Sep 28, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — According to conventional wisdom, North Korea is headed for collapse. The only question is when. The answer: maybe sooner than we might expect. A 342 page report released this month by the RAND Corporation urged Washington DC to prepare for an...
Sep 27, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — It’s not every day that 47 Western bikers can ride through the world’s most reclusive state. Yet as part of a race that began in China, athletes zipped through North Korea’s port town of Rajin this week, Reuters reports. Traffic was blocked off,...
Sep 9, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, is marching toward the next battlefield in its war against Apple. On Wednesday in Berlin, the Korean mega-corporation unveiled the long-anticipated Galaxy Gear, a wearable smartwatch set for release...
Sep 8, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — The Obama administration’s push for a military strike against Syria is in full swing, highlighting not only the use of chemical weapons but the regimes that support Assad. Aside from Russia (Syria’s most powerful ally) and Iran (its neighbor and...
Sep 4, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — On Tuesday, bad-boy retired basketball player Dennis Rodman landed in North Korea for a second meeting with his unusual buddy, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. In February, the flamboyant star became the first American known to have met Kim Jong Un...
Sep 1, 2013 | Writing
Editor’s note: We publish thousands of stories at GlobalPost every year. But some of these don’t receive the reader attention they deserve. Our series “20 Must-Reads of 2013” fixes that problem. Here’s a look — maybe a second one — at...
