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Mon, August 19, 2019 | 16:59

World's leading demagogue

You can keep your Orban, your Netanyahu, your pathetic Boris Johnson. As for Donald Trump, he's really an icon of democracy, just slightly shop-soiled. The coveted title of World's Leading Demagogue has just gone to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyib Erdogan.

2019-03-24 17:03

North Korea plagued by continuing food crisis

Following the failed Hanoi summit with the U.S., North Korea is now sending mixed messages concerning its denuclearization and missile testing intentions.

2019-03-20 17:46

'Maximum pressure' fundamentalism

On March 11, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said in a conference at the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace that the U.S. is “not going to do (North Korea's) denuclearization incrementally.”

2019-03-19 20:18

Unsettled assassination

Hundreds of thousands of Koreans attended his funeral July 5, 1949; millions more were grieving across the country. A relative was but eight years old when Kim Koo (1876-1949), the longest-running and final president of the Korean Provisional Government (1919-48) - an entity regarded by President Moon Jae-in as having laid the foundations of the contemporary South Korean stat...

2019-03-18 17:36

Another Arab Spring?

The slogans of the “Arab Spring” are being heard again in the Arab world. “The people want the fall of the regime,” chant the protesters in Sudan, where almost three months of popular demonstrations challenge the power of long-ruling dictator Omar al-Bashir.

2019-03-13 17:30

100 years of Czech-Korean friendship

The Czech Republic and the Republic of Korea have been strategic partners since 2015 and next year will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. Nevertheless, political contact between Czechs and Koreans began 100 years ago in 1919.

2019-03-12 11:29

Trump, Kim and art of 'no' deal

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un concluded last weekend a multi-day tour of Vietnam after the collapse Thursday of his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. The clear differences between the two sides over the scope and pace of denuclearization and sanctions rollback mean there is growing uncertainty whether the talks process will now collapse or continue.

2019-03-04 17:29

Positives from Hanoi summit

It may be concluded that the Hanoi summit was expected to be better than the Singapore summit but it ended up being worse. People who were looking for a “big” or “small” deal in Hanoi could be rightly disappointed.

2019-03-03 17:39

Why Kim looks a winner

With significant uncertainty over the outcome of their Vietnam summit, it is North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, rather than U.S. President Donald Trump, who so far appears the much bigger winner from the engagement process.

2019-02-26 17:40

Denuclearization to be long negotiating process

On a scale of one to 10, what are the chances that the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb. 27 and 28 (or any subsequent meeting) will end with a clear and irreversible commitment to the denuclearization of North Korea? Zero.

2019-02-26 17:32

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