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In her address to the National Assembly on Wednesday, President Park Geun-hye called for legislative support for her efforts to revitalize the country’s …

After de-colonization, most newly-independent Asian and African countries were unable to stabilise democratic institutions and traditions. The system in these …

After being promised a free hand to choose his cabinet, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo discovered ― perhaps not to his complete surprise ― that it was …

The governor-elect of Fukushima prefecture must display strong leadership to accelerate efforts for reconstruction from the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power …

The four-river development project pushed during the Lee Myung-bak administration is a typical pork-barrel project motivated more by politics than by economic …

PARIS ― Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said that a week is a very long time in politics. If that is true, France’s 2017 presidential …

A report that North Korea is believed to have the capability to deliver a small nuclear warhead on a missile should be a wake-up call to President Park …

In the absence of credible, strong political leadership, paranoia about disease can go viral. We’ve seen this happen around the world with a wide range of …

We have made tremendous progress over the last quarter century in the fight against poverty. In 1990, 36 percent of the world’s population, or 1.9 billion …

It was Christmas Eve of 1968, a chilly night. A busload of reporters and cameramen from Seoul newspapers and TV stations headed toward Aegi-bong Peak on the …