After going more than a month without a ballistic missile test – which some analysts had taken as indication that Trump’s hard-ball tactics with Kim are working – moments ago Yonhap reported, and ABC confirmed, that North Korea has reportedly launched what appear to be several short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea…
Moon Vents Korea Frustration by Asserting Right to Veto U.S….
What Was the Liberal International Order?…
There are sound critiques of Trump’s policies, then judgments marred by ignorance. Laments for the coming collapse of the “liberal international order” belong in the latter category. Articles on this system’s decay run through what Steven Bannon derides as “elite media”: The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Washington Post and others. They suggest […]
Is North Korea Serving As a Diversion for a U.S.-Jordan Invasion of Syria? by Mike Whitney…
The United States is not going to launch a preemptive attack on North Korea. The risks far outweigh the rewards and, besides, the US has no intention of getting bogged down in a conflict that doesn’t advance its geopolitical objectives. The saber-rattling is just an attempt to divert attention from the Syria-Jordan border where the […]
U.S. Antimissile System Goes Live in South Korea…
An American missile-defense system deployed to counter growing threats from North Korea has gone into operation in South Korea, officials said on Tuesday. The installation of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery has roiled the South Korean presidential campaign, partly over questions of who will pay for it, and drawn objections from China, which […]
U.S., North Korea Show Off Military Might with Dueling Exercises and Submarine Port Call…
A U.S. guided-missile submarine made a port call in South Korea and the allied nations conducted maritime exercises Tuesday, while North Korea reportedly conducted a large artillery drill as tensions mounted on the divided peninsula. The top U.S. commander in South Korea, meanwhile, warned the North that his troops were prepared for a fight. “We’re […]
Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance…
It began as routinely as any other passenger flight. At gate 15 of New York City’s JFK Airport, more than 200 men, women, and children stood in line as they waited to board a Boeing 747. They were on their way to Seoul, South Korea’s capital city. But none would ever make it to their […]
Kim Jong Il: ‘We will pulverize the headquarters of evil and ruthlessly ravage US troops’…
North Korea upped its warmongering with Donald Trump today in a series of menacing boasts threatening to ‘ravage’ US troops amid fears the two countries are heading for war. The secretive state vowed to ‘pulverize’ US bases and South Korean capital Seoul if it was threatened by the US military, which is carrying out drills […]