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Tue, November 19, 2019 | 02:21

Donald Kirk

Role models for North Korea

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has compounded the debacle of his weekend in Pyongyang by a plea that North Korea partake of the same “once unimaginable prosperity and partnership we have with Vietnam today.”

2018-07-12 17:32

US versus the world

The U.S. is fighting everyone, it seems. Not in shooting wars, more or less limited these days to off-and-on skirmishes in the Middle East, but in trade wars that could erupt eventually into the shooting kind.

2018-07-05 17:40

Time of transition for US forces

The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) is going through agonizing changes. Cancellation of joint U.S.-South Korean war games is not the only sign of the shifting U.S. military role.

2018-06-28 16:53

'The more things change…'

The most obvious lesson of the Singapore summit is that “complete denuclearization” is mission impossible. The North Koreans since then haven't used the “n” word _ “n” for nuclear _ while talking in generalities about the need to respect everyone's “sovereignty” along with the statement signed by President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un on June 12 and the Panmunjom declaration of April 27, signed by President Moon Jae-in and Kim.

2018-06-21 16:31

Showing off at the summit

SINGAPORE _ Style triumphed over substance in a summit of imagery and optics that left you wondering, why did they bother?

2018-06-14 16:41

Covering Kim's bills in Singapore

The most controversial topic surrounding next Tuesday's Trump-Kim summit is probably not denuclearization or human rights. We already can be pretty sure those two bozos can talk their way around the nuclear issue with some vague declaration that all comes down to agreeing “Nukes Are Bad, Make Peace, not War.”

2018-06-07 17:35

Racing to the summit

It does look like Singapore is on again. You can't have so many emissaries going back and forth, between Pyongyang and New York, between Washington and Singapore, between Pyongyang and Singapore, between Manila and Panmunjeom, without thinking these guys are serious, something's up.

2018-05-31 16:35

Gambling on summit

it is time now to calculate the odds on whether President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet up even if not quite as scheduled on June 12 in Singapore.

2018-05-24 16:23

Kim's game of smoke and mirrors

It's not enough that North Korea should abruptly cancel South-North talks on military tensions and another long-awaited round of reunions of fast-fading families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War. Now we're not even sure Kim Jong-un will go through with his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.

2018-05-17 16:27

Trump, Iran and North Korea

Nothing like a meeting with a dictator to get out of problems at home. The visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang, just as President Donald Trump was jettisoning the Iran deal, shows Trump's eagerness to sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and come up with a statesman-like solution to the confrontation on the Korean Peninsula.

2018-05-10 17:29

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