South Korean President Moon Jae-in has said President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea. “President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace,” Moon reportedly told a meeting of senior secretaries today (Monday, April 30). Moon and Kim Jong Un… Full Story »
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The Confederal Republic of Koryo: What would a unified Korea look like?
The recent détente in relations between north and south Korea — and America — has got many people asking what a unified Korea would look like? The western viewpoint usually assumes a North Korean collapse, and therefore what is termed the “Germany model”, whereby the Republic of Korea would incorporate the Democratic People’s Republic of… Full Story »
‘He is my idol’ – Duterte heaps praise on North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
President Duterte described Kim Jong Un as his idol following a meeting between North Korean leader and his southern counterpart. He also described the dictator as the “man of the hour” after he and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met to discuss the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and an official end to the Korean War.… Full Story »
Duterte ‘relieved’ as Korean leaders share vision of peace
President Duterte was “very much relieved” after North and South Korea agreed to pursue peace in the Korean Peninsula. Speaking hours after the historic meeting on the Korean Peninsula today (Friday, April 27), presidential spokesman Harry Roque said: “Of course everyone is relieved because we were all looking at the prospects of a nuclear encounter… Full Story »
Disaster: The day I lost my passport in a country without a US embassy
Alecia Janeiro, an American who lives and works in South Korea, looks back on a time when she thought she was doomed to become a stateless, cashless, refugee in Taiwan. However, as she recounts here, sometimes potential disasters have a way of resolving themselves: I shot out of bed and the harsh, fluorescent lights in… Full Story »
