Koreans are rightly angered each time Japan renews an unwarranted claim to Korea’s easternmost rocky islets of Dokdo. This time, however, many of them voiced as much disappointment as anger on hearin...e Korean government dealt with the matter as it had forcefully done in the past ― bringing in Japan’s envoy to the foreign minister’s office and lodging a strong protest. The diplomatic task of immedi...

...osed sites was economically viable. Is the controversy over the airport project now wrapped up? Hardly. Presidential aides say Lee is planning to address the nation with regard to his administration’s decision, apparently in an effort to put the fallout behind him. But all he needs to do is say he is sorry that he could not make good on his pledge, and nothing more. Revolting against the decisio...

Before President Obama’s address to the nation about Libya, three questions about U.S. involvement there loomed large: Why, among all the places with vulnerable civilian populations, did the U.S. and its allies choose to intervene in Libya? Was the mission designed to prevent civilian suffering or to topple Moammar Gadhafi? How (and how quickly) would the U.S. extricate itself from this engagemen...

...ots trying to explain them. This isn’t a war, White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week, “it’s a time-limited, scope-limited military action.” “What we are doing is enforcing a (United Nations...it showed where the administration’s well of clarity runs dry. Here’s the problem: President Obama’s strategy is clear, but only for the short term ― the days, not weeks, he allotted for U.S.-led air...

...tter. When I launch our third intervention, I pledge to inform the members of Congress only when it’s too late for them to do anything about it. Thank you very much!” But that’s where we are today, i...e sentences endorsing the mission, then added: “U.S. participation is strengthened by the president’s continued consultation with Congress.” In translation, here’s what that sentence means: “If Obama ...

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 radioactive tap water or if I plan to make a beeline out of the Fukushima zone. It’s why, oh why, are Japanese leaders dressed like auto mechanics? It’s to show, of course, they are in full-blown crisis-manage...

...Japan is considering pouring concrete into its crippled Fukushima atomic plant as the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency warned that a potential uncontrolled chain reaction could cause further ra...ns consist of a burst of heat, radiation and sometimes an “ethereal blue flash,” according to the U.S. Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory web site. Twenty-one workers have been killed ...

...lent to 374 of every 100,000 being treated for the disorder. Men slightly outnumbered females with 93,000 males seeking treatment compared to 88,000 women. Among men, 88,000 patients were in their 20s and 30s, accounting for 48.4 percent. About 25,000 of the total were men under 20 years old. “Hair loss seems to be related to stress among youngsters,” Dr. Cho Nam-jun of Ilsan Hospital said. “No cause of...

... presented Tuesday at the Society of Interventional Radiology annual meeting. As men reach their 40s, the prostate begins to enlarge, causing it to press against the urethra. The condition is known a...nal radiology at St. Louis Hospital in Lisbon. “I don’t have any doubt about it.” Doctors in the U.S. said the procedure has garnered more attention in Europe, though U.S. physicians now are travelin...

...ceprevir specifically targets the hepatitis C virus and inhibits it from replicating in the patient’s body. In group two, 59 percent of patients responded to the treatment and in group three in 66 per...t. A virological response is generally taken to mean the virus has been wiped out from the patient’s body. Boceprevir, which has been developed by Merck, is currently undergoing review before being ...