Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The line-up of warplanes on display beside the runway at Seoul Air Base has got to be intimidating. The sight of the latest American F35s and F22s along with all those South Korean fighters may frighten anyone contemplating war on the Korean Peninsula. They’re parked near spacious exhibition halls […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 20, 2017 A North Korean military official apparently came to the conclusion from watching MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that U.S. President Donald Trump is “mentally ill.” The North Korean lieutenant colonel recounted to NBC News foreign correspondent Keir Simmons on Oct. 19 that military officials in Pyongyang watch “Morning Joe” specifically for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 18, 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the 19th Communist Party Conference on Oct. 18 by pledging to build a “modern socialist country” that will be a “mighty force” in the world. “Through a long period of hard work, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, this is a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2017 A wayward 8.5-ton Chinese space lab will soon crash to Earth, and scientists have no idea exactly where it will fall. But they said it could wound or kill anyone standing in the impact site. Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told The Guardian that he expects the Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2017 An annual training exercise for U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) will this year include drills for evacuating service members and their families should war break out on the Korean Peninsula. The annual Courageous Channel training exercise, being held Oct. 16-20, will prepare service members and their families “to respond to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2017 The Pentagon said a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer on Oct. 10 carried out a freedom-of-navigation operation near islands claimed by China in South China Sea. U.S. defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the USS Chafee carried out normal maneuvering operations that challenged “excessive maritime claims” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2017 Americans buying seafood in U.S. supermarkets “may inadvertently have subsidized the North Korean government as it builds its nuclear weapons program,” a report said. The Kim Jong-Un government outsources tens of thousands of workers, many who work processing seafood for export, and “keeps anywhere from half to 70 percent […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 10, 2017 North Korea is practicing nighttime attacks via paragliders that would enable special forces commandos to silently infiltrate the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command in Seoul, South Korean defense officials said. The South Korean Army’s radar would hardly detect a nighttime attack by North Korean paragliding soldiers, a South Korean […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 10, 2017 Chinese dissident Guo Wengui told a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington that Beijing is engaged in a major subversion campaign in the United States. He called on the U.S. to “take action”. Guo released a “top secret” document from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2017 South Korea is set to deploy graphite “blackout bombs” capable of crippling North Korea’s electrical power plants, a military official in Seoul said. The bombs are a part of a long-term South Korean defense plan that is being expedited under pressure from a mounting nuclear weapons threat from North […]
