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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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Don't count on Camp David

By Donald Kirk President Biden should be credited with a terrific public relations success. In less than one day, he got the leaders of South...

24.08.2023 20

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Jeju cherry trees: force for peace

By Donald Kirk Australian anthropologist Grant McCall had a vision for peace that extended from the south Pacific to the Korean Peninsula. A...

10.08.2023 20

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Korea's quest for 'peace'

By Donald Kirk Anniversaries ending in zero or five are likely to focus special attention on the lessons of history. None is more portentous than...

31.07.2023 6

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Korea's quest for 'peace'

By Donald Kirk Anniversaries ending in zero or five are likely to focus special attention on the lessons of history. None is more portentous than...

27.07.2023 20

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Facing expanded war

By Donald Kirk LONDON ― The world descends into war by stages that might appear almost imperceptible to billions obsessed with fast-rising...

13.07.2023 10

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Risks of comparing Korea, Vietnam

By Donald Kirk The legacy of history is unpredictable, erratic, sometimes generous, more often capricious and jeering. If anybody had told me,...

30.06.2023 7

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Risks of comparing Korea, Vietnam

By Donald Kirk The legacy of history is unpredictable, erratic, sometimes generous, more often capricious and jeering. If anybody had told me,...

29.06.2023 8

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From slavery to success in Japan

By Donald Kirk Koreans living in Japan form a huge minority in a society that alternates between discriminating against them and providing them...

15.06.2023 30

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North Korea's worsening story

By Donald Kirk We're accustomed to two basic stories from North Korea. First is the North's nuclear and missile programs. Kim Jong-un is forever...

01.06.2023 20

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Bracing for nuclear war

By Donald Kirk The gaunt ruin of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial formed a stark backdrop to the G7 summit as leaders of the seven major industrial...

23.05.2023 20

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Dividends of summitry

By Donald Kirk The rapid succession of summits between President Yoon Suk Yeol and President Biden and then between Yoon and Japan's Prime...

10.05.2023 60

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Debating extended deterrence

By Donald Kirk Deterrence is the new word for defense. When our leaders talk about increasing "deterrence," they mean doing a lot more to defend...

25.04.2023 10

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On defense against China

By Donald Kirk The United States has strengthened its defenses in East Asia by gaining year-round, permanent access to nine bases in the...

13.04.2023 20

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Leaders on trial

By Donald Kirk Show trials of foreign leaders make the indictment of Donald Trump for paying off a porn actress to silence her look like an...

09.04.2023 20

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Waging Star Wars

By Donald Kirk The heavens far above the stratosphere may be the battleground in Star Sars against North Korea's vaunted hypersonic cruise...

28.03.2023 10

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'Evil empire,' 40 years later

By Don Kirk The U.S. and the Soviet Union were still waging the Cold War, immersed in concerns about arms control and nuclear proliferation, when...

14.03.2023 10

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China as 'honest broker'

By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― We don't have to be told how disappointing the Chinese as moderators or hosts in negotiations are. The failure of the...

02.03.2023 10

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Waging balloon warfare

By Donald Kirk NEW YORK ― An entire new menace now threatens the world's warring factions. Who would have thought balloons would raise such a...

21.02.2023 20

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Perils of royalty

By Donald Kirk LONDON ― Prince Harry's book "Spare," about his terrible tiffs with higher-ups in the British royal family, including the "heir"...

02.02.2023 20

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Japan's military renaissance

By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― Watch out for Japan. Also watch out for China. And watch out for nukes. These days, in Northeast Asia, everyone has...

17.01.2023 20

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Ancient history, modern kingdom

By Donald Kirk LONDON ― Mired in scandal and gossip, the Brits still seem to love their royal family. Not even the black sheep princes of the realm...

05.01.2023 10

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Winners and losers in war and peace

By Donald Kirk "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Maybe we should go back to that maxim about happy...

31.12.2022 10

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Winners and losers in war and peace

By Donald Kirk "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Maybe we should go back to that maxim about happy...

29.12.2022 10

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