Tsutomu Nishioka's Archives
【#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...
【#887】Two Variables Seen in S. Korean Presidential Race
February 15, 2022 South Korean voters will cast votes to elect their new president on March 9. Presidential candidates registered their candidacies on February 13 and 14 and launched official camp...
January 17, 2022 On December 28 last year, the Council for Cultural Affairs, an advisory panel to the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, selected a goldmine site on the island of Sado, Niigata ...
December 20, 2021 On December 18, Shigeo Iizuka, a former representative of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnaped by North Korea, died at the age of 83. He was the eldest brother of ...
December 2, 2021 An online magazine on international affairs based in the United States carried a South Korean scholar’s contribution claiming wartime comfort women as not sex slaves but quickly d...
【#858】On Death of Former S. Korean President Chun Doo Hwan
November 29, 2021 Former South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan died at the age of 90. The incumbent Moon Jae In administration did not hold a state funeral for Chun or provide government support fo...