Bolt out of the blue: Trump’s new national security adviser ruffles dovish feathers in Seoul

Bolt out of the blue: Trump’s new national security adviser ruffles dovish feathers in Seoul

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The appointment of John Bolton as President Trump’s national security adviser portends a tough U.S. policy toward the North even as South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In is planning to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un in late April and Trump is to see Kim in May. Conservatives in the U.S. […]

Trump names Bolton, a hawk on Iran and North Korea, as National Security Adviser

Trump names Bolton, a hawk on Iran and North Korea, as National Security Adviser

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump is replacing National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster with former UN Ambassador John Bolton, an outspoken hawk who has advocated using military force against Iran and North Korea. Trump tweeted late on March 22 that McMaster, 55, had done “an outstanding job and […]

Media hatred may derail Trump-Kim summit; And does Kim Jong-Un dare leave home?

Media hatred may derail Trump-Kim summit; And does Kim Jong-Un dare leave home?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk U.S. President Donald Trump is in such hot water in Washington that his summit with Kim Jong-Un, if it actually happens, will be either a distraction or a welcome relief from the pressure-cooker atmosphere at home. The only problem is, he may be so busy fending off the investigation […]

Israel’s announcement that it destroyed Syrian reactor seen as warning to Iran

Israel’s announcement that it destroyed Syrian reactor seen as warning to Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly warned that Israel will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon or to build missile factories in Syria. The Israeli military has formally acknowledged for the first time its destruction of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, […]

Murky waters: The attack on Sergei Skripal, the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, and the ‘Steele dossier’

Murky waters: The attack on Sergei Skripal, the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, and the ‘Steele dossier’

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs A major new crisis, with potentially long-term ramifications, has begun between “the West” (essentially the UK, U.S., and European Union) and Russia without any major questioning as to the logic or causes of it. The “crisis” centered around the assassination attempt in […]

America’s Morality Police? The Mainstream Media and Stormy Daniels

America’s Morality Police? The Mainstream Media and Stormy Daniels

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The media has found a new weapon in its war against President Trump: Porn stars. The establishment media is seeking to sexualize the Trump presidency, hoping this will cripple his credibility and ultimately drive him from office in disgrace. Their strategy is that Stormy Daniels will succeed where CNN, […]

In Persian New Year greeting, Trump hits Iran’s self-serving ‘rulers’, ‘hostile’ IRGC

In Persian New Year greeting, Trump hits Iran’s self-serving ‘rulers’, ‘hostile’ IRGC

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump has used an annual message to Iranians and others celebrating Norouz, the Persian New Year, to sharply criticize Iran’s government and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). “I wish a beautiful and blessed Norouz to the millions of people around the […]

‘Family-friendly’ Hungary favors baby boom to stop demographic decline

‘Family-friendly’ Hungary favors baby boom to stop demographic decline

Special to WorldTribune.com   By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “Migration is not the solution to demographic problems,” warned Katalin Novak, Hungary’s Minister of State for the Family. Though conceding the European continent faces a significant “demographic decline” and the undertow of a falling population, individual states can counter the “inevitability” through focused family […]

Imprisoned Korean-Americans in North Korea factor into pre-summit negotiations

Imprisoned Korean-Americans in North Korea factor into pre-summit negotiations

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The fate of three American citizens still imprisoned in North Korea is on the line in a flurry of talks between North Korean and Swedish diplomats in the run-up to next month’s summit between North Korea’s leader KimJong-Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In and then the summit in […]

Mattis charges Iran ‘using money’ to influence Iraq elections

Mattis charges Iran ‘using money’ to influence Iraq elections

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has accused Iran of “mucking around” in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, in which Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is seeking another term in office in May. “Iran is following Russia’s example of mucking around in Iraq’s elections,” Mattis told reporters as he returned […]