North Korea: What Kim Jong-un should do
In the second of our two-part analysis on North Korea following Kim Jong-il’s death, Frank Spring argues that history suggests the time for reform time has come.
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North Korea: The challenges facing Kim Jong-un
In the first of a two-part series, Left Foot Forward’s Frank Spring looks at where next for North Korea following the death this week of Kim Jong-il.
The cost of Kim Jong-Il
Life under Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea who died on Saturday, has been unbearable for most, facing political 0ppression and widespread malnutrition.
North Korea: What is to be done?
In some respects, managing the North Korean regime is rather like the British government negotiating with Irish republican separatists in the days leading up to and following the Downing Street Declaration and the Good Friday Agreement; talks continued, in one way or another, in spite of attempts to by various elements of the Irish separatists to derail them, in large part because the British government would not be baited into breaking them off, weathering outrage after outrage to keep the process alive.
Should killer robots be banned?
Andrew Gibson asks whether, as the defence industry pumps more funds into robotics, we can ever legitimately use unmanned armed robots.