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Richard Lloyd Parry

@dicklp.bsky.social
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Asia Editor @thetimes. Author non-fiction: In The Time of Madness, People Who Eat Darkness, Ghosts Of The Tsunami. Now a novel: In The Green Heart: www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Heart-Richar…

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026
‘North Koreans are the only people in the world who never stopped being on a Cold War footing. Far more than their pampered adversaries in the West, more than their Chinese and Russian confrères, they are used to a war economy and the sacrifices it demands.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Lloyd Parry · Keeping up with the Kims
For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/09/2026
‘If the upper estimates – more than a hundred existing warheads and production of eighteen a year – are correct, then North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is on course to surpass those of France and the UK by the end of the decade.’ Richard Lloyd Parry (@dicklp.bsky.social): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Lloyd Parry · Keeping up with the Kims
For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/09/2026
‘For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their powerful and proximate enemies.’ Richard Lloyd Parry (@dicklp.bsky.social) on North Korea. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Lloyd Parry · Keeping up with the Kims
For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their...
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Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"He compared the summit to a first encounter with a woman: ‘In one second, you know whether or not it’s all going to happen.’ Trump never did get his legover with Kim, but the spectacle of his efforts was riveting." Me in the @lrb.co.uk on America & the Kims. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Lloyd Parry · Keeping up with the Kims
For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their...
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Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Britain believes that China would negotiate the release of the imprisoned Hong Kong newspaper owner, Jimmy Lai - but only if he agrees to be silent. Exclusive in The Times by Richard Spencer and me. www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
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Deal to free Jimmy Lai ‘could mean halting criticism of Beijing’
Britain believes China does not want the Hong Kong democracy leader, who was given a 20-year sentence on Monday, to die as a martyr in prison
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Steph @ste-c.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Friend of Monocle Richard Lloyd Parry (@dicklp.bsky.social) is this week’s guest on #MeetTheWriters with @georginagodwin.bsky.social on monocle.com podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Arbitrariness of choosing Kurds as a target & triviality of many of the complaints against them suggests that ill-feeling towards foreigners is a proxy for deeper & more complex insecurities about a future of economic & military insecurity (£) www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a... By @dicklp.bsky.social
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Ageing, anxious Japanese make Kurdish immigrants the new enemy
The ‘foreigner problem’ is a lightning rod for rightwingers as national elections loom — and threatens to turn trivial concerns about noise and bins into violence
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Uncomfortable truth for all Japanese leaders: within narrow circle of policy, freedom of action is tightly constrained by stark geopolitical facts. Biggest problems are structural, functions of geography and demography, and they are grave. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @dicklp.bsky.social
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Prime minister’s ‘a winner’, but can she save Japan?
Sanae Takaichi is change personified but she’s up against China, an ageing populace and geography
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 18/12/2025
🔺EXCLUSIVE: Mishcon de Reya, the London law firm that was once solicitor for Princess Diana, handled a multimillion-pound property purchase for the man subsequently accused of heading up the world’s most successful organised crime group
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Mishcon de Reya handled property deal for ‘romance scam billionaire’
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