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...
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 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...
Why are we so uncomfortable with the idea of improvising? Business Insider’s Tara Francis Chan analyses the clues from the historic meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas: Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in. Chan noticed that the North Korean leader surprised observers by allowing himself to...
Careful Korean diplomacy, coupled by Trump's desire to do what Obama couldn't, could mean a rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula no one thought possible. In geopolitics, everything is impossible — until, suddenly, it isn‘t. Wars that no one ever believed could happen flare into existence,...
CNN faces criticism over its reporting of the North Korean leader’s family. The Huffington Post reports that “CNN is facing a backlash over an article about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, which critics claim paints her family’s repressive regime in a positive...
Today’s real and present nuclear danger seems so much more immediate because Trump has his unstable hand on the nuclear button. The United States of America is the only nation on earth that has ever purposely used nuclear weapons to kill human beings — approximately 66,000 dead in Hiroshima...
The president’s obsession with Iran is by no means absurd. It fits perfectly with the Trump administration’s grand foreign policy strategy. Exactly 4 minutes, interrupted by a dramatic pause to gain the (cold) applause of the United Nations General Assembly. This is the time that US...
China is in a bind as North Korea’s nuclear explosion heightens risks of a calamitous catastrophe. Last week, Houston was in the limelight. This week, the Indian subcontinent is under the microscope. For centuries, the monsoons have brought both life and death to this region. Without a good...
By scrapping the accord, Iran is likely to adopt a North Korean outlook: that nuclear military capability is central to its security. As US President Donald Trump grapples with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear and ballistic missiles program, he...
With North Korea, the doomsday clock inches ever closer to midnight. On July 22, General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, publicly announced that North Korea’s nuclear missile program has matured to the point that Pyongyang can now launch a “limited missile...
Moon Jae-in’s election victory is a triumph for democracy, but reforming the economy, balancing China and the US, and managing North Korea will prove tricky. This week, US President Donald Trump sacked James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. To say this has proved to...
