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Neither Bombs Nor Pragmatism Can Build Our Future

During the G7, President Lee Jae-myung promised President Donald Trump construction of ten ships for the US Navy. True to Lee’s pragmatic approach to politics, the ship order wins points with Trump while increasing production for Korea. This also helps realize Lee’s vision to make South Korea the number four arms exporter in the world, which it achieved in 2025 by rearming European countries, and hopes to continue by meeting the unfulfilled demand from a fall in Chinese and Russian arms exports.

ISC ArticlesInternational Strategy CenterJune 19, 2023japan, New Cold War, Peace

Vijay Prashad Interview

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, and editor. He has written over 20 books including ‘The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World’, ‘Red Star Over the Third World’, and ‘Washington Bullets’, which was translated by the ISC. He is director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research that recently published another work that was translated by the ISC, ‘Washington’s New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective’.

Vijay came to Korea for three days in early December to give a series of talks about the new cold war and other issues affecting the world. We met Vijay on his third afternoon in Seoul for a conversation about organizing and the importance of growing the left domestically and internationally.