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National Column: Trump’s momentum will be hard for him to contain
U.S. President Donald Trump has begun a rapprochement with North Korea that he will find difficult to reverse. […]
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National Column: Peace doesn’t need Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump may have cancelled his planned summit with North Korean dictator Kim
Jong Un (although even that is unclear). But it seems that plans for bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula will carry on anyway ñ with or without America. […]
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National Column: Don’t expect North Korea to dismantle its nukes
North Korea’s peace overtures to the U.S. are welcome news. The prospect of talks is almost always better than the prospect of war. […]
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National Column: Charm from North Korea leaves the U.S. in a bind
The leader that Donald Trump likes to deride as Little Rocket Man has cleverly put his U.S. adversary in a bind. He has done so by simply having his sister invite South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang for talks. […]
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National Column: How useful was North Korea summit? Not very, it turns out
How useful was last week’s Vancouver summit on North Korea? The short answer is: Not very.
But Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who co-hosted the summit with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, can console herself with the fact that it could have been worse.
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National Column: Summit on Korea about pressure, not diplomacy
Tuesday’s Vancouver summit on North Korea underscores how impossibly difficult the standoff between Washington and Pyongyang has become. […]
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National Column: Trump gave his underlings a new Cold War doctrine
Donald Trump’s national security strategy is an attempt to bring some coherence to his worldview.
It doesn’t always succeed. […]
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National Column: Japan debates about U.S. reliability in Korea crisis
by Thomas Walkom How does an officially pacifist country like Japan protect itself from a nuclear-armed North Korea? The short […]
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National Column: How North Korea has impacted Japan’s election
The North Korean crisis has thrown Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a lifeline. But it is a slippery one.
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National Column: How Canada can help to defuse North Korean crisis
Canada is the useful go-between. It has played that role before to ease tensions between hostile states.
It could do so again in the dangerous nuclear standoff between the U.S. and North Korea.
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National Column: Nuclear-armed N. Korea a reality to be dealt with
North Korea will not give up its plan to become a nuclear power. If the world didn’t know that before it should now.
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National Column: South Korea’s bold plan for dealing with the North
by Thomas Walkom South Korea’s new president has come up with a bold but simple plan for dealing with North […]
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National Column: South Korean president willing to talk to the north
South Korea has elected a new president. This may not seem of much import to Canadians. But it is. Tuesday’s election adds a new dynamic to the nuclear crisis gripping the divided Korean Peninsula.
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National Column: It’s time to put an end to the Korean War
Here’s an idea for cooling nuclear tensions between North Korea and the United States. Why not start by negotiating an end to the Korean War? […]