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John Y. Jones

Cand. Philol, freelance journalist affiliated with MODERN TIMES

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Former Minister for Integration Listhaug boasted that "Norway today has Europe's strictest immigration policy". The contrast to the national hero Nansen's humanitarian work after the First World War could hardly be greater?

Damning rhetoric

The media's demonization of North Korea has made us stupid. What will the world say when the devil Kim and the mad Trump receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

North and South Korea can come together – with Russia's help

In recent months, talks have been held between Russia and South Korea to establish new and peaceful development processes in the area. 

Johan Galtung: Security does not give peace – peace gives security

Ny Tid has visited the peace research's founder Johan Galtung in his home in Spain. Now he is 87 – and still in full vigor.

Dag Hammarskjöld, seer and explorer

The official and the spirit man Dag Hammarskjöld were not opposites but enriched each other mutually, according to his biographer Roger Lipsey.

Time to see Korea

It has been completely under the radar of Western media that there has just been a revolution in South Korea.

12 questions to our new Foreign Minister

Today's flare-up of the nuclear war threat has again put Korea on the agenda. For 67 years, the Korea Peninsula has been in a devastating war involving the world's great powers.

Attempt to heal a bleeding continent

Eirik Vold's book about Hugo Chávez's life and the story of the Latin American liberation struggle is very readable.