Since the 1970s, South Korea has been a signatory of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). It officially became a denuclearized country after the United States removed all its nuclear weapons in 1991. Under the international treaty, ...
On May 22, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., a former Filipino Senator, was declared the new president-elect of the Philippines. He and his vice president, Sara Duterte, were sworn into office a month later, relieving Sara’s father, Rodrigo Duterte, of his ...
As the Ukraine War drags on, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ominously warned that Russia may shift its nuclear policy to a first-strike strategy rather than a defensive one, effectively introducing a nuclear threat into the conflict. This threat of ...
Since World War II, U.S. nuclear weapons have served as deterrents of conventional attacks against the United States and its allies. Accordingly, the United States has long maintained a strategic position in favor of nuclear first-use in its international policies. ...
North Korea began the development of its nuclear program in the 1950s, and its first nuclear facility was built in the early 1980s. In December 1985, it signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which is seen as fundamental to the ...
A “normal” American family may seem like the least likely framework for discussions about the politics of potential nuclear war. The narrative choice of such a family, however, is clear once audiences are made aware that this “family” is merely ...
English speakers hold an overwhelming and overlooked advantage when it comes to media access. In North America, over 81% of films feature English as one of their main languages, and internationally, English films dominate global box office sales. The second ...
“Japan and the United States are currently facing the most challenging and complex security environment in recent history,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told U.S. President Joe Biden at the Oval Office on Jan. 13. In 2022, North Korea launched ...
A suppressed media, a voiceless minority and a dictator-in-chief. India, the largest “democracy” and now the most populated country in the world, is backsliding further towards authoritarianism. The BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, aired in the United Kingdom on ...
This article was originally published in US-China Today; Glimpse from the Globe does not claim unique ownership of this article and its content. “100% sustainable.” Not the words one would typically associate with the Olympics, of all things, but it ...