by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2017 Guam is prepared and its residents feel well-protected should North Korea launch an attack on the U.S. territory. The U.S. has two strategically significant bases on Guam, Andersen Air Force Base in the north and Naval Base Guam in the south. The two bases combined house 7,000 U.S. troops. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2017 The South Korean government, at the risk of sounding delusional, weighed in with its proposal for easing the mounting crisis with North Korea. Bilateral talks are still possible if North Korea immediately halts its “repeated provocations and threats,” South Korea’s National Security Council (NSC) said on Aug. 10. “The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct In the same week the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted on new sanctions on North Korea, a delegation of economic and military officials from Pyongyang, including the country’s “No. 2” leader, arrived in Teheran for a 10-day visit. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that Kim Yong-Nam, chairman of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2017 The United States and Japan conducted joint air drills in skies near the Korean peninsula on Aug 8. Two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers and two Japanese F-2 fighter jets took part in the drills, which were held near Japan’s southern Kyushu island, according to a news release […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2017 Astronomical events in August and September and the looming North Korea crisis are giving rise to doomsday theories. But the main question is whether the apocalypse will be an act of God or a man-made event. A pastor with close ties to President Donald Trump said the commander in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump’s diplomatic team has been operating in overdrive as it tries to ensure new UN sanctions against North Korea will be enforced while confronting Russia over allegations of its meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. on Aug. 7 moved quickly to ensure new UN […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2017 Yet another American president is enlisting China to put the squeeze on North Korea. And China has again agreed to play along with what the Trump Administration earlier branded as a failed exercise. Therefore on Aug. 6, Beijing called on the Kim Jong-Un regime to stop its missile and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2017 President Xi Jinping is stepping up China’s control of the Internet as he moves to consolidate power ahead of the 19th Communist Party Congress this fall. On Aug. 3, Beijing’s censors and the country’s Internet service providers held a drill to practice shutting down websites deemed harmful. Internet data […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2017 Whose side is South Korean President Moon Jae-In on, pro-North Korean forces in South Korea and Japan want to know. Liberal leftists and openly pro-North Korean activists passionately backed Moon’s recent victorious election campaign and his supporters’ earlier drive to impeach his predecessor, President Park Geun-Hye. But by subsequently […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct A senior cadre of North Korea’s Worker’s Party, along with his wife, son and two daughters committed suicide by taking poison to prevent being forcibly returned to North Korea by Chinese security forces. Last week, the family, along with 10 other North Korean defectors, were tracked down in China’s southwestern […]
