Losing cred with the state blocked travel plans for millions of Chinese last year

Losing cred with the state blocked travel plans for millions of Chinese last year

by WorldTribune Staff, March 4, 2019 A slogan repeated in Chinese state media says, “Once you lose trust, you will face restrictions everywhere.” People with poor social credit scores were banned from buying plane or train tickets 23 million times in 2018, a Chinese government report said. China’s National Public Credit Information Center reported that […]

Richard Nixon’s words of advice for Donald Trump about both Koreas

Richard Nixon’s words of advice for Donald Trump about both Koreas

by WorldTribune Staff, March 3, 2019 While much has changed in the region since his final trip to Asia in 1993, former President Richard Nixon’s advice on North Korea may be instructive amid President Donald Trump’s current efforts, a columnist noted. Nixon’s “primary regional concern at the time was, of course, China, around which everything […]

Trump walks away from summit deal, ‘but not in anger’

Trump walks away from summit deal, ‘but not in anger’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Vietnam with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un collapsed after Kim had demanded sanctions relief in return for shutting down some, but not all, of the North’s nuclear sites. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that,” […]

Former Pakistan President Musharraf calls for ties with Israel to mitigate India crisis

Former Pakistan President Musharraf calls for ties with Israel to mitigate India crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 Pakistan has an opportunity to build relations with a willing Israel to counter India, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said. He warned about the danger of war between the two nuclear-armed powers. “There is a need to break the alliance between India and Israel, and Pakistan could do it […]

Trump to Kim: North Korea has ‘unlimited’ economic potential

Trump to Kim: North Korea has ‘unlimited’ economic potential

by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 The United States is ready to help North Korea reach its economic potential, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 27 as he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, Vietnam. “I think that your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited,” Trump said. “And I think that […]

Nuclear-armed showdown: Indian airstrike kills 300 in Pakistan

Nuclear-armed showdown: Indian airstrike kills 300 in Pakistan

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 India’s government said its fighter jets destroyed a major terrorist camp in Pakistan on Feb. 26. More than 300 people were reportedly killed in the strike on jihadist group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s camp in Balakot, Pakistan. India had not carried out an airstrike in Pakistani territory since the Indo-Pakistan war over […]

Kim arrives from media-proof Pyongyang on a bullet-proof train

Kim arrives from media-proof Pyongyang on a bullet-proof train

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 After a 65-hour trek across China on his green, bulletproof train, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrived at Dong Dang Railway Station at the Vietnam-China border at around 8:10 a.m. on Feb. 26. Accustomed to complete control of public information back home where the state media dominate, there was […]

Anti-Kim group that rescued son of half-brother he assassinated, promises ‘announcement’

Anti-Kim group that rescued son of half-brother he assassinated, promises ‘announcement’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 A clandestine group which says its mission is to assist North Korean defectors said it would issue an “important” announcement this week, a report said. Cheollima Civil Defense, which is believed to have rescued the son of the late Kim Jong-Nam from North Korea’s assassination squads, is set to […]

Courage: Protests erupt in Cuba as freedom fight surges in Venezuela

Courage: Protests erupt in Cuba as freedom fight surges in Venezuela

by WorldTribune Staff, February 25, 2019 President Donald Trump, in a Feb. 18 speech in Miami, said that “The days of socialism and communism are numbered, not only in Venezuela, but in Nicaragua and Cuba as well.” “And right on cue, the dominos started tottering,” Monica Showalter wrote for American Thinker on Feb. 24. Cuban […]

Former NSC official: Some intel officials undermining U.S. summit strategy

Former NSC official: Some intel officials undermining U.S. summit strategy

by WorldTribune Staff, February 24, 2019 President Donald Trump is driving negotiations with North Korean’s leader Kim Jong-Un “in a positive direction” despite some in the U.S. intelligence community who have tried to “rain on the president’s parade,” a former National Security Council (NSC) official said. The remarkable assertion by a longtime aide to U.S. […]