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Wed, October 18, 2017 | 09:26

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Is peace treaty prelude to invasion?

There is a prevailing myth among some "experts" that the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or North Korea) wants a peace treaty with the U.S. in order to militarily invade ROK (Republic of Korea or South Korea) again. Now there is nothing new about the occasional shows of threats and counter threats that characterize the ongoing Korean War. But this year, the risk o...

Guest Column | 2017-08-28 17:19

Who is post-crisis elephant in the room?

LONDON - The global financial crisis that began in August 2007 resulted from a massive, unavoidable cognitive mistake on the part of regulators and bankers. It is now ten years later, and yet few are willing to admit this fact, let alone explore appropriate remedies. In fact, the opposite has happened: regulators have piled on ever-more complex rules, and too-big-to-fail banks have become still bigger. Even worse, the wrong-headed response to the crisis threatens not just the financial sector, but open societies generally. To be sure, the financial crisis had different catalysts in different...

Guest Column | 2017-08-28 17:16

How to deal with new nuclear dange

As someone who was born in 1948, the risk of a nuclear World War III was a very real part of my childhood. That threat - or at least the threat of East and West Germany both being completely destroyed - persisted until the end of Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then, the risk of nuclear-armed superpowers triggering Armageddon has been substantially reduce...

Guest Column | 2017-08-27 17:44

Fluoride's benefits settled

It's been called "one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century" by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So why isn't every public water system in America adding fluoride to its drinking water? That's a question that has been asked consistently by public health officials and dentists since the fluoridation wars began in the mid 1940s. And it's being asked again in Boynton Beach, which is nearing completion of a $30-million upgrade of its aging water treatment plant that won't fluoridate the system until sometime in 2018 _ once all construction is finished _ an...

Guest Column | 2017-08-27 17:43

Taking lead in age of digital transformation

A business leader often has to make challenging decisions even if it means altering their firm’s entire identity. Decisions may also include determining the direction the company is going such as deciding whether to acquire and sell businesses. In today’s disruptive environment, a crucial requirement for a leader is to look into the future, to identify trends before your comp...

Guest Column | 2017-08-27 16:34

Three policies to solve North Korea problem

Nuclear weapons have become the great international equalizer. During the Cold War the U.S. and Soviet Union couldn’t afford to risk a conventional war. Now North Korea is knocking on the nuclear club door. Pyongyang is a good example of the aphorism that even paranoids have enemies. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has fallen dramatically behind the South. Add in Se...

Guest Column | 2017-08-25 17:31

Statues, statutes and the South in United States of America

Symbols of the Confederate States of America have emerged as contemporary political targets, and the word “target” in this case has at least two meanings - a topic of intense debate, and the focus of despicable violence. In Charlottesville Virginia, the local council voted to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a public park. Opponents of the decision went to court and secured a six-month delay in the move. The standoff has made the particular monument a symbol for both supporters and opponents of the political-social activist goal of taking down statues honoring Confed...

Guest Column | 2017-08-25 17:24

Trip through Putin country

VLADIVOSTOK _ Russia’s Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) railway “can be hardly named as a popular tourist attraction,” says one tourist website of the some 2,000-mile railway traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. “Most people even never [sic] heard of it.” The BAM’s older rival, the Trans-Siberian Railway, is certainly more popular. Since opening in 1916 it has attra...

Guest Column | 2017-08-24 17:48

Trump's Afghanistan turnabout

There's only one real indicator of victory in Afghanistan, and President Donald Trump skipped past it in his speech Monday night. Victory in this nearly 16-year U.S. war will come when the Afghan people stand unified behind their government, willing to risk their lives to defend their own country from internal and external threats. Deep within his speech on the way forward in Afghanistan, Trump did underscore the importance of Afghans taking greater responsibility, but it was buried in macho references to Americans "attacking our enemies" and "obliterating ISIS." Until Afghans come to value ...

Guest Column | 2017-08-24 17:46

Wrong way to prevent nuclear war

STOCKHOLM - A vast majority of countries want to eliminate the existential threat of nuclear catastrophe, and rightly so. But achieving a world free of nuclear weapons is easier said than done, and there is a risk that some attempts to do so could prove self-defeating. Since the end of the Cold War, nuclear stockpiles around the world have been significantly reduced. Russia a...

Guest Column | 2017-08-23 17:28

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