Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue — Seoul and Havana Tell Pyongyang To Stew
The Pyongyang-Havana axis appears to have collapsed with the opening, on Valentine’s Day, of diplomatic relations between Seoul and Havana.
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Mr. Kirk, based in Seoul and Washington, has been covering Asia for decades for newspapers and magazines and is the author of books on Korea, the Vietnam War and the Philippines.
The Pyongyang-Havana axis appears to have collapsed with the opening, on Valentine’s Day, of diplomatic relations between Seoul and Havana.
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Prabowo Subianto is a strongman whose record as a general does not augur well for democracy in the world’s largest Muslim nation.
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A former three-time prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, stands ready to form a coalition government excluding the popular ex-premier and cricket star Imran Khan and members of his banned party.
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The country’s military-dominated system has been rocked by the jailed former prime minister and star of cricket.
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‘I think most Pakistani voters will tell you that Pakistan’s democracy is badly damaged,’ one analyst says.
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The army is particularly eager to smite its foes in advance of elections for parliament on February 8 — and public enemy no. 1 is the wildly popular ex-cricket star.
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World’s second smallest state, population 11,500, catches the attention of the superpowers.
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It’s the latest blast in a rhetorical blitzkrieg in which the North Korean tyrant, Kim Jong-un, is attacking South Korea as the country’s foremost enemy.
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Lai Ching-te, though, wins by only a plurality in a hard-fought three-way race in which the Nationalists emerge with control of the legislative yuan.
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The three leading contenders are waffling as hard as they can on the question of relations with the communist mainland.
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Claims the North conducted ‘a deceptive operation in order to assess the real detecting ability’ of South’s ‘military gangsters.’
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While the North Korean state press publicizes the communist tyrant’s achievements and ambitions, he apparently fears his relatively young age may be held against him.
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