Bernard Rowan, 01.06.2011

Professor of Political Science, Chicago State University

Here's hoping 2011 sees major efforts by all nations concerned to bring the two Koreas to the path of peace.

Michael Bendetson, 01.06.2011

Tufts University Student

The Great Recession has exposed a major flaw in the American economy beyond risky derivatives: an intellectual elite that now seeks success at the expense of our society -- instead of through it.

Eric Margolis, 01.04.2011

Veteran journalist; Author

Military forces in both Koreas, China's northeast, Japan, and Russia's Far East are on high alert; so are US forces in the region. But chances still are against full scale conflict, because both sides have so much to lose.

John Feffer, 12.21.2010

Co-director, Foreign Policy In Focus

When Ok Chin was a child, her mother brought her to an orphanage. The family was poor, and her mother heard that the girl would get fed and clothed. What happened next was unexpected.

John Feffer, 12.20.2010

Co-director, Foreign Policy In Focus

Rather than waiting patiently for reunification to take place through negotiations, the South Korean Lee Myoung-bak administration wants to accelerate the process, by force if necessary.

Stephen Zunes, 12.16.2010

Professor of Politics and Chair of Mid-Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco

Perhaps more than any other appointment, Holbrooke epitomized the tragedy of Obama's foreign policy: instead of bringing hope and change, he brought in the most notorious figures of the past.

Jonathan Tasini, 12.09.2010

Union Leader/Organizer, Author, Strategist

So-called "free trade" is part of the relentless class warfare under way in America. And the so-called "free trade" deal with South Korea is no except...

Lynne Joiner, 12.02.2010

Author, Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America and the Persecution of John S. Service

The aftermath of the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island is not the first time America has looked at China for scapegoats.

Will Marshall, 12.01.2010

President and Founder, Progressive Policy Institute

There is no method to North Korea's madness. And as long as China keeps enabling Pyongyang's belligerent behavior, the world's response will remain dangerous.

Chris Dalby, 12.01.2010

Chris Dalby is an international politics journalist.

For long after the Berlin Wall was toppled, NATO seemed to be morally adrift as its primary raison d'être, opposing the Soviet Union, vanished. A fli...

John Feffer, 12.01.2010

Co-director, Foreign Policy In Focus

It's one thing when leaked documents complicate the execution of war. It's quite another when they complicate the execution of diplomacy.

Pepe Escobar, 11.30.2010

Roving correspondent for the Asia Times

President Bush: Frank, please consider filling a post I'm creating. It may mean long hours and dangerous nights, surrounded by some of the scummiest e...

Andy Borowitz, 11.29.2010

Comedian and creator of BorowitzReport.com

East Korea said it hoped that declaring war on the two more famous Koreas would establish a new reputation for the often-ignored country "as the angriest and craziest Korea out there."

Eric Margolis, 11.29.2010

Veteran journalist; Author

China cannot allow a US fleet to long operate in its most important waters, any more than the US would permit a Chinese fleet to demonstrate in Chesapeake Bay or the Gulf of Mexico.

Mark Joseph, 11.28.2010

Producer, author, talk show host and editor of Bullypulpit.com

Attn: Kim Jong-Il From: Vladimir Lenin Re: The United States Dear, Dear Leader: Probe with bayonets. If you encounter mush, proceed; if you encounte...

Mitchell Bard, 11.30.2010

Writer and Filmmaker

The real story isn't that Palin said "North" instead of "South." It's that Palin was discussing a complex, precarious, highly dangerous issue as if she were an expert, even though she clearly isn't.

William Bradley, 11.29.2010

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

Only a few weeks after definitively learning that, yes, it really was "the economy, stupid," Obama has several big new headaches in regards to Korea, Afghanistan, the unending Israeli-Palestinian question, and Russia.

Ra Jong-Yil, 11.26.2010

National Security Advisor to Fmr. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun

The artillery attack on South Korea has brought front and center the issue that is increasingly on everyone's mind: the respective roles of the U.S. and China in our regional security as power shifts eastward.

Robert Weller, 11.26.2010

Journalist

As liars go, Pyongyang certainly isn't in the class of either of the Joes, Stalin or Goebbels. Both knew how to tell the big lie.

C. Cryn Johannsen, 11.26.2010

Advocate for the Indentured Educated Servant

Sunday the U.S. and South Korea will be continuing more drills in the Yellow Sea. Maybe North Korea will have a true freak out and launch missiles in the direction of Seoul. I doubt it, but none of us really know what Sunday will bring.

Leon T. Hadar, 11.24.2010

Journalist and foreign affairs analyst

The most effective way for the U.S. to help achieve a stable balance of power in the Korean Peninsula is not by sending more war ships, but by providing incentives to the Chinese to stop making excuses for the North Koreans.