North Korea is now in a league of its own for missile proliferation

North Korea is now in a league of its own for missile proliferation

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 24, 2023 There they go again! North Korea’s reclusive communist regime ended the year with a provocative intercontinental ballistic launch, flying near Japan and splashing down in the Pacific. The ominous firing of a powerful Hwasong-18 rocket came a month after Pyongyang put a spy satellite into […]

GREATEST HITS, 17: Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

GREATEST HITS, 17: Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Top stories of 2023, December 18, 2023 Thank you for your support for WorldTribune, Window on the Real World. Have a great 2024! — The Editors by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2023 Japanese researchers have found that all variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, were in fact made […]

Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2023 Japanese researchers have found that all variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, were in fact made in a laboratory. The study, led by Japanese professors Atsuki Tanaka and Takayuki Miyazawa of Osaka Medical University and Kyoto University, sought to trace the historical evolution of the omicron variant […]

It’s only words? Growing concerns voiced as East Asian security debated at UN

It’s only words? Growing concerns voiced as East Asian security debated at UN

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 6, 2023 A wide swath of Asian security issues was discussed and deliberated upon during the recent UN General debate. Predictably, China and Korea dominated concerns though other concerns such as the South China Sea were largely overlooked. Speaking at the start of the 78th Assembly, President […]

Japan advances plans to ID, answer China’s economic abuses

Japan advances plans to ID, answer China’s economic abuses

by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2023 Tokyo is set to unveil new economic security and industrial policy guidelines said to include measures to prevent economic coercion, support for countries that have been subject to such acts, and trade restrictions like increased tariffs on the offenders. The government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not mention […]

Japan’s record defense budget signals its alarm at China, North Korea advances

Japan’s record defense budget signals its alarm at China, North Korea advances

FPI / September 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 31 Japan’s Ministry of Defense requested a record budget of $59.9 billion for the fiscal budget year that begins on April 1, 2024. It is part of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s five-year $295 billion defense spending plan that will exceed Japan’s 1 percent of […]

South Korea’s Yoon and ‘new Right’ called key to historic trilateral summit at Camp David

South Korea’s Yoon and ‘new Right’ called key to historic trilateral summit at Camp David

by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2023 An unprecedented trilateral summit at Camp David between South Korea, Japan, and the United States countered the successful divide-and-conquer tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to expand its military’s regional power in what CCP leaders call the post-U.S. era. A concluding joint statement laying the groundwork for […]

In past two weeks, four pilots collapsed during flights, two died

In past two weeks, four pilots collapsed during flights, two died

by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2023 Four commercial airline pilots have collapsed suddenly during flights in the past two weeks, reports say. Two of them died. A fifth pilot collapsed at the boarding gate and later died. Numerous other incidents involving pilots were reported earlier this year. On Aug. 13, a LATAM airlines pilot collapsed […]

U.S. ambassador insults host nation, jeopardizes U.S.-Japan relationship

U.S. ambassador insults host nation, jeopardizes U.S.-Japan relationship

Special to WorldTribune, July 7, 2023 By Tetsuhide Yamaoka Thanks to bad behavior on the part of America’s ambassador, a 70-year-old racket in U.S.-Japanese politics is now being exposed. In the words of a senior legislator, leading Liberal Democrats have “decided the issue by force” and have “left a mark on the democratic management of […]

Warming India-U.S. ties and ‘Quad’ emerge as ‘force for good’ vs China in the Indo-Pacific

Warming India-U.S. ties and ‘Quad’ emerge as ‘force for good’ vs China in the Indo-Pacific

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 30, 2023 The State Visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington illustrated both style and substance of the evolving relationship between the world’s two largest democracies. President Joe Biden described the India/American relationship as, “A partnership that is among the most consequential in the world, […]

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