- “To Link or Not to Link: The Human Rights Question in North Korea,” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 19, 2005
- Review of Julie Mertus, Bait and Switch, New Politics, Winter 2005
- “Chemical Farm,” AlterNet, November 22, 2005
- “The End of Anonymity,” ZNet, November 17, 2005
- “The Soul of the New Fast Food,” AlterNet, October 20, 2005
- “Hunger Strike at Guantanamo,” ZNet, October 8, 2005
- “Uses of Ambiguity in North Korea Agreement,” Foreign Policy in Focus, October 1, 2005
- “Interview with Deborah Faye Lawrence,” Critical Dispatches, October 2005
- Farmers (Review), Korean Quarterly, Fall 2005
- Comrades and Strangers (Review), Korean Quarterly, Fall 2005
- “The Legacy of Lee Kyung Hae,” AlterNet, August 29, 2005
- “Atoms for Peace,” The Providence Journal, August 17, 2005
- Review of Kyung Moon Hwang, Beyond Birth, Journal of Asian Studies, August 2005
- “The Evolution of Frankenfoods?” AlterNet, July 18, 2005
- “Food and Communism,” ZNet, July 8, 2005
- “The Restaurant Theory of Reform,” Munhwa Ilbo, June 21, 2005
- “Beyond Korean Barbecue,” AlterNet, June 10, 2005
- “Korea’s Slow-Motion Unification,” Boston Globe, June 9, 2005
- “Europe as Number One,” ZNet, May 26, 2005
- Review of Bradley Martin, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, Korean Quarterly, Spring 2005
- “Goodbye Uncle Sam, Hello Team Europe,” Alternet, April 14, 2005
- “Connecting the Democratic Dots,” Munhwa Ilbo, April 12, 2005
- “All Democracy, All the Time,” Salon.com, March 15, 2005
- “What’s Wrong with the U.S. Media?,” Munhwa Ilbo, March 8, 2005
- Japan’s Colonialization of Korea (Review), Korean Quarterly, Spring 2005
- “Korean Food, Korean Identity” APARC Working Paper, Stanford University, February 2005
- “Dealing with the Powers in Pyongyang,” Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, February 16, 2005
- “Caught in the Muddle: Round Two of Bush vs. North Korea”, Foreign Policy in Focus, February 10, 2005
- “In the Jelly Belly of the Beast”, ZNet, January 23, 2005