The Intercept
September 26, 2017
The nuclear shouting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un often seems like a maddening version of whack-a-crazy-mole, in which an unhinged comment by one of them is hastily followed by a lunatic retort from the other. Trump ...
Category: Korea
Radioactive Nationalism
The New York Times Magazine
The risky maneuverings on the Korean peninsula
October 22, 2006
In a classic Mexican standoff, two men point guns at each other’s heads. Neither wants to shoot, but each knows the downside of not pulling the trigger first. It is an inherently gripping ...
New Deal
The New Republic
On North Korea, the United States needs an alternative to the hawks’ belligerent rhetoric and the doves’ optimistic engagement. Fortunately, one is available.
December 22, 2003
It was a perfect day for a provocation. In late August, Norbert Vollertsen, ...
The Last Emperor
The New York Times Magazine
Kim Jong Il, the world’s most dangerous dictator, has always been a figure surrounded by mystery and myth. But, from defectors and former aides, a portrait is emerging of family dysfunction, palace intrigue and imperial menace.
October 19, 2003
The ...
Open Sesame
The New Republic
North Korea opens up.
June 12, 2000
In early 1995, Tony Namkung received a phone call from a diplomat at the North Korean mission to the United Nations. Would it be possible, the diplomat asked, to arrange for the magician David Copperfield to perform in Pyongyang? ...
Moon at Twilight
The New Yorker
Amid scandal, the Unification Church has a strange new mission.
September 14, 1998
A little before dawn one day last April, a chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedan entered the grounds of an estate in Tarrytown, New York, and stopped in front of a brick carriage house that ...
The Olympic Spirit Takes a Backseat to Politics
Sports Illustrated
South Korea Moves On
June 26, 1989
Aside from the sports stadiums squatting along the Han River, there are few traces in Seoul of the 1988 Summer Olympics. The Games, which catapulted South Korea into global prominence nine months ago at a cost to its citizens of $3.1 billion, ...