Audrey and I were going through an outdoor market in Seoul’s Jamsil district in early May. I saw a basket of five large, bright-red tomatoes on sale for the low price of 5,000 won. I was raised in a city (Dallas, Texas) and not on a farm...
South Korea’s Moon Jae-In and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-Un, met at Panmunjeom on April 27, 2018. Amid considerable theatrics, they shook hands, hugged, ate a super-fancy dinner and shared toasts. Early in the summit, they moved apart...
I had been to PyeongChang once before, in September 2010, as well as Gangneung (April 2013). Both of these cities in Gangwon Province hosted events as part of the recently concluded 2018 Winter Olympics. Most prominent, of course, was...
I recently updated my will. Not that I fear my death is impending—I don’t. But as I told my executor, Brian Ullom, “You just never know.” It seems that the people with whom I attended high school (class of 1971) are dying with alarming frequency...
After a stay of 18 months, Otto Warmbier has been allowed to leave North Korea. You may know the story. This University of Virginia student was on a five-day group visit to Pyongyang and surely got the standard, highly sanitized and carefully...
The North Koreans are in the news again. I refer not to them testing a hydrogen bomb or sending another missile over the East Sea or hacking computers in South Korea and the USA or putting the clamps on desperate would-be refugees or sucking...
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