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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has bogged down, and the conflict has moved into a stalemate. → Read More
South Korea and Japan can decide their own destinies. → Read More
"Putin has built his foreign policy around a confrontation with NATO, but he does not have the domestic strength for a sustained military campaign." → Read More
"My daughter, seven, does not go to school. Most elementary schools are still closed. She takes classes over Zoom. As everyone else in the world has recently learned, we too quickly find this a complicated and mediocre remedy. The best place for her to Zoom is in my home office; given that I too cannot go to work, she and I are now in the bizarre position of competing in our → Read More
South Korea is indeed a useful canary in the coal mine for other democracies in this struggle. What has Seoul learned and put into practice? Here is a view from a top Korea expert on the ground. → Read More
If only the US could also control its outbreak, the virus need not take over the agenda or make the vote treacherous. → Read More
A famous video of madcap mayhem in a home office suddenly has new resonance. Yet with the laughs, expect a long grind. → Read More
A world-renowned professor in South Korea explains why America can't just copy what has been effective in South Korea. → Read More
For once, we just do not have the time or attention to lavish on Pyongyang’s latest attention-seeking outburst. What a relief. → Read More
What can Trump and the U.S. learn from what South Korea has gone through so far? A professor in South Korea explains. → Read More
A better health system and open press put the country in a better position – but will personal freedoms be curtailed? → Read More
It is important to keep perspective. There are fifty-three million people in South Korea. Only four hundred thirty or so of them have corona, and only two have died. The sensationalism of disease outbreak coverage does not help. We have all seen too many movies, and overwrought invocations of Contagion or zombie apocalypse movies generate paranoia and unnecessary anxiety. South Korea is safe. → Read More
Pyongyang has neither the resources nor the administrative culture – transparency, empiricism divorced from ideology, technocracy – to respond to a genuine epidemic. Sustained foreign assistance and, failing that, brutal repression would almost certainly be necessary to prevent a local plague. → Read More
State of the Union speeches are traditionally dull affairs. This one could be the most bizarre in US history. → Read More
Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in are eager for a deal, but the current stalemate is likely to continue. → Read More
Briefly put, any ‘Suleimani Doctrine’ in North Korea would run a huge risk of escalation. → Read More
After a month of manic and bizarre behaviour, the President’s approval ratings barely move. → Read More
Can the US escape a “law of the hammer”, where the deployment of American troops abroad offers a temptation to use them? → Read More
A treaty would suggest, at least by implication, mutual recognition of the two Koreas by each other, which would create a constitutional problem for South Korea because it denies the existence of North Korea and claims sovereignty over the entire peninsula. → Read More
Not only is Donald Trump the boy who cried wolf, the US public will not support diving into a quagmire war of choice. → Read More