North Korea

A week after meeting with US President Donald Trump in Singapore, Korean leader Kim Jong Un has embarked upon a two day journey to Beijing to talk about how to deal with Trump as well as diplomacy between North Korea and China. The talks are expected to bring China to a deeper positioning in the peace and denuclearization process on the Korean peninsula. Kim’s third visit to China is to come to a close later today. Thus far, agreements between the two Asian nations are coming along according to schedule, and relations between them are on rise.

Time magazine, founded almost a hundred years ago (in 1923), runs like a well-oiled machine: there are departments and sub-departments for everything; nothing is left to chance. So when, in its latest issue, it publishes a two-page spread of the US’s recent history with Korea, readers should be able to take it to the bank.

Disruption, disturbance, eruption, the words crowning the presidency of Donald J. Trump, who has effectively demonstrated an idea made famous by Nazi doodler of law and political theorist Carl Schmitt: politics is defined, not by identifying with friends in cosy harmony but with enemies in constant tension.

(ANTIWAR.COM) — During last week’s summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, the US promised to suspend all joint military exercises with South Korea. This was important because joint exercises between the two have been focused on threatening North Korea. So it was unsurprising when on Monday, the South Korean Defense Ministry confirmed that the two nations have […]

At the moment, it’s hard to decipher. Does the Unites State have a coherent foreign policy?
As the Trump road show continues to ramble its way through the various global regions, questions are emerging as to where the US is actually heading, and whether it’s going to increase or detract from its standing in the world. Is he remaking the western world or merely isolating the US? CrossTalking with host Peter Lavelle are guests Mark Sleboda, Dmitry Babich and 21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen. Watch:

UNHINGED: Anti-Trump hysteria is causing many US political pundits to abandon any semblance of sane commentary.
What’s becoming ever clearer is that Democratic Party establishment and its media surrogates are no longer part of ‘the Left’ as it was once traditionally known.

A recent survey conducted by Reuters shows how many Americans base their support or opposition to a given political stance not on the soundness of the policy, but based on whether or not it comes with the backing of a favored or disfavored political authority.

Resuming funding, missing records and foreign actors + this day in history w/the death of God's Banker and our song of the day by Trevor Moore on your Morning Monarchy for June 18, 2018.

A live TV poll taken on Michelle Wolf's Netflix show found that 71% of the comedienne's leftist audience would prefer conflict and potential nuclear war with North Korea instead of peace, with credit going to President Trump. The results show that the hatred that has been stoked against Trump is so deep that leftists are willing to sacrifice our lives and our country in order to be right. [...]

by NoahVARIATIONS ON A THEMESeñor Trumpanzee:"Kim is a great negotiator. Tremendous guy. Great sense of humor. Very talented guy. His people love him, especially the ones he hasn't killed yet. I salute his generals and will do so again when they invade our ally South Korea. My Chinese and Russian pals see a new day of grand appeasement now that I have said we won't have any more "war games" in the region. They love me. People are saying. Great ratings.