Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk President Moon Jae-In has to be a master of the art of compromise. He was all for the latest watered-down UN sanctions that cut down but don’t cut off the flow of oil from China and Russia to North Korea. The U.S. would far prefer to see all the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2017 A delegation from South Korea’s opposition party visited Washington, D.C. this week to press the Trump administration for the “redeployment” of nuclear weapons in South Korea. “We are here to ask for redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads in South Korea,” Lee Cheol-Woo, the head of the intelligence committee of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 13 issued an order blocking the sale of a Portland, Oregon-based technology firm to China. Trump’s order stopped the proposed $1.3 billion sale of Lattice Semiconductor Corp. to Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, which the White House described as a “Chinese corporation owned by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 The U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 13 voted to prevent sales of commercial aircraft to Iran. Rep. Peter Roskam, Illinois Republican, said the move was necessary due to Iran’s use of commercial airliners to transport weapons and troops to Syria. Iran has also used commercial flights to smuggle […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 Newly released documents from the State Department obtained by a government watchdog group provides further evidence of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton receiving emails containing classified information through the unsecure, non-state.gov account of Human Abedin. The documents obtained by Judicial Watch included 97 email exchanges with Clinton not previously turned over […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 House Speaker Paul Ryan said he believed just “one member” of the House wanted to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a former congressman said. The speaker made the comments at a private dinner earlier this year, Breitbart News reported, citing multiple sources with direct knowledge of the comments, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2017 Israel will not allow Iran to establish weapons factories and ports in Syria, an Israeli official said on Sept. 11. Syrian President Bashar Assad must “keep Iran out if he wants to survive,” Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said. “Israel needs to pressure world powers to not allow [Iran to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By E.W. Jackson, Fairfax Free Citizen There is probably not an adult in America who hasn’t experienced having someone cut in line. It’s exasperating not only because it’s fundamentally unfair, but because it’s highly disrespectful of those already waiting. More confrontational personalities will tell the person to go to the end of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 A U.S. National Security Council (NSC) member appointed by H.R. McMaster was asked by members of an Israeli delegation to leave a meeting at the White House, a report said. NSC Senior Director on Counter-Terrorism Mustafa Javed Ali was asked by the Israelis to leave the meeting in late August, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 In a rare message of condolence to a foreign leader, Kim Jong-Un sent his sympathies to Cuban dictator Raul Castro over the devastation caused in Cuba by Hurricane Irma. “Receiving the news of the causalities and losses of many materials caused by the recent hurricane in the eastern and […]
