Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The sequence is simple: One more sick American cow, and the government here is in big trouble. The government here gets into trouble, and the North Korean regime can exploit the differences and make good on its dire threats, e.g., the one about “special actions” lasting [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s new ruler Kim Jong-Un has invented his own military group dedicated to conducting blitzkrieg-style offensives against South Korea, an approach that is far more assertive than his late father’s military reconnaissance office. The “Special Operation Action Group” has been created under the North’s Korean [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The job of a journalist for the North Korean propaganda machine surely must be one of the more fun-filled gigs in the media business. Imagine the laughs the writers up there must be having as they dream up fresh turns of phrase with which to pillory [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com A series of naval exercises involving troops from China, Russia, South Korea, the U.S. and the Philippines are likely to significantly raise tensions in the Asia-Pacific. The largest China-Russian naval war game since 2005 is scheduled to start next week in waters very close to South Korea and [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — China is mending fences with North Korea after signing off on “condemnation” of North Korea’s failed missile launch while the North ratchets up the decibel level of invective against South Korea and the United States. The confluence of revived warmth between North Korea and China and [...]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive Technology is politically and ideologically neutral. It would be comforting to believe increasing levels of technology alone could solve social and political problems and make the world a better place. But history has proved that false, alas! again and again. When German scientists with their traditional leadership in chemistry invented [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Beijing has blamed the U.S. as well as Japan and South Korea for provoking Pyongyang into persevering with its program to build weapons of mass destruction. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration has also called upon Washington to exercise “caution” in its plans to construct in Asia an [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — President Barack Obama’s oratorical flights against North Korea’s plan to fire a long-range rocket next month may have pleased his South Korean hosts, but evoked little more than polite responses from the Chinese and Russians who exercise the most influence in Pyongyang. The failure of Team [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iraq has signed a $1 billion contract with South Korea to develop a huge crude oil reserve. The Iraqi Oil Ministry signed a service contract with South Korea’s Samsung Engineering for Iraq’s West Qurna Phase 2 oil field. Officials said Samsung would contribute to initial development as part of a [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s plan to fire off a long-range rocket next month gives global leaders something urgent to talk about when they sit down Monday for two days of palaver on how to keep nuclear devices from falling into the hands of terrorists. Only they won’t be [...]
