Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct An increasingly paranoid Kim Jong-Un has hired about a dozen ex-Soviet KGB agents to stave off what the young dictator believes are constant U.S. plots to assassinate him. Apparently, Kim does not fully trust his personal bodyguards, who were plucked from “Office Number 6” of the Guard Command that protects […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2017 Satellite images taken the day after North Korea’s test of what it says was a hydrogen bomb show “surface disturbances” and landslides at the test site. A 100-kiloton underground explosion at the Punggye-ri site on Sept. 3 generated an artificial quake that was felt across the border in China […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2017 The United States and Egypt have agreed to resume the “Operation Bright Star” military exercises. The bi-annual exercises had been held since 1981, but were postponed by the Obama administration in 2011 following the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and brought to power the pro-Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against “driving North Korea into a corner” over its nuclear weapons program and missile tests. Putin spoke on September 6 after meeting South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of the Russian-hosted Eastern Economic Forum in the Pacific coastal […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2017 An unprecedented thawing of relations between Israel and the Sunni Arab world is flawed only by the policies of the Palestinian Authority, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “What we have now is greater than anything else during any other period in Israel’s history,” Netanyahu said on Sept. 6 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 5, 2017 Hurting financially, racked by internal turmoil and with its troops deployed across the Middle East, Hizbullah is not likely to engage in conflict with Israel in the near future, a top Israeli military official said. “It is an internal crisis over what they are fighting for, an economic crisis […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy It was like deja vu. August 2017. Paris. A rocket launcher was found in a No-Go Zone suburb. A few weeks before, the same launcher was found in Lyon, near the madrassa in the Muslim quarter … The media is silent. Human rights defenders are against Islamophobia. … Gaza. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 5, 2017 Egypt and Russia on Sept. 4 finalized a deal in which Moscow will fund the construction of a nuclear power plant in Egypt. The deal was announced after Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, where they were attending a summit, the Associated […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 5, 2017 The liberal Moon Jae-In administration has launched a “politically motivated” investigation into the only major broadcaster in South Korea that covered protests and evidence in support of former President Park Geun-Hye, conservative lawmakers say. MBC provided coverage of the growing pro-Park demonstrations earlier this year in which older South […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 5, 2017 While the West may be critical of Iran’s practice of imprisoning, torturing and executing dissidents, the Islamic Republic has no fear that any real action will be taken to stop it, an analyst said. “Iran will pay no price for clamping down on dissent,” retired Army Col. Robert Maginnis told […]
