Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s military is deeply involved in the production and trafficking of narcotics as a source of hard currency, sources and defectors here said. The United States on Nov. 20 announced charges against five suspects extradited from Thailand for smuggling North Korean meth into the United States, marking [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has determined that Iran and North Korea continue to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile. Officials said the intelligence community has been tracking ICBM cooperation between Pyongyang and Teheran amid the latter’s nuclear agreement with the West. The officials said Iran was financing much of the North [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Beijing’s designation of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) that partially overlaps with that of Japan and South Korea has raised alarms throughout the Asia-Pacific Region. While attention has focused on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership’s immediate goal of securing de facto control over the Diaoyu-Senkaku islands [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Ukraine abruptly called off the long anticipated comprehensive trade deal with the European Union on Nov. 21 for “National Security reasons.” Meanwhile, Kiev expressed its desire to resume an “active dialogue” with its former foe Russia, whose president Vladimir Putin has been vehemently opposed to Ukraine’s move toward [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com CAIRO — For the first time, Egypt has linked the Muslim Brotherhood to Al Qaida. Officials said the intelligence community has determined cooperation between the Brotherhood and Al Qaida. The officials said the Brotherhood was financing the Al Qaida-linked insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula as well as on the African mainland. [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea has offered China rights to develop seven major mines in return for its economic assistance in building high-speed rail links connecting its capital Pyongyang with the southern border city of Kaesong and the northeast border city of Shinuiju, a diplomatic source said. North Korea [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping is emerging as China’s undisputed strongman even as whatever little that has remained of the institutional reforms championed by late leader Deng Xiaoping has become increasingly attenuated. Having been a principal victim of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) spearheaded by dictator Mao Zedong, Deng quickly put [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Moscow and Kiev have finally agreed to a compromise energy deal ending a dispute that had locked the two former Soviet states into a decade-long diplomatic freeze. Like most western European nations Ukraine relies heavily on Russia’s export of natural gas for heat during winter months. However, Ukraine [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj told North Korean university students and professors to try to “live free,” saying “no tyranny lasts forever.” In the speech at the Kim Il-Sung University on Oct. 31 before wrapping up his four-day visit to North Korea, the Mongolian leader also called for the reclusive communist nation [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com NICOSIA — Lebanon has reported a secret dialogue between the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah and the United States. Lebanese parliamentary sources said U.S. diplomats have begun contact with Hizbullah politicians in Beirut. They said the dialogue concerned stability in Lebanon as well as the next government. “The United States is sending and receiving [...]
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