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Show must go on

“Those guys are performing a diplomatic show.” That's what I muttered to myself while watching the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with South Korean President Moon Jae-in looking on as a go-between, at the truce village of Panmunjeom, June 30.

2019-07-09 17:50

G20 and thereafter

President Moon Jae-in will leave for Osaka, Japan, tomorrow to attend the Group of 20 summit, Friday and Saturday. The G20 summit can hardly come at a more delicate time, as major countries wrestle with changes in the global political climate, marked by a hegemonic battle between the United States and China, and rapidly spreading populism and political extremism in many parts of the world.

2019-06-25 17:17

New Cold War and Koreas

The Korean Peninsula is one of the few areas in the world that has the remnants of the global confrontation between capitalists and communists from the last century. That is, this divided peninsula has yet to overcome the old Cold War. Nevertheless, the Koreas are at risk of being involved in a new one - between the United States and China, this time around.

2019-06-11 17:55

Restart of Korea-Japan ties

The relationship between South Korea and Japan is at its most strained in decades or, as some say, since the two countries normalized ties in 1965. Unlike in the past, the more angered side seems to be Tokyo, not Seoul, this time around. Nothing shows this better than Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono's repeated diplomatic discourtesy. Kono rudely urged President Moon Jae-in to resolve the critical pending issue between the two countries before he visits Osaka, Japan, to attend the G20 summit meeting next month.

2019-05-28 17:33

Where to go from here?

Few words have been used more frequently than “sandwiched” to describe the diplomatic situation facing Korea, and South Korea in particular.

2019-04-23 17:45

Overcoming Japan

Amid the worst relationship between Korea and Japan, the two countries will celebrate historic moments in the coming days and weeks.

2019-04-09 17:14

Rich nation, unhappy people

Even in this hectic country where yesterday's hot news becomes an old story tomorrow, one significant event seems to have passed with too little spotlight: Korea has finally become a G7 nation - in some ways.

2019-03-26 17:25

For third Kim-Trump meet

Two weeks after the breakdown of the second U.S.-North Korea summit, arguments are continuing over how to view it, why it ended as it did, and what to do to revive it. The meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Feb. 27 and 28, was no doubt a failure as the two leaders went home empty-handed.

2019-03-12 17:39

Centenary of independence movement

Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement. A century ago that day, millions of Koreans, men and women of all ages, began to shout hurray for the independence of their country from the Japanese colonial rule. In retaliation the colonialists killed more than 5,000 and wounded 10 times as many, according to official records.

2019-02-27 17:14

Go more boldly, Chairman Kim

Dear Chairman Kim Jong-un, Two weeks from now, you will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam, having a second date in about eight months. Your first meeting in Singapore last June proved terrific, at least for you and your people. The U.S. leader, who had long mocked and threatened you, confessed that he and you “fell in love,” after just hours of seeing each other, making some of Trump's close friends, especially Shinzo Abe, mortally jealous of you.

2019-02-12 17:35

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