As the first rumblings of war are heard from Europe the editor of a major American newspaper decides to send a reporter to the old continent to see what is going on. He wants “our best and brightest” for the job and finds it in John Jones arousing the jealousy of older and more experienced reporters. This is the opening of “Foreign Correspondent” Alfred Hitchcock’s fast-paced 1940 film with Joel McCrae in the title role. The idea that you need your best and brightest as a foreign correspondent existed before McCrae faced Hitchcock’s’ camera and has continued ever since.
Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile and friendship.
US former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House may increase Seoul-Pyongyang diplomatic engagement, according to an expert on US-Asia relations and foreign policy. Ted Gover, director of the Tribal Administration Program at Claremont Graduate University, said in an interview with The Korea Herald in Seoul last month, that President Joe Biden's re-election would likely keep the status quo of di.
The administration's lack of moral courage has left our adversaries militarily and diplomatically emboldened and our allies openly apathetic and privately disrespectful, revealing a foreign policy that paradoxically cowers under the influence of vocal political and social minorities.