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![[Jeffrey D. Sachs] The United Nations turns 70](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/20150824001577_01.jpg "[Jeffrey D. Sachs] The United Nations turns 70")
NEW YORK — The United Nations will mark its 70th anniversary when world leaders assemble next month at its headquarters in New York. Though there will be …
![[Park Sang-seek] Political polarization in Korea and the U.S.](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/20150824001579_01.jpg "[Park Sang-seek] Political polarization in Korea and the U.S.")
I spent two months in the U.S. in 2010. I was quite surprised to find that mass media were carrying reports and debates on the deep political polarization …
President Park Geun-hye vowed to continue with its propaganda broadcasts across the border unless North Korea offered a clear apology for the recent land mine …
South and North Korea sought to find ways of defusing tensions on the peninsula at high-level talks that were resumed Sunday after being adjourned earlier in …
![[Andrew Sheng] Is this the end of Laissez-faire?](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/20150823000322_01.jpg "[Andrew Sheng] Is this the end of Laissez-faire?")
Hong Kong has prided itself as being the freest economy in the world, but last week Chief Executive CY Leung pronounced that the “positive nonintervention” …
![[William Pesek] China avoids great responsibility](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/20150823000317_01.jpg "[William Pesek] China avoids great responsibility")
Forty-three years after Richard Nixon made his famous visit to China, that country has seemingly decided to take a page from the former U.S. president’s …
Former Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook will be jailed Monday, four days after the Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that sentenced her to two years …
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s speech last Friday, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, was keenly awaited upon for …
The latest proposal for a cable car to be installed at Mount Seoraksan National Park has deeply divided the proponents, who claim the cable car would boost the …
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are high following North Korea’s firing of rockets across the border and South Korea’s subsequent return fire. North …