Tsutomu Nishioka's Archives
【#998】Looming Local Clash and Famine on Korean Peninsula
January 10, 2023 Military tensions are rising again on the Korean Peninsula. Amid tensions in 2017, then U.S. President Donald Trump exerted military pressure on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ...
【#987】Make No Easy Concession over Wartime Korean Workers in Japan
November 21, 2022 On November 13, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held his first official meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Phnom Penh. South Korean government officials s...
【#980】Unification Church Issue as Seen by a Christian
October 31, 2022 On a personal note, I am a Christian. Among Christian denominations, I belong to an evangelical Protestant believing that authentic words of Gods are written in the New and Old Te...
【#973】Don’t Succumb to North Korean Nuclear Threats
October 11, 2022 On October 10, North Korea announced that its seven missile launches between September 10 and October 9 were “military drills” by the “tactical nuclear operation units,” guided by...
【#963】Inside Story of North Korea’s Support for Russia
September 12, 2022 Russia facing an uphill battle in Ukraine is in the process of negotiating to import millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, the White House national security...
【#916】How to Counter North Korean Nuclear Intimidation: Part 2
May 9, 2022 In this column on April 4, I wrote that nuclear intimidation against non-nuclear South Korea by senior North Korean officials including Kim Yo Jong, a sister of top leader Kim Jong Un ...
【#908】How to Counter North Korean Nuclear Intimidation
April 4, 2022 North Korea has come up with blatant nuclear intimidation. After North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that would reach the U.S. mainland, South Korean Defense...
【#905】N. Korean Capabilities to Nuke U.S. Could Trigger Japan Crisis
March 28, 2022 On March 24, North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile. Given its reported maximum altitude and other data, the ICBM, if launched on a normal trajectory, may reac...
March 14, 2022 In South Korea’s presidential election on March 9, opposition candidate Yoon Suk Yeol won by a narrow margin of only 0.7 percentage points. Polls before the election showed that Yoo...
【#892】Criticizing Biased NYT Article on Sado Gold Mines
February 28, 2022 The New York Times carried an extremely unbalanced article on February 21 about Sado gold mines that the Japanese government recommended as a candidate for World Cultural Heritag...