Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has dodged a bullet, meaning the onslaught of speculation about whether he was dead or alive, ill or just avoiding the coronavirus. It’s amazing how quickly and easily many of us were taken in by the initial report on the Daily NK, based on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Syria’s devastating conflict continues despite the spread of coronavirus and calls by the international community for a ceasefire to stop the fighting which has continued for over nine years and killed more than 500,000 people. Now, an uneasy calm seems to be setting in as the threat of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Four U.S. Navy ships and a British Royal Navy frigate entered the Barents Sea north of Russia on May 4 to conduct Arctic security operations, the Pentagon said. The move is the first time U.S. Navy surface vessels have entered the Barents Sea since the mid-1980s. […]
Special to WorldTribune, May 5, 2020 By Frank Luber What do Red China and the socialists in the United States have in common? The determination to “fundamentally change” this country into something the Founding Fathers would not recognize. It was former President Barack Obama who first mentioned it during his first presidential campaign. Audiences, not […]
FPI / April 30, 2020 The following ‘Letter from a friend’ was published by the Tribune Papers of western North Carolina. The country has been asked to shelter in place, to self-quarantine, for over a month. Everyone was told there was a two week “incubation” period, that if you were infected, it would manifest during […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The vanishing act of Kim Jong-Un provokes one inevitable question. With all the billions that the U.S. puts into gathering intelligence by all those “agencies,” why can’t any of them come back with the definitive answer on the state of his health? Just think about the multi-tentacle […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty April 29, 2020 A spokesman for Iran’s armed forces says 3,600 people have been arrested in the country for spreading rumors regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi made the comments on a live news program on state-controlled television on April 28, claiming that the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler North Korea’s Marxist “Monarchy” could be at a critical crossroads as recurring rumors about the death or incapacitation of the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un swirl around the nervous Korean peninsula. Despite a wildfire of media speculation, pending the definitive outcome of Kim’s health, the hard reality remains that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mike Eckel, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty On March 30, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by telephone, the first of five calls between the two over the next five weeks, a flurry of communication unprecedented during Trump’s 3 1/2 years in office. “We had a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto What is one of the biggest mistakes you can make if you are running for office? Insult voters. It looks like the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden does not realize this. Did he not learn a valuable lesson from Hillary Clinton, who lost the election in 2016? In September […]
