Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 10, 2009. The two sides blamed each other for the confrontation, which left one North Korean boat engulfed in flames.
August 5, 2009. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling returned Wednesday from North Korea, one day after North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il pardoned the two women.
Agence France Presse August 5, 2009. "The past 140 days have been the most difficult heart-wrenching time of our lives," she told reporters. "...We are so happy to be home."
Agence France Presse August 3, 2009. The surprise trip by the former U.S. president is aimed at negotiating the release of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. June 17, 2009. Obama and South Korean president Lee Myung-bak met yesterday to discuss a multilateral approach to confronting North Korea.
Agence France Presse June 12, 2009. Hundreds of Marines have been sent to the tense border, as world powers prepared to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test.
Donald Kirk, Asia Times. June 10, 2009. Will millions of tons of food aid with no strings attached allow for the release of U.S. prisoners and open the door to nuclear talks?
Agence France PresseJune 8, 2009. Obama is "deeply concerned" about the fate of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who will likely be used as bargaining chips by North Korea.
Agence France PresseJune 5, 2009. Pyongyang has previously said Laura Ling and Euna Lee would face trial for 'hostile acts' and illegally entering the country.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: World. May 27, 2009. One of the costs of committing troops to Iraq and Afghanistan is that we don't have the resources to effectively deal with this.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. May 25, 2009. Russia's ambassador to the U.N. indicated that the U.N. Security Council would likely hold an emergency meeting today.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. May 10, 2009. American foreign policy is weakened in dozens of different ways until it is made very clear that America has repudiated what was done.
Allison Kilkenny, AlterNet. April 10, 2009. Obama says we must expand drone operations in Pakistan lest the Taliban get a nuclear weapon. Pakistani author Tariq Ali tells me this is a joke.
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 5, 2008. To survive we need to recognize that these threats are not separate problems, and they must be addressed as one major crisis.
Gavan McCormack, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 15, 2008. "Through the prism of beef, South Koreans confront the limitations of key contemporary institutions: democracy, capitalism, and nationalism."
Jared Ferrie, The Tyee. June 27, 2007. Tony Wheeler traveled to Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan and found that the media's image of the countries has very little to with what daily life is like in those places.
Barbara O'Brien, AlterNet: PEEK. March 1, 2007. Barbara O'Brien: The Bush White House used faulty intelligence to "get tough" with North Korea. Now NK is four times more dangerous than before.
