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Shifting sentiments

Conventional wisdom holds that voters here are more concerned about the economy than foreign policy. You hear constant complaints about rising prices,...

11.04.2024 20

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'Say it ain’t so, Sho'

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...

28.03.2024 30

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Corruption under communism

In the old days, when I was in "South" Vietnam, the communists from "North" Vietnam were self-righteous nationalists waging war against the corrupted,...

14.03.2024 30

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Care and feeding of victims

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...

05.03.2024 30

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'Justifying' civilian casualties

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...

22.02.2024 10

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Alliances in danger

By Donald Kirk Donald Kirk The politics of American political campaigning shows the fragility of the wheeling and dealing of the Biden...

08.02.2024 40

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China, Taiwan need each other

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...

18.01.2024 20

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Another year of wars and threats

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...

04.01.2024 30

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Sticking by our allies

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...

21.12.2023 20

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'Progressive' versus retrogressive

By Donald Kirk   One loaded word comes up in every political-military-diplomatic brouhaha: "progressive." For reasons lying deep in the history...

14.12.2023 20

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America's proxy wars

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...

30.11.2023 5

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America's proxy wars

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...

30.11.2023 10

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Risking war from Europe to Asia

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...

16.11.2023 10

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Waging war without end

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...

02.11.2023 10

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World at war, almost

  By Donald Kirk Certain parallels between the North-South confrontation on the Korean peninsula and the response to the Hamas attack on Israel...

19.10.2023 20

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Images of hard times long ago

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...

05.10.2023 10

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Kim's dubious deal with Putin

  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...

21.09.2023 10

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Summitry takes center stage

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...

07.09.2023 10

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