China Daily, August 7, 2017.
Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean Peninsula. Recent publications include the entry on Korea for
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (New York: Springer, 2019). He has also written some chapters for a forthcoming collection: Immanuel Ness and Stuart Davis, eds.,
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
He is very grateful for the unstinting assistance of Ankie Hoogvelt and Gregory Elich in providing comments and corrections.
In August 1945, Washington’s view of the world was utterly transformed in line with the “gunboat diplomacy” dictum of Lord Palmerston countries have no permanent friends or enemies, just permanent interests.
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Bilateral military drills should be suspended this year and officials should consider terminating them altogether
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The following article is an opinion piece by Cheehyung Harrison Kim, an associate professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a member of the Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.
After over a year of standstill, the dialogue between the governments of North Korea and South Korea is on the verge of resumption. A joint South Korea-United States military exercise which is set to begin in South Korea in the second week of March is