China again sends aircraft carrier through Taiwan Strait

China again sends aircraft carrier through Taiwan Strait

by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2018 China dispatched its lone operational aircraft carrier to the Taiwan Strait, entering waters that are part of the island’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), Taiwan’s defense minister said. Defense Minister Yen Teh-fa told Taiwan’s parliament that the Liaoning entered the narrow strait that separates China from Taiwan on March […]

Brave new world? Rigged elections and big brother here, there and everywhere

Brave new world? Rigged elections and big brother here, there and everywhere

by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2018 An unelected “deep state” that a new poll finds most Americans believe is “pulling the levers of power” in Washington, D.C. China has acted to penalize “untrustworthy” citizens via their digital social credit scores. And “ballot rigging” has been caught on camera in Russia. Welcome to 2018. A new […]

Trump signs U.S.-Taiwan travel bill, in blow to increasingly bellicose China

Trump signs U.S.-Taiwan travel bill, in blow to increasingly bellicose China

by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 President Donald Trump on March 16 signed legislation which calls for the U.S. government to support expanded official visits to and from Taiwan “at all levels.” China voiced its displeasure with Trump’s signing of the Taiwan Travel Act, saying that it “severely violates the one-China principle, the political foundation […]

N. Korean diplomatic talks in Sweden, Finland seen paving way for Trump-Kim summit

N. Korean diplomatic talks in Sweden, Finland seen paving way for Trump-Kim summit

by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 North Korea dispatched top diplomats separately to Sweden and Finland for what observers say were meetings to lay the groundwork for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Choe Kang-Il, deputy director-general for North American affairs at the North’s foreign ministry, headed to […]

North Korean ‘regime change’? Give dreamers a chance

North Korean ‘regime change’? Give dreamers a chance

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk In the excitement over impending summits, we may have forgotten one other solution everyone was talking about, oh, just a month or two ago. Whatever happened to all the enthusiasm for forcing Kim Jong-Un out of his job by internal upheaval, external attack, or maybe just a plain old […]

Trump-Kim summit is big news worldwide, but not in North Korea

Trump-Kim summit is big news worldwide, but not in North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 While the proposed meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been the subject of banner headlines worldwide, it has garnered no official media coverage in the reclusive North. North Korea has yet to issue any official response to Kim Jong-Un’s agreement to hold […]

Trump’s Thursday: How the president shocked everyone including his own administration

Trump’s Thursday: How the president shocked everyone including his own administration

by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 South Korea’s national security adviser has said that U.S. President Donald Trump has been fully engaged since the beginning in negotiating with North Korea. For all those hours of engagement, however, it took only about half a minute on Thursday (March 8), for Trump to set in motion a […]

Trump’s strategy on N. Korea: ‘Very, very different from past approaches and past presidents’

Trump’s strategy on N. Korea: ‘Very, very different from past approaches and past presidents’

by WorldTribune Staff, March 9, 2018 The Trump White House broke from the style of traditional American diplomacy by directly threatening the North Korean communist regime over it nuclear strategic challenge and spotlighting its horrific human rights abuses. U.S. President Donald Trump in addition to taking a strong stand towards North Korea, has been coordinating […]

About those euphoric Korea peace talks: A trip down memory lane

About those euphoric Korea peace talks: A trip down memory lane

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Don’t hold your breath. We’ve been disappointed so often in moves toward North-South reconciliation that it’s hard to believe any face-to-face talks between President Moon Jae-In and North Korea’s “respected leader” Kim Jong-Un will lead to resolution of a nuclear crisis that’s only worsened in recent years. But wait! […]

Charmed I’m sure: Double-talk or a love-fest in Pyongyang?

Charmed I’m sure: Double-talk or a love-fest in Pyongyang?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — U.S. President Donald Trump is putting the best face on the agreement for North and South Korean leaders to meet next month at the truce village of Panmunjom, on the North-South line 55 kilometers north of Seoul for the third inter-Korean summit. Despite pervasive doubts about North […]

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