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Sun, September 22, 2019 | 16:49

From 'Korea passing' to 'facilitator'

South Korea has just marked the first anniversary of the April 27, 2018, summit between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the first inter-Korean summit in almost a decade.

2019-05-05 17:48

Abe's US, EU trips set G20 agenda

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe topped off last Saturday a busy diplomatic week after two days with Donald Trump in the United States. Earlier, he and top European leaders also met in Brussels for the EU-Japan summit which not only deepened their bilateral strategic partnership, but also set the agenda for June's G20 summit in Osaka.

2019-05-01 17:33

US distrust and North Korean desperation

The failure of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in February has caused frustration and dissatisfaction with the progress of diplomatic efforts for the North's denuclearization.

2019-04-30 17:20

Funeral in Ireland

On Wednesday the taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, and Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom, both showed up in Belfast in Northern Ireland for the funeral of a young woman called Lyra McKee. So did the president of the Republic, Michael Higgins and UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. It's quite possible that none of them had even...

2019-04-26 17:48

Way out of US-China deadlock

Last week I almost fainted when Singapore's Kishore Mahbubani, that subversive champion of the world beyond America and the West, was honored by one of America's most revered cultural institutions.

2019-04-25 17:23

Why Kim-Putin summit could be game-changing

The Kremlin confirmed Monday that preparations have been concluded for the historic first summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. With media reporting the meeting could start as soon as Wednesday, a key question is whether Russia can help unlock the stalled nuclear talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

2019-04-24 17:15

Sudan's revolution

It's moving fast now. For three months the protesters in Khartoum got nowhere with their demand that “the people want the fall of the regime,” but recently they moved their protest to the real center of power in Sudan, army headquarters.

2019-04-22 16:59

Gwangju Massacre and war on truth

For almost 39 years, opposing partisan factions have bickered over every aspect of the May 18, 1980, Gwangju Democratic Uprising, also known as the Gwangju Massacre for the deadly military suppression of civilian protesters, and sometimes called 5.18 for short.

2019-04-21 17:34

The European Council formally decided, April 15, to reopen trade talks with the United States to try to reach a new transatlantic deal.

2019-04-19 17:15

Appropriate technology energy solutions: When small is beautiful

Energy is so fundamental to the functioning of modern states that it tends to be developed and delivered on a grand scale, at great cost to people, companies and governments. This is news to nobody. In addition to their monthly household energy bills, which in Korea can be alarmingly high, taxpayers in most countries pay a huge indirect amount towards energy in that their tax...

2019-04-17 17:18

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