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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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[Andrew Hammond] A new stage in campaign against terror
The dramatic news about Osama bin Laden’s death, especially when taken in combination with the ongoing “Arab Spring,” offers a remarkable window of opportunity for U.S. policymakers seeking to encourage what President Obama has called an “alternative narrative” for a disaffected generation in the Islamic world.For years after Sept. 11, 2001, military and counterterrorism efforts dominated the U.S.
May 3, 2011
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[Richard Parker] More than payback for the past
The death of Osama bin Laden rightly brings to Americans a sense of justice, even revenge. But the death of the world’s most wanted man is more than payback for the past.It instead suggests that ideology may be changing in the Arab world. Bin Laden’s ideology of death ― for Americans, Europeans, Arabs and others ― was a reaction to the misery to which many Arabs were consigned in the modern world.
May 3, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Between airports in L.A. and Incheon
Last week, I flew to Los Angeles to chair an international conference at the University of Southern California. When I landed at L.A. airport, I found more than 200 international passengers lined up at immigration to receive an entry stamp. Unfortunately, there were only six officers processing the seemingly endless, serpentine lines. Worse, they were doing their job in a leisurely manner without
May 3, 2011
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Imperial couple comfort earthquake survivors
The Emperor and Empress, who have been visiting evacuees from areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake, visited quake-hit Miyagi Prefecture on Wednesday.It was the Imperial couple’s first visit the Tohoku region since the March 11 quake. They are also scheduled to visit Iwate and Fukushima prefectures shortly.Their words must be a great encouragement to people in or from the quake-hit areas, e
May 2, 2011
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Obama makes good choices for security team
Over the years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has served in a variety of capacities in national security for administrations of both parties. He has been a steady hand and he will be sorely missed.But his intention to leave this year was well-known. What was surprising about Wednesday’s news was the sweeping nature of the national-security shuffle expected to be announced by President Barack Obam
May 2, 2011
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[Morris Davis] Tilting the scales of justice
“Command influence is the mortal enemy of military justice.”Robinson O. Everett, former chief judge of what is now the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, wrote those powerful words in 1986. They underscore the importance of banning the power inherent in command from military courtrooms. Congress wrote such a ban into the Uniform Code of Military Justice more than 60 year ago, recognizing that
May 2, 2011
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[Sung Chull Junn] China in puberty, handle with care
The entire world trembles at the so-called “China effect,” a testament to China’s unpredictability. The world cannot begin to fathom China’s reasons for resisting the revaluation of the yuan despite the nation’s large foreign exchange reserves and explosive growth in exports. The world cannot understand China’s tolerance, justification and even support for the apparent barbarisms of North Korea. T
May 2, 2011
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[John R. Bolton] Tough call on Afghan troop withdrawal
President Obama must soon make a critical decision: how many and what type of U.S. forces to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan this summer. The July withdrawal date is an artificial deadline, one the president created not because it would help us reach our goals in this strategically critical country but for his own domestic political purposes. When Obama made the promise in 2009, at the same tim
May 2, 2011
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[Rana Sabbagh] Jordan’s king needs to set out reform process
While turmoil threatens the regimes of many of its neighbors, conditions in Jordan have remained relatively calm. Although we have had more than 150 protests across Jordan since before the fall of the Tunisian regime, all demanding accountability, better living conditions, and an end to corruption and wider political reform, nobody has called for regime change ― so far.The reason is simple. King A
May 2, 2011
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[Naomi Wolf] How sex criminals are protected at U.S. colleges
NEW YORK ― In October 2010, the current brothers of George W. Bush’s former fraternity at Yale, Delta Kappa Epsilon, marched through the first-year quad chanting, “No means yes! Yes means anal!” They held up signs reading, “We love Yale Sluts.”Sixteen graduate and undergraduate students, male and female, felt that the university’s administration then did little to push back against such encroachme
May 2, 2011
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Japan Diet shows some respect for diplomacy
It has long been accepted for the Japanese prime minister and other Cabinet members to cancel official visits to foreign nations because of Diet deliberation schedules. Japan’s standing on the diplomatic stage is thus degraded, and national interests are negatively affected. Such a long-standing but wrongheaded custom must end now.Ruling and opposition parties have agreed to allow Foreign Minister
May 1, 2011
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President Barack Obama: Born in the U.S.A.
“Well, I’ll be damned. It looks OK!”That was Chicago’s own Andy Martin ― self-proclaimed “King of the Birthers” ― on the phone with a reporter for Mother Jones magazine after the White House released a copy of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate on Wednesday.Martin, who announced in December that he’s running for president on the Obama-wasn’t-born-here ticket, brags that he starte
May 1, 2011
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[Jennifer A. Marshall] Marriage an ideal, not a fairy tale
An audience of 750 million tuned in July 29, 1981, to watch Lady Diana Spencer marry the Prince of Wales.In America, little girls were glued to the television from before dawn, enthralled by Diana’s dress with its billows of silk taffeta, 10,000 pearls and 25-foot train. To a young girl’s eye, the only blemish of this perfect day was that the bride’s signature feathered hair succumbed to the summe
May 1, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Will Pakistan erupt like Egypt?
WASHINGTON ― Think of Pakistan for a moment as the equivalent of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt. Both countries have strong militaries and weak civilian governments. Both are nominally America’s partners in the war against al-Qaida, but both chafe at U.S. pressure. In each nation, the street is buzzing with talk of the nation’s shame and humiliation under American hegemony. In Egypt, this pressure cooker l
May 1, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Princess Kate: Her royal blandness
I admit it: I love Kate Middleton. I love that she defied the usual dating advice and waited years for her prince to come around. I love that she’s a commoner but still wears those outrageous feathered hats. Most of all, I love that the hats are the most remarkable thing about her.Pretty without being distractingly gorgeous, fashionable without pushing boundaries, reserved without being shy, Cathe
May 1, 2011
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[William Pesek] If Bill Gross sees U.S. as shaky, check Japan
Salvador Dali or M.C. Escher? This question leaps to the mind navigating the ruins of Japanese cities like Tagajo. Skylines now look as if Dali’s surrealist brush had a hand in rendering things so out of place. Escher’s mind seems at work, too. Interlocking shapes that shouldn’t exist in the three-dimensional world litter cityscapes that before March 11’s earthquake and tsunami were pretty run of
May 1, 2011
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[Yoon Young-kwan] Can East Asians cooperate for regional community?
SEOUL ― As China continues its unremitting rise, people throughout East Asia are wondering whether their states will ever be able to achieve the peaceful, stable relations that now characterize Europe. Given the regularity of serious diplomatic spats ― over everything from tiny atolls in the South China Sea to the legacy of World War II ― this may sound like an elusive dream. But, with nationalism
May 1, 2011
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Syrian president shoots democracy advocates
When pro-democracy protesters began rallying a few weeks ago, Syrian President Bashar Assad set out to change their tune. He has succeeded, though not quite as he hoped.At the beginning, demonstrators wanted the longtime dictator to embrace political reform, and he made some gestures in that direction, such as lifting a 48-year-old state of emergency law. Now, they don’t want him to embrace reform
April 29, 2011
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Greenhouse gases: Too hot for the courts
Despite the rants of some conservative politicians and fringe scientists, it’s a fact that greenhouse gases produced by human activity contribute to global warming. Last week the Supreme Court considered one way that such emissions might be controlled: through a huge and unwieldy lawsuit brought by California and five other states against five power companies and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Se
April 29, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] Breaking point in Libya
Like most wars, NATO’s five-week-old campaign to overthrow Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi has turned out to be harder than it looked.The leaders of Britain, France and the United States, who launched the intervention, initially hoped Gadhafi’s regime would collapse quickly ― toppled either by popular uprisings or, more likely, by dissident generals.But that hasn’t happened, at least not yet.Instead, Gadh
April 29, 2011