Eric Black Ink
Singapore summit outcome? It all depends on what happens next, and then next …
As far as those who say Trump gave Kim Jong Un a huge undeserved gift by shaking his hand and meeting with him, I have no use for that argument.
North Korea
Foreign Concept
How China’s relationship with North Korea could complicate a Trump-Kim meeting
Kim’s visit to Beijing this week, including a photo op with China’s newly confirmed leader-for-life Xi Jingping, could change a whole lot of calculations.
Foreign Concept
What Trump should do about North Korea: Talk
It would be hard to do. And it’s by no means risk free. But it’s a lot better than the alternatives.
Eric Black Ink
‘Frontline’ on North Korea: ruling-family weirdness and the desire for nukes
“North Korea’s Deadly Dictator” mixes together two main narratives.
Eric Black Ink
Trump’s UN speech was a statement of conservative principles? That doesn’t make sense
It’s only “state sovereignty” when we do it.
Eric Black Ink
On Trump’s eruption, Kim Jong-Un’s nuke plans, and why we have two Koreas
We can’t keep overreacting to every bizarre Trumpian eruption — we’ll just be freaked out all the time.
Christian Science Monitor
Amid controversy, Japan weighs reinterpreting its pacifist Constitution
Japan’s postwar Constitution renounced war as a right. An advisory group to Prime Minister Abe will suggest amendments Tuesday to enable Japan to militarily defend its interests and those of allies
Christian Science Monitor
N. Korea releases Australian missionary. A sign of human rights progress?
Some see the release as an indication of a charm offensive, but that good will does not extend toward those in North Korea’s prison camps.
Christian Science Monitor
Amid US-South Korean war drills, Korean families meet across the divide
North Koreans stick to the script by praising their government and refusing gifts from their relatives in wealthy South Korea, where US troops have begun annual joint exercises.
Global Post
When friends visit in North Korea, they get offered meth instead of tea
It’s that casual