North Korea Keeps the World Guessing (Published 2010)
WASHINGTON — With North Korea reeling from economic and succession crises, American and South Korean officials early this year secretly began gaming out what would happen if the North, led by one of the world’s most brutal family dynasties, collapsed. Over an official lunch in late February, a top South Korean diplomat confidently told the American ambassador, Kathleen Stephens, that the fall woul
New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign (Published 2010)
KYOTO, Japan � The demonstrators appeared one day in December, just as children at an elementary school for ethnic Koreans were cleaning up for lunch. The group of about a dozen Japanese men gathered in front of the school gate, using bullhorns to call the students cockroaches and Korean spies. Inside, the panicked students and teachers huddled in their classrooms, singing loudly to drown out the
Opinion | Our Mosque Madness (Published 2010)
WASHINGTON Maybe, for Barack Obama, it depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is. When the president skittered back from his grandiose declaration at an iftar celebration at the White House Friday that Muslims enjoy freedom of religion in America and have the right to build a mosque and community center in Lower Manhattan, he offered a Clintonesque parsing. “I was not commenting, and I will
Japan Training Program Is Said to Exploit Workers (Published 2010)
Kimihiro Komatsu, center, a labor consultant in Hiroshima, helping foreign workers with overtime forms and other matters.Credit...Tyler Sipe for The New York Times HIROSHIMA, Japan � Six young Chinese women arrived in this historic city three summers ago, among the tens of thousands of apprentices brought to Japan each year on the promise of job training, good pay and a chance at a better life bac
Army’s Hand Suspected in Kyrgyzstan (Published 2010)
Ethnic Uzbek men cried near a destroyed house in the village of Shark outside Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday. Credit...Viktor Drachev/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images OSH, Kyrgyzstan � As the armored personnel carrier rumbled down the street, men in Kyrgyz military uniforms clinging to its sides, residents of an ethnic Uzbek neighborhood here felt a surge of relief. The peacekeepers, it seemed,
Israel Signals New Flexibility on Gaza Shipments (Published 2010)
Mourners prayed by the coffins of some of the activists killed in an Israeli commando raid on a flotilla of ships heading for Gaza, during a funeral service at a mosque in Istanbul on Thursday.Credit...Ibrahim Usta/Associated Press JERUSALEM � While still insisting that its blockade of Gaza is essential to its security, the Israeli government is now shifting its position, “exploring new ways” of a
International Court May Define Aggression as Crime (Published 2010)
PARIS � More than 100 nations, contingents of human-rights groups and lawyers from around the globe, will begin a meeting on Monday in Kampala, Uganda, tackling issues that could fundamentally expand the power of international law. The thorniest question on the agenda, one certain to dominate the conference, is a proposal to give the International Criminal Court in The Hague the power to prosecute
Japan Relents on U.S. Base on Okinawa (Published 2010)
Protesters on Okinawa held banners that said “Anger” after the announcement that the airbase would remain on the island.Credit...Hitoshi Maeshiro/European Pressphoto Agency TOKYO — Reneging on a prominent campaign promise, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told outraged residents of Okinawa on Sunday that an American air base would be moved only to the north side of the island rather than off the isla
Deal Seems Near on U.S. Base in Japan (Published 2010)
TOKYO — Major Japanese newspapers reported Thursday that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has decided to reverse himself and accept nearly all of Washington’s demands that he honor an existing agreement to relocate an American air base on Okinawa, in an attempt to end a damaging dispute that had sown confusion and mistrust between the longtime allies. According to the reports, Mr. Hatoyama will soon
Joseph Nye - An Alliance Larger Than One Issue - NYTimes.com
Cambridge, Mass. SEEN from Tokyo, America’s relationship with Japan faces a crisis. The immediate problem is deadlock over a plan to move an American military base on the island of Okinawa. It sounds simple, but this is an issue with a long back story that could create a serious rift with one of our most crucial allies. When I was in the Pentagon more than a decade ago, we began planning to reduce
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