by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2018 A family of terrorists with ties to an Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate carried out bombing attacks on three Christian churches in Indonesia on May 13, killing 10 people and wounding dozens more, police said. The six terrorists, linked to the Jamaah Anshar Daulah (JAD) group, were members of one […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2018 North Korea will dismantle its nuclear test site at Punggye-ri between May 23 and 25, North Korean state-run media reported. In the early weeks following news reports in the West that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un had agreed to denuclearization and would hold direct talks with U.S. President Donald […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2018 A North Korean defector living in the United States, who saw a number of family members die in the North’s famine in the 1990s, said she hopes President Donald Trump raises humanitarian issues when he meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un next month. “If the North Korean government […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2018 The U.S. Department of Justice on May 8 announced it indicted a former CIA agent on charges of spying for China. Jerry Chun Shing Lee was charged with one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and two counts of unlawfully […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2018 North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un traveled to China for an unannounced meeting with China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping on May 7-8. It was Kim’s second visit to China and third trip abroad in as many months. The North Korean leader met South Korean President Moon Jae-In just south of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Forget about the U.S. pulling troops from Korea any time soon. It’s not going to happen, at least to judge by the denials from the White House and President Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton. “Utter nonsense,” was all Bolton had to say about a report that Trump had […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2018 The White House blasted demands by China that U.S. airlines must change references to Taiwan on their websites to indicate Taiwan is part of China. President Donald Trump “ran against political correctness in the United States” and as president he will “stand up for Americans resisting efforts by the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 4, 2018 The United States filed a formal diplomatic complaint after two U.S. airmen were injured by a Chinese laser in Djibouti, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) said. Pentagon spokeswoman Maj. Sheryll Klinke said the injuries were the result of an incident in which two pilots of a C-130 aircraft […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2018 China on May 2 vowed to play a role in the “peace regime” between North and South Korea that has been dominated by the U.S. administration of Donald Trump. Beijing reiterated its stance that the process calls for an end to U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises along with the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Here’s a hard truth that’s certifiable by any rudimentary review of modern Korean history: the real news about Korea catches almost everyone by surprise. Who, for instance, would have predicted the outbreak of the Korean War nearly seven decades ago? Who knew, in the depths of South Korea’s economic […]
