FPI / May 3, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher After a decade of North Korea’s and China’s alarming nuclear and missile buildup, plus nuclear and missile tests, a poll from the South Korean firm Data Research released on March 1, 2023 stated that 70 percent of South Koreans support indigenous development of nuclear weapons. On […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 28, 2023 Seventy years is a long time, especially for a military alliance even between friends. There are few in the world, notably including the Atlantic Alliance, forming NATO in 1949. But in the case of East Asia, the strategic and economic links which emerged from the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2023 In January, South Korea’s new conservative leader, President Yoon Suk-Yeol, ruffled feathers in Washington when he said the South could develop its own nuclear weapons or ask the U.S. to redeploy nukes on the Korean Peninsula if the threat from North Korea grows. No South Korean leader had explicitly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2023 A top official at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) in South Korea has been arrested after being accused of photographing U.S. military facilities in South Korea and sending the photos to operatives in North Korea. The director, identified in reports only as Mr. A, was arrested on […]
FPI / March 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct South Korea’s new conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol told the National Intelligence Service (NIS) that it must strive to be among the world’s best amid the ongoing threat posed by North Korea’s massive spy network. Yoon’s prioritizing national security is a marked departure from the lax policies of the leftist […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 19, 2023 The South Korean news video below features footage from North Korea’s state news agencies of the Feb. 8 massive military parade and testing. Pyongyang used the occasion to flaunt its new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which poses more of a direct threat to the United States than to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 10, 2023 As the death toll from two massive earthquakes which struck Turkey and Syria climbed above 22,000, anger was boiling over at the regime of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the blocking of social media and what many residents and opposition officials say has been a slow and inadequate […]
FPI / February 8, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct South Korean intelligence, in a joint effort with prosecutors and police, has launched an investigation into a massive North Korean spy network that has long been active nationwide. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) must complete the investigation by Dec. 31 of this year before it is to hand over […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 5, 2023 The lingering aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the widening war in Ukraine and the knock-on effects of food and energy shortages, alongside high inflation battered the world economy in 2022. Reflecting these grim realities, the UN has issued its annual World Economic Situation and Prospects […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News January 18, 2023 In a desperate behind the scenes scramble to keep up the steady supply of arms and ammunition demanded by Ukraine, the Pentagon has tapped into stockpiles of U.S. ammunition in Israel and South Korea, reports say. “The Pentagon is tapping into a vast but little-known […]
