War Becoming Increasingly Likely Hours after the latest North Korean nuclear weapon detonation on September 3, 2017, I asked a well-connected friend for an opinion. During the Iraq War, when I visited him at the Department of State, he took me up to the office of Condoleezza Rice for an impromptu introduction. (Unfortunately, […]
Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (cr. Michael Yon) President Donald Trump thinks he can solve the AfPak dilemma. In his speech, the United States president talked about winning. There is no winning to be had beyond safeguarding our national interests. This is all a distraction from a gigantic problem: China. On our scale of […]
(Last of 4 parts) Part 1: Comfort Woman Statues: A War Against the US, Not Japan Part 2: Comfort Women Issue: Why Do the Japanese Keep Apologizing? Part 3: Americans, Comfort Women Myth Makers from Asia Think We’re Too Naive Getting Down to Business: Statues about Politics, Power, and Money Talking with […]
(Third of 4 parts) Part 1: Comfort Woman Statues: A War Against the US, Not Japan Part 2: Comfort Women Issue: Why Do the Japanese Keep Apologizing? I have discussed the what and the how of the comfort women system, but what about the why? Why do military forces prefer to have designated […]
(Second of 4 parts) Part 1: Comfort Woman Statues: A War Against the US, Not Japan Believe it or not, American Southerners find some commonalties with Japanese culture. This is important. I understand Southern culture. Much of my family was from North Florida, South Georgia, and Oklahoma. We would swim in […]
Kim Ki-jong – Comfort Woman terrorist who attacked the Japanese Ambassador to South Korea, and who tried to assassinate U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert. (AP photos) (First of 4 Parts) Michael Yon, Special for JAPAN Forward Koreans are coming. Not in peace. Few citizens of Brookhaven, Georgia realize […]
Why did Korean fathers abandon their daughters without a fight? (Statue in Seoul, photo cr. Michael Yon.) Trouble is unfolding. Few people, outside Japan and academic circles in Korea and America, understand the history of Korea other than from what hyper-dramatic movie or TV scripts tell them. This Korean vacuum in the West […]
Ask an American journalist, “Do you trust the Chinese government?” If the answer is yes, there is nothing more to talk about. If the answer is no, the next question is, “Do you trust them to tell the truth about Japan?” China is leading a deadly information war. The first target is Japan. The […]
