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Donald KirkThe Korea Times |
Conventional wisdom holds that voters here are more concerned about the economy than foreign policy. You hear constant complaints about rising prices,...
For the benefit of Korea’s rabid baseball fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres provided about the best show one could possibly imagine...
In the old days, when I was in "South" Vietnam, the communists from "North" Vietnam were self-righteous nationalists waging war against the corrupted,...
By Donald Kirk Here’s the kind of irony that shows what an upside-down, topsy-turvy world we’re living in. American planes are now dropping...
By Donald Kirk The vast majority of victims in wars are not members of the armed forces on either or both sides but civilians caught in the...
By Donald Kirk Donald Kirk The politics of American political campaigning shows the fragility of the wheeling and dealing of the Biden...
By Donald Kirk The victory of the pro-independence, pro-American candidate for president of Taiwan opens a new chapter in the prolonged saga of...
By Donald Kirk The New Year is opening on a disturbing note. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza are killing hundreds if not thousands a day, and we have...
By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON — The debate in the U.S. Congress over more funds for more arms for Ukraine evokes unpleasant memories. In 1975, as...
By Donald Kirk One loaded word comes up in every political-military-diplomatic brouhaha: "progressive." For reasons lying deep in the history...
By Donald Kirk The last thing the Americans can afford is involvement in a significantly wider war in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, two...
By Donald Kirk The last thing the Americans can afford is involvement in a significantly wider war in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, two...
By Donald Kirk Donald_Kirk_200 The specter of pressure points from Ukraine to North Korea raises a disturbing question. Is the U.S. prepared for...
By Donald Kirk There are no winners and no losers in the war in Gaza. Sure, the Israelis, fighting with massive infusions of American funds and...
By Donald Kirk Certain parallels between the North-South confrontation on the Korean peninsula and the response to the Hamas attack on Israel...
By Donald Kirk A photo exhibit on the first floor of Seoul City Hall provides graphic evidence of how Seoul and the area up to Panmunjeom looked in...
By Donald Kirk Kim Jong-un’s magical mystery tour through the Russian Far East may have added a frightening dimension to the standoff between...
By Donald Kirk History is playing games. Who, as Saigon was falling to the forces of "North" Vietnam in April 1975, would have looked into a...