DONALD KIRK

DONALD KIRK

Seoul, South Korea
Donald Kirk is the Seoul Correspondent of the Sun.

Mr. Kirk, based in Seoul and Washington, has been covering Asia for decades for…

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What Pyongyang Hopes To Gain From Sending Troops To Fight Ukraine Alongside the Russians

Kim Jong-un is sure his regime will profit immensely from what a prominent Russian scholar on North Korea, Andrew Lankov, observes ‘could be the largest overseas deployment in history’ of North Korean troops.

Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, file
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Putin, After Bringing North Korea Into Its War Against Ukraine, Threatens Nuclear Reprisals If Kyiv Uses Other Countries’ Missiles

Russia will ‘engage in nuclear deterrence against those countries that offer their territory, maritime zones, airspace, and resources for aggression against it,’ according to the Russian news agency, Tass.

Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Emboldened by Alliance With Russia, Is Itching for Seventh Test of A-Bomb

Sixth test, conducted more than seven years ago, blew up much of a mountain.

Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
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Biden, Xi Pledge To Avoid ‘Major Country Competition’ During Trump Transition

Mr. Biden seems more impassioned about preserving the near-mystical ‘spirit of Camp David’ than in disputes with China.

Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP
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South Korea Hovers on the Brink of a Decision Whether To Become the World’s Tenth Nuclear Nation

Trump effect adds urgency to the question as a fast-rising threat is coming into focus in North Korea.

AP/Lee Jin-man
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Trump’s Election Triumph Adds to Anxiety in South Korea and Ukraine Over North Korea and Russia

Congratulatory messages to the president-elect from Presidents Yoon and Zelensky mask fears the 47th president could compromise with, or yield to, their enemies.

Jung Yeon-Je/Pool via AP, file
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