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Controversial because she dares

LITERATURE: Han Kang does not turn away from death or the dead. And she also sees the perpetrators, sees them as alive, with their own history. MODERN TIMES gives here an introduction to the Nobel Prize winner in literature for 2024.
John Y. Jones -

To tell something important about others

PHOTOGRAPHY : World renowned photographer Fred Baldwin has published his memoirs at the age of 90. Is this a peculiar insight into a person who, through everything and everyone he meets, first and foremost sees himself?
Nina Trige Andersen -

Deputy wars' hidden interests

PROXY WARS: The United States and Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia have an indirect involvement in conflicts that is quite different from conventional warfare.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

"I'm driving talks between President Trump and Kim Jong-un"

KOREA: 12. In June, South Korean President Moon Jae-in was received by King Harald during the country's first official state visit to Norway. Moon talked about the devastating impact of "structural violence" the division of his country had on both North and South Korea, and about "positive peace".
John Y. Jones -

Korea – 15 years after the war: A model for other developing countries

Orientering August 24, 1968
fritznilsen@orientering.no -

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?
John Y. Jones -

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. 
John Y. Jones -

Ami go home!

The Vietnam War has caused many to see the conflicts on the Asian continent in a new perspective.
Kjell Cordtsen -

MOVIE FROM THE SOUTH: The grandmothers, the sex slavery and the excuse

They were born as human beings, but were never allowed to live normal human lives.
Ellen Lande -

The cry of pain crying 

The Accusation talks about the daily struggle to remain a human being under Kim Il-sung's terror regime.
Kurt Sweeney -

Time to see Korea

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

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.
John Y. Jones -

The false peace

What are the dangers or sacrifices a single man or individual must face when all the fate of humanity is at stake?
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