[Yang Sung-chul] China should act against NK’s WMD　　

Just recently encountered the harrowing accounts of the 1950-53 “Korean War” by Pyun Yung-tai, who served as foreign minister and later acting prime minister of the Republic of Korea during the hellish, cataclysmic conflagration. Inverted commas encompass the most-routinely employed term for the war above – in deference to Pyun’s resolute protestations against what he viewed to be an overly simplistic and thus potentially misleading phrase.He told a UN committee on Nov. 3, 1952, “The struggle in

So what all has he done for us? Let’s count the ways.　If you have been a huge fan of building a big, beautiful wall on our southern border, you are disappointed. There may be a virtual one, more border agents and tons of drones. But there won’t be a physical wall. It is too costly, too difficult, too impractical and too immoral. Even the pope says so. If President Donald Trump read, he would know that the Berlin Wall symbolized, for more than a generation, man’s inhumanity to man.　If you are a f

In early 2017 experts worried about a yellow fever epidemic in Brazil, the worst in decades, that had already killed more than 200 people. Ironically, just one year before, Brazil had sent 18 million doses of yellow fever vaccine to West Africa, because an outbreak of yellow fever was spreading so rapidly that the entire World Health Organization stockpile of yellow fever vaccine was depleted -- twice. The situation in Africa was so pressing that public health officials recommended the use of 1/

After a dizzying few months, in which Donald Trump’s young presidency called into question the entire post-World War II global order, the geopolitical status quo appears to have re-emerged. But this is no time for complacency: the liberal world order remains far from secure.To be sure, recent developments are encouraging. Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who was the executive chairman of Breitbart News, appears to be losing influence, and may even be on his way out. The once-marginalized

The Trump administration’s approach to the deadly serious problem of North Korea is the worst of all possible formulations. It is Teddy Roosevelt, turned upside down -- “Speak loudly, and pretend to carry a big stick.”What the administration wants is absolutely the ideal objective, to prevent North Korea from acquiring the capability to launch nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles at the United States. This has been the “red line” objective of the last several administrations. And th

A Chicago high school samulnori club found itself struggling for survival recently, when it seemed the group may no longer have access to the instruments for the Korean percussion band.The nine-year-old club at an elite public high school had been practicing at a nearby Korean culture center for several years, paying a small annual membership fee to rent the center’s instruments. However, when the Korean culture center moved to a new location farther away from the high school, the club members w