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More safeguards won’t make U.S. president safer

Apparently some lunatic with a knife and an arms cache jumped the White House fence and managed to get all the way to the front door before they caught him. …

[Editorial] Pension reform

A forum on how to reform public employees’ pensions was aborted Monday as members of the government employees’ union blocked proceedings in a National …

[Editorial] Outside directors

As the Sewol ferry disaster has exposed holes in the nation’s public safety system and broader problems in society, the fiasco at KB Financial Group has laid …

China’s measured embrace of India

BEIJING ― Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India, the main leg of a recent tour of Central and South Asia, sheds new light on China’s …

[Kim Seong-kon] The shallowness of our times
[Kim Seong-kon] The shallowness of our times

Are human beings better than animals? Professor emeritus Yu Jong-ho replies with an emphatic “No!” to that question. He poignantly points out that human …

Turkey’s complicated position on Islamic State

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the release of 46 citizens held hostage by Islamic State has freed him to cooperate more substantially with …

[Stephen L. Carter] Bring back Department of War
[Stephen L. Carter] Bring back Department of War

Not content with fighting over whether to call the war on Islamic State a war, and whether to call Islamic State the enemy, we are now arguing whether to call …

To fight Ebola, create health workforce reserve force

A recent projection of the West Africa Ebola outbreak is that it now may take 12 to 18 months to control and will infect 100,000 people. President Barack Obama …

[Editorial] Big Brother in cyberspace

The country’s prosecutors have assumed the role of an Orwellian Big Brother, acting “pre-emptively” against dissemination of false information by …

[Editorial] Multicultural students grow

The number of children of multicultural families in schools has reached some 67,800, accounting for slightly more than 1 percent of all students. This …

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