Speaking at a regular news briefing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the situation is “now at a tipping point approaching a crisis. At the same time there is an opportunity to reopen peace talks. “We hope relevant parties can consider how we can deescalate the situation on the peninsula and realize […]
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China warns tensions on Korean Peninsula at ‘tipping point’ after Pyongyang missile launch
There will be no war on the Korean peninsula: Moon Jae-In
nsnbc : South Korean President Moon Jae-In affirmed on August 17 there will be no war on the Korean peninsula. Moon stressed that Seoul effectively […]
We Need A Mass Movement To Prevent Nuclear Conflict In The Korean Peninsula
Above Photo: US activist Gloria Steinem (center) and Liberian Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee (right) march with other activists along the military wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, on May 24, 2015. (Photo: Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images) On August 2, US Sen. Lindsey Graham paraphrased President Donald Trump’s stance […]
Reunification On The Korean Peninsula: Toward A Peaceful Confederation
Above Photo: Getty Images What would a reunified Korea look like? Where would its capital be? Would it have a single unified military? What would happen to the North’s nuclear weapons? The election of pro-engagement Moon Jae-in ushers in a new era in North-South relations and makes these questions pertinent again. Moon is expected to […]
North Korea Says U.S. Bomber Flights Push Peninsula To Brink Of Nuclear War
Above Photo: A pair of B-1B Lancer bombers, like these seen flying over Wyoming, were deployed by the U.S. over the Korean peninsula. (Staff Sgt. Steve Thurow/U.S. Air Force/Reuters) Flight of the 2 bombers on Monday came as Trump said he was open to meeting Kim Jong-un North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of […]
Washington is the real threat to peace on the Korean peninsula
The current crisis on the Korean Peninsula is the product of a militarized state, led by an unpredictable and capricious leader, which cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. That militarized state is of course the United States, and that unstable and capricious leader is Donald Trump. If Western media is to be believed, of […]
ISIS Using German Tactic ‘Auftragstaktik’ To Achieve Victory
A recent issue of an ISIS propaganda magazine describes a method for carrying out attacks using an adaptation of a 19th century German military philosophy. The command tactic ‘Auftragstaktik’ allows subordinate terrorists to individually carry out specific orders without being burdened with anything else except achieving their objective. Russia Today reports: The Dar al-Islam issue, published […]
Will the DPRK be Recognised as a Nuclear State?
Nile Bowie (NEO) : Inter-Korean relations have reached their nadir. Following the North’s fourth nuclear test in January and subsequent long-range rocket launch that placed a satellite in orbit, Seoul has closed the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Pyongyang has cut military communication lines with the South and shut down the liaison office at Panmunjeom. This means […]
Surreal: The West mourns death of Al Qaeda collaborator in Damascus airstrike
Jaysh al-Islam is a stalwart ally of US State Department-listed terrorist organization al-Nusra, though one would never suspect as much reading weepy Western eulogies over the terrorist organization leader’s death. The commander of terrorist organization and Al Qaeda affiliate Jaysh al-Islam (the Army of Islam), “Sheikh” Zahran Alloush, was killed in a Syrian airstrike […]
French President: ‘Security Services Exaggerate Terror Threat to Justify Security Measures’
In 2009, before he was President, Francois Hollande appears to have been much more perspicacious about the nature of the ‘terror threat’, including the way in which authorities can and do exaggerate that threat to justify draconian legislation that deprives innocent people of their freedoms and civil liberties. What happened in the interim Mr. […]
Men in Black: Lawyers protest mass surveillance in Berlin (VIDEO)
Screenshot from Ruptly video More than 300 protesters gathered in front of the German Chancellery to mark the upcoming second anniversary of Edward Snowden’s leak of the NSA secret intelligence data that removed the veils from the eyes of the public. Berlin saw a crowd of several hundred lawyers all dressed in black robes on […]