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-13 posts tagged "North Korea"
Tom Naatz | Friday, October 11, 2019
Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke Thursday evening about global affairs and America’s role in the world at a lecture co-hosted by the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC). Professor Michael Desch, director of NDISC, moderated the discussion. Rice spoke
Holden Perrelli | Thursday, February 28, 2019
On the same day President Donald Trump met with North Korean leadership and Kim Jong-Un at a summit in Vietnam, Sean King, an East Asia expert, and George Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., professor emeritus of peace studies, held an open discussion on the subject of U.S. and North Korea relations at the Hesburgh
Yizhi Hu | Thursday, February 15, 2018
I was casually swiping through the stories on my Instagram when I saw a video of a group of young ladies, each waving a small flag with perfect synchronization. A friend sitting next to me glanced over my phone and exclaimed, “Wow, that’s impressive!” It was striking to see how uniform these ladies were ––
Jordan Ryan | Thursday, January 18, 2018
North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-un, have been the subject of some of President Trump’s most memorable tweets. Trump has called the North Korean leader a “short and fat” and a “madman,” and in keeping with what may be his favorite pastime, labeled Kim “Rocket Man.” Not to be outdone, Kim has publicly referred
Jordan Ryan | Thursday, November 2, 2017
We are reminded virtually every day of the ongoing tensions between North Korea and Washington. Just last month, the North Korean regime conducted its sixth underground nuclear test, which the government of Kim Jong Un claimed involved the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb. The rogue nation also continues its development of a ballistic missile
Joseph Han | Wednesday, November 1, 2017
This year has been a headway for North Korea with its nuclear weapons program. With over twenty missiles fired and an intercontinental ballistic missile near completion, the hermit state has become more threatening than ever. Over the previous years, the world’s reaction to North Korea’s hostile behavior has been relatively easy-going. It has been the
Tom Naatz | Friday, April 28, 2017
In the inaugural Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) debate — held in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium — Notre Dame faculty member David Cortright and Georgetown professor Matthew Kroenig debated whether or not “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is correct in saying that the policy of strategic patience with North Korea should end.” AHS is an “independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit, membership
Courtney Becker | Tuesday, April 25, 2017
The University’s chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) is hosting its first event on campus this week — a debate about the United States’ policy regarding North Korea, rather than a musical performance. Sophomore president of AHS Marea Hurson said she started a Notre Dame chapter of the non-partisan national debate society this year
Louis Bertolotti | Monday, November 9, 2015
Does the name Vasili Arkhipov ring a bell to you? The odds say that you have no idea who this man is, although he most likely saved your life on a fateful day 53 years ago last week. Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer aboard the B-59 nuclear-weaponized submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. At
Louis Bertolotti | Wednesday, September 23, 2015
The following are chronologically ordered quotes from Donald Trump’s remarks in the second Republican presidential debate held last week at the Ronald Reagan Library. Some wording has been changed for the sake of brevity and context. I’m Donald Trump. I say not in a braggadocious way, I’ve made billions and billions of dollars dealing with