Farmers planting rice in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea, 2019. The country is saying that its tactics against Covid-19 have kept the virus totally at bay. Outside experts are resisting such claims. JAMES BELGRAVE/WFP
Something is missing from the statistical charts and maps of Covid-19 in East Asia: credible data on the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.
It’s well past Halloween, but people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are rising from the dead (again). That is according to our media, who have for six years been claiming Kim Kyong-hui, the aunt of current ruler Kim Jong-un and daughter of the father of the nation Kim Il-sung, was dead, only for her to be spotted beside her nephew enjoying the Lunar New Year festivities in Pyongyang at the weekend.
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss the media reaction to US President Trump’s historic entrance into the North Korean side of the DMZ. Fox’s Tucker Carlson was at the event with the US delegation accompanying President Trump.
Trump became the first sitting American president to ever step foot in North Korea, and while Carlson was there covering (and maybe even advising) the President, missing from the historic diplomatic moment was uber war hawk, national security adviser John Bolton.
Bolton was dispatched to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss a historic event, as Donald Trump has become the first sitting US president to enter North Korea, after meeting Kim Jong-un in the DMZ, which separates north and south.
US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim posed for handshakes before talking for nearly an hour in the demilitarized zone. Both leaders agreed to set up teams to resume stalled nuclear talks.
Virtually every major Western corporate media outlet and a who’s who of pundits circulated a blatantly false report that North…
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The US is currently engaged in negotiations with at least a dozen countries — which involve fundamental political, military and economic issues.
The US has adopted diplomatic strategies in the face of its ‘inability’ to secure military victories. The purpose of adopting a diplomatic approach is to secure through negotiations, in part or fully, goals and advantages unattainable through military means.
One would expect the headlines would already be starting to scream. About North Korea that is. That is also, if one is not watching the permanent distraction programming of American media as Michael Cohen, perhaps the worst possible choice of witness, tries to save his tail from prison and malign President Trump at the same time.
