As Democrats in Washington reflexively “get tough” on North Korea, they kick away a chance a for peace on the Korean peninsula. Eager to criticize President Trump, they overlook the reality that denuclearization and ending the Korean war are popular ideas in South Korea. As Ploughshares director Joe Cirincione explains, Trump’s diplomacy is is worth...
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China Steps Up Defense of Uighur Re-Education Camps
China’s massive effort to control and coopt the ethnic minority Uighurs is getting international attention and China is pushing back. In a diplomatic offensive, the Chinese government wants to explain to countries in the Middle East, what its Ministry of State Security is doing. The government has now invited China-based diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Morocco,...
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Israel’s Mossad Joins India’s R&AW Seeking to Finish Masood Azhar
RAW stands for Research and Analysis Wing, which is India’s version of the CIA, it s foreign intelligence service. Masood Azhar is the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed, the fundamentalist Islamic group that recently struck with deadly effect in Kashmir. India is looking for help from Israel’s Mossad and Israel is glad to provide it. Because of...
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NBC’s ‘Secret’ North Korean Missile Site Is Well-Known in Korean Press
An NBC News report on a “secret” North Korean missile base isn’t news in South Korea. The base in the village of Sino has been cited repeatedly in the South Korean press in the past 20 years, according to The Hankyoreh, a South Korean daily. The NBC story appears to have been based on a new...
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South Korea’s National Security Act Goes On Trial
Writing in the Nation, Max Kim explains one of the biggest obstacles to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula: the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service and the notorious National Security Act that it enforces. The NIS is the successor to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which played a bloody role in the country’s political life....