by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2025 Real World News In his first major appearance on the world stage, South Korea’s newly elected leftist President Lee Jae-Myung failed to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G7 Summit in Canada last month. Not meeting with Trump has already undermined Lee’s standing at home. “The South […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2025 Real World News In 2024, analyst Grant Newsham delved into reported widespread election fraud in strategic U.S. ally South Korea and called for “urgent reforms” of the system. Former President Yoon Suk-Yeol essentially was impeached earlier this year after he declared martial law in part to circumvent longstanding political […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2025 Real World News Remarkably, South Korea’s new president takes office under a cloud. The ironies abound. The leftist Lee Jae-Myung has some very serious charges pending against him. There are five criminal cases in all. For perhaps this and other reasons, Lee was eager to be acknowledged by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 2, 2025 Real World News What’s at stake in South Korea’s presidential election is far more than just the presidency returning to the nation’s leftist faction. Seoul is on the precipice of becoming a one-party state with institutional sympathies not only with communist North Korea but also communist China, an analyst […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2025 Real World News Key U.S. ally South Korea launched early voting on Thursday to elect a successor to former President Yoon Suk-Yeol, who was impeached after declaring martial law in an effort to address issues affecting election integrity. The election is expected to swing to leftist candidate Lee […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2025 Real World News South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower court’s acquittal of leftist Democratic Party presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-Myung on charges of election law violation. The decision now casts doubt on Lee’s eligibility to run for the presidency and could be a huge blow to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 29, 2025 The tides of history, the tears of remembrance. Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units surged into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly reuniting the country, thus ending twenty years of conflict. Scenes of the North Vietnamese T-54 tanks crashing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2025 Real World News For the second time in three days, the same pair of Chinese nationals on Wednesday were caught filming American fighter jets near a U.S. military installation in South Korea. According to the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, the U.S. Army reported the pair, whose names were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2025 Real World News A prompt end to the war in Ukraine will allow the U.S. to shift its focus to the all-important Indo-Pacific, an analysis said. “The importance of Northeast Asia cannot be overstated,” Dane Chamorro and Col. Grant Newsham wrote for Forbes on April 10. “The collective GDP […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2025 Real World News A South Korea delegation was en route to Washington, DC on Tuesday for negotiations with President Donald Trump on trade and defense. The blue-chip Dow soared 1,238 points, or 3.2%, after the opening bell on Tuesday amid renewed optimism for a deal with trading partners before […]
