North Korea will be Biden’s real test
Time to talk to the portly pariah of Pyongyang
North korea
Tuesday
Monday
A vacation in a hell of a state
North Korea Journal by Michael Palin reviewed
Tuesday
Ignore the scorn, Trump has been proved right on North Korea
One year on, the Singapore summit is still a diplomatic success
Ignore the Trump haters: his meeting with Kim Jong-un is a victory for peace
You can tell when Donald Trump has just achieved something: he starts being strangely amiable, and his critics start frothing at the mouth. He’s just met supposedly one of the most dangerous, evil men in the world — and made him look like a sweet overgrown child. He and Kim Jong-un signed an agreement and … Read more
Wednesday
Gene editing tech is a gamble with our future
Crunch time for CRISPR
Tuesday
How I learned to start worrying and fear the bomb
Tensions between Russia and the US were on open display at ‘#NUKEFEST’
Wednesday
The Trump-Kim summit: what we know and what’s useless prattle
Almost everything you can hear, and several things you won ’ t
Tuesday
Could Trump’s trade war with China cost him in North Korea?
For the last few years, Kim has been very clear about setting his agenda for the coming year in the most public of ways
Tuesday
It’s time to tell the truth on North Korea
We are nowhere near a deal to denuclearize North Korea
Sunday
North Korea can host the Hunger Games
The modern Olympics give fool’s gold to despots and dictators
Monday
Donald Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-Un is his big chance to prove his critics wrong
Donald Trump means different things to different people. To his core supporters, he’s the man who will make America great again. To his diehard opponents, he is a dangerous juvenile with authoritarian tendencies. Ultimately, these descriptions are secondary to how Trump sees himself: a tough, dealmaking Svengali who has the experience and power of persuasion … Read more
Wednesday
Donald Trump is desperate for a North Korea deal
Uh-oh. President Trump is wading into diplomatic waters in North Korea that he may have trouble navigating. Yesterday, he proudly revealed that talks with North Korea have been taking place at the “highest levels.” He also gave his blessing to the prospect of a peace treaty between the two Koreas, which currently only enjoy an … Read more
Monday
Is Donald Trump an ‘isolationist’? Or a ‘radical imperialist’? He can’t be both
For two years we’ve been hearing that Donald Trump is an ‘isolationist’, whatever that word is supposed to mean. Only now two op-ed writers in the New York Times have discovered that he isn’t — instead, Thomas Meaney and Stephen Wertheim write, ‘Let’s call Mr. Trump’s vision what it is: radical American imperialism.’ Let’s not, … Read more
Thursday
Rolling tanks, plastic flowers and madness on parade: A visit to North Korea
As Kim Jong-un might blow up the world next year, if not this, and people are forever trying to work out what is going on in his country, perhaps it is worth describing a military parade I attended in Pyongyang a few years back. The occasion was the centenary of the birth of the current … Read more
Saturday
If China backs Trump on North Korea he won’t like the quid pro quo
The first election day since Donald Trump was elected president a year ago brought a funereal mood to Washington that you could feel on the streets. The swamp, apparently, remains undrained. Elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey and for mayor in New York City cheered the locals a bit, producing the expected victories … Read more
