Washington has been hostile toward North Korea throughout the entire post-WW II era because of its sovereign independence – not for any threat the country poses. The DPRK never attacked another nation throughout its entire history, threatening none now. Unless provoked to believe its security is gravely threatened, there’s isn’t the remotest possibility it would…
North Korea is reportedly willing to engage in talks with South Korea and the US. The message was apparently conveyed after a high-level North Korean official met with the South Korean President, Moon Jae-In, who had previously campaigned on a promise to revive the so-called “Sunshine Policy” of some of his predecessors in actively seeking…
The often malicious “diplomacy” of the Trump Administration’s State Department has made it clear just how little the US valued its former “allies” in Pakistan and Turkey. Pakistan has gone from an obedient servant of the failed US policy in Afghanistan to a country that is being openly chastised and financially punished by the US,…
North Korea has been depicted by the Western media as a dangerous rogue state, plotting the nuclear holocaust of America and holding global peace and stability hostage with its irrational aggression. It is the supposed threat North Korea poses to the world that the United States uses to justify its enduring decades-long military presence on…
Asked about the warming diplomatic relations between North and South Korea, US vice president Mike Pence said last week that Washington wanted to see the new detente come “to an end as soon as the Olympic flame is extinguished”. You can’t get much more bluntly obdurate and belligerent than that. Have the Americans no shame? Pence subsequently…
Considering that a nuclear conflict over North Korea appeared imminent in recent weeks, the winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea, is a most welcome distraction – and might even deter a major war on the peninsula. The highlight of the games was the arrival of Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of North Korea’s ruler, Kim…
