by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump is reaching out to leaders of Asian states to ensure “that we have everyone in line backing up a plan of action” to solve the North Korea crisis, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said. Priebus said Trump was in regular contact with Japanese […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 Hamas has offered its gratitude to North Korea for issuing a threat against Israel. On April 29, North Korea’s Defense Ministry threatened Israel after Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman told the Hebrew-language Walla! news site in an interview called out the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un for his ties with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 1, 2017 Japan is sending its hulking Izumo helicopter carrier to secure passage of a U.S. Navy supply ship as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expands the scope of Self-Defense Forces activities amid the rising threat from North Korea. Following an order from Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, the 249-meter-long Izumo will help […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 30, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte have a couple of things in common. Both speak their minds and both are taking a hardline stance against drugs. This may have been enough to win Duerte an invitation to the White House after the two leaders spoke on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 28, 2017 The United States and South Korea on April 28 pledged to maintain an “ironclad defense posture” against the threat from North Korea and pressed China to accept the need for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. Meanwhile, in an interview with Reuters on April 27, U.S. President […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 28, 2017 China has warned that it would impose unilateral sanctions on North Korea if the Kim Jong-Un regime conducts any more nuclear tests, according to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tillerson made the comments on April 27, a day before he was to chair a meeting with UN Security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk An interviewer for a radio station in Boston, winding up one of those Q&A’s to which journalists are subjected, asked, What would you do to resolve the North Korean “problem?” I answered, “I have no solution, no idea, no clue.” While that response might seem like an abject display […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2017 Millions of Japanese citizens would have only minutes to take shelter in the event of a nuclear attack by North Korea. Officials in Tokyo — Japan’s largest city with 13.5 million residents — said there might be as little as 10 minutes to act if North Korean dictator Kim […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2017 Kim Jong-Un looked on as more than 300 large-caliber artillery pieces engaged in North Korea’s “largest ever” live-fire drills on April 25. The massive artillery drill saw rockets fired at mock enemy warships as hundreds of tanks lined up along the eastern coastal town of Wonsan in what reports […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 24, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to focus on rising tensions with North Korea as he hosted members of the UN Security Council at the White House on April 24. The meeting was seen as highly unusual given reports of military movements in northeast Asia but also because of […]
