FPI / August 8, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a shocking demonstration of North Korean nuclear power, on Aug. 5 North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un presided over a commissioning ceremony for 250 transporter erector launchers (TELs) for the Hwasong-11D, demonstrating that North Korea may now have 1,000 of these optionally tactical nuclear warhead armed […]
FPI / August 2, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is heating up its race with the United States to dominate the Moon by proposing to increase its “Moon coalition” and by moving ahead with its initial Moon architecture. On July 21, in coordination with the United Nations’ designation of July 20 as International Moon […]
FPI / July 31, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct Geostrategy-Direct.com has for years frequently reported on how North Korea’s nuclear missiles threatening U.S. cities were built with Chinese technology, systems and components. See, for example: North Korea fires 10th ICBM, 3 days after ‘strategic’ huddle in Beijing, December 19, 2023. The U.S. Treasury Department on July 24 belatedly […]
FPI / July 24, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct As the Biden administration draws near its close, so too does Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping’s window of opportunity for annexing Taiwan, analysts say. “Paramount leader Xi is eager to absorb Taiwan into the motherland while he remains healthy and in command of the Party-state-military apparatus,” China […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 12, 2024 Contract With Our Readers A man who was passing through the “nothing to declare” gate at the crossing between Hong Kong and the city of Shenzhen, China was stopped by security officials who noticed some suspicious activity. The activity was taking place inside the man’s trousers. He was attempting […]
FPI / July 5, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct North Korean defectors have testified that the Kim Jong-Un regime has been conducting public executions, mostly by firing squad, of North Koreans caught distributing South Korean TV shows, movies, or K-pop music, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said in a report. The 2024 North Korean Human Rights Report, released by […]
FPI / June 28, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the year 2010 North Korea was correctly a pariah state, isolated by layers of sanctions from the United States, the United Nations and other democracies, while its attempts at missile proliferation were intercepted on the high seas. Both China and Russia held their noses as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2024 Contract With Our Readers After nearly four years of frustration with the Biden Administration, Saudi Arabia sent a delegation of top officials to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss stronger relations and increased military coordination with communist China, reports say. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman traveled to Beijing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2024 Contract With Our Readers North Korean special forces were involved in the 1980 “Gwangju incident” in South Korea, a former head of South Korea’s intelligence agency has now confirmed. “For the first time, it is revealed that the Agency for National Security Planning (NSP) (now the National Intelligence Service) […]
FPI / June 19, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct In the run-up to the June 18 meeting in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the two countries had exchanged more than two dozen high-level government, parliamentary, and other delegations since July 2023, including 18 this year. South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles […]