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Sun, February 5, 2023 | 16:17

Ukraine is America's latest stalemate war

Ukraine is America's latest stalemate war

We don't fight our wars to win anymore. We fight them to get to a stalemate.

2022-12-29 16:30

. Steven L. Shields

Cheers to Seoul Metro

The rainy season in Korea in the summer of 2022 reminded me of the biblical story of the great flood and Noah's ark. So much rainfall came in mid-August of 2022 that reporters first said it was the most rainfall in 80 years, then 100 years and then more than 100 years. Korea had too much rain all at once.

2022-12-28 16:50

Future directions for India-Korea defense cooperation

Future directions for India-Korea defense cooperation

The defense and security engagements between India and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have grown exponentially over the past few years. In recent years, Indian defense companies have shown great interest in collaboration with the Korean defense industry. Currently, various Indian private sector companies are working closely with Korean defense companies. A prime example of this ...

2022-12-28 16:40

World needs many more public servants

World needs many more public servants

Policymakers around the world will need to address a confluence of economic, political, and climate-related shocks in 2023. While governments cannot solve these crises alone, deft political leadership will be crucial to holding societies together and enabling communities and businesses to step up and do their part. What the world desperately needs is public servants and polit...

2022-12-28 16:30

. Bernard Rowan

Approaching 2023

As the peoples of the world move closer to a new year, there is time to reflect on opportunities, challenges and successes. The United States and South Korea are but two of many, many global partners and nations. There's no perfect place or perfection under the sun, moon and stars.

2022-12-27 17:00

Lee Jong-eun

To restrain Japan, South Korea should embrace greater security partnership

Despite being allies of the United States, South Korea and Japan did not have a direct security partnership during the Cold War. During the Korean War, South Korean President Syngman Rhee threatened to shoot Japanese forces first if they arrived to “help” Korea from the communist invasion. Japan, officially a pacifist state with “self-defense forces,” also did not affirm its ...

2022-12-27 16:45

2022 food trends: Love them or hate them?

2022 food trends: Love them or hate them?

As I write this year-end essay about 2022 trends in food and dining, I must confess that I'm playing catch-up.

2022-12-27 16:40

. Jason Lim

Certainty addiction

My family was driving to Vermont to ski for a few days now that the kid was out of school for winter break. It was one of those hazy shade of winter days as the sun struggled to break through its own ennui to care barely enough to shed some light with only grudging warmth. While plowed, the roads were still slippery, decorated with the brilliantly white remnants of a furious ...

2022-12-26 16:50

Bernhard J. Seliger

From Zero-COVID policy to no COVID policy - can North Korea follow China´s lead?

One of the most stunning reversals of health policy anywhere in the world happened in early December, when the three-year-old Chinese strict zero-COVID policy was effectively abandoned, to such an extent that the Chinese Center for Disease Control had to admit, after less than a week, that they had no more clue where and how frequent the COVID virus was infecting citizens.

2022-12-26 16:45

Russia-proofing Europe

Russia-proofing Europe

Ukraine will enter 2023 with wind in its sails. Against all odds, it repelled Russia's initial attempt to take Kyiv, then recaptured extensive territory around Kharkiv and Kherson, and inflicted heavy losses on the invading forces. Speaking just after Politico named him the most powerful person in Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded an optimistic note for ...

2022-12-26 16:30

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