The funny thing is that China's position on the Taiwan question has not meaningfully changed in the last seven decades, and it's entirely consistent with international law and numerous United Nations resolutions -- not to mention the various joint agreements between the United States and China. ...
North Korea is arguably the country most brutally affected by U.S. economic sanctions. North Korea's battles with the U.S. started in the 1950s with the U.S. entry into the Korean War, a move designed to counter the Soviet Union's support for a unified, communist Korea.8 Technically,...
Questions why people in North Korea are starving and what can be done to help as of June 7, 1997. Results from a United Nations World Food Programme report published on June 4, 1997; The social conditions under the rule of Kim II Sung; The government's response to the disaster....
North Korea's suspension for skipping the Olympics seems unusual for a good reason: It hasn't happened before. Roughly 100 different countries famouslyboycotted various Olympicsin the 1970s and 1980s, all without any formal punishment. The US evenled the biggest-ever Olympic boycott, thenwent o...
Korea wasn't always divided into North and South like it is now. While today the differences between the two seem as distinct as night and day, just 75 ...
a military alliance between 30 European countries and two North American countries dedicated to preserving peace and security in the North Atlantic area. Ukraine is one ofjust a fewcountries in Eastern Europe that aren’t members of the alliance. The Kremlin in general views NATO expansion as a...
in the modern world, clearly political factors are a larger motivator of immigration. Such political factors occur in a multitude of shapes and forms. For example, migration out of North Korea constitutes a major factor that has long-motivated people to leave the country to escape political ...
The shift from dramatic threats to high-stakes diplomacy to virtual afterthought at the United Nations reflects the strange, muddled state of affairs on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea is still making threats in its state media. It’s still conducting banned weapons tests as it looks to put ...
Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation...
Is it due to their lack of trust in the official and online media, or because of the impediments presented by social and cultural (i.e., festive, in this case) norms? To answer these questions, this paper conducted a questionnaire across the majority of the Chinese mainland to investigate...