Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “Sometimes you have to walk,” was President Donald Trump’s stunning conclusion to the U.S./North Korea Summit in Hanoi, where political great expectations seemed to get ahead of the hard reality that Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program created an impasse to an expected diplomatic agreement between the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 4, 2019 Kim Jong-Un’s special green train returned to North Korea from his unsuccessful summit with President Donald Trump to Vietnam “at a much faster pace” than the trip to Hanoi, a report said. The North Korean leader’s train bypassed stops in China following speculation that Kim would stop in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 4, 2019 A slogan repeated in Chinese state media says, “Once you lose trust, you will face restrictions everywhere.” People with poor social credit scores were banned from buying plane or train tickets 23 million times in 2018, a Chinese government report said. China’s National Public Credit Information Center reported that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 3, 2019 While much has changed in the region since his final trip to Asia in 1993, former President Richard Nixon’s advice on North Korea may be instructive amid President Donald Trump’s current efforts, a columnist noted. Nixon’s “primary regional concern at the time was, of course, China, around which everything […]
Special to WorldTribune, March 1, 2019 A secretive group believed to be protecting the son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s assassinated older brother declared the formation of a government-in-exile Friday on the 100th anniversary of Korean mass demonstrations for independence. The full text of the declaration is published below: The Cheollima Civil Defense (CCD) […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 Sens. Marco Rubio and John Cornyn have written a letter calling on the Trump administration to ban the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s products in the U.S. energy infrastructure. Congress has already blocked the use of Huawei products in U.S. telecommunications equipment “due the company’s links to China’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Vietnam with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un collapsed after Kim had demanded sanctions relief in return for shutting down some, but not all, of the North’s nuclear sites. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2019 The United States is ready to help North Korea reach its economic potential, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 27 as he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, Vietnam. “I think that your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited,” Trump said. “And I think that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 After a 65-hour trek across China on his green, bulletproof train, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrived at Dong Dang Railway Station at the Vietnam-China border at around 8:10 a.m. on Feb. 26. Accustomed to complete control of public information back home where the state media dominate, there was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2019 A clandestine group which says its mission is to assist North Korean defectors said it would issue an “important” announcement this week, a report said. Cheollima Civil Defense, which is believed to have rescued the son of the late Kim Jong-Nam from North Korea’s assassination squads, is set to […]