Although things have been quiet in recent months and there has been no active dialogue between North Korea and the United States, developments in recent days suggest that Pyongyang is back on the agenda of the international community. First, it became known that the US has been reaching out to...
North Korea’s acquisition of nuclear weapons has changed the nuclear balance in Northeast Asia. But it hasn’t altered the way politicians and diplomats approach the question of arms control and disarmament in the region. The debate among influencers continues to revolve around two versions of...
During World War I, soldiers all along the Western front held a series of informal truces in December 1914 to commemorate Christmas. It was early in the war, and opposition had not yet hardened into implacable enmity. The military command, caught by surprise, could not impose complete battlefield...
In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Andrew Yeo, associate professor of politics at The Catholic University of America. There are few reports with encouraging overtones emerging from North Korea. The country is mostly known for its contentious nuclear program and pervasive...
In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Ramesh Thakur, a former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations. During his tenure in office, President Donald Trump has made two controversial nuclear decisions with substantial impact on US foreign relations. First, Trump...
Journalists are missing the real news of the two Koreas dismantling Cold War structures on the peninsula. Remarkable changes are taking place on the Korean Peninsula. The two Koreas are actually starting to demilitarize the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Just in the last couple weeks, they...
Trump's bullying worked with Canada, has half-worked with Iran and North Korea, but has had nothing but malign impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations. The news that Canada has caved on trade has me depressed. The glee with which Donald Trump has announced his latest “victory” is galling....
The question on everyone’s lips: Are Trump and Kim really in a relationship? The drama of developing or deteriorating relations between the US and North Korea — or rather between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un — continues on its inscrutable path as the West tries, perhaps for the first time,...
Can the diplomatic attack on mother’s milk herald the imminent eruption of a smoldering volcano? Perhaps the last days of Mike Pompeo? In a story about the wholesomeness of mothers’ milk, The New York Times exposes the current negotiating techniques of the United States, intent as always to...
President Trump has got every thinking when it comes to a different future for North Korea. One of the wonderful faculties humans dispose of is thinking, which some people think separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Donald Trump’s surprise negotiations with North Korean leader...
This former CIA official wasn’t happy about seeing the US and North Korea flags alongside each other in the Trump-Kim photo op. Following Donald Trump’s historic summit with Kim Jong-un, The Hill quotes former CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash who was less impressed by the event itself than by...
The American president hasn't just turned his back on and disparaged his country’s strongest allies — he embraced one of its worst sworn enemies. Legend has it that in 1781, at the formal surrender ceremony following George Washington and the American revolutionaries’ decisive defeat of...
The fact that today, within a week, the world is witnessing three separate summits tells us how dramatically the geopolitical landscape has changed. To interpret human destiny, astrology observes the conjunction or alignment of celestial spheres, as the planets and stars move in their varying...
Has Trump finally gone back to school? Is learning an item on his agenda? Has Donald Trump suddenly begun to learn and adapt rather than posture and repeat? Concerning the imminent talks with North Korea, we discover, perhaps for the first time, that he is willing to change, though he of course...
Washington has a new motto: “In Trump’s faithlessness we trust.” As the US and most of Asia prepares for the next unpredictable episode of Donald Trump’s off again, on again summit with Kim Jong-un, The Guardian quotes the wise words of former Japanese diplomat Hitoshi Tanaka who has...
