New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
While the Biden administration continues to promote its tired mix of sanctions and incentives to force North Korea to disarm, a coalition of women’s peace groups is calling on the US government to try what no American leader has done…
I just wrote an editorial for The Nation on the US and North Korea, paying attention to the Democrats who are even more to the right than Trump. It will run in the magazine’s next print edition, which comes out…
My latest, just published in The Nation. Here’s the lead: The New York Times may still have a Judith Miller problem—only now it’s a David Sanger problem. Miller, of course, is the former Times reporter who helped build the case for the…
My interview with The Real News On Friday, I spoke to Aaron Mate of The Real News in Baltimore about this week’s agreement by the ROK, the DPRK and the UN Command to remove guard posts along the DMZ. I noted…
In a surprise development, the Pentagon just announced it was suspending the next round of military exercises with South Korea to give diplomacy a chance to work. This comes after days of acrimony between the Trump and Moon administrations over…
Who says North and South Korea can’t get along? This strikes me as very significant. Yonhap: SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) — The two Koreas are wrapping up their demining operations in part of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to carry out…
Guest Post: Join the music festival on the DMZ June 23 and 24! By John R. Eperjesi On August 14, 1945, US Army colonel Dean Rusk and Army staffer Charles Bonesteel went into a room with a copy of National…
The Trump-Kim summit was off – then it was rescued by Moon Jae-in. It made for a week of ups and downs for the Korea Peace Process and a busy two days for Dispatch Korea. Let’s start with today’s news, via Hankyoreh: …
The US State Department has denied special permits for travel to North Korea to two prominent American women mobilizing international support for the Korea peace process. Christine Ahn, the founder and international coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, an international coalition…
On Wednesday, Moon Chung-in, a Korean academic and a key foreign policy adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, delivered an important policy speech in Seoul. Mostly, he expressed regret about the latest dispute between North and South and optimism…
Amazing – after nearly 60 years, the two Koreas are joined by rail. Once, long ago, it was possible to board a train in Pusan, on Korea’s southern tip, and travel all the way to Paris. What a trip that…