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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2025 Real World News South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the impeachment of President Yoon-Suk Yeol, a conservative who had declared martial law in an effort to investigate alleged massive election fraud. TV channels showed the acting chief justice, Moon Hyung-Tae, declaring: “The constitutional order and the repercussions from […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 28, 2025 Real World News Independent media and youth activism are playing a major role in driving a populist revolt against South Korea’s leftists who are closely tied with the Chinese Communist Party, an analyst said. “I have closely monitored South Korean politics since former President Park Geun-Hye’s impeachment. Back then, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2025 Real World News The “Donald Trump of Asia” could use some help from the Donald Trump, an analysis said. Since he was elected in May of 2022, South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol has been under constant attack from leftist opposition Democratic Party (DP), which “has done everything possible to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 23, 2025 Real World News How effectively is South Korea handling negotiations with President Donald Trump who is set to impose punishing tariffs on the East Asian economic powerhouse? Not so much. The nation’s popular conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol has been impeached, sidelined and is in detention. The acting president Choi Sang-Mok reportedly […]
FPI / February 5, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s lofty ambition of world dominance begins with aligning the stars in the East Asia galaxy. That goal is well within reach, an analyst said. In South Korea, “pro-North Korea and pro-China (and anti-American) leftists are aiming to establish a one-party state,” Grant Newsham […]
