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South Korea is more polarised than ever

South Korea is more polarised than ever
24.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Edward Howell

President Yoon’s trial is tearing South Korea apart

07.03.2025 3

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Demographic crisis / Can South Korea fix its birth rate woes?

02.03.2025 7

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Can South Korea fix its birth rate woes?

02.03.2025 20

The Spectator

Edward Howell

How North Korea will use its $1.5 billion of stolen crypto

26.02.2025 10

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Does a ‘new golden age’ beckon for the US and Japan?

09.02.2025 3

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Kim Jong Un’s North Korean culture war

02.02.2025 20

The Spectator

Edward Howell

President Yoon’s arrest brings more turmoil to South Korea

15.01.2025 3

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Kim Jong Un isn’t going away

It was only a matter of time before North Korea lit things up again. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on a five-day sojourn to...

08.01.2025 5

The Spectator

Edward Howell

The Jeju Air crash ends a terrible year for South Korea

This year will go down in history as an annus horribilis for South Korea. December alone has seen a series of crises. The month started with the...

30.12.2024 4

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Yoon’s impeachment won’t end South Korea’s political chaos

For those who loathed him, it was second time lucky – but only just. With South Korea’s national assembly passing the motion to impeach President...

14.12.2024 6

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Pyongyang’s strange ten day silence on South Korea

North Korea has long been infamous for its hyperbolic rhetoric. While there are some subjects – such as the locations of its nuclear facilities –...

12.12.2024 6

The Spectator

Edward Howell

South Korea must brace for political upheaval

Had you have taken a direct flight from London to Seoul yesterday afternoon, by the time you would have landed you might have been none the wiser...

04.12.2024 4

The Spectator

Edward Howell

South Korea’s balloon barrage has hit a nerve in the North

Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has long been confined to her brother’s not-insignificant shadow. But, in...

01.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Edward Howell

North Korea isn’t scared of the UN

It surely comes as no surprise to hear that North Korea does not like the United Nations. The hermit kingdom has long derided the organisation as...

05.11.2024 1

The Spectator

Edward Howell

What’s upset Kim Jong Un?

When Kim Jong Un does not get what he wants, he makes his displeasure known far and wide. Over the past few weeks, one would have thought that Kim...

31.10.2024 1

The Spectator

Edward Howell

David Lammy can’t afford to let down South Korea

Labour’s first 100 days in power have been nothing short of a disaster. Whether the beneath contemptible decision to shelve the Higher Education...

23.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Edward Howell

North Korean soldiers will become Putin’s cannon fodder

Hermit kingdoms usually keep themselves to themselves, but now, North Korea is reinventing the moniker by which it has long been known. The country...

19.10.2024 7

The Spectator

Edward Howell

North Korea is not calming down

If you visit South Korea, you may be startled at the presence of road signs pointing towards Kaesong and Pyongyang: two destinations that many of...

10.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Edward Howell

Kim Jong Un will take no blame for North Korea’s floods

The sight of a grimacing Kim Jong Un on board an inflatable rubber dinghy is not what one would expect from the leader of a country which has...

21.08.2024 3

The Spectator

Edward Howell