North Korea

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Trump’s Path to the Nobel Prize

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Beijing ordered dramatic cuts in fuel, food and maintenance supplies to North Korea earlier this year

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Not Dead Yet: TPP.2 Could Be Bigger and Better

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Autocrats everywhere will have been inspired by Xi Jinping’s recent move to tear up the rulebook and set up a dictatorship.

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Assassin’s Creed: North Korea at the Brink

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The lesson the North Koreans have learned is that bluster, brutality and blackmail make for a winning strategy.

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North Korean Assassination: The Novel!

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“Through the seething jungles of Mindanao, across the baking emptiness of Mongolia and into the Dear Leader’s personal pleasure dome.”

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Historical Fiction

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Herr Schmidt was quite mistaken in his view that Japan is the Billy No Mates of Asia

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A French Kiss from Japan

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There’s more to Japan’s new first couple than meet the eye. The prime minister’s wife, Miyuki Hatoyama, claims to have befriended Tom Cruise in a previous life when he was, apparently, Japanese. Meanwhile the prime minister himself has been behaving like the re-incarnation of a French intellectual.