Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com Donald Trump may be running neck and neck with Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential sweepstakes if the polls are at all credible, but there’s one constituency in which he appears to be well ahead. That’s within the ruling circles in Pyongyang. He’s winning popularity there for two […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com WASHINGTON ― Talk about local boy making good, and then look at the case of Donald Trump. He’s a New Yorker through and through ― looks, talks and acts like one, arrogant, sneering and sure of himself. So what are the New York papers saying about him? Clearly, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2026 Non-AI Real World News China, which has a powerful hold on Pakistan, has written off warming U.S.-Pakistani ties brokered by President Donald Trump as “short term noise.” Others see Trump’s strategy as turning an overlooked Pakistan into a peace broker in the Iran War while at the same time […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2026 Real World News On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake triggered a massive tsunami which devastated Japan’s northeast coast and led to the triple meltdown at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima. Photos of the devastation can be seen here. Of the 19,759 reported deaths, more than 90% were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2026 Real World News In Communist China, 2026 would normally have been the Year of the Horse. But, in the eyes of state media, this will not be a normal year for Xi Jin Ping and the nation currently coralled by his regime. China has declared “the Year of the […]
FPI / January 25, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct North Korea observers say that Kim Jong-Un’s greatest fear is that the United States, which for years rehearsed so-called “decapitation” operations, will whisk in and stifle the North Korean leader as suddenly and effectively as it snatched Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. “North Korea’s Kim expected to cling to [his] […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 15, 2026 Real World News In a legal assault on a political opponent that makes Jack Smith’s crusade against President Donald Trump look tame in comparison, special prosecutors appointed by leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung want the death penalty for conservative former President Yoon Suk-Yeol. Lee was elected president […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 28, 2025 Real World News The general in charge of U.S. forces in Korea rejects a move by the administration of leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung to adopt legislation on civilian entry into the demilitarized zone (DMZ). “We don’t allow that area to become politicized,” Gen. Xavier Brunson said in […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 30, 2025 Real World News Was it a coincidence that President Donald (Art of the Deal) Trump on Thursday ordered the resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons testing shortly before his meeting with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping? The two met for about an hour and 40 minutes at Gimhae […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2025 Real World News The shocking assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022 two days before a national election, dealt a blow to his powerful anti-China political posture in Japan. The conservative was Japan’s longest-serving PM. Sanae Takaichi, a conservative known as Japan’s “Iron Lady,” […]
