North Korea

  • Last Saturday, North Korea celebrated its founder’s birth with the annual parade showing off the nation’s military strength. Credit Wong Maye-E/Associated Press
    The North Korea-Trump Nightmare

    Nicholas Kristof New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/the-north-korea-trump-nightmare.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share President Trump is scary in many ways, but perhaps...

    • Posted April 20, 2017
  • The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. It’s not easy to misplace a flotilla of warships, but it wasn’t headed last week where the president said. Credit Z.A. Landers/U.S. Navy, via Reuters
    Paging the Trump Armada

    Gail Collins  New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/paging-the-trump-armada.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Let’s consider the case of the wrong-way warships....

    • Posted April 20, 2017
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    Criticism of Beijing’s North Korea Policy Comes From Unlikely Place: China

    By CHRIS BUCKLEY New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/china-north-korea-war.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   BEIJING — When China’s best-known historian of the Korean...

    • Posted April 19, 2017
  • Soldiers last week at the birthplace compound of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder and grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong-un, in Pyongyang, the capital. CreditHow Hwee Young/European Pressphoto Agency
    Hand of U.S. Leaves North Korea’s Missile Program Shaken

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/north-korea-missile-program-sabotage.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share New York Ttimes WASHINGTON — When a North Korean missile test went awry...

    • Posted April 19, 2017
  • Trucks carried soldiers last week through central Pyongyang as the North Korean capital prepared for a parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the country’s founding father, pictured in the upper-center at left along with Kim Jong-il, his son. DAMIR SAGOLJ / REUTERS
    The North Korea Paradox: Why There Are No Good Options on Nuclear Arms

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-missiles-sanctions.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share North Korea, a small and poor country facing far stronger adversaries and the...

    • Posted April 18, 2017
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    N.K. sets up special operation forces amid military tensions

    SEOUL, April 17 (Yonhap) — North Korea has formed special operation forces for the...

    • Posted April 18, 2017
  • Vice President Mike Pence, center, and his wife, Karen Pence, greeted soldiers and their family members on Sunday at an Easter dinner at a military base in Seoul, South Korea. LEE JIN-MAN / ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Pence, in South Korea, Calls North Korea Missile Test ‘a Provocation’

    By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/us/politics/north-korea-missile-launch-mike-pence.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Vice President Mike Pence...

    • Posted April 17, 2017