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New Threat to Korean detente
MANY observers went lyrical about sports’ magical powers to heal political and cultural rifts among nations after North Korea took part in the just concluded Winter Games held in the other part of the divided Korea. Didn’t Ping-Pong diplomacy help rebuild ties between Washington and Beijing in the 1970s, resulting in the first-ever visit by an American president to the Communist China?What the Korean Peninsula witnessed last fortnight was no less dramatic. Not only did the North take part in the Olympic Games, but the two Koreas marched under one flag, and fielded a joint women’s ice hockey team.North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un also sent his powerful and reclusive younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, to the Games. She posed with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for photographs, and...
February 26, 2018

New Threat to Korean detente

US gun control a hard nut to crack
A week after the latest gun massacre in America, the US pro and anti-gun lobbies are hunkering down on their positions. As expected, a new survey of American attitudes on gun control finds that support is split across party lines, with Democrats in favor and Republicans against. The tragedy in the Florida high school and the general rise in mass shootings are only convincing both sides that they are right, causing them to dig in further.But there are a number of areas where Americans find common ground such as supporting stricter background checks of at least three days and restricting gun control for people with a history of mental illness. In the week since 17 students and educators were shot dead by a crazed former student, additional remedies to help prevent another mass shooting have...
February 25, 2018

US gun control a hard nut to crack

Netanyahu has little wiggle room
At first, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked as if he might ride out the corruption storm raging around him. After the recent police recommendations that he be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two of the corruption cases involving him, he initially stood strong, issuing defiant statements.But just this week, police revealed two new investigations targeting members of Netanyahu’s inner circle, including his former family spokesman.It is still much too early to write Netanyahu off. His staying power can be attributed in part to his ability to not reach a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after 12 years in office and successfully twinning his policies to that of his constituents - demanding that a future Palestinian state be under full Israeli...
February 24, 2018

Netanyahu has little wiggle room

European unity in danger
Poland may have seen off the specious Israeli challenge to its new law banning any suggestion Poles were implicated in the Nazi Holocaust, but unfortunately its reaction was symptomatic of the ruling nationalist Law and Justice party’s (PiS) less creditable attitudes.To the despair the EU, Jarosław Kaczyński’s government is becoming increasingly authoritarian. Brussels accuses it of meddling with the judiciary to make it politically accountable. It is also becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the anti-EU stance of Kaczyński’s government, which unusually for a Polish administration that has now been in power for over three years and remains widely popular.However, the real cause for concern is Poland’s newfound xenophobia. At its most stark, Warsaw is refusing to take its...
February 23, 2018

European unity in danger

Germany’s military failings
Historically, Germany has had a ferocious military reputation. But no more it seems. The parliament in Berlin has just been given a report that suggests the country’s armed forces have become so run-down, they might be incapable of doing their job.The evidence supplied for this is quite startling. The navy has six submarines. At the end of last year, not one of them was capable of putting to sea. The air force has fourteen Airbus A-400M transport aircraft. Investigators found that at times last year, none of these newly-acquired transports was available. Germany’s partnership in the multinational development of this troubled plane - it proved to be overweight and underpowered - was a political decision.Legislators discovered these were not exceptions to the condition of the armed...
February 22, 2018

Germany’s military failings

The Mueller Russian indictment
Anyone who enjoys spy thrillers will be captivated by the 37-page indictment from the US Department of Justice charging 13 named Russians with criminal meddling in the 2016 Presidential election.US investigators claim a St Petersburg company called the Internet Research Agency sought to influence the result of the election by setting up a multi-million dollar “Internet troll” campaign. This used fake and stolen American social media identities along with fictitious bank accounts. From 2013, thousands of messages were sent backing Trump for the Republican nomination and then the White House. At the same time, the “trolls” were busy running down Hillary Clinton as well as Trump’s Republican rivals for the GOP ticket.Once Trump became the candidate, the Internet Research Agency is...
February 21, 2018

The Mueller Russian indictment

Boko Haram still murdering Nigerians
THE release of hundreds of suspected Boko Haram supporters by Nigerian judges has coincided with a new bloody attack by the terrorists in the northeast of the country. Three suicide bombers murdered 18 people in the town of Konduga. The two events coming together have caused unease. However the decision by the Nigerian court to free 475 detainees is an act of common sense in crisis noted for its lack of reality.Some of the suspects had been picked up by the army as long ago as 2010. Most were arrested in the frantic and confused response to the start of the Boko Haram reign of terror in 2009. Because of the corruption that had long gripped its politics, the Nigeria’s army was woefully unprepared to deal with eruption of murder, rape and robbery. Badly-officered, poorly-trained and...
February 20, 2018

Boko Haram still murdering Nigerians

US should accept Taleban’s offer
In an unusual move, the Afghan Taleban has published an open letter, addressed to the American people, expressing a wish to end the protracted bloodshed in their country through dialogue.Some sections of the media describe the nearly 3,000-word letter, issued on Wednesday, as “rambling” but there is nothing unambiguous about the message it conveys: US mission in Afghanistan is doomed to fail.The letter which also addresses officials of “independent nongovernmental organizations and the peace- loving Congressmen” asks what the longest conflict in American history has gained for them after spending "trillions of dollars.” The letter refers to widespread corruption in the government and describes how billions of dollars earmarked for various reconstruction projects are lining...
February 19, 2018

US should accept Taleban’s offer

Trump and Netanyahu need to talk
It’s never good news for the Palestinians when a US president meets an Israeli prime minister. There is usually very little daylight between them when it comes to their mutual interests, especially with regard to the Palestinians’ future. But when Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu get together in Washington next month, Trump should have a serious tête-à-tête with Netanyahu while putting, at least for a while, the pleasantries and platitudes aside.The visit comes on the heels of a downright lie by Netanyahu after he suggested he and the Trump administration had discussed an initiative to annex Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Netanyahu said he had been in talks with the American administration “for some time” on applying Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements, and...
February 18, 2018

Trump and Netanyahu need to talk

People protest against the National Rifle Association at the Broward County Court House during the first appearance in court via video link for high school shooter Nikolas Cruz Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. — AFP
Thoughts and prayers
In response to the Florida mass shooting which killed 17 people in a school, several US politicians, especially those against gun control, offered their “prayers and condolences”. The killings, just as the sympathies, have both become predictable and disturbingly normal.As tragic as the shooting in Florida was, looked at from another angle, it was merely America’s 18th school shooting this year alone. It was the country’s 1,607th mass shooting since 2012. In other words, America has had more than one mass shooting every day since, costing 1,846 lives. This makes the US home to the most mass shootings in the world.America’s gun ownership is enshrined as a right in its Constitution. A brief paragraph in the Second Amendment gives its citizens the right to own guns, so many guns...
February 17, 2018

Thoughts and prayers

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