Between military provocations against the DPRK and factional warfare at home, President Yoon’s martial law crisis continues to rock the South Korean state — and the US has to have known it was coming, writes KENNY COYLE
The chaos and confusion that has resulted from President Yoon’s failed coup reminds us that the nation’s US-backed elite has always been ready to call in the military to prop itself up, writes KENNY COYLE
JAMES NALTON writes how international football is refreshing compared top-level club football, bringing stories of sporting, political, cultural, and geographical significance
Countries such as South Korea have used contact-tracing apps to help contain Covid-19. But will the British government be able to implement the approach without compromising the rights of citizens, ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Jo Bartosch speaks to NAYOUNG KIM about how South Korean women have lit a fire of feminist activism by rejecting the confining ‘corset’ of sex role stereotypes
South Korean trade union leader WOL-SAN LIEM speaks to Navid Shomali about the continuing struggles of the labour movement and her hopes for a lasting peace in the region
The above statement comes from former US president Jimmy Carter and puts into perspective the present administration’s willful sabotage of any and all prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, writes JOHN ELLISON
North Korea is “begging for war,” the United States claimed yesterday following Pyongyang’s hydrogen bomb test as China appealed for talks to avoid a nuclear conflict on its border.
KENNY COYLE walks us through the bizarre scandal which could oust South Korea’s President Park Geun Hye. Her downfall could be an opportunity for the left to break the country free from neoliberalism
The Gariwang was considered a royal, forbidden mountain and has been under state protection for centuries. Now its ancient forest is being bulldozed to make room for a ski slope. PETER FROST is not alone in holding this to be an environmental crime
A Socialist and Democratic group of MEPs have agreed to a shabby compromise resolution supporting TTIP, leaving all the most unjust elements of the deal in tact, write KEITH EWING and JOHN HENDY
Spanish Socialist Party leader steps down after EU election drubbing; Turkish court orders arrest of Israeli military commanders over Gaza blockade-runner deaths; A Spanish village votes to changes its anti-Semitic name
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