Report: Pre-Korean War communist insurrection on Jeju Island was no ‘democracy struggle’

Report: Pre-Korean War communist insurrection on Jeju Island was no ‘democracy struggle’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2023 The violent April 3, 1948 attack by communists on the Korean island of Jeju was part of a larger insurgency to disrupt the UN-supervised elections and was not the “democracy struggle” that the leftist South Korean Democratic Party of Korea insists it was, a report said. The Democratic Party […]

New UN Security Council lineup includes pro-U.S. South Korea and Slovenia

New UN Security Council lineup includes pro-U.S. South Korea and Slovenia

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 17, 2023 In one of the more predictable rites of Spring at the United Nations, the General Assembly has elected, or actually selected, five new non-permanent members to serve on the powerful fifteen member Security Council. While this year’s contest lacked the drama, debate and deliberation of […]

Turkey’s Erdogan jolted but still standing as nation weighs its destiny

Turkey’s Erdogan jolted but still standing as nation weighs its destiny

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 21, 2023 Another earthquake has jolted Turkey. But contrary to the seismic calamity which devastated large parts of eastern Turkey in February killing more than 50,000 people this was an electoral jolt whose political shockwaves and aftershocks continue to rattle the entire country from Istanbul, through the […]

Globalized election fraud? South Korea’s election commission blocks hacking investigation

Globalized election fraud? South Korea’s election commission blocks hacking investigation

by WorldTribune Staff, May 15, 2023 The National Election Commission (NEC), a constitutional independent institution established to manage South Korea’s elections, has refused to cooperate with an investigation into North Korea hacking attempts made on the NEC and the equipment it uses which is used in other nations’ elections, a report said. In the past […]

Biden failed to give South Korea what it wanted: U.S. tactical nuclear weapons

Biden failed to give South Korea what it wanted: U.S. tactical nuclear weapons

FPI / May 3, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher After a decade of North Korea’s and China’s alarming nuclear and missile buildup, plus nuclear and missile tests, a poll from the South Korean firm Data Research released on March 1, 2023 stated that 70 percent of South Koreans support indigenous development of nuclear weapons. On […]

Synergy, strength, dynamism; U.S.-South Korea alliance at 70

Synergy, strength, dynamism; U.S.-South Korea alliance at 70

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 28, 2023 Seventy years is a long time, especially for a military alliance even between friends.  There are few in the world, notably including the Atlantic Alliance, forming NATO in 1949. But in the case of East Asia, the strategic and economic links which emerged from the […]

70 years later, can South Korea still count on U.S.? Key ally confronts China-assisted nuclear threat

70 years later, can South Korea still count on U.S.? Key ally confronts China-assisted nuclear threat

by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2023 In January, South Korea’s new conservative leader, President Yoon Suk-Yeol, ruffled feathers in Washington when he said the South could develop its own nuclear weapons or ask the U.S. to redeploy nukes on the Korean Peninsula if the threat from North Korea grows. No South Korean leader had explicitly […]

Report: South Korea union official charged with sending photos from U.S. bases to North Korea

Report: South Korea union official charged with sending photos from U.S. bases to North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2023 A top official at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) in South Korea has been arrested after being accused of photographing U.S. military facilities in South Korea and sending the photos to operatives in North Korea. The director, identified in reports only as Mr. A, was arrested on […]

Seoul’s leader reminds intelligence agency that nation’s security is top priority

Seoul’s leader reminds intelligence agency that nation’s security is top priority

FPI / March 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct South Korea’s new conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol told the National Intelligence Service (NIS) that it must strive to be among the world’s best amid the ongoing threat posed by North Korea’s massive spy network. Yoon’s prioritizing national security is a marked departure from the lax policies of the leftist […]

Sobering video imagery from Pyongyang; Saturday’s test followed by joint U.S.-Japan-South Korea exercises

Sobering video imagery from Pyongyang; Saturday’s test followed by joint U.S.-Japan-South Korea exercises

Special to WorldTribune, February 19, 2023 The South Korean news video below features footage from North Korea’s state news agencies of the Feb. 8 massive military parade and testing. Pyongyang used the occasion to flaunt its new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which poses more of a direct threat to the United States than to […]