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Robert E. McCoy

Robert E. McCoy

Robert E. McCoy is a retired U.S. Air Force Korean linguist and analyst/reporter who was stationed in Asia for more than fourteen years. He continues to follow developments in East Asia closely. Mr. McCoy’s book Tales You Wouldn’t Tell Your Mother is now out. He can be contacted via his website http://musingsbymccoy.com/ which also lists his previous essays and has personal vignettes on Asia (Tidbits) not published elsewhere.

Opinion

Why North Korea can’t trust Washington

U.S. policy towards North Korea won't have credibility until the message is consistent

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyJune 13, 2017
Opinion

How the U.S. can develop a sustainable and successful policy on North Korea

In order to solve the North Korea problem, the U.S. must redefine its goals

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyMay 24, 2017
Opinion

What Kim Jong Un really fears

Forget sanctions: it's time to prosecute North Korea's elites and flood the DPRK with foreign media

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyMay 16, 2017
Opinion

Is the U.S. backing Kim Jong Un into a corner?

This is not routine provocation: the DPRK leadership senses the danger it increasingly faces

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyApril 25, 2017
Opinion

What China really wants for Korea: A unified puppet state controlled by them

South Korea and the U.S. must not misread Beijing's objectives

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyApril 19, 2017
Opinion

Why North Korea is aiming its missiles at Japan

Pyongyang is trying to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyMarch 21, 2017
Opinion

The U.S. obligation to defend the South from North Korea is not limitless

American soldiers should not die because of Seoul's bad decisions

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyMarch 16, 2017
Opinion

What North Korea really wants: One Korea ruled by them

Everyone should worry about the ultimate goal of the DPRK when it says it wants a “peace treaty”

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyMarch 8, 2017
Opinion

Face it: North Korea is now China’s “wicked problem”

The two countries are no longer “as close as lips and teeth”

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyMarch 3, 2017
Opinion

Why is North Korea so quiet on the comfort women issue?

Pyongyang has its own skeletons in its closet when it comes to abductions

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyFebruary 20, 2017
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