2024 in preview: Flashpoints, elections, humanitarian crises

2024 in preview: Flashpoints, elections, humanitarian crises

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 31, 2023 Looking into the snow globe, it’s that time of year to predict and prognosticate what awaits this tired world in the New Year. There’s a certain trepidation in the air as we view the current and emerging crises, especially during a highly contested election year […]

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 […]

Report: Plot to kill Kim may have been foiled by ouster of conservative president in Seoul

Report: Plot to kill Kim may have been foiled by ouster of conservative president in Seoul

FPI / November 29, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Just because Kim Jong-Un is paranoid doesn’t mean a wide variety of North Korean operatives aren’t out to kill him. An active and funded plot to assassinate Kim may have been foiled during the process in which South Korean conservative President Park Geun-Hye was impeached, according to a report. […]

Seoul on alert: Hamas asymmetric attack used North Korean methods, weapons

Seoul on alert: Hamas asymmetric attack used North Korean methods, weapons

FPI / November 8, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Hamas’s simultaneous incursions by air, land, and sea, in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel rang alarm bells in South Korea as it employed strategies long pursued by North Korea. Hamas used paragliders for aerial infiltration and moved through an extensive network of underground tunnels spanning the Gaza Strip […]

Down and out in Shandong: Tsingtao beer sales plummet after urinating worker video goes viral

Down and out in Shandong: Tsingtao beer sales plummet after urinating worker video goes viral

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2023 “I’ve always said the beer here is like horse pee. Turns out I was wrong,” a Chinese social media user posted after a video of a worker appearing to urinate into a tank at a Tsingtao beer plant in Shandong (no joke) province went viral. So, having Dylan Mulvaney […]

South Korean intel agency warns voting tech vulnerable to hacking by North

South Korean intel agency warns voting tech vulnerable to hacking by North

by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2023 South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has warned that North Korea could penetrate into the voting and ballot counting systems at the state-run election watchdog “at any time.” Hackers who infiltrate the systems would have the ability to manipulate registered voter information and ultimately the outcome of an election, […]

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 […]

Statues honoring communists erected by pro-North Left in South Korea

Statues honoring communists erected by pro-North Left in South Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2023 While in the U.S. communists were toppling statues of American heroes nationwide, South Korea’s pro-North leftists were erecting statues of communists. The City of Gwangju in South Jeolla Province “has been paying tribute to a communist, Zheng Lucheng, who was loyal to the communist parties in both China and […]

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 […]

Pro-North Korean peace ploy slammed by North Korean defector

Pro-North Korean peace ploy slammed by North Korean defector

by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2023 A member of South Korea’s National Assembly who lost an arm and a leg in his harrowing journey to escape from North Korea is sounding the alarm on what he calls a deceptive attempt by pro-North Korea operatives aimed at removing “all U.S. military bases and forces from the […]

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