U.S. bombers conduct precision strikes near North Korean border

U.S. bombers conduct precision strikes near North Korean border

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2017 The United States and South Korea carried out a major show of force on Aug. 31, staging air-to-ground precision-strike drills near North Korea’s border in response to Pyongyang’s continued missile launches. Two U.S. B-1B supersonic bombers and four F-35B stealth jets trained with South Korea’s F-15K fighter jets over […]

Korean sovereignty: When ‘peace’ advocates say the ‘people’ they don’t mean South Koreans

Korean sovereignty: When ‘peace’ advocates say the ‘people’ they don’t mean South Koreans

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk One demand you don’t hear South Korean leaders making whenever North Korea pops off another missile is, “Oh, let’s sign a peace treaty, and everything will be okay.” That’s partly because, if there’s one party with whom North Korean strategists don’t want to include in any such treaty, it’s […]

Seriously? Ruling party leader in Seoul calls North’s missile launch ‘unpardonable’, wants talks

Seriously? Ruling party leader in Seoul calls North’s missile launch ‘unpardonable’, wants talks

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 South Korea’s ruling party, which saw President Moon Jae-In rise to power on a pledge of dialogue with North Korea, said the North’s latest missile launch was “unpardonable” – an assessment with which the conservative opposition is in full agreement. How should the wealthy but relatively powerless South respond […]

Latest missile launch alarms northern Japan, rattles markets

Latest missile launch alarms northern Japan, rattles markets

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2017 Residents of Japan’s Hokkaido, a northern island of 5.5 million, awoke early on Aug. 29 to a “J-Alert” on their mobile phones from the government, warning that North Korea had fired a missile and to take shelter. At 5:58 a.m., the Kim Jong-Un regime launched the North’s first ballistic […]

U.S. report: N. Koreans who practice religion still subject to ‘executions, torture, …  arrests’

U.S. report: N. Koreans who practice religion still subject to ‘executions, torture, …  arrests’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2017 North Korea continues to brutalize those who practice religion in the country, the U.S. State Department said in a report. The Kim Jong-Un regime “continued to deal harshly with those who engaged in almost any religious practices through executions, torture, beatings, and arrests,” the 2016 Annual Report on International […]

Bannon in the House? Trump reportedly blasts ‘globalists’ in Oval Office meeting

Bannon in the House? Trump reportedly blasts ‘globalists’ in Oval Office meeting

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2017 Globalists may not have the grip on the White House that many observers foresaw after the departure of Steve Bannon, a report said. Details have emerged of a small Oval Office meeting in which President Donald Trump slammed senior staff as they pushed back “against his hawkish trade war […]

Tense Korea: Leftward tilt in Seoul meets with growing public protests

Tense Korea: Leftward tilt in Seoul meets with growing public protests

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2017 North Korea’s nuclear missile threats have dominated world headlines this year, but growing unrest in the South is exacerbating tensions on a peninsula bordering China and Russia and with U.S. forces stationed in the South. Protests against the liberal Moon Jae-In administration are becoming more frequent and show a […]

Report: Pro-Pyongyang website in L.A. promotes anti-Semitic worldview

Report: Pro-Pyongyang website in L.A. promotes anti-Semitic worldview

by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 Loyalists to the North Korean regime based in California are spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories via propaganda websites, a report said. “Woven into their Korean-language propaganda is the idea that Jews manipulate the international order, turning it against their beloved tyrant, Kim Jong-Un,” Jewish Journal.com said in its report. One […]

Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers near N. Korea as U.S., S. Korea hold war games

Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers near N. Korea as U.S., S. Korea hold war games

by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2017 Russia flew nuclear-capable strategic bombers and planes with advanced intelligence gathering capabilities near the Korean peninsula this week while the U.S. and South Korea were conducting war games. Japan and South Korea scrambled fighter jets to escort the Russian Tupolev-95MS bombers, according to an Aug. 24 Reuters report. Russia […]

Information war! Here’s how to bring the brutal North Korean regime to its knees

Information war! Here’s how to bring the brutal North Korean regime to its knees

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Donald Trump’s notion of “fire and fury” for North Korea inspires cheers, fears and jeers. Is he threatening the biblical “fire and brimstone,” or does his rhetoric more closely resemble Shakespeare’s “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”? Yes, there are those who think […]