BLOG Post #425: Alliance politics in East Asia: More Security or Less? 27 May 202416 Jun 2024 The Biden-Kishida Summit The best thing about diplomacy between government leaders is that it may ease tensions. The worst thing is that it doesn’t resolve the disputes between them, making…
BLOG Post #386: The Fukushima Tragedy Resurfaces 25 Aug 202325 Aug 2023 Releasing the Water Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying…
BLOG Post #373: Nuclear Politics: The US-South Korea “Washington Declaration” 5 May 20235 May 2023 The US-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance began in 1953, at the end of the Korean War. Now seventy years later, President Biden and Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol met to cement…
BLOG Post #367: Deepening Tensions on the Korean Peninsula Demand New Thinking in Washington 18 Mar 202318 Mar 2023 The Mounting Danger Tensions on the Korean peninsula have reached a new level of intensity. North Korea’s foreign ministry issued a statement Feb. 17 in anticipation of another round of…
BLOG Post #314 – Dissecting North Korea’s Missile Tests 12 Oct 202112 Oct 2021 North Korea is carrying out one missile test after another lately, at the same time indicating (or is it?) interest in talks with South Korea about reducing tensions. Late…
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