Scrapping the Second Summit: Lee Myung Bak’s Fateful Mis-step
If only…. Counterfactuals may be in vain, yet they are insistent. If Lee Myung Bak had been the …
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Foreign Affairs
Evil geniuses, stumbling fools, or something in between, we will attempt to divine the real motives behind Pyongyang’s foreign policy moves.
Lee Myung Bak, Pragmatic Moderate? The Way We Were, 2007
In 1962, Decca records turned down the Beatles, saying guitar groups were on their way out. A …
The Yeonpyeong Island Incident
In a 38 North Special Report, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. provides an in-depth account of the North …
Suicidal, Calculating, or Constrained? Yeonpyeong Island and North Korea’s Motives
If I were slightly more egocentric, I would suspect that Kim Jong Il always waits until I …