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Fri, August 12, 2022 | 18:34

Yoon's strategic and tactical dilemmas

At the heart of the North Atlantic Treaty is Article 5, which stipulates that if one member state is invaded, all other member states should automatically intervene for its protection. It is this clause that led some Eastern European countries to join NATO, having felt threatened by Russia's military revival under President Vladimir Putin, a leader obsessed with nostalgia for...

2022-06-27 16:45

Cold War redux

North Korea stands to benefit from the war in Ukraine. Why? Because Russia may be more willing to ignore international sanctions and provide Pyongyang with what it needs: oil, grain and fertilizer among other crucial products.

2022-06-27 16:32

European security after NATO's Madrid summit

At the end of June, 25 years after Madrid last hosted a NATO summit, the Spanish capital will again be the scene of a new chapter in European security. And Europe, for the most part, will have to be the protagonist. Ultimately, the Alliance's coming gathering must help us Europeans step up and assume our responsibilities with regard to our continent's security. That is the be...

2022-06-27 16:15

AI can never be human

The world is often filled with imprecise words in such numbers that I often feel that I am drowning in the verbose inanities of language. But we must communicate for that's what makes us human. As such, we bravely dive into the foaming sea of words and grasp those few to which we choose to imbue certain meanings, as people utter them at us, twisting them with the inherent bia...

2022-06-26 16:32

Tetris, are you still alive? Yes!

Tetris was invented by Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian-American video game designer and computer engineer. The first version of Tetris was created in the Computer Center of the Moscow Academy of Science and used an Electronika 60 microcomputer.

2022-06-26 16:21

Israel's endless occupation

In the 55 years Israel has been occupying Palestinian lands, there have been two intifadas, four wars in Gaza, and a long series of failed efforts to negotiate a two-state solution roughly adhering to Israel's pre-1967 borders. The situation may truly be as hopeless as it seems.

2022-06-26 16:15

Plastic waste: common scourge of South and North Korea and source of future cooperation

When in June for one week the so-called Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) conventions took place in Geneva, hundreds of delegates from all 188 participating countries in these three leading multilateral environment agreements came together to discuss how to better govern chemicals and waste management, in order to protect human health and the environment.

2022-06-23 16:50

Importance of remembering Korean War

June marks the time of the year when we remember the outbreak of one of history's most devastating conflicts. Still not technically over despite starting 72 years ago, the Korean War claimed the lives of nearly five million people.

2022-06-23 16:30

Big blow for Macron who misses out on majority

Emmanuel Macron's presidential re-election “honeymoon” was shattered on Sunday when he became the first French president in around a quarter of a century not to win a parliamentary majority.

2022-06-23 16:24

International Day of Women in Diplomacy

As June draws to a close, the United Nations marks two important anniversaries: the signing of its Charter on June 26, 1945, and the establishment of the full-fledged Commission on the Status of Women on June 21, 1946. And now we have another landmark date right between the two, the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, to...

2022-06-23 16:12

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