Tag: North Korea
North Korea’s real threat
North Korea’s greatest liability is something that it currently views as an asset: its radical isolation.
Working with North Korean defectors
People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE) is a non-governmental organization based in Seoul that advocates for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula...
The problem of sanctions against North Korea
Economic sanctions have demonstrably failed to change North Korean behavior. So, when is the world going to try something new?
The climate crisis and Korea
By setting aside their myriad differences, North and South Korea can show the rest of the world that addressing the climate emergency must take precedence over all other disagreements.
The politics of American protest, with a North Korean twist
The right wing has attacked Gwen Berry for her Olympic trial protest. A North Korean defector has joined that chorus.
US news falsely reports that North Korea threatened to nuke US
In case it isn’t clear that U.S. News & World Report is misinforming readers with a ridiculous interpretation.
Spain not satisfied with CIA answers on embassy attack
Burglars sought files of Kim Jong-un adviser.
Trump’s bromance with Kim is gross, but let the love letters...
Despite the failed summit, relations between the U.S. and North Korea are much better than they were 18 months ago.
The next US-North Korea summit
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are scheduled to meet again. Here are several reasons to be optimistic about next month’s summit.
An unholy alliance: Trump, Putin, Kim Jung-Un, and Mohammed bin Salman
“An alliance which is perceived as unnatural, unusual, or simply undesirable, sometimes between seemingly antagonistic parties.”
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What red state vs. blue state looks like to an ant
Signs of decline and decay are all around us, behind the glitter and the glitz.
Ukraine and the lessons of the Iraq War
Only those who have failed to learn the lessons of the Iraq War would fail to make the same demand of Russia as a prerequisite for a just peace today.
Lack of safe drinking water for city dwellers to double by 2050: UN report
The report found that water scarcity is also becoming more common in rural areas, with water shortages affecting from two to three billion people for at least a month out of each year.
Senior climate activists rally across US to ‘stop dirty banks’
"We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil."
A highway to peace or a highway to hell?
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals.