Japan passes a democracy-muzzling Patriot Act
SEOUL, South Korea — Asia’s rapidly mounting tensions just helped deliver a blow against democracy, with the Obama administration’s backing.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Dec 6, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Asia’s rapidly mounting tensions just helped deliver a blow against democracy, with the Obama administration’s backing.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Dec 6, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — The news yesterday that Kim Jong Un purged his uncle and de facto number two leader of North Korea, Jang Sung Taek, has all the trappings you’d expect from a mysterious and ruthless dictatorship.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Dec 4, 2013
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.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Sep 8, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Last month, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — the Pentagon’s intelligence arm — reported “with moderate confidence” in an intelligence assessment that North Korea had mastered a startling technology: the ability to shrink a nuclear warhead and place it on a crude missile.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 18, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — “The Worm,” of all people, is our new 007 in North Korea. While attending a celebrity party, the US’ unofficial ambassador to Pyongyang, Dennis Rodman, told the Miami Herald that he’s been in contact with the FBI ever since he visited Pyongyang with an HBO documentary crew in February.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 16, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — “We should settle accounts with the United States only with the gun barrel, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival.”
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Feb 2, 2013
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