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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2021 Foreign correspondents based in Seoul were among those targeted by a South Korean agency created by the current leftist government to investigate corruption cases involving high-ranking officials. The agency has been accused of illegally searching the phone records of opposition lawmakers and journalists, including their family members. The Corruption […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2021 Park Geun-Hye, the former conservative South Korean president who was impeached, thrown out of office and jailed in 2017, was pardoned on Friday by leftist South Korean President Moon Jae-In. Park had maintained her innocence from the moment embezzlement and other charges against her emerged, claiming she was the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2021 Team Biden’s National Security Council (NSC) should not endorse an announcement officially ending the Korean War that does not include a denuclearization commitment from North Korea or protect U.S. assets in the region, 35 members of the U.S. Congress said in a joint letter to the Biden administration. South […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 7, 2021 With an eye on competing for supremacy in the lucrative chip-making industry with a new facility in Texas, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co. has replaced the heads of its three major business units and merged the company’s mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single unit. Samsung, the world’s […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2021 As the reign of South Korean leftist President Moon Jae-In approaches its end with scant accomplishments, so-called “Sunshiners” have moved to salvage what they can of the Moon regime by drafting a “peace declaration” to end the Korean War. “The goal is to rope the U.S. in,” Nicholas […]
