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The provocation of North Korea at Imjin River and dual strategy against Korea
Hong Kwan Hee
Korea University Professor
Our 6 innocent nationals were relentlessly victimized by the provocation of North Korea at Imjin River on September. Although some may assert that it was inevitable and urgent discharge as the dam was filled with water, the spokesman of...( Read More ) Arirang, Modern Slave Performance in North Korea
Park A-ri
North Korean Defector
“Arirang” which is our folk song with contents of missing an estranged lover, is contained a strong hope for trying to escape from racial sorrow. It is really miserable for this “Arirang” to become noun in large—scale mass performance in...( Read More ) Hanuman Converted into Ravan
By Zaheerul Hassan, Pakistan
On August 19, 2009 A very senior politician, a former foreign minister Major Jaswant Singh was expelled from BJP for admiring founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in his latest book “Jinnah – India-Partition-Independence”....( Read More ) Cow (India) Desire of Hitting Bull (China)
By Zaheerul Hassan
Pakistan
The land of yellow soil China is the world largest country with the area of 3,70,5387 square kilo meters. Its population is over 1.2 billion. However, since 1949 Chinese military top brass with the support of her nation has made their...( Read More ) South Asia: Problems faced by migrant workers
Professor Sridhar K. Khatri
Executive Director South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS)
Migrant workers are often subjected to neglect, harassment and violation of rights both in the sending and receiving countries since sending states are reluctant to take up the issue seriously for fear of loss of labour market. Inadequate...( Read More ) Korean Peninsula: The policy of ‘green growth with low carbon’
Professor Yun Young Mi
Pyungtaek University
The meaning and result of expanded G8 summit talk in 2009
Attainment of ‘Global Korea’ and ‘Global FTA hub’
Participating in the expanded G8 (the 8 developed countries) summit talk held in L’Aquila, Italy from the 7th day to the 15th day, President Lee Myung Bak successfully attained the round...( Read More ) Glimpses into South Asian Conflicts
Som. P. Pudasaini
Foreign Policy Expert, Nepal
Conflicts have been part of human life since Homo sapiens appeared over a million years ago in this planet earth. Conflicts, big or small, national or international, are unlikely to disappear completely. Indo-Pak tensions, particularly...( Read More ) South Asia: Water Terrorism and India
Zaheerul Hassan, PAKISTAN
Water Grabber India & Nuclear War Part- I
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nation mentioned in his report that rural poverty and food insecurity has been intensified and is showing downward trend all over the world. Developing countries within the Asia-Pacific...( Read More ) The Indian Budget 2009-10
Madhukar S.J.B.Rana
Former Finance Minister & Adjunct Professor, South Asian Institute of Management
Barely had the Finance Minster, Pranab Mukherjee, finished presenting his Budget Speech to Parliament when, dramatically after the euphoria of the outstanding Congress electoral victory, the Stock Market tumbled by over 860 points. This...( Read More ) North Korea: Stop Missile Test
Yu Ho Yeol
Professor of North Korea, Korea University, Seoul
As the missile presumed to be Daepodong 2 was captured by satellite when it was loaded on truck and taken out from munitions factory near Pyungyang at the beginning of last February, the world paid attention at Korea Peninsula owing to...( Read More ) The Power of the Wind
By Martin Orth
The story begins with an idea: using the wind to generate electricity. That was how the Enercon company started with its first wind turbine in 1984. Today the business is number one in Germany and a technology leader worldwide.
“A new...( Read More ) Israel: The Conflict and Peace
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
How can peace be achieved?
Israel has always been willing to compromise and all Israeli governments have been willing to make major sacrifices for the sake of peace. However, peacemaking requires concessions as well as confidence-building...( Read More ) The EU Reform Treaty: Foundation for the Future
By Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, GERMANY
The innovations of the Reform Treaty include greater rights for the European Parliament, the Citizens’ Initiative and a strengthening of the common foreign policy
The future of Europe began on 13 December 2007, the day on which the...( Read More ) Defeat of the most ruthless terrorists of the world in Sri Lanka is a victory of the developed world
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan nation had to live with fearsome experiences of the terrible tragedy and cancer of terrorism for three of the six decades since independence. Infinite are the loss of lives, property and opportunities due to it. However, I...( Read More ) Afghanistan's drug menace
Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
Despite repeated expression of acute concerns by all concerned, the drug trade continues to flourish. The opium production has so far shown no signs of decline. On the contrary reports are indicating that the production might increase this...( Read More ) More Confidence Building Measures
By Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
Be either denied or even undermined and it is also assumed that the India-Pakistan tangle needs more The foreign office has recently announced that India and Pakistan would hold expert level talks on conventional and nuclear confidence...( Read More ) Do polls influence voters?
Roland Cayrol, France
A snapshot of public opinion at a given moment, opinion polls have not only become essential indicators in election campaigns - they have also come to play a part in them. An analysis by Roland Cayrol.
In my eyes there is one image that...( Read More ) The printed press: the digital challenge
Olivia Marsaud, Journalist, FRANCE
With the advent of the internet as a source of news, the traditional press, especially in France, needs to reconsider its methods of production and operation. A report commissioned by the French government exhorts the press to react...( Read More ) France: The crisis in representation
Emmanuel Thévenon, Journalist, France
Over the last twenty years or so, French people’s distrust of their representatives has been growing. Is this dissatisfaction among citizens, a sign of lack of interest in political life or, conversely, of an aspiration for greater...( Read More ) America can count on France in the fight against terrorism
M. NICOLAS SARKOZY, FRANCE, PRESIDENT
TERRORISM
On 11 September 2001, all of France – horror-struck – rallied to the side of the American people. The front-page headline of one of our major dailies read: "We are all, on this 11 September 2001, Americans." And on that day,...( Read More ) 
