offensive that can disarm the South and corner other stakeholder countries. And its effects can be as devastating as conventional war. The spear...
Oh Young-jin | 2018-04-06 15:23
Oh Young-jin
How nuclear bottom lines collide
Often, expectations are set higher than what is realistically possible. In the ongoing whirlwind of movement toward a potential resolution of North Korea's nuclear threat, the players want what the other side finds impossible to accept. If they insist on their overblown demands, the April 27 inter-Korean summit and the one in May between the North and the U.S. will not produc...
Oh Young-jin | 2018-03-30 15:29
Oh Young-jin
Trump should go to Pyongyang
Would U.S. President Donald Trump go to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang for the summit with Kim Jong-un in May? Would Kim risk leaving his comfort zone to travel to Scandinavia or even Beijing to meet Trump? Unless one of the two makes a concession, differences over the venue could be the stumbling block to the biggest chance so far of ending the North Korean nuclear st...
2018-03-23 16:54
Oh Young-jin
Between Ivanka and Kim Yo-jong, it's no draw
There were desperate attempts to compare Ivanka Trump and Kim Yo-jong during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Perhaps it was the spirit of the Games that fed the media frenzy that asked, “Who is the better of the two?” The former visited the closing ceremony of the Games, while the second attended the opening. Maybe the old Cold War sense of confrontation gave full play to th...
2018-03-02 17:09
Oh Young-jin
Samsung and Polympics
Korea is at war with Samsung Group with a ferocity that sometimes shows as if it won't be over until one of the two is done away with. The irony is that Samsung is the lifeline of Korea Inc., being the biggest employer, exporter, taxpayer, charity giver and the single largest pillar to support the stock market, possibly all at once.
2018-02-23 17:51
Oh Young-jin
US ambassador and two defectors
With Victor Cha out and nobody in the offing for the job of U.S. ambassador to Korea, perhaps the current acting head of mission in Seoul, the charge d'affaires, could be a rather good choice. I am not advocating his candidacy for personal reasons of course. But an encounter with him at a Wednesday night diplomatic function presented that idea. “We are the cheerleaders,” acti...
Oh Young-jin | 2018-02-09 18:43
Oh Young-jin
2018 Pyongyang Olympics
Just in case the title makes you wonder whether the venue for February's Winter Games has changed, it hasn't. The quadrennial event will still be held in PyeongChang, South Korea, from Feb. 9-25, as scheduled. The imaginary Olympics in the North Korean capital is a byproduct of an ongoing, fierce domestic political fight.
Oh Young-jin | 2018-01-26 15:19
Oh Young-jin
Kim Jong-un in PyeongChang
So far, there has been little to divert from our familiar North Korean playbook. Leader Kim Jong-un has switched to conciliatory tactics. South Korea has jumped at the chance to achieve anything close to a more stable form of lasting peace. The result is the first high-level inter-Korean contact since the Moon Jae-in administration’s May inauguration. Now Pyongyang is expecte...
Oh Young-jin | 2018-01-19 15:23
Oh Young-jin
Does everybody love the President?
A conservative newspaper reporter faced a firestorm of online criticism for making a “wrong” statement during President Moon Jae-in's Jan. 10 New Year news conference. “Any article critical of the President triggers angry, emotional responses from your backers,” a vernacular Chosun Ilbo daily reporter said. “Would you tell them to stop them so the reporters will be able to wr...
Oh Young-jin | 2018-01-12 15:44
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