by WorldTribune Staff, May 4, 2022 Using a specially-designed spy watch, South Korean operatives working for North Korea compromised a U.S.-South Korea (ROK) Command, Control, Computer, and Intelligence system located in a bunker at the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul, a report said. A South Korean military officer and a defense contractor for IT […]
FPI / April 20, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com Russian and Chinese military planes flew into South Korea’s air defense zone just as North Korea was set to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a South Korean official said. On March 24, two Russian planes flew into the South’s air defense identification zone (KADIZ) without prior notice, prompting […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler As Ukraine’s conflict churns on, most countries remain fixated on the deadly clash between the Russian invaders and heroically spirited Ukrainian defenders. This war in Europe after all has reawakened political and strategic attention along the old East/West axis. Yet thousands of miles beyond the widening tragedy in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2022 South Korea’s National Election Commission (NEC) reportedly mishandled ballots of Covid patients during early voting in the presidential election. Some of the early voters were given ballots already filled in for ruling Democrats’ party candidate Lee Jae-Myung, reports said. Lee and Yoon Suk-Yeol of the conservative main opposition People […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2022 Three men who were potential whistleblowers in a real estate scandal involving South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-Myung have turned up dead, a report said. “The ruling party’s candidate for the top job is suspected of profiting immensely from a multi-million-dollar real estate swindle, which allegedly included members of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler In a truly bizarre twist of international diplomacy which would have baffled even the denizens of Monty Python, the Islamic Republic of Iran whose UN membership dues were in arrears and thus barring the country’s General Assembly voting rights, was figuratively bailed out by an unlikely source, a […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2022 Sanctions imposed on Iran by the Trump administration were so devastating that the mullahs in Teheran were unable to pay dues owed to the United Nations. As a consequence, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism lost its voting rights at the UN. Was this not a victory […]
Special to WorldTribune.com 247 Real News, January 21, 2022 by Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution,, Originally published March 9, 2017 On Jan. 12 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a well-crafted speech at the National Press Club, a speech which has lived in infamy since its delivery, still haunting the U.S. and its allies […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The global economy is hardly out of the woods yet. The resurgent Corona virus pandemic, coupled with labor shortages and an inflationary surge not seen in a generation, have served as an undertow to wider and sustainable economic growth. “The world is now two years into the COVID-19 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 14, 2022 South Koreans are calling for investigations into the deaths of three key witnesses in corruption and bribery cases linked to presidential candidate Lee Jae-Myung, a report said. Most recently, whistleblower, Lee Byung-Chul was found dead at a motel in Seoul on Jan. 11, after his chilling public posts, East […]
