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.
Before predicting its collapse, North Korea must be seen for what it is: a failed state
Give Park Geun-hye’s agenda of inter-Korean cooperation a chance to work
With first-strike capability out of the question, all that’s left is dialogue
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