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‘Crink’ is the latest geopolitical moniker devised by pundits – but is it a useful tool or a diplomatic distraction?
The recently coined acronym identifies the threat that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea pose to the West and warns of their accelerating co-operation.
Affairs
Hannah Lucinda Smith visits Turkish cities recently devastated by powerful earthquakes – a catastrophe made even worse by corrupt, shoddy construction.
How a North Korean construction company cornered the market for monument building in Africa
The Pyongyang-based Mansudae Overseas Projects has built monuments all over the world. It is one of the hermit nation’s few soft power exports.
Diplomacy
Wolfgang Ischinger on why we should talk to adversaries, a small-country play for the UN Security Council and why Japan is opening an embassy in Kosovo.
Defence
Island disputes troubling Japan and the US nuclear command finally retires its floppy disks.
Defence
Canada’s pilot conundrum, Sweden takes subs seriously and the US loosens rules for foreign recruits.
The opener
We decode people's desire for casual attire, lap up Korean food diplomacy and take a trip down memory lane in Canada.
Crowd pleaser
South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in, caught in the crossfire between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, has quietly delivered a diplomatic triumph. And he still has time to watch TV with his cat.
Defence
Army recruitment tactics in France, Djibouti’s new friendship with China, Israel’s tank innovation and North Korea’s escalating missile tests.
Clouds on the horizon
From its base in Austria’s capital, the International Atomic Energy Agency keeps a weather eye on global nuclear risks. According to its head, Yukiya Amano, the outlook has rarely been stormier.
