Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL —South Korea’s outspoken radicals and leftists can hardly hide their dismay. To the consternation of organizers of the candlelight crusade that brought down the government of the conservative Park Geun-Hye, ousted and jailed on a wide range of offenses, their one-time hero, Moon Jae-In, elected president as Park’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump will try to work with Pakistan on counter-terrorism “one more time” before taking measures forcing the nation to do more, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told lawmakers on Oct. 3. “We need to try one more time to make this strategy work with them, by, with, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal “doesn’t make us tougher with North Korea … it isolates us from the rest of the world,” said an Obama administration official who helped broker the deal. “North Korea will see this as we are unreliable and we don’t have credibility,” Wendy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 Imran Awan, his brothers and their associates were merely doing what they were “ordered to do” by Democratic members of Congress when the IT aides allegedly falsified records on how the members’ office budgets were spent, according to lawyers for Awan. Awan was arrested in July while trying to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2017 A ferocious government prosecutor and Obama donor has onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in his sights. Andrew Weissmann, who has been reunited with special counsel Robert Mueller, his old boss at the FBI, “has an operational history of going after the relatively small to snare the big,” Rowan […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 4, 2017 A conservative think tank in Washington called off a public meeting with Chinese dissident Guo Wengui after the think tank’s website was targeted in a denial of service cyber attack traced to Shanghai, a report said. The Hudson Institute on Oct. 2 sent an email notice stating the widely-anticipated […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 4, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump has “very clearly” signaled his intent to pursue a diplomatic solution to the standoff with North Korea, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Oct. 3. Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon “supports fully” a diplomatic solution amid mixed messages from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. news agencies are reporting that the United States plans to expel about 60 percent of Cuba’s embassy staff in Washington after announcing it would pull its own personnel out of Havana following a series of unexplained “attacks.” The Associated Press and Reuters news agencies, citing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 1, 2017 Once home to what writer David Halbestam termed the “best and the brightest”, America’s government class in Washington is looking like a community of blithering idiots. “If ever there were a time to be skeptical that something is true just because ‘everybody’ says so, it is the era of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 1, 2017 The United States has “lines of communications to Pyongyang,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson disclosed on Sept. 30. “We’re not in a dark situation, a blackout,” Tillerson said during a trip to Beijing where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “We can talk to them. We do talk […]
