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Wed, July 18, 2018 | 10:01

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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.

Donald Kirk | 2018-06-28 16:53

Increasing 'street zombies'

“What are you talking about?” Some or many readers may be wondering if there are zombies on Seoul streets really, upon seeing the title of this column.

Park Moo-jong | 2018-06-28 15:45

After 3 Xi-Kim summits

Xi Jinping has met with Kim Jong-un three times in the mere span of three months, from March to June. It's like Xi has been scoring a summit with Kim every month. Compared to Xi, President Moon Jae-in scored two, and U.S. President Donald Trump one. With that, China is smug with the feeling that it “outstripped” all the other major geopolitical stakeholders in shaping the North Korean affair. It also effectively makes defunct the so-called "China passing" _ the idea that China might be sidelined.

Lee Seong-hyon | 2018-06-26 16:42

Is this schooling trip necessary for all?

If I told you that I had discovered a fun way for you to put yourself into debt, that you would be unemployed for months or years after going through my four-year program, and if you got hired that you would be working at menial jobs for a while?

Casey Lartigue, Jr. | 2018-06-26 15:53

Why Trump is right on North Korea

If the Singapore summit had been a Broadway production, it would have been closed by now due to a critical panning. The U.S. media has largely dismissed the event as a typical piece of Trump showbiz without much substance. The Singapore Declaration is seen as lacking details to support Pyongyang's promise to denuclearize, with Trump falling victim to the trickery of a wily Oriental despot.

John Burton | 2018-06-25 17:24

Toxic words by Mayor Giuliani

In my latest article in this column, I wrote: “All parties should stop criticizing one another until they sit at the same negotiation table.”

Semoon Chang | 2018-06-24 16:08

Breathless in Korea

I am not exactly unfamiliar with Korea. I worked here for a few years way back when, and have been back frequently enough to pass as a local. But every time I visit, Korea always manages to present me with little odds and ends about its culture, people and things that give my brain either a brief pause or a longer-lasting freeze. Not necessarily bad, but different or unexpected enough to notice against my own cultural and behavioral paradigm that I have become accustomed to living in Washington D.C. During this current visit, the little things about Korea that I knew were always there but go...

Jason Lim | 2018-06-22 17:15

'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.

Donald Kirk | 2018-06-21 16:31

Nothing to lose

A landslide is not enough to describe the victory of the progressive forces in the June 13 local elections plus the 12 parliamentary by-elections. A perfect victory would perhaps be the better and right expression.

Park Moo-jong | 2018-06-21 16:26

How to beat summer heat

We'll soon be on the three dog days of the Korean summer, known by the words “sambok” or “boknal.” They are July 17, July 27 and Aug. 16. Chobok, joongbok, and malbok recall the cycle of Korean agriculture and respect for the seasons.

Bernard Rowan | 2018-06-19 17:07

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