Published by The Times (5th May, 2017) Last month a 29-year-old woman named Mariam al-Oteibi attempted to flee her abusive family in Riyadh, only to be captured by […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
Inside Kim’s camps of death
Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th April, 2017) Lim Hye-jin still shivers at the memory of two brothers who managed to escape briefly from her massive concentration […]
Aid / Economics / North Korea / South Korea / World
Capitalism makes people taller. Just look at South Korea
Published by CapX (26th April, 2017) The spring sun shone and cherry blossom fluttered down to the delight of locals as I sauntered through Namsan Park, a beautifully-kept […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aid / Europe / European Union / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
A disturbing new low for foreign aid
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants, which openly […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Now open: the West Banksy
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) The opening of a hotel by elusive graffiti artist Banksy in the shadow of the controversial concrete and barbed wire […]