Top Biden Asia official: Pyongyang lost all interest in U.S. diplomacy after Trump exit

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Top Biden Asia official: Pyongyang lost all interest in U.S. diplomacy after Trump exit

FPI / December 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct North Korea has not engaged with the United States since President Donald Trump left the White House, the top U.S. East Asia official in the Biden Administration told Congress. All attempts by the Biden team at outreach to the Kim Jong-Un regime have been rejected, Assistant Secretary of State […]

Abe’s post-tsunami comeback strategy for Japan may add nuclear and military muscle

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Abe’s post-tsunami comeback strategy for Japan may add nuclear and military muscle

Sol W. Sanders   Tokyo – Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is racing against time. His recent landslide victory was a vote against the fumbling incumbent Democratic Party of Japan, which was from its inception a collection of diametrically opposed ideological partners. It scooped up leftwing socialists and disgruntled conservatives who left Abe’s “government” […]