KJ Noh
K.J. Noh is a political analyst, educator and journalist focusing on the geopolitics and political economy of the Asia-Pacific. He has written for Dissident Voice, Black Agenda Report, Asia Times, Counterpunch, LA Progressive, MR Online, and People’s Daily. He also does frequent commentary and analysis on various news programs, including The Critical Hour, The Backstory, By Any Means Necessary and Breakthrough News. He recently co-authored a study on the military transmission of infectious diseases and its implications for Covid transmission.
Recent articles by KJ Noh
27 March 2025
The return of the zombie in South Korea
Han Duck-soo, the impeached South Korean Prime minister (and former acting president), has just had his impeachment reversed, and is now acting president again.
14 December 2024
South Korea's martial law fiasco: legitimation crisis in the imperial vassal state
In the wake of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's 6-hour coup, Western pundits have opined that this was an affirmation of South Korean democracy's robustness and resilience, its institutional maturity and strength.
4 December 2024
Martial Law: US backed Yoon pledges to "eliminate anti-state elements", Koreans rise up in resistance
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared Martial Law for the first time in 45 years, suspended the South Korean legislature, and banned elected representatives from accessing the National Assembly building with massive police mobilisation.
28 October 2024
A relay station of the western propaganda apparatus: Response to Alfred McCoy
In ‘Powder keg in the Pacific’ Alfred McCoy is wrong from the very first sentence. He confounds cause and effect, revises history, reverses belligerent and defender, and hard-packs his article through and through with US state department mendacity.
17 October 2024
Han Kang's Nobel prize award is a cry for Palestine
South Korean novelist Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, beating short-listed literary heavyweights like Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Gerald Murnane, and the all-odds-favourite, Chinese author Can Xue. Han Kang was as shocked as anyone else after receiving the call notifying her that she had won. When asked what she would do next, she said she would quietly have tea with her son.
9 January 2024
Myanmars complex civil war
Myanmar's situation is complex: since February 2021, there is a multi-party civil war between the military coup government, the NUG (National Unity Government; successor of the Bamar-majority civil government) and its Peoples defense forces, and over 30 different ethnic armed organisations (EAO's) with shifting alliances/coalitions/loyalties, intersecting with a variety of criminal enterprises that are opportunistic and tactical.
27 December 2023
Kissinger's atrocities fall solidly within the norm of US empire
Henry Kissinger did not invent some novel doctrine of foreign-policy-by-barbarous-atrocity, he simply continued the family tradition.