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The contention that responses are rooted in anxiety and competition rather than excitement is not to be underestimated here, but it is nevertheless fascinating to compare Korea with other advanced economies. ft.com/content/2c5e6862-65b6…
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I have been appointed as the BBC's Seoul Correspondent, covering the Korean Peninsula.
It’s an honour to take this on from @jeanmackenzie, who set the standard here.
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dedollarization? what dedellarization. more evidence showing Russia is still buying and selling in the dollar system -- including purchase of Chinese batteries for drones via a global shadow financial network using UAE dirham etc pegged to USD ft.com/content/fb42c5dd-1550…
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You may be right in general, but it is a separate issue. In this case the highlighted (false) citations would (if they existed) be in English, in English-language journals (like Democratization).
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Not the only question, is it. Some substitutions and tactics have also been debatable, at best.
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I’m on board. Fully. And bullish. But as a wise man once almost said, if God had meant football to be played on YouTube and Instagram, he would have put grass on the Internet.
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North Korea pushes joint ventures with China under new regional development policy. The fruits of Victory Day, in other words. dailynk.com/english/north-ko…
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I think “remaining hope” has long been exceedingly thin on the ground, so not sure this matters much.
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U.S. described unflatteringly on front page of main South Korean right-wing daily as a "security gangster" for its proposal to take Ukrainian rare earths in exchange for military assistance.
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I told several journalists that it will all be over by morning. Looking at the National Assembly, Oh Se-hoon’s remarks and some other evidence, I suspect I will find I overestimated the durability of Yoon Suk-yeol’s madcap scheme.
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A Ukrainian envoy, none other than Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, is about to arrive - may already have arrived - in Seoul: m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241…
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We live in interesting times, and the world is crying out for analysis that makes sense of it all. Now more than ever. Come and work with me on Northeast Asia -- and, this being a China job, a lot more.
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DPRK geopolitical position is improving, but that doesn't translate into domestic good health: "What to make of the stunning collapse in value of North Korean won"
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‘China will not like it one bit’: Beijing uneasy with North Korean troops in Russia. Spot on from the @FT. on.ft.com/3AfQhRp
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It seems Putin wants to portray the Ukrainian incursion into Russia as an invasion, thus subject to the mutual defense clause in the shiny new Russia-DPRK treaty. What happens next could be momentous. tass.ru/politika/22226531
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"The problem is that Seoul hasn’t read Sun Tzu." North Korea blows up inter-Korean roads, leading South to fire warning shots: nknews.org/2024/10/south-kor…
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(2nd LD) S. Korea will seek to secure nuclear reprocessing facility in diplomacy with new U.S. gov't: Seoul envoy en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2024101…
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The art of the deal: S. Korea has agreed to an 8.3% rise in SK portion of U.S. military hosting costs. A chunky increase, but worth it to avoid having to negotiate with a second Trump administration. Great bit of business. en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2024100…
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Possibly not, but that is arguably the point. Plus, it is ultimately a political question irrespective of OPCON transfer, never a technocratic one. hani.co.kr/arti/politics/pol…
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