North Korea

This week on the New World Next Week: pity the poor MIC as the NK boogeyman retreats; politicians are scared as cave-dwellers threaten to punch the wall; and the Flynn effect may be reversing...or maybe not.

This week on the New World Next Week: pity the poor MIC as the NK boogeyman retreats; politicians are scared as cave-dwellers threaten to punch the wall; and the Flynn effect may be reversing...or maybe not.

This week on the New World Next Week: pity the poor MIC as the NK boogeyman retreats; politicians are scared as cave-dwellers threaten to punch the wall; and the Flynn effect may be reversing...or maybe not.

Claims of North Korean human rights abuses spearheaded attempts to undermine US-North Korean negotiations in Singapore. While the talks are unlikely to change the long-laid agendas of special interests across the West who have cultivated and profit from the ongoing conflict, it is important to confront these claims and diminish the intended effect they are meant to have in buttressing the notion of American exceptionalism and justifying American interventionism.

Benny Wills of JoyCamp joins us after a debate on conspiracy theories and North Korea.
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When Richard Nixon returned to Washington after his historic 1972 trip to China, he was welcomed with strong support from Democrats.
“From the initial Congressional reaction, it was apparent that the President, home from his China trip, would find broad bipartisan support for his move toward closer relations with Peking,” The New York Times reported on Feb. 29, 1972.

When the President wants to wage a war somewhere, he just does it, and no one bats an eye. But for the first time in a very long time, as opposed to escalating tensions, invading, and bombing somewhere, a US president is proposing to deescalate a situation and establish peace somewhere.
That’s a major thing in and of itself. But that’s not alright in the minds of US congressmen, who are concerned that a peace arrangement might be brokered with North Korea if Trump withdraws American troops from the Korean peninsula.

Following his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, US President Donald Trump announced that he intends to dial back on military exercises in South Korea, citing their financial toll as his logic for this apparent decision.
Clearly these exercises were considered provocative by the North Korean regime on the basis that the exercises are practically war scenarios envisioning the North as the enemy combattant.

The summit has already relaxed tensions but the reason is not because of a lessened threat from Pyongyang, as Jonathan Marshall explains. By Jonathan Marshall Special to Consortium News Scads of analysts and pundits have weighed in on the Trump-Kim…Read more →