The Korea Herald

[David Ignatius] An allied intervention in Libya

Mar 23, 2011

WASHINGTON ― Many Americans ― and Arabs, too, for that matter ― have a visceral sense that if there’s a war in the Middle East, the United States must be in the vanguard. I’m glad that’s not the case...
[Mycle Schneider] Nuclear fallout comes with aura of arrogance

Mar 23, 2011

Some people just shouldn’t be in charge of high-risk nuclear facilities. As far back as 2005, I warned Eisaku Sato, governor of Fukushima at the time, about the dangers of letting spent fuel accumul...
[Amity Shlaes] Harvard is just worth mom’s party chatter

Mar 23, 2011

Anxious families awaiting April college admission news are living their own March Madness. Their insanity is captured in Andrew Ferguson’s new book, “Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His K...
[Dominique Moisi] Sarkozy does right by going to war

Mar 23, 2011

PARIS ― In 2003, France, under President Jacques Chirac, took the lead in opposing America’s planned invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin’s flamboyant spee...
Reasons why some things are best left unsaid

Mar 22, 2011

In our past editorials, we have touched on the topic of political correctness (PC), concluding that Taiwan as a nation could use a good dose of PC. However, it appears that the United States, the “La...
[Richard Parker] Libya: An end game enveloped by deception

Mar 22, 2011

If, as Sun Tzu wrote, “all warfare is based upon deception,” then the war now unfolding in the Libyan desert is one towering with deception. And it appears that the Obama administration is skillfully...
[Lee Jae-min] New concept for action against genocide

Mar 22, 2011

Although we live in an age of abbreviation, few people will have heard of the term “R2P.” I did not have any clue when I first heard it, I have to confess. R2P stands for “Responsibility to Protect.”...
Bias against catastrophic nuclear tail events

Mar 22, 2011

The worst case. These three words have been at the back of everyone’s mind ever since the Fukushima reactors began malfunctioning after being swamped by a tsunami. Remarkably, these reactors have bee...
[Kim Seong-kon] Funny and embarrassing Konglish

Mar 22, 2011

Foreigners often point out that there are many awkward English expressions on Korean street signs, temple guideposts and restaurant menus. Surprised by the numerous mistakes, foreign residents and to...
[Albert Hunt] Hubristic Republicans misread political landscape

Mar 22, 2011

Sun Tzu’s admonition to know thine enemy is as essential in politics as it is in war. With Democrats and Republicans locked in a struggle for supremacy, both are guardedly optimistic that currents a...
Japan’s crises call for clear command structure

Mar 21, 2011

The government’s measures to deal with the disasters caused by the March 11 earthquake have lagged from the beginning. The Prime Minister’s Office must rebuild its crisis management system as soon as...
Horrors make us rethink the unthinkable

Mar 21, 2011

With every passing day, Japan’s chain reaction of disasters pushes the envelope of what humankind regards as unthinkable. Last week’s 9.0 earthquake was so powerful it literally altered the earth’s ...
[David Scheffer] Keeping Gadhafi on a leash

Mar 21, 2011

On Thursday evening the U.N. Security Council hit the right target when it authorized a no-fly zone over Libya, as well as “all necessary measures” against loyalist forces of Moammar Gadhafi. With th...
[David Ignatius] Contrarian thinking about dialogue

Mar 21, 2011

In a rapidly changing Islamic world, the Obama administration is weighing how best to talk with adversaries such as the Taliban and, perhaps, Hezbollah. One model for the administration, as it think...
[William Pesek] Japan’s ‘BP moment’ troubles global economy

Mar 21, 2011

You never want to kick a nation when it’s down. It’s time, though, to consider the depth of Japan’s coming recession. A week ago, before radiation fears prompted a mass exodus from Tokyo, a downturn...