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[Graphic News] S. Korea to increase defense spending
'Collection of Korea' exhibits relics, struggles for Korean culture
[K-talk] Seventeen to drop winter EP ‘You Made My Dawn’ Monday
[David Ignatius] What Americans are fighting for in Manbij
[Park Sang-seek] How to deal with a nuclear North Korea?
[Editorial] Keep on track
[Dylan Selterman] Climate change and the ‘tragedy of the commons’
[Michael Schuman] China built a big, beautiful wall, too. It failed.
[Alex Webb] If Google and LG like smart TVs, so should the privacy police
[Behind The Wheel] Tale of two sports cars in wintery Korea

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[David Ignatius] What Americans are fighting for in Manbij

If you wonder what the four Americans who were killed Wednesday in Manbij, Syria, were doing there, let me describe a few images from a visit to that city last February that illustrate their mission of helping stabilize this area after the Islamic State group was expelled.Think of a covered market thronged with shoppers: Until the Americans and their allies liberated Manbij in mid-2016, the only color most women dared wear in public was black; now, a rainbow of dresses is displayed on makeshift

[Park Sang-seek] How to deal with a nuclear North Korea?

North Korea says it has no choice but to become a nuclear state because it is the only way to defend itself from a nuclear attack from the US. This reaction may be a justifiable but not wise counterstrategy.Let us assume that the US would resort to nuclear weaponry even if North Korea attacked South Korea with conventional weapons. The world would not condone such a brutal response. I believe that world opinion is likely to support the use of nuclear weapons only if the US-South Korean combined

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[Editorial] Keep on track

Focus on missiles rather than on nukes raises concern, with US-NK summit slated for late Feb.

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[Dylan Selterman] Climate change and the ‘tragedy of the commons’

In 2015, a student tweeted about an extra credit activity in my psychology course, igniting a discussion about the “tragedy of the commons” -- the idea that when masses of people engage in excessive consumption, it can have catastrophic environmental consequences, such as climate change. In light of the recently proposed Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, let’s revisit this idea and consider how carbon pricing can serve as an effective solution to this problem.For the class activity, eac

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[Michael Schuman] China built a big, beautiful wall, too. It failed.

From the moment he launched his campaign for president, Donald Trump compared the barrier he wanted to build along the US southern border to China’s Great Wall. With the US government now shuttered by the standoff over funding Trump’s wall, both he and his Democratic opponents might want to take a closer look at the Chinese fortification -- and why exactly it failed.The Great Wall visited by tourists today is the handiwork of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and was primarily constructed in the mid-

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[Alex Webb] If Google and LG like smart TVs, so should the privacy police

The world’s tech police have the opportunity to succeed in televisions where they initially failed with the rest of the connected world, and ensure that users retain a firm grasp on their data.Smart televisions are nothing new. Nor is the shift in the platform wars, where tech firms duke it out for primacy of their operating systems, from smartphones to the television set. But the fact that Amazon.com Inc. is developing its own smart TV indicates that there’s enough value in the user data to off

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[David Ignatius] Trump has squandered opportunity his populist campaign offered

US President Donald Trump is giving an unintentional gift to the burgeoning field of Democratic presidential candidates: He is teaching them how they can win.Trump’s failure as president is that he hasn’t forged a governing party that can unite the country, pass legislation and address America’s problems. He has succeeded in creating an insurgency that has toppled the traditional Republican establishment and intimidated Republican Party members of Congress into stunned, appalled silence. But wit

Jan 18, 2019
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[David Lubin] How US monetary policy has tamed China

Chinese leaders do like their slogans, and where foreign policy is concerned, two have reflected Beijing’s thinking in recent times. The first is the cautious principle of tao guang yang hui, usually rendered in English as “hide your light and bide your time,” which guided Chinese policy for decades after Deng Xiaoping established it in the 1980s. In late 2013, though, President Xi Jinping coined a new slogan to define a more assertive, muscular approach: fen fa you wei, or “strive for achieveme

Jan 18, 2019
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[Editorial] Unity first

Liberty Korea Party, Hwang tasked with uniting conservative forces

Jan 18, 2019
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[Kim Myong-sik] Why not scrap faulty campaign pledges?

During the 2017 presidential election following the exit of Park Geun-hye, candidate Moon Jae-in promised the relocation of the presidential office to the central Seoul location of Gwanghwamun from its secluded present position. A year and seven months after he won the election, President Moon scrapped the plan.His campaigners said Cheong Wa Dae was too big and its area too wide to serve as an effective workplace for the chief executive of the state. Compared to the White House in Washington, El

Jan 17, 2019
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[Ana Palacio] Transatlantic leadership void

Transatlantic security today looks a lot like a ghost plane. With the “crew” incapacitated -- that is, bereft of ideas or leadership -- it is flying on autopilot until it inevitably hits something or runs out of fuel and comes crashing down. To avoid disaster, those in the cockpit need to wake up -- and soon.Since the end of World War II, the United States, as the dominant European (and world) power, has piloted transatlantic security. But under President Donald Trump, the US isn’t doing much le

Jan 17, 2019
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[Therese Raphael] Theresa May’s humbling offers a glimmer of hope

It was both a historic vote and a decisive defeat for the government. But while it was called a “meaningful vote,” parliament’s verdict on Theresa May’s Brexit deal Tuesday was actually anything but.Tuesday’s ballot was all about tactics; not one MP thought it would decide anything. As the prime minister noted herself afterward, it makes clear what parliament doesn’t want, but not what alternative can garner a majority among lawmakers. As such, it has left all factions even more entrenched.Remai

Jan 17, 2019
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[Noah Smith] China’s growth machine no longer looks unstoppable

China’s economy is slowing. The downturn may be the result of recent events -- the trade war with the US, or retrenchment in China’s real estate and infrastructure sectors. But it may also be the latest manifestation of a trend that began a decade ago. And it may signal that China’s entire system of authoritarian state capitalism is less effective than many had believed.Recent data suggest that consumption is falling, indicating rocky times ahead:But China’s woes go far beyond the current busine

Jan 17, 2019
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[Robert B. Reich] On democracy and dictatorship

The wonderful thing about Donald Trump’s presidency -- I never thought I’d begin a column this way -- is that he brings us back to basics.The basic difference between a democracy and a dictatorship comes down to means and ends.Democracy is about means, not ends. If we all agreed on the ends, such as whether to build a wall along the Mexican border, there’d be no need for democracy.But of course we don’t agree, which is why the means by which we resolve our differences are so important. Those mea

Jan 17, 2019
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[Editorial] Change of tack

Fine dust heightens calls for reconsidering Moon government’s nuclear phaseout plan

Jan 17, 2019
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