Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The recent North Korean-Japanese agreement could undermine the U.S.-led international sanction regime aimed at curbing Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile activities, government sources and analysts here say. Under a surprise accord announced May 29, Japan would ease the strict sanctions it imposed on North Korea in 2006 in return […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Washington’s non-military sanctions against Russia’s adventurist gambits in Ukraine is getting personal with the reported public disclosure of Vladimir Putin’s enormous, certainly ill-gotten, assets in a Swiss bank account worth more than $40 billion. Putin’s Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the reported measure “absurd,” believing it was a […]
