by WorldTribune Staff, September 10, 2017 In a year when North Korea has made shockingly rapid nuclear weapons progress, the word “prepper” is suddenly familiar in the South Korean lexicon. As Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump trade menacing threats and no one knows what they are really thinking, sophisticated and wealthy Koreans who […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2017 Israel in the early morning hours of Sept. 7 launched an attack on a Syrian facility where chemical weapons are manufactured, a report said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that an airstrike on Masyaf in central Syria hit the Scientific Studies and Research Center and an adjacent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin Sept. 6, 2017, began taking the initiative to control the “crisis” over North Korean strategic weapons, because Russia had more at stake in resolving the issue than perhaps any other nation-state. There was strong evidence that President Putin was working to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct An increasingly paranoid Kim Jong-Un has hired about a dozen ex-Soviet KGB agents to stave off what the young dictator believes are constant U.S. plots to assassinate him. Apparently, Kim does not fully trust his personal bodyguards, who were plucked from “Office Number 6” of the Guard Command that protects […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy It was like deja vu. August 2017. Paris. A rocket launcher was found in a No-Go Zone suburb. A few weeks before, the same launcher was found in Lyon, near the madrassa in the Muslim quarter … The media is silent. Human rights defenders are against Islamophobia. … Gaza. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2017 The bomb North Korea detonated at its Punggye-ri test site on Sept. 2 was at least five times more powerful than devices previously tested and puts the Kim Jong-Un regime much earlier and significantly higher on the technological ladder than intelligence agencies had assessed. “North Korea has achieved a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 3, 2017 In the wake of North Korea’s test of a 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb, U.S. President Donald Trump had harsh words for the Kim Jong-Un regime in Pyongyang, but also came down hard on South Korea for what he said was Seoul’s policy of “appeasement.” “South Korea is finding, as I […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russia said on September 1 it would respond harshly to any U.S. moves meant to hurt it, a day after the United States told Moscow to close its consulate in San Francisco and locations in Washington and New York. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2017 An Israeli military strike may be the only option left to effectively derail Iran’s nuclear program, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said. Decades of failed U.S. diplomacy with Iran, including the Obama administration’s nuclear accord, actually paved the way for the Israeli option, Bolton told the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 A grand jury in Washington, D.C. has indicted 15 Turkish security personnel for attacking demonstrators who were protesting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Washington on May 16. A total of 19 people have been indicted and all were charged with conspiracy to commit a crime of violence, […]
