by ZoominKorea | Mar 14, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, Peace and Militarism
This article was originally published March 12, 2018 in The Baffler. By Tim Shorrock AS THE MINUTES TICKED DOWN to last Friday’s extraordinary announcement from South Korea that President Trump would break with seven decades of U.S. policy and meet with North Korean...
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by ZoominKorea | Mar 14, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, News Headlines, Peace and Militarism, US-NK Relations
This article was originally published March 9, 2018 in Fortune. By Christine Ahn The dramatic news that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un extended an invitation to President Donald Trump for a summit, and that Trump agreed, is nothing short of a miracle. After a year of...
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by ZoominKorea | Mar 12, 2018 | Analysis, Audio/Video, DPRK, Interviews, N-S Relations, Peace and Militarism, Trump
Korea experts and scholars joined Sputnik Radio‘s Loud & Clear for a two-part discussion about last week’s stunning news of Trump accepting North Korea’s invitation to hold a summit meeting with Chairman Kim Jong-un in May of this year. In part...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 9, 2018 | Analysis, N-S Relations, News, News Headlines, Peace and Militarism, US-NK Relations
The Trump administration made a surprising reveal yesterday about its plans to engage in direct talks with the North Korean government by May of this year. South Korea’s National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong made the announcement at the White House on the evening...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 6, 2018 | Analysis, Korean Diaspora
This article was originally published in Cultural Weekly. By Julayne Lee If you’re watching the Olympics, then you probably know the name Chloe Kim. At 17, she’s the youngest to win a gold medal in the women’s snowboard halfpipe and has captured the hearts...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 4, 2018 | Analysis, Korea-Japan Relations, Korean Diaspora, Peace and Militarism
By Joseph Essertier Early in the morning on Friday, February 23, two Japanese ultranationalists, Katsurada Satoshi (56) and Kawamura Yoshinori (46), drove past the headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Tokyo and shot into it with a handgun....
