(Source: Rodong Sinmun) There has been a lot written about the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), some of it good and worth reading.[1] All of it is necessarily from the perspective…
(Source: Rodong Sinmun) The Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was held in North Korea earlier this month. The first part of this report highlighted mainly economic issues such as the growing…
COVID-19 has exposed fault lines, vulnerabilities, and structural weaknesses in emerging and advanced economies with recovery now expected to be long, uneven and uncertain. In this present moment, however, when the world appears upside down, there are…
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Abstract On 4 April 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, Abe Isoo (1865–1949), the father of baseball in Japan, Christian intellectual, and professor of economics and political science at Waseda University, took his baseball players to…
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