John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Less than a week after the spectacular closing ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided for an encore and invaded the sovereignty of neighboring Ukraine. The chill winds of the Cold War have returned to Europe and the halls of diplomacy. Taking advantage of Ukraine’s [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The Russian bear is definitely waking up after a long period of hibernation. Russian troops have taken over the Crimean peninsula, and it’s hard to believe they’re about to leave under a blitzkrieg of scolding by President Obama and a phalanx of editorialists and European leaders. The Russian [...]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Amid the continuing carnage from Syria’s civil war, there are small, if hard won, humanitarian victories which bring a tiny glimmer of hope to the battered and bleeding Mid East nation. Surprisingly, the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to a resolution which allows “unhindered humanitarian access” to cities, towns, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The Chinese are wielding a dangerous weapon that may have escaped the notice of military strategists. While everyone worries about China’s territorial claims and growing influence from the Indian subcontinent to the Yellow Sea and North Korea, the more immediate threat posed by Middle Kingdom expansionism is the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The moment finally came. My husband and I looked at one another with pride and began that gleeful conversation: Is he ready for preschool? We concluded our first-born and four-year-old son, having enjoyed years of nurturing in the home, is indeed at last ready to begin his formal education [...]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “How can we claim we didn’t know,” governments and media may soon be asking themselves as stunning new evidence of suffering and widespread human rights violations become glaringly obvious in communist North Korea? But now in a devastating and detailed indictment, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council has stated [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The North Korean propaganda machine is nothing if not super-skilled at emitting conflicting signals. One day they’re castigating the U.S. and South Korea for military exercises, and the next they’ve dropped the subject and are entertaining a bunch of elderly South Koreans at a reunion with their long-lost [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto Is the Republican Party coyly planning to stab its supporters in the back? Recently, House Speaker John Boehner declared that immigration reform would be put on the back burner this year because President Barack Obama cannot be trusted to enforce the nation’s laws. Yet, if that is the true [...]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Yes, the widening attacks on the press, and arrests and intimidation of journalists were disturbing and among the barriers to the free flow of information worldwide in 2013. But beyond the usual lists of suspects blocking and censoring news and the Internet, there’s a definite and deadly spike in [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The visit of Donald Gregg, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, to Pyongyang has got to be a sign of hope for improving relations between North Korea and its two arch foes, the U.S. and South Korea. As head of a delegation from a little known organization called [...]
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