“Regime Change in North Korea?” ZNet, December 25, 2003 Terrorist Potatoes, TomPaine, December 2003 “North Korea: a Different Kind of Regime Change,” Global Beat Syndicate, December 2, 2003 “Two Cheers for Realpolitik,” TomPaine.com, November 24, 2003 “Fields of Battle,” TomPaine.com, October 27, 2003 “The Peculiar Pragmatism of Pyongyang,” The Progressive, October 2003 “Wish List,” The American Prospect On-Line, October… Continue reading 2003 Archives
North Korea/South Korea: U.S. Politics and the Korean Peninsula Monday, November 3, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. Borders 32nd and 2nd Avenue New York City Korea Peace Day Wednesday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m. AFSC, 1501 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA Korea Peace Day Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 p.m. Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA North Korea/South Korea:… Continue reading 2003 Events
Drunkards know no limits. They drink until they drop. Those drunk on power, like the current Bush administration, delude themselves into believing they do not have to observe any limits. Drunkards beware: the transition from swaggering to staggering can be unexpectedly swift. As destruction segues into reconstruction in Iraq, the Bush administration is claiming victory… Continue reading The Price of Power
The Bush administration is behaving like an alpha male in its conflicts with Europe, bellowing and beating its chest to scare the competition. And in letting testosterone determine policy, Washington is out to spread its seed as widely as possible. By pushing genetically modified (GM) seed and produce, the United States wants to remake the… Continue reading Seeds of Conflict
Review of Kim Il Sung and Korea’s Struggle by Won Tai Sohn John Feffer A casual observer of the United States in the 1950s might conclude that Dwight D. Eisenhower was a genial war hero who, as the 34th president, presided over a decade of unprecedented prosperity. Even my father, a World War II… Continue reading Kim Il Sung and Korea’s Struggle
Review of Charles Armstrong, The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Cornell University Press, 2003) Journalists almost ritualistically describe North Korea as the world’s last Stalinist hold out. “Stalinist,” like “communist” or “totalitarian,” is used more for its damning than its descriptive power. Indeed, in the same breath, journalists acknowledge that North Korea remains a profound… Continue reading The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950 (Review)
Conflict-resolution professionals often say that to break a deadlock requires parties to shift from “positions” to “interests.” For the past year, the United States and North Korea have repeated their positions ad nauseum. The United States wants North Korea to give up its nuclear program; North Korea wants a guarantee that the United States won’t… Continue reading Wish List
For the last year, the Bush administration has spoken with a forked tongue on North Korean policy. The pragmatists in the Bush administration have wanted to negotiate a solution to the current nuclear stand-off. The hardliners have been eager for Korean War II. Now, according to Beltway gossip in Washington, the pragmatists have bested… Continue reading North Korea: A Different Kind of Regime Change