The missile defense component is a minor feature that nobody takes very seriously. Nobody really believes that the US is trying to protect itself fro….

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the p….

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk..

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumsta….

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like N….

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement.".

I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I apparently climbed up on our upright ….

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea..

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You woul….

We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting….

Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side….

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a who….

Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do triv….

Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary worl….

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that di….

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors..

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment..

I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that….

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another..

I think I sort of realized it was an international thing when we went to South Korea for The Fast [and the Furious] 6 premiere. We knew nothing about….

I would like to get out to the region in the Caspian sea. I would like to go there. I would like to get to Darfur. I would like to get to Khartoum in….