Harvard University Professor Graham Allison, he of “Thucydides Trap” fame, writes in the National Interest that President Trump may be able to end the Ukraine War on acceptable, if imperfect, terms if he emulates President Dwight Eisenhower’s strategy that ended the…
When the North Koreans invaded South Korea in the summer of 1950, they met little effective resistance. The capital of South Korea, Seoul, fell in a few days. America had been ambiguous about defending South Korea. When in January of…
Not to get faux-erudite; Tocqueville was required reading when I was in school, and a blessed requirement that was. I returned to the famous concluding peroration after reading about the negotiations the president views as the necessary end to the…
Rarely has a politician so completely destroyed his career in so little time. In the space of about six hours, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared and then abandoned martial law. In a country with a long heritage of…
Eleven thousand North Korean troops sent by Kim Jung Un to aid his close ally Vladimir Putin in his war against Ukraine, include a significant contingent of Special Forces with recent combat experience in Syria and trained to fight South…
The clouds of war that have cast dark shadows over Europe and the Middle East are now extending to the Korean Peninsula. In recent days North Korea threatened to go to war with South Korea after remnants of a supposedly…
Ten years ago, the United Nations took an extraordinary step by denouncing North Korea for its awful human rights record. The situation has worsened, as the COVID pandemic caused Pyongyang to effectively seal its borders. Human Rights Watch recently reported that…
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un signed the strongest agreement between their respective countries in decades. Their strategic partnership has been revived because each of their countries has been shunned by the…
In the past week, North Korea has launched hundreds of balloons bearing what North Korean officials claim to be 15 tonnes of trash. Their reason? To “let the South Koreans experience enough of how dirty it feels and how much…
