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Signs of crisis in North Korea's exchange rate

The people will turn their back on a poor economy. Are North Koreans truly supporting Kim or abandoning him? Kim should realize his economic policy is betraying him.

2024-08-15

Responding to outcome of the North-Russia summit

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Russia on Tuesday after departing from Pyongyang in an armored train on Sunday. With Russian President Vladimir Putin having arrived in Vladivostok first on Monday, the two may likely hold their second...

2023-09-12

With so many things to do, why now?

Poll shows more than 5 percent of the public find the government “one-sided and unilateral.” In a poll late last month, that number hit 21 percent.

2023-09-12

Confessing my sins as politics reporter

I recalled the column from 26 years ago because of the recent crisis facing our politics.

2023-09-12

A space agency is essential for national interests

A space race has been renewed across the world, including the United States and Korea.

2023-05-28

Safeguarding cyber territory from the enemy

In the era of digital transformation, all countries are carrying out hybrid warfare.

2023-05-28

A bad trade

It seemed that talks between North Korea and the US would soon begin in the Biden Administration, but it has been stalled for more than five months. There were expectations that there would be movements once the North Korea Policy Review was...

2021-07-07

A modest proposal

What would go through the mind of someone elected to be president for 51.82 million people? Few would be able to pin it down as only a select few have had the experience. Stephen Wayne, a professor at Georgetown University and an expert on...

2021-07-07

Lessons from BTS

Now is the age of the fourth industrial revolution. Artificial intelligence (AI) has replaced advanced judgment and predictions that only humans were considered capable of. I read the sign that the phenomenon would come faster...

2021-03-11

Punishing legislative abuse

A special act to fast-track construction of a new airport on Gadeok Island off the southern port city of Busan passed the 300-member National Assembly with the approval of 181 votes on Feb. 26. This legislation should go down in...

2021-03-11