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Sun, December 15, 2019 | 15:20
Oh Young-jin
Korea will miss Trump's flair
U.S. President Donald Trump could have pulled it off, cutting the Gordian knot on the North Korean nuclear conundrum once and for all. But the chance of such a dramatic Trumpian resolution appears slipping after his no-deal Hanoi, Vietnam, summit with North Korea's young dictator Kim Jong-un.
Oh Young-jin | 2019-03-08 10:30
Oh Young-jin
Can we see Kim Jong-un again?
After his no-deal Hanoi summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, one question worth pondering, however implausible it may sound in the immediate and confusing aftermath, is: would Kim Jong-un, the youthful North Korean leader, be able to hang on to power? Kim was reportedly ditching some of his remaining itinerary to go home early after splitting from Trump without having lun...
Oh Young-jin | 2019-03-01 14:11
Oh Young-jin
Trump-Kim dictatorial love affair
Trump's dictatorial love for Kim and the latter's willingness to follow Trump's lead are not bad for the rest of the world by some modest standards. Next week's Hanoi, Vietnam, summit between the two will surely prove it.
Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-22 16:40
  • Speculation abound as Hanoi summit approaches
Oh Young-jin
Prize that belittles winner
Which is wrong, the award or its recipient? That is the question I had as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to Seoul to receive the 14th Seoul Peace Prize that has a handsome cash award. My answer is that the award is more wrong than the winner.
Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-22 16:35
  • Korea, India to strengthen defense cooperation
  • Korea, India agree to strengthen defense, economic ties [PHOTOS]
Oh Young-jin
Foreign minister's misplaced modesty
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has left much to be desired over the way she handled herself at the conclusion of ROK-U.S. cost-sharing talks for U.S. forces stationed here. Call it serendipity, but it is possible to correlate Minister Kang's lack of a poker face with U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for an additional increase in Korea's share of costs Tuesday. Kang was c...
Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-15 17:16
Oh Young-jin
Trump right on spot on North Korea
By most measures being floated now, the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un is doomed to fail. One common feature among those measures is the need for the North to take concrete steps to achieve complete (permanent), verifiable and irreversible destruction of its nuclear program - C(P)VID - or FFVD, fully verifiable denuclear...
Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-08 15:36
  • Hanoi selected as venue for 2nd US-North Korea summit: Trump
  • 'Not yet': No Trump-Xi meeting before March 1 trade talks deadline
Oh Young-jin
Forgiving Japan without forgetting
There are countless reasons to dislike Japan, but Korea needs a strategic mind to set them aside to identify areas of common interest and push their joint agenda together. So far, the two have been caught in a severe case of myopia, overly focusing on their differences and wasting precious energy.
Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-01 17:31
Oh Young-jin
Let's pay Trump off
Conspicuous by its absence is the leadership of the government, which obviously is falling back on the “candlelight mentality” to follow the masses' power and wisdom as it did during the popular protests to topple the Park Geun-hye government. This time, that populist approach is wrong and the government should take a cool-headed approach, even at the risk of alienating its s...
Oh Young-jin | 2019-01-25 14:25
  • Rodong Sinmun hits US for demanding Korea pay bigger share in USFK costs
  • Moon dismisses reports of Trump's $1.2 billion bill for USFK
Oh Young-jin
[INTERVIEW] 'We need to incentivize corporations, banks in tackling social issues'
Corporations and banks should get more involved in solving the problems facing the communities they belong to in order to gain more of the public's acceptance and therefore grow on a sustainable basis. One way to encourage them to do that is to describe their social contributions in dollar terms to help the investors decide which firm they will put their money into, a scholar...
Oh Young-jin | 2018-12-03 17:16
Oh Young-jin
President Moon Jae-in makes irreversible 'all-in' bet
Will President Moon Jae-in make a U-turn on his key policies that are alienating the public in order to recover his sagging approval? His approval rating has dipped below 50 percent for the first time since he took office 18 months ago. You would be wrong to think President Moon would reverse the minimum wage rises, revoke the exit from nuclear power in the nation's energy mi...
Oh Young-jin | 2018-11-30 14:19
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