World Jan 15 S. Korean National Security Adviser: N. Korean Regime Faces Internal ‘Demise’ Unless It Yields to Global Pressure // SEOUL, South Korea | After last year's lethal attacks on a South Korean warship and civilian-populated island - and with thousands of North Korea's artillery pieces and much of its million-man army just 30 miles up the road -…
Nation Jan 13 Voices From South Korea: National Security, North Korea and the U.S. South Koreans enter 2011 still smarting from two North Korean attacks last year -- on a warship in March and an island in November -- that together killed 50 of their citizens. We've been asking South Koreans how they now…
World Jan 10 Observation Post Shows South Koreans’ Love/Hate Fascination with the North Map of Odusan Unification Observatory courtesy of ROK Drop TONG-IL JEONMANGDAE, South Korea | "Look, there it is. That's North Korea," says Lee Hoon, standing with me and provincial Gov. Kim Moon-Soo on the observation platform of a huge stone…
World Jan 05 Korea Dispatch: In South Korea, Business Trumps Threat of Conflict One of the many camera counters at I-Park mall in Seoul. Photo by Larisa Epatko SEOUL, South Korea | In search of a memory card for our camera, we stumbled into the I-Park mall, a dazzling cornucopia of electronic…
World Nov 04 Former Captive Ingrid Betancourt on the ‘Light We Have Inside’ Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician, was held by Colombia’s notorious FARC rebels for more than six years. In July 2008, she was freed in a daring military rescue. We talked to her recently about the lessons she learned about…
World Sep 03 A Woman’s Military Embed Guide: What to Forget – And Not Forget BAGHDAD -- First, accept the fact that you're going to feel skuzzy from the moment you alight from the helicopter in a cloud of dust at some remote U.S. military base -- windblown, sweaty, and gritty.
World Sep 02 From Security to Stolen Treasures, Warner Answers Your Questions on Iraq BAGHDAD | We're winding up our trip in Iraq after nearly three weeks of reporting here, and we've received questions from many of you.
World Aug 30 This Old Tank: U.S. Troops Rehabilitate Soviet Clunker in Iraq MOSUL, Iraq | When the Americans arrived, they found Iraq chock-a-block with Soviet-era armaments -- tanks, guns, mortar rounds and ammunition -- left over from the days when Saddam Hussein was one of Moscow's best arms customers.
World Aug 25 Notes From an Embed in Iraq: A Lesson Learned MOSUL, Iraq | We're out in a nine-humvee convoy with Federal Police Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey, whose Baghdad-based unit has the job of weeding anti-government insurgents out of western Mosul far to the north. It's the most dangerous section of…
World Aug 24 Portraits of Iraqis and Their Dreams Iraqis' feelings about their country's future are best reflected in what they say about their own personal dreams. The younger ones appear less scarred -- their parents' and grandparents' generations seem far more so. Here's a sampling of people we've…