South Korea teetered on the edge of a far worse crackdown than the infamous Gwangju Uprising massacre. As the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, a secret plan for all-out military ...

Human rights in one of the world’s most egregious authoritarian regimes are set to be diminished even further, thanks to ...

Park Jun-young, a 24-year-old university student, first became interested in politics in 2023. But his views often clashed ...

And would Japanese citizens and politicians have the guts to put their lives on the line to protect democracy? Under martial law in South Korea, all political activities, including rallies and ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the ... the president of South Korea, had declared martial law, bringing ...

Beijing’s capacity to replace the US as global leader is limited by its own constrained resources, with enormous outstanding ...

Japan and South Korea are adopting a cautious wait-and-see policy in the wake of geopolitical upheavals caused by the Trump ...

For 80 years, the United States was the undisputed leader of Western democracies. But Donald Trump is discarding allies and values in favor of power and money as he steers America into the camp of the ...

After being sealed off from the outside world for decades and experiencing a mass exodus, Albania is leaning into its ...

The commissioner had accompanied President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen along with 22 commissioners for ...