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 Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — No doubt about it, United States negotiator Glyn Davies got suckered into one of the all-time negotiating tricks when he fell for the deal with North Korea’s veteran double-talker Kim Kye-Gwan on Feb. 29 in which Kim convinced him, really, this time North Korea would honor […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s plan to fire off a long-range rocket next month gives global leaders something urgent to talk about when they sit down Monday for two days of palaver on how to keep nuclear devices from falling into the hands of terrorists. Only they won’t be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s claim of a serious scientific reason for planning to fire off a long-range missile next month with a satellite for a payload is couched in such sincere-sounding lingo that one has to wonder if the North’s scientists and engineers actually may have something in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The death of bouffant-coiffed, platform-heel wearing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il on Saturday ushers in a new era of rampant speculation, pontification and no doubt obfuscation about what’s really going on inside the Hermit Kingdom. The fact is that Kim Jong-Il late last week appeared just […]