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Mon, December 10, 2018 | 13:50

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Talking about summitry

Summitry is in the air. Excitement and speculation are rife. Everyone is talking about talking. How about talks between the leaders of the two Koreas, between each of them and the U.S. president, maybe a meeting of all three together?

Donald Kirk | 2018-12-06 17:35

All aboard for Pyongyang

WASHINGTON - Rail travel has a special fascination for me. My home in New Jersey was near the tracks of the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad, about 45 minutes from New York. I remember watching the trains roar by as a kid, counting the number of cars on the long freight trains with names of different railroad lines painted on the side, waving at people staring out the windows of the passenger trains. A lot of them waved back, leading me to wave longer, as if bidding farewell to friends and relatives.

Donald Kirk | 2018-11-29 18:01

Too busy for North Korea

NEW YORK - Controversy surrounding President Trump is so intense, you have to wonder whether he's going to want the job beyond his current four-year term. Surfing the morning news here, you get to listen to non-stop attacks from MSNBC on the left, equally hard-hitting defenses from Fox on the right - and not that much in between.

Donald Kirk | 2018-11-22 16:43

Okinawa's quest for peace

WASHINGTON - We hear so much about North Korea's secret bases that it's sometimes easy to forget the ruckus over U.S. bases in the region. They may not be secret, but they can be controversial.

Donald Kirk | 2018-11-15 18:18

Let's all get 'flexible'

Time now to return to North Korea, the topic having been all but forgotten during campaigning for congressional elections seen as testing President Donald Trump's grip on power.

Donald Kirk | 2018-11-08 17:50

Waging America's war

WASHINGTON - The news reports on the radio sounds like shots from a war zone. Someone killed in a shooting in a high school. A police officer killed by someone he was chasing. A civilian killed by a police officer.

Donald Kirk | 2018-11-01 17:25

Trump's moment of truth

WASHINGTON - In the furor over the murder of Saudi activist critic Jamal Khashoggi, headlines about North Korea and "denuclearization” have disappeared from front pages.

Donald Kirk | 2018-10-25 17:17

Courting dictators

WASHINGTON - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, meet North Korea Chairman Kim Jong-un. These two have a lot in common. They're both in their early 30s. Both have almost unbridled power in their own kingdoms and ways of getting rid of their enemies.

Donald Kirk | 2018-10-18 17:35

Bargaining for peace

WASHINGTON - How about Pope Francis inspiring millions of the faithful in North Korea as he did in South Korea four years ago? Can we picture highly organized throngs cheering him on the way in from Pyongyang's sparkling new international airport, blessing one and all while host Kim Jong-un smiles happily beside him in the limo?

Donald Kirk | 2018-10-11 17:19

All news, all day

WASHINGTON _ Foreign observers may be wondering why the case of a teen-aged boy molesting a teen-aged girl 36 years ago should sweep other news off American front pages. Koreans in particular might want to know why this transgression reaches the same proportions as did their Candlelight Revolution of two years ago when a million or so turned out nightly to protest a regime seen as corrupt and abusive.

Donald Kirk | 2018-10-04 17:03

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