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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

N. Korea now has control over how the Western world turns

U.S. has lost whatever bargaining position it might once have had

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyOctober 25, 2016
Opinion

Donju taxes: N. Korea kills the goose that lay the golden eggs

A recent drive for hard cash in North Korea is hitting the middle class

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyOctober 17, 2016
Evergreen

North Korea’s attempts to block outside information will fail

Kim Jong Un is right to worry about knowledge that is damaging to his regime coming into the country

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoySeptember 19, 2016
Opinion

Amid defections, it’s time to expose North Korea’s cash caches

Recent moves by slush fund managers, and some decent detective work, could reveal a lot

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoySeptember 12, 2016
Evergreen

All ready on North Korea’s firing line

S.Korea faces a daunting array of missiles and rockets from just across the DMZ  

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoySeptember 2, 2016
Opinion

U.S. needs a long-term goal for North Korea and Northeast Asia

Pyongyang’s nukes and missiles challenge regional cooperation, spread insecurity

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyAugust 30, 2016
Opinion

To talk to North Korea or not – what’s it to be?

If we're unclear about N. Korea sanctions goals, what can we expect?

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyAugust 19, 2016
Opinion

North Korea makes Obama’s ‘no first use’ goal a very bad idea

Current U.S. administration doesn’t recognize the fundamental lessons of war

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyAugust 9, 2016
Opinion

Failure to see things as Pyongyang does holds back our understanding

Those at the top of U.S. diplomatic and political bureaucracies often don’t “get” it

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyJuly 28, 2016
Evergreen

UN convention against organized crime: The farce of N.Korean participation

The difference between the Kim dynasty and the Godfather family is merely one of scale

Robert E. McCoyRobert E. McCoyJuly 15, 2016