Category: Kiyul Chung

Dr. Kiyul Chung, Editor-in-chief at The 21st Century, is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University since 2009. He was a Visiting Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Science as well from 2006 to 2009. Since 2010, Prof. Chung’s been sitting on several international media outlets such as CCTV, Russia Today TV, Chinese Blue Ocean Network TV, & China Radio International. Since 1990s, his Korean articles, columns and academic papers have been published in several Korean media outlets. Since 2009, his English articles, columns and academic papers have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Spanish languages, and published in Canada, China, Japan, US and other nations around the world including some of the Spanish-speaking Latin American nations.

North Korea’s Consistent Message to the U.S. by former US President Jimmy Carter

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Pyongyang has sent a consistent message that during direct talks with the United States, it is ready to conclude an agreement to end its nuclear programs, put them all under IAEA inspection and conclude a permanent peace treaty to replace the “temporary” cease-fire of 1953. We should consider responding to this offer. The unfortunate alternative is for North Koreans to take whatever actions they consider necessary to defend themselves from what they claim to fear most: a military attack supported by the United States, along with efforts to change the political regime.

Is American Power in Decline?

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“In the United States, the scent of decline is in the air. Imperial overreach, political polarization, and a costly financial crisis are weighing on the economy. Some pundits now worry that America is about to succumb to the ‘British disease.’ Doomed to slow growth, the US of today, like the exhausted Britain that emerged from World War II, will be forced to curtail its international commitments. This will create space for rising powers like China, but it will also expose the world to a period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty.” (Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen: Chinadaily.com.cn, 2010-11-10)

The Second Dialogue on the Issue of “Nobel Peace Prize” in Its 2010 Decision

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“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population… In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will