The Korea Herald

A look back away from Haiti’s cloudy future

Jan 14, 2011

Wednesday was a solemn and sorrowful day for everyone in Haiti and for all those who lost friends and loved ones on Jan. 12, 2010. The unsparing earthquake that struck one year ago killed 300,000 peo...
Slow the growth of the U.S. defense budget

Jan 14, 2011

Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ plan to reduce the Pentagon budget over the next five years is appropriate, overdue and even brave. The politics and emotions will be intense. For a federal budget aw...
[William Pesek] Americans are figuring out who is world’s No. 1

Jan 14, 2011

Nine percent of Americans think Japan is the world’s top economic power, and that raises an obvious question: Huh? If we knew exactly who that current-events-challenged minority was, we could make a...
[Shashi Tharoor] India at the U.N. Security Council

Jan 14, 2011

NEW DELHI ― Indian diplomacy began 2011 with election to the chair of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Committee, a body of some importance to the country (and one which many thought India might not be ask...
[Editorial] Japan’s new adults must think, act globally

Jan 14, 2011

Today (Jan. 10) marks Coming-of-Age Day, when 1.24 million people born in 1990 start a new chapter in their life. We hope they will take a firm first step into adulthood while retaining their self-aw...
[Editorial] Procedural diplomacy

Jan 14, 2011

During his preview of Indonesia’s 2011 foreign policy, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa rightly highlighted the demanding schedule of the next 12 months. As chair of ASEAN for 2011, Indonesia will h...
[Editorial] Taiwan should lead the way in adopting electric vehicles

Jan 14, 2011

You might have noticed a new brand of car called “Luxgen” on Taiwan’s roads. Luxgen was founded by Taiwan’s biggest carmaker, Yulon, as a separate, indigenous Taiwanese auto company in 2009. Luxgen (...
[Chen Weihua] Double standards of Western companies

Jan 14, 2011

For months, the West has been attacking China for tightening control of its rare earth exports. The assault is likely to escalate, as China recently announced it would slash its rare earth export qu...
Local bellwether elections in Osaka and Aichi

Jan 13, 2011

The results of coming local elections in Osaka and Aichi prefectures could have a great impact on the shape of Japan’s local government. The people concerned need to carefully watch and consider the ...
[Kevin Horrigan] Selective wussification

Jan 13, 2011

For eight years, Ed Rendell was governor of Pennsylvania. The eight years before that, he was mayor of Philadelphia. In all that time, he never got the national attention he’s received in his last tw...
[David Ignatius] Cries Americans choose to ignore

Jan 13, 2011

WASHINGTON ― Did our angry political culture help motivate Jared Lee Loughner on what authorities say was his mad shooting spree? Maybe, but a more troubling question for me is why nobody stopped thi...
[Greogry Rodriguez] Image of Americans in post-American era

Jan 13, 2011

The ugly American ― the stereotypically brutish, ethnocentric, bumbling traveler abroad ― is dead. He’s gone the way of global U.S. hegemony, the strong dollar and mid-20th century American naivete. ...
[Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz] CIA needs sunlight, and Tinners case might shine some on it

Jan 13, 2011

By its nature, an intelligence service is antithetical to the transparency and accountability that are hallmarks of a democracy. When the Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947, diplomat Dea...
[Joel Brinkley Back to ‘normal’ in the Middle East

Jan 13, 2011

Life is returning to normal in Israel and the Palestinian territories, now that the latest round of peace talks is dead. Militants in Gaza are firing dozens of missiles into Israel once again, forci...
2011 promises to be year of electric car

Jan 12, 2011

This year can be the year in which electric cars make headway in attracting a large number of customers who want to buy a vehicle that has no gas emmissions over a vehicle that runs on fossil fuels. ...