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Sun, July 3, 2022 | 17:33

Israel's endless occupation

In the 55 years Israel has been occupying Palestinian lands, there have been two intifadas, four wars in Gaza, and a long series of failed efforts to negotiate a two-state solution roughly adhering to Israel's pre-1967 borders. The situation may truly be as hopeless as it seems.

2022-06-26 16:15

Plastic waste: common scourge of South and North Korea and source of future cooperation

When in June for one week the so-called Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) conventions took place in Geneva, hundreds of delegates from all 188 participating countries in these three leading multilateral environment agreements came together to discuss how to better govern chemicals and waste management, in order to protect human health and the environment.

2022-06-23 16:50

Importance of remembering Korean War

June marks the time of the year when we remember the outbreak of one of history's most devastating conflicts. Still not technically over despite starting 72 years ago, the Korean War claimed the lives of nearly five million people.

2022-06-23 16:30

Big blow for Macron who misses out on majority

Emmanuel Macron's presidential re-election “honeymoon” was shattered on Sunday when he became the first French president in around a quarter of a century not to win a parliamentary majority.

2022-06-23 16:24

International Day of Women in Diplomacy

As June draws to a close, the United Nations marks two important anniversaries: the signing of its Charter on June 26, 1945, and the establishment of the full-fledged Commission on the Status of Women on June 21, 1946. And now we have another landmark date right between the two, the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, to...

2022-06-23 16:12

Global cooperation, skillful leadership needed to address stagflation

Rising inflation and low growth are portents of stagflation, which the world previously experienced in the 1970s. Protracted quantitative easing since the 2008 global financial crisis, disruptions in global supply chains initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic and further exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, and record-high energy prices have all attributed to rising inflation aroun...

2022-06-22 16:43

China's new red line threatens Taiwan's space

Is China drawing yet another provocative red line, this time in the narrow but strategic Taiwan Strait? The Beijing regime recently claimed that the Taiwan Strait, the defensive body of water buffering the island democracy from Mainland China, is actually sovereign Chinese territory.

2022-06-22 16:35

Putin's irony of fate

When the classic film “The Irony of Fate” plays this New Year's Eve in Russia, a tradition in almost all former USSR republics, I wonder if Putin will stare at the movie title blankly, just for a second. Unlike the romantic happy ending in the film, Putin's irony of fate may be followed by a wry smile. The hospitality and welcome that Putin expected from the Ukrainians have n...

2022-06-22 16:25

What to do about Russian fossil fuel imports?

In recent weeks, Gazprom has cut the flow of gas into Europe along the Nord Stream 1 pipeline by 60 percent, while also cutting off some of the countries that refused Russia's demand to pay in rubles.

2022-06-21 16:24

World Environment Day: From greed to green

When this year started, I wrote an article in The Korea Times titled, “Climate Outlook 2022,” in January. This article mentioned a wide range of significant global events for climate change and sustainable development. Indeed, 2022 is a historic milestone, as it marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, which resulted i...

2022-06-21 16:15

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