Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 10, 2024 While South Korea’s conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol was intent on a secure election in Wednesday’s parliamentary vote to buttress his policies, his leftist opposition was eyeing enough seats “to give them the power to not only pass any laws they want, but also to change the constitution, override […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2024 Ahead of South Korea’s general election on April 10, problems with computerized tabulation machines are already being reported. On April 5, early voting began and “within hours there were numerous complaints of the National Election Commission (NEC) reporting inflated numbers of votes cast at various early voting centers relative […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
