A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking but is the singular dish of Thai food overseas. It's connections are closely related to...
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Take a look at Robert Kelly's series of posts on the USC-CSIS "Challenges for Korean Unification" project (part 1, part 2, part 3). Kelly's argument, if I may boil down,.
For this week's Diplomat contribution I discussed the impressive growth of the ROKN: South Korea’s robust shipbuilding industry (the world’s largest) helps support and underwrite the ROKN’s expansion and modernization..
I've written a summary of the Patterson School's Spring Crisis Simulation (this year focusing on the Korean Peninsula) over at ID. Check it out.
A boat with 31 North Korea citizens drifted into South Korea waters and was picked up. North Korea being the kind of place that people sometimes don't like going back.
Words, words, words: South Korea will swiftly and strongly respond with force until North Korea surrenders if the communist state launches another assault, the South's new defence minister said. Kim.
My latest column at WPR involves Wikileaks and North Korea: Of course, the collapse of North Korea would require intense negotiations between all of the major regional actors, including Japan, Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States. Such negotiations would produce a situation just...
As has been noted in several places, this is one hell of an interesting cable. The upshot is that South Korean officials seem to believe that North Korea will collapse.
I have an article up at TAP on the prospect for negotiations with North Korea: An agreement with North Korea could happen in two ways. First, the United States and.
Global Times: Dialogue through artillery fire is rarely an effective means to settle a dispute. Robert Gates: I don't know the answer to any question about North Korea that begins with the word 'why.' Justaguy, in the comment thread below: The desire to put one’s...
I suspect that the crew of the Cheonan might dispute this headline from Reuters: North Korea shells South in fiercest attack in decades I suppose we run into definitional issues,.
This may in part explain why the South Korean Navy was twitchy and mysterious about determining the cause of the Cheonan sinking: The Navy corvette Cheonan was warned on the.