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Fri, July 21, 2017 | 13:31

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Straight from DPRK

Doug Bandow stands in front of a missile mock-up that dominates the interior of Pyongyang's Mangyeongdae Children's Palace. / Courtesy of Doug BandowBy Doug Bandow Traveling to NK: brave or crazy?PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA ― In the popular mind, there may be no more forbidding destination on earth. I’ve never had as many people ask if I was serious when I mentioned I w...

Guest Column | 2017-07-20 17:33

How minimum wage hike makes little sense

Often invoking Dickensian rhetoric about human dignity and the plight of the working masses, what is often forgotten in any debate about the minimum wage is one’s ability to be dispassionate. Whether the hourly minimum wage is 7,530 won or 10,000 won, the simple fact of the matter is that it does not necessarily make a worker’s productivity worth that amount. And, if a worker...

Guest Column | 2017-07-20 17:26

Moon should face THAAD's real woes

It is worrisome that President Moon Jae-in and his advisers have relegated the issue of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile interceptor, to a procedural violation, ordering an environmental impact at the venue in Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, where it is being deployed.

Guest Column | 2017-07-19 17:27

The terrorist threat posed by Islamic State isn't going away

The Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate, the brutal "state" the extremist group ruled for three years in Syria and Iraq, is rapidly collapsing. After months of grueling combat, Iraqi troops have finally retaken Mosul, their country's second-largest city, at the cost of thousands of lives and the destruction of its ancient center. In neighboring Syria, Kurdish and Arab fighters with American advisers are closing in on Islamic State's capital of Raqqa. The United States and its allies are winning the major battles. But they are still in danger of losing the war.

Guest Column | 2017-07-19 17:25

Discrimination in Korean law

A few weeks ago, the Korea Times carried a story about the experience of Kislay Kumar,an Indian student in Korea who tried to enter a Seoul nightclub, but was rejected on the basis of his race. In the article, the nightclub owner was quoted as apologizing and “promising nobody would be denied admission because of their nationality.” Kumar argued that discrimination on the gro...

Guest Column | 2017-07-18 17:35

How wrong Trump's ethics can be

When Trump's arrogance causes the government ethics chief to quit, something is badly wrong. Until Donald Trump's election as president, the Office of Government Ethics had been a fairly obscure agency that supervised conflict of interest standards within the federal government. It is no longer fairly obscure, and when its director resigns, as Walter M. Shaub Jr., did last week, it is cause for major concern. Shaub, 46, has sparred ceaselessly, but politely, with Trump about his casual disregard of ethical standards. His letter of resignation was polite but pointed, as he praised government ...

Guest Column | 2017-07-18 17:30

China's African military base

Nearly six hundred years ago, huge Chinese fleets plied the Indian Ocean sailing as far as Arabia and the East African coast. The epic seaborne expeditions carried out between 1405 and 1432 under Admiral Cheng Ho and during the glorious Ming Dynasty were larger and far more encompassing than subsequent Portuguese and Dutch voyages almost a cen-tury later. China’s Imperial Court sought trade, tribute, and exotic treasures, not formal coloni-zation nor religious conversion. A decade ago, sleek modern vessels of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), China’s ma-ritime military arm, joined Am...

Guest Column | 2017-07-17 16:50

Republics of Murder: Latin American version

RIO DE JANEIRO - Latin America is in the grip of a homicide epidemic. Although the region is home to just 8% of the world’s population, one in three of all homicides occur there; and one in four of all homicides occur in just four countries: Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia. Of the 25 most murderous cities in the world, a staggering 23 are in Latin America.

Guest Column | 2017-07-16 16:18

Environmentalists are birthing ever more climate-change hype

One of the hallmarks of the "Ugly American" is the habit of thinking foreigners will understand what you're saying if just shout it louder and louder. The Ugly Environmentalist does something similar. He exaggerates the challenge of global warming by using ever more hysterical rhetoric, thinking that if the last doomsday prediction didn't work, this one will.

Guest Column | 2017-07-16 16:17

N. Korea missile crisis

On Jan. 2, then-President-elect Donald Trump, referring to North Korea’s effort to develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, assured his Twitter followers, “It won’t happen!” But it has. On July 4 - Independence Day in the US - North Korea gave Americans an unwanted birthday present, successfully testing the Hwasong-14, an intercontinental ballistic missile that analysts say has the capacity to reach Alaska. All that is left now is for the North to miniaturize a nuclear warhead to be deliverable by such an ICBM - a milestone that is thought to be not more than a few yea...

Guest Column | 2017-07-14 17:34

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