Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Small gestures would be so helpful in bringing about reconciliation with North Korea. Take, for instance, the cases of the three U.S. citizens still held in the North. They are all Korean-Americans, two of them former teachers at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the other a businessman […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2017 The United States will not take military action against North Korea without South Korea’s consent, South Korean President Moon Jae-In said on Aug. 17. “I say this with confidence that there will be no war on the Korean Peninsula ever again,” Moon said in a press conference marking his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2017 The United States has agreed not to pre-emptively strike North Korea without first informing South Korea, the South’s presidential office suggested on Aug. 11. The report cited a telephone conversation between U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster and Chung Eui-Yong, the head of South Korea’s Presidential National Security Office, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2017 The South Korean government, at the risk of sounding delusional, weighed in with its proposal for easing the mounting crisis with North Korea. Bilateral talks are still possible if North Korea immediately halts its “repeated provocations and threats,” South Korea’s National Security Council (NSC) said on Aug. 10. “The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk GANGJEONG, Jeju: Upstaged by THAAD ― that’s the sad fate of the gaggle of dutiful protesters who pray and hold signs aloft and march in front of the main entrance to the gleaming new Republic of Korea naval base on the southern coast of this island paradise. They claim […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PARIS — A year ago France was on edge. Islamic Jihadi terrorists had killed 86 people with a truck ramming incident at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice. Shortly thereafter a elderly priest was murdered as he said Mass. These attacks following a spate of earlier shootings in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2017 Whose side is South Korean President Moon Jae-In on, pro-North Korean forces in South Korea and Japan want to know. Liberal leftists and openly pro-North Korean activists passionately backed Moon’s recent victorious election campaign and his supporters’ earlier drive to impeach his predecessor, President Park Geun-Hye. But by subsequently […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2017 A North Korea propaganda website on July 22 blasted those it says are “making a fuss” over Pyongyang’s human rights record, Yonhap reported. In the past week, both South Korea liberal government and Britain, which has an active North Korean embassy, have voiced concerns over what they say are […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – The standoff on the Korean peninsula is entering a new phase. While President Moon Jae-In calls for talks with North Koreans, he is also honoring the U.S.-Korean alliance and insisting the North give up its nuclear program. Can Moon have it both ways? He’s besieged by protesters […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2017 The government of South Korean President Moon Jae-In has made its first formal overture to North Korea, proposing direct military talks between Seoul and Pyongyang. South Korea’s Defense Ministry proposed talks between representatives of the two countries’ militaries that would be held on July 21 at Tongil-gak on the […]
