Donald Kirk

1 week ago | thehill.com | Donald Kirk

The massacre of 26 tourists in a lovely vale beneath snow-covered Himalayan peaks last month carries implications far beyond the bloodshed. Looming above the carnage is the apparition of nuclear war erupting between two of the world’s nine nuclear powers, on a subcontinent with an aggregate population approaching 2 billion.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Donald Kirk

The massacre of 26 tourists in a lovely vale beneath snow-covered Himalayan peaks last month carries implications far beyond the bloodshed. Looming above the carnage is the apparition of nuclear war erupting between two of the world’s nine nuclear powers, on a subcontinent with an aggregate population approaching 2 billion.

2 weeks ago | nysun.com | Donald Kirk

SAIGON, Vietnam — Russian-built Vietnamese air force planes and helicopters zoomed overhead, ambassadors and bureaucrats cheered from the stands, and floats cruised down the avenue leading to the presidential palace through whose iron gates the first “North” Vietnamese tank had roared to victory 50 years ago.

3 weeks ago | nysun.com | Donald Kirk

SEOUL ‚ÄĒ The American command in South Korea is focusing on China almost as much as North Korea even as Pyongyang shifts to ‚Äúready-to-use‚ÄĚ tactical nuclear weapons, according to a long-time RAND Corporation analyst, Bruce Bennett.

3 weeks ago | nysun.com | Donald Kirk

Communist China’s president, Xi Jinping, is picking up where Mao Zedung left off before dying in 1976, asserting China’s power over the land the Chinese-armed Khmer Rouge years earlier had turned into “the killing fields.”Nearly half a century since the Khmer Rouge rampaged across Cambodia in a campaign of wanton killing for which China provided the arms, Mr. Xi was in the capital city of Phnom Penh embracing the latter-day leaders whom Beijing still arms and aids.