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China and the United States agreed that efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula should be ‘complete, verifiable and irreversible’, Chinese state media said on Saturday, reporting the results of high level talks in Washington this week. ‘Both sides reaffirm that they will strive for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,’ a… Read more.
President Obama reportedly warned President-Elect Trump that dealing with a belligerent North Korea will be his most urgent and vexing foreign-policy challenge. Sure enough, the consensus among world leaders today is that North Korea poses an existential threat not just to its neighbors but even to the United States. The Kremlin has sent Russian troops… Read more.
Yesterday, North Korea showed off what CNN reported as “a bevy of new missiles and launchers at its annual military parade.” Since then, military pundits have been all over TV offering dire insights on how this parade portends “thermo-nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.” Except that there’s now a Groundhog-Day spectacle to North Korea’s military… Read more.
Remember the campaign days when Trump used to boast that no country would dare disrespect his presidency the way he claimed so many were disrespecting Obama’s? For example, he routinely ridiculed Obama as weak and pathetic for Allowing Russian fighter jets to buzz US warships in the Black Sea; Trump boasted: It just shows how… Read more.
Here is how I framed this recurring international “crisis” just months ago in “Groundhog Day: North Korea Tests Nukes and World Explodes with Outrage … Again,” September 9, 2016. _____________________ North Korea is commanding world attention again, after testing another nuclear bomb. Duly spooked, leaders from China to America are reacting like alarmed parents chastising an… Read more.
North Korea is commanding world attention again, after announcing that it tested another nuclear bomb earlier today. Duly spooked, leaders from China to America are reacting like alarmed parents chastising an unruly child for playing with fire, for the umpteenth time. South Korean President Park Geun-hye called it an act of ‘self-destruction’ showing the ‘maniacal recklessness’… Read more.
North Korea is commanding world attention again, after claiming it tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday. Because of the way that they are made, hydrogen bombs are usually much more powerful than their atomic counterparts. That is why people are so worried about North Korea’s announcement — it has already launched atomic bombs, but this… Read more.
This boycott is not about some silly movie, The Interview, which ends with the exploding head of North Korea’s tin-pot dictator, Kim Jung-un. It’s about Sony making a mockery of America’s vaunted and enviable freedoms – of speech and expression – by pulling it under dubious threats from anonymous hackers. It’s about major theater chains, like… Read more.
North Korean President Kim Jong-Il is a temperamental and insecure man. Only this explains his habit of making nuclear threats from time to time. Whenever he does, he commands the international attention he craves so pathologically and extorts the aid his people need so desperately… When it comes to psychological warfare, this North Korean gnome is… Read more.
The current crisis has already gone too far. Nuclear threats are not a game. Aggressive rhetoric and military posturing only result in counter-actions, and fuel fear and instability. This, according to NBC News, was the anxious alarm UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounded yesterday after North Korea announced plans to restart a nuclear reactor it shut… Read more.
