Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The political choreography was classic. The staging was epic. But the outcome remains unpredictable. North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-Un and his entourage secretly rolled into Beijing on a special armored train later to be greeted and then feted by the Supreme Leader of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto In a chaotic and graceless manner, President Trump signed a $1.3 billion omnibus spending bill that failed to achieve funding for his seminal campaign promise: a wall along the porous southern border. This came as a political earthquake to his supporters, with many vowing to turn their backs on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk There is a certain inevitability about China’s need for North Korea and the North’s need for China. The two may intuitively hate one another, but they can hardly stay apart in the regional tug of war. It’s been that way ever since Chinese forces poured into North Korea to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders There always seemed to be the possibility that there could be a really big rumble along the San Andreas Fault and Hollywood, San Francisco’s hills and the wild northern California coast would slide into the Pacific. The state has had its Brown-outs with two governors, father and son, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto In a March 19 speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, President Trump reiterated his call to “get tough” on drug dealers: He is directing the Justice Department to impose the death penalty on the worst traffickers. Trump vowed during his 2016 election campaign to craft policies to stem the opioid […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The appointment of John Bolton as President Trump’s national security adviser portends a tough U.S. policy toward the North even as South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In is planning to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un in late April and Trump is to see Kim in May. Conservatives in the U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk U.S. President Donald Trump is in such hot water in Washington that his summit with Kim Jong-Un, if it actually happens, will be either a distraction or a welcome relief from the pressure-cooker atmosphere at home. The only problem is, he may be so busy fending off the investigation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The media has found a new weapon in its war against President Trump: Porn stars. The establishment media is seeking to sexualize the Trump presidency, hoping this will cripple his credibility and ultimately drive him from office in disgrace. Their strategy is that Stormy Daniels will succeed where CNN, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “Migration is not the solution to demographic problems,” warned Katalin Novak, Hungary’s Minister of State for the Family. Though conceding the European continent faces a significant “demographic decline” and the undertow of a falling population, individual states can counter the “inevitability” through focused family […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The fate of three American citizens still imprisoned in North Korea is on the line in a flurry of talks between North Korean and Swedish diplomats in the run-up to next month’s summit between North Korea’s leader KimJong-Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In and then the summit in […]
