Tag: North Korea
Humpty Dumpty Has Had a Great Fall
May 1, 2019 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
The Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and North Koreans know that no agreement with America means anything and that Washington speaks only with a forked tongue.
Read MoreWhat Next for the Korean Denuclearization?
Mar 8, 2019 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
Achieving denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula will bring peace and stability not only to the Korean Peninsula, but to all Northeast Asia and beyond.
Read MoreU.S. Bases in Okinawa Are a Threat to Freedom
Jan 7, 2019 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
Occupying Okinawa with tens of thousands of armed US troops does nothing positive for peace and freedom; instead, it just threatens both.
Read MoreParis Cyber Agreement – Déjà Vu All Over Again?
Dec 14, 2018 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Europe, Politics, US
Failing to get the major cyber aggressors on board with the Paris Cyber Agreement risks the agreement becoming nothing more than a paper tiger.
Read MoreRethinking Nuclearism: Thirty Years Later
Oct 6, 2018 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
The worst offenders of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are the nuclear weapons states who abuse it to maintain their own dominance over other nations.
Read MoreKorea Should Reunify Outside the Empire
Sep 26, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
The two Korean governments and the Korean people are willing to resolve their differences, but the US government is standing in their way.
Read MoreNorth Korea Thinks Pompeo Has Reneged On the Deal
Jul 9, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
Let this be a lesson to Putin, as if he needs another one, that no deal with Washington can be trusted.
Read MoreAltruism and Sadism in Public Policy
Jun 25, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism.
Read MorePutin’s Peace Efforts Are Coming to Naught
May 24, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, US
Now that Washington and Israel have sabotaged Putin’s diplomacy, Putin’s hope is that the result will isolate Washington from Washington’s European and British vassal states rather than isolate Russia, Syria, Iran, and North Korea from the rest of the world.Â
Read MorePeace Comes to Korea: Let’s Understand Why
May 1, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
The best thing that could happen for peace would be for the US to immediately get its missiles, its military, and its nose out of the Korean peninsula.
Read MoreCrisis in the Congo: Where is the International Community?
Jan 30, 2018 | News & Analysis, Africa, Politics
The international community should make a greater effort to engage with the Congolese pseudo-dictator Joseph Kabila to entice him to step down voluntarily—while doing their upmost to ensure his people do not suffer any additional harm.Â
Read MoreEndings and Beginnings: A Commentary on 2017 to 2018
Jan 4, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The UN as constituted by its Charter gives control of global policymaking to the richest and strongest states, while the president of the world’s superpower poses an apocalyptic threat.
Read MoreTrump’s National Security Speech
Dec 20, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The American people, regardless of who they elect, have no voice, no input, no representation. An oligarchy rules, and Trump has become nothing more than its mouthpiece.
Read MoreAssociated Press Associates Itself With War
Oct 27, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Associated Press propaganda about the situation with North Korea leaves writes out all possibilities of a peaceful resolution.
Read MoreThe Real Reason behind Trump’s Angry Diplomacy in North Korea
Oct 19, 2017 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics
President Donald Trump is trying to scare off North Korea’s traditional ally, China, and disrupt China’s economic, political, and military ascendency.
Read MoreChina-Trump Trade Policy Leading into the Final Quarter of 2017
Oct 13, 2017 | Essays, Asia Pacific
While some of US’s and China’s policy aims may be at odds, the two countries are finding areas where their interests overlap, and neither wants a trade war.
Read MoreWhat’s North Korea Afraid of?
Oct 5, 2017 | Asia Pacific, Reviews, Viewpoints
North Koreans have good reason to fear that the US might once again raze their country.
Read MoreIn Their Own Words: When Trump and Obama Sounded the Same
Sep 27, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Despite vastly differences approaches, Donald Trump’s words convey the same visionless messages as Barack Obama’s before him.
Read MoreMore Thoughts on Trump’s UN Declaration of War Against Iran and North Korea
Sep 21, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Trump’s UN Speech Proves the CIA and the military/security complex are in full control of the US government.
Read MoreTrump’s UN Speech
Sep 21, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Trump’s delusional speech aside, creating chaos and destroying the lives of tens of millions of people is what Washington does.
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