The Korea Herald

[Yao Yunzhu] Thawing China-U.S. military relations

Jan 21, 2011

The recent visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to Beijing has been widely interpreted as marking the restart of Sino-U.S. military ties, which were damaged by the Barack Obama administrat...
Meet the Chinese as the landlord for U.S.

Jan 20, 2011

All the bluster on Capitol Hill about punishing China for suppressing the value of its currency misses the bigger picture: We and the Chinese need each other to remain strong. China holds almost $1 ...
Growing demand for high-tech health care

Jan 20, 2011

Healthsense, a technology company based just outside Minneapolis, uses wireless sensors to provide an early warning system for health problems among the elderly or frail. The sensors send out an aler...
[Gregory Rodriguez] Politics’ dark passions

Jan 20, 2011

Once you get a look at the evil smirk captured by the mug shot of Jared Lee Loughner, it’s hard to believe that mere heated political rhetoric was the decisive factor in his allegedly pulling the tri...
[David Ignatius] Help is there if sought for the mentally ill

Jan 20, 2011

WASHINGTON ― But what should we do about the mentally ill who walk among us, stumbling toward what may be violent confrontations with authority? That question was asked by dozens of readers after a c...
[Alden C. Mayfield] Asian and Euro-American economic crises

Jan 20, 2011

When the needles of greed, corruption, and cronyism popped the economic bubbles of Asia between 1997-98, much of the Western world gloated and wasted little time in criticizing irrational Asians for ...
[Doyle McManus] A nuclear Iran around the corner? Not so fast

Jan 20, 2011

After years of warning that an Iranian atomic bomb is right around the corner, Israeli officials now say Iran is at least four years away from deploying a nuclear weapon, maybe more. And Obama admini...
[Joel Brinkley] A popular uprising ... but then what?

Jan 20, 2011

Across much of the world, including most every Middle Eastern state, citizens and some national leaders are cheering the fall of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s longtime dictator. They a...
[Sylvester Eijffinger and Edin Mujagic] Qualifications for next ECB president

Jan 19, 2011

TILBURG, the Netherlands ― Two years ago, the leaders of the world’s central banks were considered heroes for their efforts in preventing financial crisis from turning into Great Depression II. Today...
Chinese jet fighter highlights need for dialogue

Jan 19, 2011

As far as stealth fighters are concerned, the Chinese prototype J-20 is perhaps too eye-attracting. On Dec. 22, 2010, photos of a taxiing test at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute of the fifth-ge...
[Eric Chaney] Euro’s Spanish showdown needs some ‘shock and awe’

Jan 19, 2011

The major battle in the fight for the survival of the euro will be fought on Spanish soil. Greece, Ireland and soon Portugal should be regarded as skirmishes. But Spain is different, in terms of scal...
[Hu Zhengyue] China strengthening ties with Asian nations

Jan 19, 2011

Last year saw good momentum in China’s strengthening ties with other Asian countries, as indicated by the frequent high-level exchanges and the expansion of two-way economic and trade links. The hig...
[Kenneth Lieberthal] Hu’s visit to readjust U.S. ties

Jan 19, 2011

President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the United States starting from Jan. 18 comes 14 months after President Barack Obama’s November 2009 visit to China. The intervening period has seen many problems...
[Trudy Rubin] Two attacks on political moderation

Jan 19, 2011

Three days before the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a courageous Pakistani politician was shot dead by one of his guards. The circumstances of the two shootings, of course, were very...
[Editorial] Mercy killing

Jan 18, 2011

Children cry watching the TV news as a dozen piglets and their mother are shown being dumped into a hole in a farm in a foot and mouth disease-infected area. Internet users are saddened to read the d...