This essay is a local re-post of an essay I wrote last month for The National Interest. Basically this is my sketch of how to deal in the medium- and long-term with North Korea. North Korea is not going to … Continue reading
I know the only thing people want to talk about now is Trump, but here is a parting review of Obama in Asia. I wrote this a few weeks ago for the Lowy Institute. All in all, I’d say he … Continue reading
This is a local re-post of an essay wrote for The National Interest about 10 days ago. Basically, I’m curious why the Chinese are making such a huge deal out of THAAD missile defense. They’ve been bullying South Korea relentlessly … Continue reading
This is a local re-post of an essay earlier this month for The National Interest. It is also intended as a sequel to my last post, drilling down from East Asia generally to Korea specifically. There are three big challenges … Continue reading
This is a local re-post of an essay I published with The National Interest last month. My concern is to separate the idea of greater US caution and self-discipline overseas from faux-complaint that this is ‘isolationism.’ Just because the US … Continue reading
If that thrilling post title doesn’t pull you away from It’s a Wonderful Life or Sound of Music, I don’t know what will. This essay is a local re-post of my op-ed posted with the Lowy Institute this month. The … Continue reading
This is the English-language version of an article I published this week with Newsweek Japan on ‘Choi-gate.’ This pre-dates the impeachment vote of yesterday, but the basic point still holds: the Korean public just gave the world a lesson in … Continue reading
This is the English-language version of an article I published with Newsweek Japan last week. Is anyone else, among readers living in Korea, amazed at how the coverage of this is now essentially non-stop? If you turn on any of … Continue reading
This post is a local re-post of an article I wrote for The Diplomat earlier this month on the the Korean presidential scandal. Honestly, the whole thing is so bizarre that I am at a loss for words. And the … Continue reading
This is a re-post of something I wrote for the Lowy Institute earlier this month. The original is here. So yes, Donald Trump is awful. He is a threat to American democracy, an vain narcissist, doesn’t know anything about nuclear … Continue reading
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