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Thu, November 14, 2019 | 01:55

Donald Kirk

North Korea needs to say sorry

Advocates of a “peace treaty” with North Korea believe, unanimously, that such a treaty would serve some real purpose other than provide the North with ammunition for withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Korea and closure of U.S. bases. The slightest scrutiny of history should make painfully clear that the North would violate the treaty whenever, however, it wished, but the treaty crowd talks as if North Korea would observe it without question. For sure, they believe, the Korean War would be over.

2019-06-20 17:12

Sunshine: Lee Hee-ho's legacy

In her own way, Lee Hee-ho shares credit with Kim Dae-jung for the Sunshine policy of reconciliation with North Korea that he fostered during his presidency from 1998 to 2003.

2019-06-12 17:40

Dreams of democracy

The vision of a brave new world in China three decades ago was captivating, exhilarating proof at last that democracy could prevail in an outpouring of revulsion over Communist dictatorship.

2019-06-09 17:22

Healing historic hostilities

WASHINGTON - President Trump's visit to Japan carries a message for South Korea as much as anywhere else. It's time to call a halt to outpourings of anti-Japanese sentiment.

2019-05-31 18:09

VIRGINIA BEACH - Holiday crowds soak up the surf and sun while sailors and marines train for war in distant countries about which they know very little. A young marine, bored with the routine at one of the dozen or so facilities between this sprawling oceanside community and the huge naval base up the interstate at Norfolk, says in an idle moment he'd like to see what combat is like.

2019-05-23 17:59

From trade war to real war

WASHINGTON - The U.S.-China trade war has grave implications for war and peace around the periphery of China, including the Korean Peninsula. In all the yakking on the U.S. news networks, however, you don't hear much about the danger of the whole shebang exploding into a shooting war.

2019-05-16 17:49

America's enemy within

WASHINGTON - Well, that was quick. After a day of headlines the salvo of long-range projectiles fired by the North Koreans was history, yesterday's news. Reverberations of the shots faded away while experts wondered if those were missiles or just extra long-range artillery.

2019-05-09 18:06

Uncovering Jeju revolt

PHILADELPHIA - The testimony of two grandmothers from the island province of Jeju about their brief encounters with American soldiers more than 70 years ago offers a glimmer of the U.S. role there before the outbreak of the Jeju revolt on April 3, 1948.

2019-05-02 17:51

Russia's stake in North Korea

It's easy to overlook the Russian stake in the Korean Peninsula. We hear so much about China's pivotal role, its influence over North Korea and its enormous trade with South Korea that we tend to forget the Soviet Union shares responsibility with the U.S. for the artificial division of the peninsula between North and South at the 38th parallel in 1945.

2019-04-24 17:20

Memorializing Sewol tragedy

The sinking of the Sewol ferry five years ago was one of the greatest tragedies in Korean history. The memory for me, along with many others, is especially poignant since I spent hours in the great school gymnasium where families of the 304 victims, most of them middle school students, were waiting endlessly for the terrible news they never wanted to hear.

2019-04-18 17:00

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