By Darius Shahtahmasebi | RT | February 28, 2019 US President Donald Trump’s failure to make any meaningful progress with North Korea was an expected outcome of the recent summit, but not for the reasons the mainstream media and regular talking-heads want you to believe. The so-called summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi […]
RT | February 28, 2019 North Korea offered a “realistic proposal” to halt nuclear and missile tests in exchange for partial sanctions relief, Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told reporters in Hanoi after the failed Trump-Kim summit. North Korea demanded the partial lifting of sanctions that “that hamper the civilian economy and the livelihood of our […]
RT | February 28, 2019 Despite no formal deal being reached, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that he wouldn’t test weapons or anything nuclear-related, US President Donald Trump told reporters after the aborted Hanoi summit. Pressed by reporters about potential fallout over the failure to reach a denuclearization agreement with the North Korean leader, […]
RT | February 28, 2019 Donald Trump cited exorbitant costs as the reason for halting “fun and nice” US military drills on the Korean Peninsula – exercises which Pyongyang viewed as a serious provocation. Speaking at a press conference after his Hanoi summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the US president told journalists that […]
RT | February 6, 2019 Donald Trump plans to hold a second meeting with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam on February 27-28, the US president announced during his State of the Union address, claiming full credit for avoiding a devastating war. “My relationship with Kim Jong-un is a good one…. Our hostages have […]
Mattis and Kelly by Nancy OhanianA new poll from Morning Consult offered some more bad news for Trump and his congressional enablers-- and for xenophobes in general.
By Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News | January 24, 2019 President Donald Trump’s announcement late last week that he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un next month promises a significant result whether the encounter succeeds or fails. In the intervening weeks, we have two questions to ponder. No. 1: what will this second summit accomplish? […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | January 23, 2019 The White House disclosed in Washington on January 19 that President Trump’s second summit with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “will take place near the end of February”. One month is a very long time in politics but the White House disclosure came […]
Sputnik – 15.01.2019 Pyongyang calls for abandoning military exercises involving foreign forces on the Korean Peninsula, North Korean Ambassador to Russia Kim Hyun Joong said Tuesday. “In order to eliminate military hostility between North and South Koreas in a fundamental way and turn the Korean Peninsula into a lasting and eternal peace zone, it is […]
A term ‘unperson’, from George Orwell’s newspeak, refers to an individual or a member of a group who is systematically stripped of social and political rights, including basic human rights. Who are the ‘unpeople’ of South Korea? They are an overwhelming majority of illegal migrants in the country who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.
