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South Korean President Moon Jae-in holds his New Year press conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Thursday, Jan. 10. Moon urged North Korea to take firmer disarmament measures that could lead to more economic cooperation between the North and South.

Cyr: South Korea confirms democracy — and international leadership

January 25, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

The global news media continue to devote rapt attention to the at times acrimonious, occasionally friendly interchange between two flamboyant leaders: United States President Donald Trump and North Korea leader...

After an reported half of the world's population lived in extreme poverty in 1980, the World Bank recently estimated that the number had been reduced to 10 percent.

Cyr: Look beyond media scare stories

January 18, 2019 at 10:24 a.m.

“The World Is Quietly Getting Better.” That is the headline of an important article by columnist Greg Ip in The Wall Street Journal for Jan. 3. Traditionally, my column early...

The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen "toxic" as its Word of the Year 2018.

Cyr: What’s in a word? Consider ‘toxic’ advocacy

January 11, 2019 at 10:43 a.m.

“Toxic” could describe different aspects of the year just ended, and in fact, one influential institution in Britain has decided to do just that. The learned, and obviously biased, lexicographers...

A blazing Sherman tank is abandoned during the Battle of the Bulge and fight for the Belgian town of Manhay on Dec. 31, 1944.

Cyr: War and peace during Christmas season

December 28, 2018 at 12:15 p.m.

Editor’s note: Arthur I. Cyr traditionally provides this column during Christmas week. This Christmas season is also the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle in...

In this May 2, 2017, file photo, a U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is installed on a golf course in Seongju, South Korea.

Japan-U.S. missile defense collaboration has great strategic significance

December 20, 2018 at 12:42 p.m.

The United States has carried out a successful test of an advanced land-based anti-ballistic missile (ABM). This triumph on Dec. 10, quickly announced publicly by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency,...

British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron visit the World War I-era Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme on Nov. 9.

Cyr: Britain, France and unity in Europe

December 14, 2018 at 10:20 a.m.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” That is how British author Charles Dickens begins his famous novel “A Tale of Two Cities,” about...

President George H.W. Bush talks to reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House on Feb. 11, 1991, after meeting with top military advisors to discuss the Persian Gulf War.

Cyr: George H.W. Bush leaves a powerful legacy

December 11, 2018 at 5:49 p.m.

“Oh, the vision thing,” is how George H.W. Bush once responded to a friend’s suggestion that he spend some extended time alone reflecting on his overall strategic outlook, rather than...

British Prime Minister Theresa May answers questions about her Brexit agenda at a Parliamentary liaison committee meeting on Nov. 29 in London.

Cyr: Brexit drama continues as Britain and Europe struggle

December 12, 2018 at 2:13 a.m.

“Fog in channel, Continent cut off,” is an old British joke about a newspaper headline about weather over the English Channel. Current developments regarding the European Union (EU) underscore the...

A photo from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum shows Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy descending the stairs from Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Cyr: Considering JFK’s legacy 55 years after his death

May 24, 2019 at 12:37 a.m.

Bad vibrations, as hip types used to say way back in the 1960s. The President of the United States travels to Texas to try to mitigate Democratic Party factional strife,...

A young John F. Kennedy aboard PT-109 in the South Pacific in 1943. He was one of several future presidents who served in the military prior to entering the political world.

Cyr: Veterans deserve your service

December 11, 2018 at 10:50 p.m.

Veterans Day and thereafter is a good time for reflection on our military. This November marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice agreement ending World War I. Horrendous casualties in...

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