A Nobel for Donald Trump over Korea?

Posted by on Apr 8, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Korea | 0 comments In the Stockholm syndrome, the victim starts to identify with the captor. In one of the most famous examples, the heiress Patty Hearst took up arms on behalf of the radical group that abducted her. She denounced her old friends and began to make speeches in praise of the Symbionese Liberation Army. To a certain extent, Donald Trump has taken the entire world hostage. He commands the most powerful...
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No Diplomacy for South Korea

Posted by on Apr 7, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Korea | 0 comments The United States has not yet appointed an ambassador to South Korea. This shouldn’t necessarily be interpreted as an insult. A number of other important places still lack U.S. ambassadors: the European Union, Germany, Turkey. The Trump administration has been notoriously slow in filling these top diplomatic slots. In some cases, as with Germany, Democrats in Congress have been blocking...
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Walking Back War in Korea

Posted by on Mar 2, 2018 in Articles, Asia, Featured, Korea | 0 comments In talks this week at the DMZ, South Korea welcomed the participation of North Korea in the upcoming Winter Olympics. The two countries also discussed restarting reunions of divided families and reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula. Earlier, both sides reestablished their hotline. All of this adult conversation is a welcome change from the war of epithets between the “dotard” president...
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North Korea: The Costs of War

Posted by on Dec 29, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Korea | 0 comments Donald Trump is contemplating wars that would dwarf anything that his immediate predecessors ever considered. He has dropped the mother of all bombs in Afghanistan, and he’s considering the mother of all wars in the Middle East. He is abetting Saudi Arabia’s devastating war in Yemen. Many evangelicals are welcoming his announcement of U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel...
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Korea and the Geopolitics of Division

Posted by on Dec 29, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Korea | 0 comments As an ethnically homogenous and already divided nation, Korea might seem to be immune from all the fragmentation that seems to be happening around the world today. Far from the Korean peninsula, the European Union is negotiating the British exit and facing a possible withdrawal by the Spanish region of Catalonia. The Middle East is witnessing the breakdown of Yemen, the civil war in Libya, the...
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Building On The Good News From Asia

Posted by on Dec 29, 2017 in Articles, Asia, China, Featured, Korea | 0 comments There’s been precious little good news from Asia these days. Washington and Pyongyang continue to trade threats of war. Right-wing nationalist Shinzo Abe won reelection as prime minister in Japan last month. Major storms have hammered several countries in the region, most recently Typhoon Damrey in Vietnam. And now, in the wake of those typhoons comes a mighty wind from the United States....
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