Published by The Daily Mail (21st April, 2017) Scarcely had the starting gun for Britain’s election battle been fired when technology guru Bill Gates waded in with a doom-laden […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
North Korea’s idea of Britain? David Beckham and The Queen
Published by The Spectator (20 April, 2017) Korean Notebook When I arrived in Seoul, I joked to my editor that I hoped this was not going to be […]
Drugs / Policy
The real drug zombies are politicians
Published by The ipaper (17th April, 2017) Reefer madness is back. Only this time, it has been rebranded. Now it is Spice Nightmare that is stalking our nation, […]
North Korea / South Korea / United States / World
I fear for the future when the world’s fate hangs on these two mavericks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) Outside my window in one of the world’s most advanced cities, I can hear protesters chanting angrily against ‘Crazy […]
North Korea / World
Thousands slaughtered at nuclear test site
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) A North Korean defector claims thousands of political prisoners have been slaughtered as the country tests nuclear weapons. Kang […]
North Korea / South Korea / United States / World
Revealed: Kim’s plan to kidnap tourists
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap Westerners from South Korea and hold them hostage […]
Syria / United States / World
A president guided by television news and emotional whims
Published by The ipaper (10th April, 2017) Even in the whirlwind world of Donald Trump, last week’s events were mind-blowing. It began with the 45th president of the […]
China / North Korea / South Korea / United States / World
So could North Korea’s cruel regime be next on the hit list?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th April, 2017) When Donald Trump sat down to dinner with China’s Xi Jinping in his garish golden palace of Mar-a-Lago in Florida […]
China / North Korea / United States / World
Donald Trump’s shock tactics on North Korea might just work
Published by The Guardian (3rd April, 2017) Song Byeok used to paint propaganda pictures for North Korea’s dictators. But when famine struck, his family was starving like millions […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
Who will capture the centre ground?
Published by The i paper (3rd April, 2017) British politics is in a curious place. A prime minister who is respected but still little-known leads a government with […]
Europe / European Union / Politics
The tiny nation holding Britain hostage (like 27 others)
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd April, 2017) The symbolism could not have been more stark, nor the power plays more loaded, when Europe formally responded to […]
Aid / Politics
MPs can’t afford to ignore the millions we waste on aid
Published by The Times (29th March, 2017) Can you guess the big problem with Britain’s aid spending? It is not the appalling waste, the insidious corruption, the persistent […]