Indian tactics in South Asia
India, which once carried the responsibility of anchoring peace and development in South Asia, has gone exactly the reverse. The reason has not been a conscious departure from the Nehruvian…
Rational yet unpredictable: North Korea’s Kim an enigma for US
Kim Jong Un has been accused of executing generals, murdering relatives, presiding over global criminal operations and has threatened the United States with nuclear armageddon. But a string of surprising…
Hard choices for US, N Korea at high-stakes summit
After a burst of hectic diplomacy, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's nuclear summit is on course to go ahead - but if it is to live up to the…
North Korea reforming economy while denying change
On the side streets of Pyongyang, small traders sell vegetables from impromptu stalls. At markets, dealers offer imported household goods - even Coca-Cola - and in state-owned department stores hard…
China’s petrochemical expansion to overwhelm Japan, S Korea producers
A massive surge in China’s manufacturing capacity for paraxylene, a petrochemical used to make textile fibres and bottles, could force leading exporters in Japan and South Korea to cut production…
N Korea’s ‘socialist utopia’ needs mass labour
In January, thousands of North Korean students travelled to Mount Paektu, a sacred mountain where the ruling family claims its roots and where leader Kim Jong Un is building a…
The Korean model
Pakistan’s economic conditions remain dire but there is hope. It is time it looks East for inspiration. Had we looked East decades back we could have been a happier country…
From comrades to assassins: North Korea, Vietnam eye new chapter with Trump-Kim summit
In 1966, Ahn Hak-soo was one of more than 300,000 South Korean soldiers fighting alongside U.S. forces during the Vietnam War when he was captured by the North Vietnamese army…
Nuclear North Korea
As a student of the politics of nuclear non-proliferation, the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse causing the collapse of human civilisation on this planet has continued to haunt my mind…
Trump holds on to diplomatic ‘success’ in N Korea
More than a year after President Donald Trump threatened Pyongyang with "fire and fury like the world has never seen," the US leader now boasts of his relationship with North…
