North Korea’s ‘Satellite Launch’: A Balance Sheet In spite of mounting criticism and dissuasion by its neighbors and the international community, North Korea obviously intends to proceed with its announced rocket launch in mid-April, supposedly to put a space satellite, Kwangmyongsong-3, into orbit....

When We Have an Ethnic Sri Lankan Represent Korea U.S. President Barack Obama last week nominated Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College, to be the next president of the World Bank. The World Bank is an international organization that spends tens of billions of dollars annually to assist devel...

Projection of the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit “Katchi kapshida!” (“We go together”) U.S. President Barack Obama declared in concluding his speech at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul on March 26. Delivered on the sidelines of his participation in the 2012 Nuclear Security Sum...

Lessons from the Cheonan’s Demise Every day, a mother appears at the Daejeon National Cemetery to visit the graves of the sailors of the Cheonan, a Navy corvette sunk by a North Korean torpedo on March 26, 2010. She wipes the tombstones of all 46 fallen sailors. One of them is her so...

Civic Movement Put to Test Each party has nearly finished nominating its candidates for the National Assembly in preparation for the April 11 general elections. One of the important points to take note in the run-up to the elections is civil society groups' participation in po...