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Japan used to be the number one foreign consumer of Iranian oil, slipping to number two as China increased its purchases. Now, obliged to defer to the U.S., Japan purchases none. Germany has been Iran’s largest European trade partner, and was hoping for major deals following the conclusion of the Iran Deal in 2015. These plans have been sabotaged by the U.S. using its control over the international banking system, one of its main weapons to use against free market principles and free trade, to inflict pain on people who do not submit, and to (try to) assert its global hegemony.

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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Tales of the American Empire | March 14, 2019 Hundreds of Koreans were slaughtered as punishment because the Joseon Dynasty refused to sign a trade agreement with the United States.

RT | May 27, 2019 US National Security Advisor John Bolton is a “war fanatic” and “defective human product” who works to destroy peace rather than maintain it, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry has said. The tough assessment, cited by state news agency KCNA, comes after Donald Trump’s adviser lambasted Pyongyang for recently carrying out short-range […]

RT | May 24, 2019 Negotiations between the United States and North Korea over the latter’s nuclear program will not resume until the US administration backs off from what Pyongyang has characterized as a unilateral demand that it disarm. US President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un held summits in Singapore in […]

The Beginnings of Pyongyang’s Military Involvement in the Middle East and its Evolution Over Half a Century Military Watch Magazine | October 7, 2018 While the Yom Kippur War is a well known Cold War engagement between Soviet and Western aligned forces which took place in the midst of the Vietnam War, pitting the forces […]

RT | May 4, 2019 President Trump took to Twitter to declare his support for peace on the Korean Peninsula, after discussing the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin. North Korea, meanwhile, test-fired short-range missiles. “Anything in this very interesting world is possible,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “But I believe that Kim Jong Un fully […]

RT | April 25, 2019 North Korea has warned of a “corresponding response” as it vented anger at the ongoing military drills between the US and South Korea. Pyongyang says such steps simply hamper the reconciliation process. In a strongly-worded statement issued by the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country on Thursday, […]

By Sophia Yang -Taiwan News – 2019/04/05 TAIPEI — As Taiwan’s first indigenous submarine project is underway, media reported the North Korean government years ago reached out to Taiwan’s military in an attempt to sell its advanced marine propulsion technology – Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) – for the project. People familiar with the matter told […]

By Adam Garrie | EurasiaFuture | April 18, 2019 Last night it was confirmed that the DPRK tested a new tactical guided weapon. While this particular weapon does not violate the agreement by Pyongyang to refrain from testing ICMBs and nuclear warheads during the course of the peace process, it would be impossible to argue […]