Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON — U.S. and South Korean warplanes will be crisscrossing the skies above and around South Korea early next month in the biggest show of allied force against the North so far. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In agreed on the need to stage the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2017 South Korea is employing a battery of loudspeakers along the DMZ to blast updates into North Korea on the escape of a soldier who made a daring dash to freedom across the heavily-guarded border earlier this month. The South is using the FM Radio “Freedom Voice” system installed near […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 24, 2017 Pyongyang is said to have replaced all of the border guards, and likely punished their overseers, who were on duty when a North Korean soldier ran to freedom across the DMZ, intelligence sources say. “Signs were detected that North Korea has replaced all border security officials following the defection,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The U.S. has opened a bold new assault on North Korea’s nuclear-and-missile program with a one-two punch designating the North as a “state sponsor of terror” and then imposing new sanctions. Analysts doubt if these measures will result in immediate capitulation of the regime of Kim Jong-Un to give […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 21, 2017 North Korea’s athletes will be welcomed by host South Korea to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to list Pyongyang as a state sponsor of terrorism. Seoul’s government sees the participation of North Korea in the Games as a way to bring Pyongyang to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The aftershock of the great Pohang earthquake in South Korea has been dramatic, intense, and controversial. That’s a reference to the abrupt cancellation of the greatest event in the lives of thousands of Korean high school students, namely the examination that all of them have to take, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — U.S. President Donald’s Trump’s whirlwind trip to East Asia was fraught with both promise and peril; the promise of expanding commercial alliances and reinforcing military alliances, and the peril of confronting North Korea’s ominous nuclear threat. In Seoul, South Korea’s bustling and free capital, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2017 A North Korean soldier on Nov. 13 managed to flee across the DMZ to South Korea amid a barrage of bullets fired by his former comrades, five of which hit him before he collapsed in leaves that had accumulated on the ground south of the military demarcation line (MDL). […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 13, 2017 In whichever direction they are heading, those who try to cross the heavily-armed border dividing North and South Korea are tempting fate. On Nov. 13, North Korean troops shot one of their fellow soldiers when he fled the “worker’s paradise” in pursuit of happiness in South Korea. South Korean […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2017 South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-Wha, in a bow to China, has said Seoul will not seek any more deployments of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system. Kang also assured that the South will not join the U.S. missile defense networks nor seek a trilateral alliance involving Japan, Yonhap […]
