The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as ‘Fat Man and Little Boy.’) And a river...

I wrote Dreams of My Mothers because it reveals deep insight into a topic – cross boarder, cross racial adoption – that rarely gets much attention from any quarter, because it represents such a niche...

we left our home forty years ago. Despite the unhappy events we faced there, we left because our faith allowed it, because our belief in the Lord taught us that we would find a new...

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

The people your brother killed – well, they all had souls. They weren’t Satan. Ryu Yohan wasn’t Satan, either. His faith was twisted, that’s all. I know now. I know that God is innocent. (2007:...

It comes down to this: we’re pieces of equipmentTo be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down,And those parts which can’t be salvagedAre replaced with other GI parts, that’s all.

Back then, I think, both sides were just very young. They needed to grow up enough to realize that thing get quite complicated in the business of living, that a lot of things require mutual...

God too, has sinned, that’s what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

People hated and killed each other back then. Now even those who survived are dying, leaving this world one by one. Unless we find a way to forgive one another, none of us will ever...

There is an old saying that goes ‘Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man’. It is also said, ‘Two hands must meet to make a sound’. The atrocities that happened here weren’t...

The blazing sun beat down on the concrete of the museum’s front yard- Reverend Ryu Yosop felt as if the heat were sucking up all the moisture in his brain and heart. What different colors...

I suppose the time is ripe for them now, for the people who were there. They’re ready now, I think. So… they appear before us as part of their redemption.””But you and I, we weren’t...

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

We had it drilled into us time and time again: ‘If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.’…If someone...

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that,...