【#520(Special)】Precarious U.S.-North Korea Political Show
June 14, 2018 Surely, June 12 when a U.S.-North Korea summit took place has become a historic day. This is because the two countries’ theatrical political leaders broadly reached an agreement...
【#519】Remember Significance of G7 Summit
June 11, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel described U.S. President Donald Trump’s talks with six other leaders at a Group of Seven summit in Italy’s Taormina last year as not very unsatis...
【#518(Special)】Belt and Road Initiative Starts Backspin
June 4, 2018 China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a modern silk road economic zone ambition, has started a backspin at last. In Malaysia that had attempted to join the BRI, a new administr...
【#517】China Creating Its Own International Standards
June 4, 2018 Shangri-La Dialogue 2018, an Asian security summit attended by defense ministers and senior military officers, took place in Singapore last weekend. Until two years ago, China ha...
【#516】U.S. Striking Counterblow against China
May 28, 2018 Elizabeth Economy, director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading U.S. think tank, has contributed a persuasive essay to the May/June issue of Foreign A...
【#515】French Intellectuals Call for Switching Japan’s Security View
May 21, 2018 The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals held a symposium titled “New Global Challenges and Japan” on May 17 to mark its 10th anniversary. Invited to the symposium as guest ...
【#514(Special)】Intelligence Agencies Required for a Libya Model
May 14, 2018 The U.S. government seems willing to adopt the so-called “Libya model” to the denuclearization of North Korea. The model featured foreign intelligence agencies already aware of n...
【#513】No Rush to Improve Relations with China
May 14, 2018 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accompanied Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on his trip to Hokkaido after a Japan-China-South Korea summit in Tokyo last week and sent him off at a local air...
【#512】Don’t Ease Pressure on N. Korea until Return of Abductees
May 7, 2018 From April 30 through May 5, I visited the United States as a member of a joint delegation of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea and two supportin...
【#511】Panmunjom Declaration Represents Deception and Betrayal
May 1, 2018 “The two leaders solemnly declared before the 80 million Korean people and the whole world that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and thus a new era of peace has b...