by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2023 South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has warned that North Korea could penetrate into the voting and ballot counting systems at the state-run election watchdog “at any time.” Hackers who infiltrate the systems would have the ability to manipulate registered voter information and ultimately the outcome of an election, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 6, 2023 A wide swath of Asian security issues was discussed and deliberated upon during the recent UN General debate. Predictably, China and Korea dominated concerns though other concerns such as the South China Sea were largely overlooked. Speaking at the start of the 78th Assembly, President […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 1, 2023 North Korea’s new “Anti-reactionary thought law” states that “being a Christian and/or possessing a Bible is a serious crime and will be severely punished,” an Open Doors 2023 report noted. According to the U.S. State Department, North Korea has imprisoned around 70,000 citizens who are Christians. For decades, North […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2023 An “absolute requirement” in Xi Jinping’s quest for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) world supremacy is the military conquest of Taiwan, an analyst noted. But that strategy extends far beyond planet Earth, he emphasized. “Controlling Taiwan will allow the CCP to dominate the First Island Chain and to better neutralize […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2023 While in the U.S. communists were toppling statues of American heroes nationwide, South Korea’s pro-North leftists were erecting statues of communists. The City of Gwangju in South Jeolla Province “has been paying tribute to a communist, Zheng Lucheng, who was loyal to the communist parties in both China and […]
FPI / September 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 6, amid a broadcast North Korean ceremony, dictator Kim Jong-Un presided over the official launch ceremony of his new large conventionally-powered ballistic-missile-armed submarine (SSB), called “841,” and suggested it may be the first of many, posing an increasing regional nuclear and a global proliferation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2023 Tokyo is set to unveil new economic security and industrial policy guidelines said to include measures to prevent economic coercion, support for countries that have been subject to such acts, and trade restrictions like increased tariffs on the offenders. The government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not mention […]
FPI / September 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 31 Japan’s Ministry of Defense requested a record budget of $59.9 billion for the fiscal budget year that begins on April 1, 2024. It is part of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s five-year $295 billion defense spending plan that will exceed Japan’s 1 percent of […]
FPI / August 30, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Communist Party leader Xi Jinping was so preoccupied with internal conditions back home in China that he skipped out on a major speech last week at the BRICS summit in South Africa, observers surmised. With the faltering economy seen challenging his leader-for-life status, Xi left it to Commerce Minister […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2023 An unprecedented trilateral summit at Camp David between South Korea, Japan, and the United States countered the successful divide-and-conquer tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to expand its military’s regional power in what CCP leaders call the post-U.S. era. A concluding joint statement laying the groundwork for […]
