Honorary Consul of Vietnam - Hawaii

07/03/2024

Sharing my thoughts on RIMPAC 2024 with CNA Taiwan.

美國退役空軍中將、前太平洋司令部副司令李弗今天向中央社表示，環太平洋演習絕不僅是一場秀；台灣的重要性在於它是採取自由開放的方式、和平解決國際問題的典範。 #台灣 #環太平洋 #軍演完整新聞看這裡：https://www.cna.com...

07/01/2024

The web site has been updated! New information on Ambassador Dzung's visit to Hawaii, as well as notary and apostille information.

It is my pleasure to welcome citizens of Viet Nam to the Aloha State and work to build people-to-people relationships!

05/24/2024

04/01/2024

The greatest challenge to peaceful coexistence between North Korea and the United States is the technical state of war between the two countries. The United States and the Soviet Union may have been at ideological loggerheads, used proxies in regional conflicts and come close to direct superpower bl...

02/04/2024

A good overview of our efforts to formally resolve the Korea War as a first step to a more peaceful Korean Peninsula.

The Korean War, which began in 1950 when the Soviet Union-backed North invaded the American-backed South, was halted by an armistice in 1953. But with no formal peace, the conflict never truly ended. Punctuated by periodic border violence, the stakes have raised significantly since North Korea teste...

01/29/2024

The 1954 Geneva Conference was the last serious attempt at resolving the Korean War. Take a five-minute deep dive into its failure to better understand how it ended in a dangerous seven-decade stand-off

Armistices end wars but peace conferences attempt to resolve the underlying problem that led to the war. The armistice signed on July 27, 1953 that ended the...

12/22/2023

I'm updating Figments to a self-produced and briefer format - but this episode on effective leadership is well worth 36-ish minutes of your time.

The leadership expert is my awesome daughter, Ya-Ting.

08/14/2023

Please advise if you know of any Vietnam-affiliated victims of the tragic Maui wildfires so that I might work with the Consulate in San Francisco to provide assistance. Dan Leaf, Honorary Consul