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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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[Peter Goldmark] Can we even govern ourselves?
You’ve read about cults that lose touch with reality and gather on some hilltop to greet the end of the world.We have a large cult-like group in the House of Representatives who have lost touch with economic reality and whose delusions may cause the country they say they love incalculable harm.Even
Aug. 7, 2011
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[Editorial] Lackluster investigation
The parliamentary investigation into the savings bank scandal has virtually ended without uncovering anything about the massive irregularities at the suspended banks. The outcome is disappointing, to say the least, and all the more so given the prosecution’s failure to answer a host of questions reg
Aug. 7, 2011
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[Shlomo Ben Ami] Middle East’s new game about democracy
MADRID ― Whether or not the Arab Spring will usher in credible democracies across the Arab world remains uncertain. But, while the dust has not yet settled after months of turmoil in Tunis, Cairo and elsewhere, the Arab revolts have already had a massive impact on the strategic structure of the Midd
Aug. 7, 2011
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[Laurence Kotlikoff] Generational balance, not budget balance
Debt crises make great drama. The big shots attend meetings, look terribly worried, then stomp out, accusing each other of bad faith. Finally, at the witching hour, they reach agreement and tell us all is fine, for now. The tough thing is sorting out what’s really going on. In the U.S. case, the ans
Aug. 7, 2011
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[William Pesek] Let’s get Homer Simpson’s hands off the controls
Japanese executives aren’t known for bucking the establishment. Hiroshi Mikitani is a rare exception at a time when rebellion is most needed. The president of Rakuten Inc., Japan’s biggest online retailer, turned 46 on March 11. That was the day when a record earthquake and tsunami set off the worst
Aug. 7, 2011
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[Robert Reich] The U.S. social security reform
House Republicans want to put Social Security on the chopping block in order to help reduce the long-term budget deficit, and the president seems willing to agree.That we’ve reached this point reveals both the cravenness of the GOP’s demands and the callowness of the opposition to those demands.In a
Aug. 5, 2011
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[Editorial] Japan’s economic white paper calls for resilience
The fiscal 2011 government white paper on the economy and state finances, issued July 22, analyzes economic conditions in the wake of the March 11 disasters. It calls for the creation of an economy resilient to crises and makes some policy proposals; however, the proposals are too general in the con
Aug. 5, 2011
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[Editorial] Fast rail as a metaphor for authoritarian China
What began as a transport accident in the busy rail corridor of Zhejiang province is turning into a test of China’s authoritarian methods of preserving stability. Should the old template of information control prevail? Is it even possible? Mastery of online media by citizens is weakening notions of
Aug. 5, 2011
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[Yuriko Koike] China trains unsafe at any speed?
TOKYO ― At least 38 people were killed and more than 200 injured by the recent crash of two high-speed trains near Zhenzhou in Zhejiang, a province in China. The wrecked body of the ruined train was buried immediately afterward, with no investigation.The intellectual-property dispute between Japan a
Aug. 5, 2011
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[Editorial] Small sigh of relief over raised U.S. debt ceiling
Over the past few months, the world has watched with uneasiness and frustration the political drama unfolding in Washington, capital of the world’s largest economy. The fierce partisan debate over raising the debt ceiling was so ugly that it threatened to hold hostage not only the United States’ own
Aug. 5, 2011
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[Editorial] Thorny road ahead for Afghan self-determination
Nation-building efforts in Afghanistan face a major turning point.The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has started withdrawing troops stationed in Afghanistan. European and other countries helping to maintain security in Afghanistan will follow suit in reducing their military presence.T
Aug. 5, 2011
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[Editorial] America cannot afford to let Pakistan go rogue
To a developing country drifting towards catastrophe as it tries to hold together under assaults from domestic threats and terrorism, $800 million is a lot of money.And so when the Obama administration decided to punish Pakistan by suspending $800 million of its annual $2 billion security aid, one w
Aug. 5, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Hollywood’s vanishing act
WASHINGTON ― We are living in what New York Times called “a golden age of foreign films.” But American audiences wouldn’t know it unless they are lucky enough to live near an art-house cinema, or can tolerate subtitles on rented DVDs. The rising quality of foreign films over the past several ye
Aug. 4, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] Zero-sum games in an interconnected world
What’s wrong with this picture: Even as the world is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent, we seem to be approaching conflicts more in zero-sum terms and with all-or-nothing politics.Because digital networks and the global economy have humans more tightly bound than any time in th
Aug. 4, 2011
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[Naomi Wolf ] America’s reactionary feminists
NEW YORK ― It is obvious that the left and the media establishment in the United States cannot fully understand the popular appeal of the two Republican tigresses in the news ― first Sarah Palin, and now, as she consolidates her status as a Republican presidential front-runner, Michele Bachmann. Wha
Aug. 4, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] The siren song of Google+ to Web surfers
Google+, which launched a month ago to great fanfare, is so far feeling more like Google nonplussed. Reported to have crossed the 20-million-user mark two weeks ago, the new social networking site is designed to correct one of Facebook’s major drawbacks: the problem of too much information being sha
Aug. 4, 2011
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[Meghan O’Sullivan] U.S. should say it will stay long in Afghanistan
Even last week’s swearing in of Ryan Crocker ― one of the most talented U.S. diplomats ― as ambassador to Kabul seems unable to stanch the perception that U.S. efforts in Afghanistan are waning. Most Americans take solace in the notion that, in President Barack Obama’s words, “the tide of wars is re
Aug. 4, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] September looms large for Israel
HAIFA, Israel ― Around here, everyone is deeply concerned about September. In fact, that’s just about the only thing anyone is talking about.For Israelis and Palestinians, September is the universally understood shorthand for the likely United Nations vote that month on whether to recognize Palestin
Aug. 3, 2011
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[Ramesh Ponnuru] Debt battles revealed tea party’s divisions
At first glance, it looks as if the tea partiers scored a big win over Speaker of the House John Boehner and the Republican Party establishment last week. Boehner pleaded for Republican members of Congress to unite in support of a package of spending cuts and a debt-limit increase. He ran into vehem
Aug. 3, 2011
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[Laszlo Bruszt , David Stark] Western democracy’s summer of silence over N. Africa
FIESOLE, Italy ― The summer has not brought consolidation to processes of political change in North Africa. The political landscapes in Egypt and Tunisia are highly volatile. With only a few months before crucial elections, it is still highly uncertain who and what can guarantee that elections will
Aug. 3, 2011