The Korea Herald

[Dick Polman] The left goes to war

Mar 31, 2011

I wonder how many liberals would’ve voted for Barack Obama if he had stumped the nation with this campaign vow: “We’re fighting two wars, but as president I pledge to change that policy by ordering ...
[William Pesek] Amish life in Tokyo will cause backlash

Mar 31, 2011

What’s up with the blue jackets? This is suddenly the question I’m getting when speaking with folks overseas or reading my emails. It’s not whether I feel safe, or if I’m drinking Tokyo’s radioactiv...
[Gareth Evans] Stick to the U.N. resolution on Libya

Mar 31, 2011

MELBOURNE ― The international military intervention in Libya is not about bombing for democracy or for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s head ― let alone keeping oil prices down or profits up. Legally, moral...
[Marifeli Perez-Stable] Latin America scores high on ‘happiness’ index

Mar 30, 2011

Life satisfaction ― commonly known as happiness ― is what it’s all about. What makes us happy is another matter altogether. The adage that money can’t buy happiness, it turns out, is mostly wrong. I...
Questions about president’s wartime powers

Mar 30, 2011

Did President Obama break the law when he ordered U.S. planes to bomb Moammar Gadhafi’s forces in Libya? Some critics think so. But as with all discussions of the wartime powers of Congress and the p...
Manufacturers must lead Japan’s recovery

Mar 30, 2011

Many automobile and electric appliance makers have been forced to suspend output as their production centers were crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that hit the Pacific coast of the Toh...
[David Ignatius] Obama’s opportunity in the Middle East

Mar 30, 2011

CAIRO ― A young Egyptian journalist named Merette Ibrahim has come to question visiting Defense Secretary Bob Gates at a roundtable discussion. She’s passionately idealistic about Egypt’s new democra...
[Simon Johnson] Maestro nurtures a new too-big-to-fail crisis

Mar 30, 2011

Just tell the government to back off and all will be fine. That’s what former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems to say in “Activism,” an article published in the Spring issue of Internat...
[Kevin Hassett] Fed seat stalemate leaves diamond in the rough

Mar 30, 2011

If a modern-day Aesop were to write a fable that illustrates the essential character of the American government, he could model it on the story of Peter Diamond. Of the 67 winners of the Nobel Prize...
[Yuriko Koike] Bonds: Key word in Japan’s recovery

Mar 30, 2011

TOKYO ― The tsunami raced through the town at eight meters per second, the speed of a gold-medal sprinter. The wave’s height reached 15 meters, towering above even the highest pole-vault bars. Ships ...
Halting the devastation of the nation’s lakes, rivers

Mar 29, 2011

S. Korea’s lack of fishing regulations gives free rein to poachers Spring has nearly arrived. Frozen rivers have regained their flow. I tie hundreds of flies, translate piles of Korean language maps...
[Matthew Lynn] Portuguese bailout costs more than money alone

Mar 29, 2011

Is it 50 billion euros? Or perhaps 70 billion euros? The cost of bailing out Portugal varies according to who makes the calculation. No one will know the real price until officials from the Internati...
Multilateralism prevails in Libya calculation

Mar 29, 2011

Unlike the Iraq war, which smacked of go-it-alone cowboyism, the Libyan intervention has been for the most part a multilateralist’s dream: an idealistic granola bar of an operation, carefully orchest...
[Park Sang-seek] Libya war: Three tasks for the world

Mar 29, 2011

The United Nations, which has avoided direct military involvement in the popular revolts in several Arab countries, is launching military attacks on the Gadhafi regime to protect the rebel forces. Th...
[Albert R. Hunt] Only Gadhafi’s ouster defines success in Libya

Mar 29, 2011

Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich raises the possibility of impeaching President Barack Obama for aggressive air strikes against Libya, while Mitt Romney, a potential Republican presidential can...