President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia are too costly for the US to bear. As…
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Since the Cold War, competition between foreign powers for influence in Africa has spurred a great debate. With a focus on China,…
We still donāt know for sure if there are North Korean troops fighting in Russia against Ukrainian forces. Perhaps we never will. But Ukraineās…
In January, two veteran Korea watchers ā Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker ā published a provocative short piece that argues that, ālike his grandfather…
North Koreaās Calculations Two of Americaās most prominent North Korea experts, Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, begin their latestĀ analysisĀ with this sentence: āThe…
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