Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com Donald Trump may be running neck and neck with Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential sweepstakes if the polls are at all credible, but there’s one constituency in which he appears to be well ahead. That’s within the ruling circles in Pyongyang. He’s winning popularity there for two […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com WASHINGTON ― Talk about local boy making good, and then look at the case of Donald Trump. He’s a New Yorker through and through ― looks, talks and acts like one, arrogant, sneering and sure of himself. So what are the New York papers saying about him? Clearly, […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 15, 2026 Real World News In a legal assault on a political opponent that makes Jack Smith’s crusade against President Donald Trump look tame in comparison, special prosecutors appointed by leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung want the death penalty for conservative former President Yoon Suk-Yeol. Lee was elected president […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 28, 2025 Real World News The general in charge of U.S. forces in Korea rejects a move by the administration of leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung to adopt legislation on civilian entry into the demilitarized zone (DMZ). “We don’t allow that area to become politicized,” Gen. Xavier Brunson said in […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 30, 2025 Real World News Was it a coincidence that President Donald (Art of the Deal) Trump on Thursday ordered the resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons testing shortly before his meeting with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping? The two met for about an hour and 40 minutes at Gimhae […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2025 Real World News The shocking assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022 two days before a national election, dealt a blow to his powerful anti-China political posture in Japan. The conservative was Japan’s longest-serving PM. Sanae Takaichi, a conservative known as Japan’s “Iron Lady,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 18, 2025 Real World News Angered by what they say the leftist government of President Lee Jae-Myung is unleashing in their homeland, South Koreans living in the U.S. gathered recently in a Washington, D.C. suburb to make their voices heard. “Democracy has died in South Korea,” Morse Tan, a former ambassador-at-large […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2025 Real World News The unique legacy of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of challenging “globalism” and the subtle but pervasive political influence of the Chinese Communist Party is alive and well in an upstart populist party which got its start on YouTube during the Covid pandemic. In […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2025 Real World News When then-President Yoon Suk-Yeol briefly declared martial law on Dec. 3, 2024, it seemed to come out of nowhere and took many by complete surprise. Except, that is, to “those who have been following what’s happening to the Korean electoral system,” an analysis said. “As a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2025 Real World News In his first major appearance on the world stage, South Korea’s newly elected leftist President Lee Jae-Myung failed to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G7 Summit in Canada last month. Not meeting with Trump has already undermined Lee’s standing at home. “The South […]
