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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...
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...
By Donald Kirk Australian anthropologist Grant McCall had a vision for peace that extended from the south Pacific to the Korean Peninsula. A...
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...
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...
By Donald Kirk LONDON ― The world descends into war by stages that might appear almost imperceptible to billions obsessed with fast-rising...
By Donald Kirk The legacy of history is unpredictable, erratic, sometimes generous, more often capricious and jeering. If anybody had told me,...
By Donald Kirk The legacy of history is unpredictable, erratic, sometimes generous, more often capricious and jeering. If anybody had told me,...
By Donald Kirk Koreans living in Japan form a huge minority in a society that alternates between discriminating against them and providing them...
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...
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...
By Donald Kirk The rapid succession of summits between President Yoon Suk Yeol and President Biden and then between Yoon and Japan's Prime...
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...
By Donald Kirk The United States has strengthened its defenses in East Asia by gaining year-round, permanent access to nine bases in the...
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...
By Donald Kirk The heavens far above the stratosphere may be the battleground in Star Sars against North Korea's vaunted hypersonic cruise...
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...
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...
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...
By Donald Kirk LONDON ― Prince Harry's book "Spare," about his terrible tiffs with higher-ups in the British royal family, including the "heir"...
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...
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...
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...
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...