In an interview with The New York Times, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea said former president Donald Trump “beat around the bush and failed” on negotiations with North Korea for its denuclearization. “He beat around the bush and failed to pull it through,†Moon said of Trump. “The most important starting point for both…
Testing for coronavirus is an important aspect in protecting the citizenry of any nation. Doing so allows health officials to track where the virus is, and to quarantine individuals or communities in order to stop the virus’ spread. Unfortunately for the United States, the Trump administration’s response to the virus has been anything but spectacular,…
Trump wouldn’t understand why the US couldn’t abandon important ally South Korea a year into his presidency.
Brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un got everything he wanted from the summit with Donald Trump. He got the photo ops and he got the legitimacy on the world stage, which makes him appear equal to the President of the United States in stature. And then, in the news conference following the four-hour meeting…
North and South Korea’s leaders held a hastily arranged secret meeting on Saturday in their attempts to salvage the June 12 summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in talked for two hours and afterwards they were hopeful they had a plan to convince America’s president that the…
President Donald Trump spoke on the telephone Saturday to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to discuss his worry that North Korea is not serious about reaching an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Recent statements from North Korea have thrown uncertainty into the planning for the upcoming summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un…
The head negotiator for North Korea was back to his belligerent self on Thursday, and called the government of South Korea “ignorant and incompetent.”  North Korea is still upset that South Korea is holding joint air force exercises with the United States.  When they say they want to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula what they mean is…
While President Trump and Vice President Pence proceed to use severe rhetoric when discussing relations with North Korea, the governments of the two Koreas are continuing to take diplomatic steps to ease tensions that have existed between them for decades. The latest show of cooperation is a surprising invitation to the North Korean capital Pyongyang…
The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colorful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea on Friday, though the diplomacy was tougher to choreograph in the stadium where leaders from nations that are sworn enemies sat close together.
The South Koreans are trapped between an unstable North Korea with an accelerating nuclear program, and a US president who they think is nuts.
It has been 70 years this year since Japan’s bid to launch what it called the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” came crashing to the ground
During an interview on Morning Joe Friday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predictably placed the recent flare-up of ethnic violence in Iraq at the President’s feet.
