Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — Call it a matter of conflicting — or colliding — messages. South Korean conservatives have forced a free-trade agreement with the United States through a fractious National Assembly. A U.S. Congress “supercommittee” has demonstrated the weakness of the American system of governance by abject, humiliating failure […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — The FTA (free-trade agreement) with the United States is an obscenity in the eyes of leftists in South Korea who believe their conservative government is foisting it on them. Hostility toward the KORUS FTA, as it is known, is such that the political and ideological foes […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Congress has been told that Kuwait would not face a revolt like that in other Arab League states. The Congressional Research Service asserted that Kuwait would be able to overcome the current escalation in unrest. CRS, which briefs the House and Senate on a range of issues, said […]