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  • The new year’s monologue of Kim Jong Un

    The new year’s monologue of Kim Jong Un

    Among all the crappy things South Korean journalism practices, fictional first person is the worst. Yes, you read it right: it’s in the first person and it’s fictional since you are writing as a guy who you are not. Why? Somehow the curmudgeons of journalism seem to think it would be far easier for the audience…

  • China’s concerns over the U.S.-led missile defense in Korea

    China’s concerns over the U.S.-led missile defense in Korea

    My comments for NK News‘s recent analysis, Why Seoul shrugs at U.S.-led missile defense: Military analyst Subin Kim said THAAD would mean a leap in defense capabilities.   “With the implementation of the THAAD, South Korea would be able to shoot down ballistic missiles up to 150 kilometers in altitude,” he said. As the South Korean…

  • Plastic Korea—a university version

    Plastic Korea—a university version

    University’s student union has affiliated with a plastic surgery hospital, giving students 30 per cent off of a surgery, I found out last Sunday.

  • a memorable paragraph

    With this decisive statement, the President moved herself from a person in final charge to a judge above clouds. While the system was collapsing, the person in final charge took a position of punisher who made a display of her will to ferret out whom to ask responsibility, instead of speaking her own. From the…

  • A Glimpse of what the Park administration is thinking about the North Korean contingency

    A Glimpse of what the Park administration is thinking about the North Korean contingency

    Yoo Seong-ok, the president of the Institute for National Security Strategy gave an interview to Chosun Ilbo. As you are probably aware of, INSS is an NIS research center. Yoo also worked as a North Korea analyst at the National Intelligence Service for 26 years. So it wouldn’t be far-fetching to assume his opinion gives us…