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Korea enters full election mode
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Lee Jong-sup resigns as envoy to Australia
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Yellow dust engulfs S. Korea, advisory alert issued
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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S. Korea to boost support for single-parent families
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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Kia EV9 wins world car of year
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Korea misses out on global bond index boost
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[Robert Reich] Perry’s plan to help blue states
Of all the nonsense Texas Gov. Rick Perry spews about states’ rights and the 10th amendment, his dumbest is the notion that states should go it alone. “We’ve got a great Union,” he said at a Tea Party rally in Austin in April 2009. “There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington cont
Sept. 16, 2011
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Japan’s new trade chief must act on nuke issues
Former chief Cabinet secretary Yukio Edano was named economy, trade and industry minister Monday to succeed Yoshio Hachiro, who resigned over insensitive remarks and actions toward disaster-hit areas.Edano served as secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan and chief Cabinet secretary under
Sept. 16, 2011
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No end in sight 10 years on
Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, people still remember the collapse of the two World Trade Center towers. But the world has changed in those 10 years. The 9/11 attacks have greatly changed the Middle East, the U.S. and even the world. But it’s hard to tell who has
Sept. 16, 2011
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Burma is not changing enough for recognition
The speech by Burmese Foreign Minister U Wunna Muang Lwin to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva earlier this week was very impressive. He discussed at length the progress his country has been making since the new government under President Thein Sein was formed in March. He said Burma
Sept. 16, 2011
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[Frank Ching] As China rises, so does fear
The latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine carries an article on the inevitability of China becoming the next superpower, one of a mounting cascade of articles on America’s decline and China’s rise. For many Chinese, it is high time for their country to regain its rightful place in the world,
Sept. 16, 2011
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[Editorial] Abandoning principle?
In his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Unification Minister-nominee Yu Woo-ik said he would exercise “flexibility in methodology” in relations with North Korea while maintaining a “principled approach” to them. In making this remark, did he mean to be deliberately ambiguous or did he have a probl
Sept. 15, 2011
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[Shahid Javed Burki] The war on terror is most costly for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD ― The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States sent shock waves around the world from which Pakistan has still not recovered. Indeed, Pakistan’s participation in what former President George W. Bush called the “global war on terror” has produced overwhelmingly negative consequences, as
Sept. 15, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] Durban III set for Islamophobia
Scores of states are meeting at the United Nations later this month for a hatefest that promises to be so odious that a dozen Western countries, including the United States, have already announced that they will not attend.It’s called Durban III, the third iteration of a conference first held in Sou
Sept. 15, 2011
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Boomers turn conservative as they grow old
Baby boomers who came of age during the social and political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s tended to call themselves Democrats, and as time passed, that identification strengthened. In 1969, far more in the 18- to 29-year-old age cohort ― the front end of the baby boom ― called themselves Democra
Sept. 15, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] War on terrorism a phantom
Did we win the war on terrorism?Ten years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is dead, and al-Qaida is fractured. There’s been no second attack (although intelligence chatter has picked up possible threats during anniversary commemorations).So people ask: Did we win?Not really. What we’ve won is hard knowle
Sept. 15, 2011
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[Park Sang-seek] Ideological polarization in capitalist democracies
After the cold war ended, the ideological conflict between East and West ended and the wind of democracy blew in the East and the South, but history has not ended. Instead, the North-South divide which had already emerged in the cold war period has become more serious and a new grand debate on the c
Sept. 15, 2011
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[Omar Ashour] Long journey from 9/11 to the Arab Spring
CAIRO ― Al-Qaida’s operating environment today is vastly different from the one in which it launched its most notorious operation, the 9/11 terror attacks. Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida’s founder and charismatic leader, was killed by United States Navy Seals in Pakistan in May. Three brutal Middle East
Sept. 14, 2011
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[David Ignatius] The payoff of quiet leadership
WASHINGTON ― Barack Obama got elected president in part because he promised to change the foreign-policy priorities of a Bush administration that was unpopular abroad, had strained relations with key allies and was facing a growing Iranian challenge and a continuing menace from al-Qaida. So wha
Sept. 14, 2011
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[William Pesek] Obama’s soul mate down under may be down
It’s as predictable as political leadership gets: When things go awry at home, escape overseas for a while, grip and grin with a foreign head of state and change the subject. Barack Obama may have this tried-and-true strategy in mind as he plans to visit Australia, which is about as far as a U.S. pr
Sept. 14, 2011
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[Jaime O’Neill] Hard times have spawned great art, but not these hard times, it seems
Economists and politicians told us that the recession was over, though some of them now worry about it taking a double dip. For those of us living farther from the ledger sheets and closer to the reality of what’s happening in our towns and on our streets, this has been and remains a depression. It’
Sept. 14, 2011
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[Shashi Tharoor] Hazare poses saintly challenge to Indian democracy
NEW DELHI ― India is no stranger to protest movements, hunger strikes, and the mass mobilization of citizens for a popular cause. But the recent fast by the Gandhian leader Anna Hazare, culminating in an extraordinary session of Parliament to pass a resolution acceding to his main demands, marked a
Sept. 14, 2011
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[Ezra Klein] Reckless, dumb and scared: Coming of age after 9/11
You know how we know the terrorists didn’t win? It’s not because we killed Osama bin Laden. It’s because we killed him and we didn’t really care. Which is not to say that we won, either. It’s more to say it’s been a weird decade. According to the Gallup Poll, President Barack Obama’s “Osama bump” in
Sept. 13, 2011
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[Daniel Fiedler] Translation troubles in the courts
A fundamental human right is equality under the law regardless of race or gender. This right is complemented by the right of individuals to petition the government for redress, a right exercised by accessing the court system. These rights are a large part of what distinguishes open democratic nation
Sept. 13, 2011
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A cultural civics lesson
Politics is making Americans dumb and mean. It’s turning a generous, forward-thinking people into glib, defensive, narrow-minded bores.Pundits tell us that the answer to all this nastiness ― from the disgusting comments on message boards to the smarmy lies of TV political hacks ― is to get more peop
Sept. 13, 2011
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Clinton deserves credit for Libya
The unsung hero of the Libya drama in the U.S. is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s actions were critical for several reasons. Most important, she overcame Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s caution about using military force in Libya and his reluctance to support an operation led by Franc
Sept. 13, 2011