Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed on Feb. 26 that Moscow is planning to expand its military presence abroad and plans to build military bases in several important countries. Those countries include Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Singapore and several others, the state-run news agency RIA Novosti [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — Capitalist lifestyle is increasingly penetrating North Korea as its people struggle to survive through markets and private economic activities, according to recent clandestine video footage made inside the country. The country’s strict restrictions on personal travel have been also easing as more people move from town to town [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com While President and commander-in-chief Xi Jinping is generally credited with boosting China’s global profile, chinks in the armor of China’s aggressive foreign policy have also become obvious. Supremo Xi was so wrapped up with the “strategic partnership” he put together with the disgraced president Viktor Yanukovych that he [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Regime change in Ukraine proved to be relatively easy compared to the much tougher, far more consequential task of keeping the nation from breaking into two parts. And this is despite the volcanic eruption of violence and bloodshed that has riveted the world in recent weeks. Now the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com For the first time, all of the PLA Navy’s three gigantic Type 071 Amphibious Transport Dock vessels were deployed last week in a large naval exercise in the tense South China Sea, simulating in full an island-taking assault. Also participating in the drill were PLAN’s destroyers, frigates, military helicopters and possibly [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has imprisoned 40 popular actors and actresses connected with Jang Song-Thaek, including a woman believed to have had affairs with his executed uncle, U.S.-based broadcaster Radio Free Asia said. “About 40 entertainers, referred to as a group linked to Jang Song-Thaek, have been sent to Susung [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has indicated that he would phase out equal distribution of farmers’ harvests and drive market economy-based competition and incentive in the country’s moribund agriculture sector. In a letter distributed to farmers, Kim also stressed the need for expanding Chinese-style family-based farming as part [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping has made progress in his long-cherished goal of starting political or “reunification” talks with Taiwan, which would eventually lead to some form of political union between the two political entities on either side of the Taiwan Strait. Xi earlier this week met in Beijing with [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia has announced its new Arctic military command, to be set up by year’s end. Russia is the world’s largest land country whose military structure is divided into four vast “Joint Strategic Commands” — Joint Strategic Commands West, South, Center and East. The new Arctic command, to be [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea is set to produce 6-8 kilograms of plutonium that can make one more bomb from the nuclear reactor at the Yongbyon complex it has restarted last year, a government source here said. “Judging from its recent activities, North Korea could extract spent fuel rods as early [...]
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