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Aung San Suu Kyi’s son: my mother is being used for junta propaganda
“The military are very busy with their public relations, and they're trying to paint a prettier picture of themselves,” Aris said. “This call [is a] ploy, trying to present an image to the rest of the world which shows her to be OK and that they're treating her well, whereas that's far from the case.” He said that, despite claims that she had been moved from prison to house arrest, she appeared to have no company and did not know herself where she was being held.
Kim mines his border zone with ‘hostile state’ South
A North Korean military guard post, top, and a South Korean post, bottom, are seen near the sometimes vaguely defined border.AP North Korea Given the quantity of blood that has been spilled there over the decades, the explosion at the North-South Korean border did not have the makings of a crisis. It was mid-morning late last month when two landmines detonated beneath a group of South Korean soldiers, ten metres south of the dividing line between the two states.
Keeping up with the Kims
Thirty-two years ago, in one of the last and least remembered crises of the 20th century, the United States came to the brink of war over the spread of nuclear weapons. Less than a year and a half into his first term, Bill Clinton was shown evidence that North Korea had removed fuel rods from a plutonium reactor, the first step towards creating the raw material for nuclear warheads.
Payments for parents in bid to foster baby boom
Singapore has announced a “baby gift” for each new child, as well as further education, health and child support grants, and improvements to childcare leave.Supplied Singapore Singapore will pay parents about NZ$91,000 for each of their children in the latest desperate measure by governments around the world to persuade young people not to abandon the idea of parenthood.
Ο Τραμπ επιδιώκει μια ιστορική νίκη, όμως υπάρχει περίπτωση να υποχωρήσει ο Κιμ;
Για έναν πρόεδρο που λατρεύει τις «νίκες» και επιδιώκει διακαώς να αναγνωριστεί ως ειρηνοποιός, μια συμφωνία με τον Κιμ Γιονγκ Ουν αποτελεί για τον Τραμπ ένα εξαιρετικά πολύτιμο τρόπαιο Καταπιεστική, πολεμοχαρής, πυρηνικά εξοπλισμένη, η Βόρεια Κορέα, η οποία βρίσκεται στην καρδιά της βορειοανατολικής Ασίας, αποτελεί εδώ και οκτώ δεκαετίες μια αδιάκοπη πηγή αγωνίας και ανασφάλειας σε μία από τις πιο δυναμικές και πολυπληθείς περιοχές του κόσμου.
Η Ιαπωνία χαλαρώνει την απαγόρευση των πυρηνικών βομβών στο πλαίσιο προσπάθειας για αποτροπή
ΟΤΑΝ οι ηλικιωμένοι επιζώντες της ατομικής βόμβας κέρδισαν το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης το 2024, αυτό έμοιαζε με δικαίωση για τα θύματα μιας από τις μεγαλύτερες φρικαλεότητες της ιστορίας. Η Ιαπωνική Συνομοσπονδία Οργανώσεων Θυμάτων των Βομβών Ατόμου και Υδρογόνου, γνωστή ως Nihon Hidankyo, τιμήθηκε επειδή κράτησε ζωντανή τη μνήμη της Χιροσίμα και του Ναγκασάκι μέσα από την εμπειρία εκείνων που τη βίωσαν, των ανθρώπων που είναι γνωστοί ως χιμπακούσα.
Race to save trapped shoppers after Japan rocked by earthquake
This aerial image shows the damaged AEON Mall following an earthquake in Kashima, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Tuesday, July 28, 2026.Kyodo News via AP Japanese authorities have urged people in the southwest of the country to be on alert for further aftershocks after a major earthquake caused fires and a devastating explosion that destroyed a large shopping centre.
Autocrats’ summer camp gets a march on
People pay respect to the statues of former leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of demise of Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, on July 8.AP North Korea For close to seven decades, North Korean youngsters have spent summers at the Songdowon International Children’s Camp, swimming, playing games and being indoctrinated in the ways of the ruling Kim family.
Anger at Japanese mayor’s maternity leave
Yawata mayor Shoko Kawata is under fire for planning to take four months of maternity leave.Getty Images Japan You would think the people of Yawata would be glad of another baby around the place. Like the rest of Japan, the town is experiencing a drastic decline in its population, with silent parks and empty playgrounds, as young people marry less and have fewer children. But when Shoko Kawata said she was expecting and would take four months of maternity leave, it caused upset.
Ιαπωνία: Ποιος είναι καταλληλότερος διάδοχος του θρόνου - Ένας ξεχασμένος απόγονος ή η πριγκίπισσα του λαού, το βασιλικό δίλημμα
Ο ένας εργάζεται σε μια κορυφαία ιαπωνική εταιρεία αλλαντικών. Ο άλλος είναι επαγγελματίας παίκτης πόκερ με καταδίκες για κατοχή μαριχουάνας. Ανάμεσά τους βρίσκονται επιχειρηματίες, φοιτητές και στελέχη διαφημιστικών εταιρειών, καθώς και τουλάχιστον ένας πρώην πρέσβης.
We will never give up nuclear weapons, says dictator’s sister
Kim Jong Un visits a weapons factory at an undisclosed place in North Korea.KCNA via KNS via AP North Korea The sister of Kim Jong-un has insisted that North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons, setting back hopes of progress towards denuclearisation during yesterday’s visit to Pyongyang by President Xi Jinping of China.
Tokyo clashes with Beijing over claims of ‘neo-militarism’
Japan's Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has lashed back at China over claims of Japanese neo-militarism.Achmad Ibrahim / AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim Japan Japan and China exchanged barbed reproaches over history after the Japanese defence minister rejected claims by Beijing of a resurgence of “neo-militarism” of the kind that brought misery to east Asia in World War II. Shinjiro Koizumi dismissed Chinese denunciations, pointing out that Beijing’s forces are far more powerful than Japan’s.
Ασία: Στο μεγάλο παιχνίδι για τον Ειρηνικό, λίγοι μπορούν να σταματήσουν την αδυσώπητη Κίνα
Πρόκειται για τη σύγχρονη εκδοχή του «Μεγάλου Παιχνιδιού» του 19ου αιώνα μεταξύ Βρετανίας και Ρωσίας, μιας πάλης για την εξουσία και τη στρατηγική επιρροή, όχι στο Αφγανιστάν και την Ινδία, αλλά σε ένα νέο πεδίο ανταγωνισμού μεταξύ υπερδυνάμεων.
In the Great Game of the Pacific, there’s little to stop relentless Xi
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls the struggle for influence in the Pacific is “a permanent state of contest”.Ng Han Guan / AP Pacific politics It is the contemporary equivalent of the 19th-century “Great Game” between Britain and Russia, a struggle for power and strategic influence not in Afghanistan and India, but in a new arena of superpower competition.
Sleepy Japanese island wakes up to threat of war
Radar towers set up by the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) stand on Yonaguni, a tiny island on Japan’s western frontier.AP Japan The island of Yonaguni is one of those places where it always feels like Sunday afternoon, but even from its sleepiest corners you can see the causes of its hidden conflict. They loom in the hills, above the beaches and the fields where wild horses graze: sprouting aerials and spiky towers topped with geometric white pods.
Νότια Κορέα: Ο νέος ηγέτης ισορροπεί σε τεντωμένο σκοινί ανάμεσα στον Τραμπ και τον Σι
Από τον Πόλεμο της Κορέας, η στρατιωτική συμμαχία μεταξύ Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών και Νότιας Κορέας βρίσκεται στον πυρήνα της αμερικανικής στρατηγικής στην Ανατολική Ασία. Χθες Δευτέρα, οι ηγέτες των δύο χωρών συναντήθηκαν στην Ουάσιγκτον για να συζητήσουν τις μεγαλύτερες αλλαγές στις σχέσεις τους εδώ και 72 χρόνια.
Αυτοί που επέζησαν από τις δύο ατομικές βόμβες
Ηταν μόλις 8 ετών τότε, αλλά μια ολόκληρη ζωή μετά η Αγιάνο Χιρασίμα θυμάται καθαρά την πρώτη φορά που εκτέθηκε σε ατομική βόμβα. Ηταν Δευτέρα 6 Αυγούστου 1945 και έβγαζε τα παπούτσια της όταν η βόμβα ουρανίου 13 χιλιοτόνων με το παρατσούκλι «Little Boy» εξερράγη 580 μέτρα πάνω από το κέντρο της Χιροσίμα, 30 δευτερόλεπτα μετά τις 8.15 π.μ. «Ημουν έτοιμη να πάρω τις παντόφλες μου για να μπω στο σχολείο, όταν είδα τη λάμψη γύρω μου», λέει. «Μπουμ, ξαφνικά ήμουν καλυμμένη με συντρίμμια.
The Girl Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs
She was just eight years old, but a lifetime later Ayano Hirashima clearly remembers the first time she was exposed to an atomic bomb. It was Monday August 6, 1945, and she was taking off her shoes when the 13-kiloton uranium weapon nicknamed “Little Boy” exploded 635 yards above the center of Hiroshima, 30 seconds after 8.15am. “I was about to pick up the indoor slippers to go into school when I saw the flash around me,” she says. “Boom! Suddenly I was covered in rubble.
Powell’s Q&A: Eliza Clark, author of ‘Penance’ by Eliza Clark
Penance is an untrue crime novel — that is, a fictional novel told in the form of a true crime book. The book covers the violent murder of a teenage girl by three of her schoolmates and is told by a washed-up tabloid journalist — but how much of it is true? It’s came out on September 26 — and response has been very positive so far! My first book, Boy Parts, was released in the UK in 2020, but came out in print here in May of this year.
June 17, 2023 - Air Mail
London’s cultural scene post-lockdown is wide awake, but a giant in Trafalgar Square is only now emerging from a long slumber: after a three-year renovation, the National Portrait Gallery reopens this month. Get ready for new entrances, new gallery spaces, the new Learning Centre, and the debut of a comprehensive re-hang of the gallery’s collection.
Meet the Brains Behind Kim Jong-un's Terrifying Operation
The people closest to Kim Jong-un — supreme leader of North Korea and the world’s only nuclear-armed millennial — resemble in many ways the members of a traditional royal court. There is the chief minister and No 2 — the most powerful politician in the kingdom, gatekeeper and chief adviser to the monarch. There is the head of foreign affairs, a tough, experienced and hard-drinking diplomat.
Who is Kim Jong-un’s sister Yo-jong? Meet North Korea’s true leader
The people closest to Kim Jong-un — supreme leader of North Korea and the world’s only nuclear-armed millennial — resemble in many ways the members of a traditional royal court. There is the chief minister and No 2 — the most powerful politician in the kingdom, gatekeeper and chief adviser to the monarch. There is the head of foreign affairs, a tough, experienced and hard-drinking diplomat.
영국더타임즈에 천공등장!
Soothsayer doesn’t control me, claims South Korea president Yoon Suk-yeol 굥은 '점쟁이가 나를 조종하지 않는다'고 주장했다. Cheongong has been a mentor of the president for years 천공은 수년간 굥의 멘토였다. President Yoon of South Korea is suing for libel over claims that he was influenced by a Rasputin-like soothsayer in his decision to abandon the presidential palace, his latest effort to quell rumours that his political judgement is clouded by superstition.
How Xi Bent China’s Rule of Law to His Will
How Xi Bent China’s Rule of Law to His Will A decade ago, before the personal and political disasters that were to come, Yu Wensheng was filled with excitement. As a successful commercial lawyer practisin Read Full Article »
Boybands Aren't Built to Last, Apparently
It sounds even now like the account of a strange dream. It was a weekend in early autumn and I was walking with my young children through a museum devoted to woolly mammoths. As we were admiring a case of fossilized incisors, my phone began to buzz. By the time we got to the display of ancient mandibles, it was vibrating nonstop. All over the world hundreds of strangers were sending me messages on Twitter. They were very angry strangers.
Editors Reveal: The Narrator I’d Choose to Tell My Life’s Story
If there is one thing most audiobook listeners can agree on, it’s that a great narrator can elevate a story. If you’ve ever found yourself choosing an audiobook based on the narrator alone, ranking your favorite performances, or daydreaming about which famous voice would read your very own audiobook, you’re among friends. When we asked our editors who they would pick to narrate their life’s story or inner dialogue, they had plenty of opinions.
Perth USAsia - Professor Gordon Flake Interviews Richard Lloyd Parry
By Professor Gordon Flake and Richard Lloyd Parry on 24 August 2021 North-East Asia | International Relations Professor Gordon Flake recently interviewed Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia editor of The Times and author of 'Ghosts of the Tsunami'. Their conversation covered the domestic political implications of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics; COVID-19 in Japan; the country's role in the Indo-Pacific; and Japan's response to the Biden administration. FOUND SOMETHING INTERESTING? share this article / page
Meeting Japan's ghosts
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In 2011 an earthquake just off Japan’s east coast triggered a powerful tsunami. The quake, tsunami, and subsequent explosions at the Fukushima power plant, caused the greatest loss of life in Japan since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and 18 500 people died. Richard Lloyd Parry lives with his young family in Tokyo where he is Asia Editor of newspaper, The Times of London.
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Mun Chol-myong: North Korean ‘whisky spy’ goes on trial for money laundering
An alleged spy has become the first North Korean to go on trial in America, on charges of covering up the smuggling of wine, whisky, cognac and cigarettes destined for the elite circle surrounding Kim Jong-un. Mun Chol-myong, 55, appeared in court in Washington after his arrest in Malaysia, where he had lived for a decade. His extradition to the US has angered Pyongyang, which has shut down its embassy in Kuala Lumpur and cut diplomatic relations in retaliation.
Liam Vijfwinkel’s Future Backpack
An 11-year-old invents a backpack that reminds you which books to pack; horses cuddle for warmth; and a racing pigeon’s unlikely journey from the U.S. to Australia January 21, 2021 Reading Time: 3 minutes 1. By Richard Lloyd Parry Backpack to the future: young Liam Vijfwinkel and his “Future Backpack,” complete with computer and scanner.
From smuggled coal to art: How North Korea dodges sanctions to build up nuclear arsenal
North Korea has successfully miniaturised its nuclear weapons, continues to build ballistic missiles and is using a range of ingenious means to dodge sanctions, from smuggled coal and art to dispatching workers overseas, according to the United Nations. The new UN report by monitoring experts appointed by the Security Council highlights the ineffectiveness of sanctions aiming to pressure Kim Jong-un into giving up his weapons of mass destruction.
Multi-Player Movement – Air Mail
The popular Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing was banned by the Chinese government after pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong began using the virtual world as a platform to spread their message.
June 13, 2020 - Air Mail
Issue No. 48 The View from Here By Alessandra Stanley When Mitt Romney, wearing a mask, his normally Brylcreem-smooth hair slightly askew, joined a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington last Sunday, it was kind of a mixed blessing… 1963 All Over Again Courtney and Corrie Cockrell, grandnieces of the assassinated civil-rights hero Medgar Evers, consider his legacy through the lens of George Floyd By Sheila Weller “I can’t breathe.” Multi-Player Movement How the bobbleheaded critters of...
Imaginary Girlfriend
For the year and a half that they were together, no couple could have been more in love than Akihiko Kondo and his delightful young wife, Miku. Every morning, she would wake him with a cheery greeting and see him off to his job as a civil servant. During the day, she would send encouraging texts. Each evening he would return to find her waiting expectantly. His mother did not understand, but Mr Kondo, 36, was happier than ever. Until news came that their love was doomed.
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
There is nothing palatial about the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. It’s a park, a shaggy forest of ponds and trees, with a handful of modestly elegant modern buildings, an administrative block and a few roads faintly visible in between. There used to be a nine-hole golf course, built in the 1920s by the then crown prince, Hirohito, who took to the game during a visit to Britain.
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Akihito, who abdicated in April, was a paradoxical figure: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly barred from political utterance, who even so stood out against the historical revisionism of the nationalist right. Richard Lloyd Parry considers the former emperor’s part in the intellectual and political debate over Japan’s wartime record, and its history of apology – or non-apology – for its conduct in East Asia.
Advantage Pyongyang
Please sign in to read the full article. Login The Choco Pie is a mouth-drying, individually wrapped slab of cake, marshmallow and chocolate, and in South Korea it is as important a part of childhood as Britain’s Mars bar or the American Twinkie. It is manufactured by the Orion company of Seoul, exported across Asia, and consumed in an arc of countries from Japan to Uzbekistan.
LRB · Richard Lloyd Parry · Flight to the Forest: Bruno Manser Vanishes
Like rock stars and a certain kind of actor, heroes of moral struggle face difficulties as they age. Principled self-sacrifice is tough to sustain over a lifetime, and those who spend years on a pedestal frequently end up toppling into the mud. Assassination tends to preserve reputations (Martin Luther King, Chico Mendes). Elected office can put the seal on a career or soil it for ever: for every Nelson Mandela, there is an Aung San Suu Kyi.
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.
The Great Successor
We have updated our Privacy Policy Please take a moment to review it. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the terms of our updated Privacy Policy. Astonishing and insightful - the inside story of the mercurial man now making headlines, and history. Essential reading Lyse Doucet By far the most complete insight into the Hermit Kingdom I have ever seen. Full of fascinating details Christina Lamb Superb . . .
LRB · Richard Lloyd Parry · Diary: In Pyongyang
Richard Lloyd Parry Fifteen years ago, on one of my early visits to Pyongyang, I was taken to the Tower of the Juche Idea, the vertiginous propaganda monument on the south bank of the Taedong River. Peering acrophobically over the railing at the ground 560 feet below, I asked one of the local guides if people ever came here to commit suicide. The young woman, who spoke flawless English, appeared baffled. I rephrased the question. She still didn’t understand.
BTS: «Com'è duro essere la boy band più famosa del mondo» - VanityFair.it
Questo articolo è tratto dal numero 44 di Vanity Fair Anche se una ragazza fosse interessata a lui (ne dubita), per Min Yoon-gi l’idea di una storia d’amore sarebbe inimmaginabile. È un ragazzo esile e pallido, con i capelli tinti di un caldo castano, ma a 25 anni nella sua vita non c’è spazio per molto altro che non sia lavoro. Oggi, per esempio, lui e i suoi sei colleghi si sono alzati poco dopo le sei di mattina.
Jake Adelstein - Murder in Tokyo
When the disappearance of Lucie Blackman made the news, I was covering it as a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper. By necessity rather than by choice, I was already familiar with the darker side of the country: I had spent 1999 to 2000 as a police reporter assigned to the 4th District, home of Japan’s largest adult entertainment area, Kabukicho.
What they're reading: Aja Gabel - Blog Post
Aja Gabel’s debut novel, The Ensemble, follows the complex lives of a musician’s quartet on and off the stage as they navigate the highly competitive world of classical music and their entangled love lives. (Read the review.) Gabel is no stranger to the world of musicians—she is a former cellist. She now lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Bear. In this post, she tells us about three books she’s been reading lately.
Sydney Writers' Festival – An Evolving Crisis: Rohingya in Myanmar
More than 650,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since late 2017, following what Amnesty International has called a targeted campaign of “systematic murder, rape and burning” by security forces.
Richard Lloyd Parry: encounters with Japan's ghosts
Richard Lloyd Parry lives with his young family in Tokyo where he is Asia Editor of newspaper, The Times of London. In 2011 an earthquake just off Japan’s east coast triggered a powerful tsunami. The quake, tsunami, and subsequent explosions at the Fukushima power plant, caused the greatest loss of life in Japan since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and 18 500 people died.
Sydney Writers' Festival – Richard Lloyd Parry: Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry is a British author and award-winning foreign correspondent. Since 1995 he has lived in Tokyo, where he is the Asia Editor of London's The Times. He has reported from twenty-nine countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and North Korea. He has also contributed to the London Review of Books, Granta and the New York Times.
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