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7Jun

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

Setting the Stage for the Kim-Trump Singapore Summit

NOVANEWS Setting the Stage for the Kim-Trump Singapore Summit: The White House Meeting of Donald Trump with Kim Yong-chol By Dr. Konstantin Asmolov New Eastern Outlook On June 1, 2018 the President of the USA Donald Trump had a meeting with Kim Yong-chol, the Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the head of the United Front Work Department. He was formerly the Director of the Reconnaissance General Bureau. During the meeting, which lasted 80 minutes, Kim Yong-chol handed Donald Trump a letter from Kim Jong-un. Before the meeting, Kim Yong-chol had a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Given the high status of its participants, the meeting was as historic as the visit by the head of the South Korean National Intelligence Service ...

7Jun

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

Mystery “Grim Reaper” CIA Officer Thrust into Spotlight Ahead of Kim Summit

NOVANEWS By: Zero Hedge While President Donald Trump seems intent to make a deal with North Korea seemingly at any cost, the CIA has apparently deployed one of its most hawkish North Korea hands to be at the president’s side during the summit, allowing the intelligence community to rein in any of the president’s excesses as it angles for a historic diplomatic achievement. In a piece published late Wednesday, Bloomberg profiles Andrew Kim, a CIA officer who first came to prominence when he was photographed sitting alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during Pompeo’s first meeting with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. Source: Zero Hedge Kim has become an integral part of the White House’s North Korea team – a role that is unusual for an intelligence official. “It does seem unusual,” s...

7Jun

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

For Lasting Peace, President Moon Must Lead South Korea Out of America’s Orbit

NOVANEWS By Stuart Smallwood Antiwar.com Featured image: South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un embrace each other after releasing a joint statement at the truce village of Panmunjeom, Friday. / Korea Summit Press Pool It didn’t take much for the leaders of the two Koreas to put an end to the decades-long culture of crisis pervading the Korean Peninsula. With a phone call, a quick drive to the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone, and a public embrace, South Korean President Moon Jae-inand North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un emphasized the absurdity of the barrier wedged between a people with a common history, culture and language. It was the United States’ aversion to diplomacy that encouraged Moon and Kim into one another’s arms on M...

3Jun

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula: A Blessing for South Korean People

NOVANEWS By Prof. Joseph H. Chung Global Research We have gone through, for the last three months, unusual experiences. We could admire the humanism in sports; we were touched by the beauty, the elegance and the professionalism of North Korean singers and dancers. We saw, through the Kim-Moon summit and the North-South exchange of musical groups, that the North-South blood tie was stronger than the North-South regime divide. We were hoping with all our mind and heart for the closing of the last pages of the Cold War. But we realized that the Pyongyang Wall was pretty high. We pray that the Singapore summit will make the Pyongyang Wall crumble, once and for all, as did the Berlin Wall. We have been, for the last three month, hearing and reading, in connection with the nuclear iss...

1Jun

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North Korea, USA

Trump confirms meeting with Kim after seeing top Pyongyang aide at Oval Office

NOVANEWS A meeting between leaders of the US and North Korea will take place in Singapore on June 12, US President Donald Trump confirmed after receiving a senior official from Pyongyang at the White House. Kim Yong-chol is among the most senior officials in North Korea, a rank for which he was previously blacklisted by the US. He arrived in the US to deliver a letter from Kim Jong-un to Trump. After the meeting in the Oval Office, Trump walked Kim and his delegation to their car, an honor usually reserved for a select few foreign dignitaries. He confirmed that the scheduled meeting, which had earlier appeared to be in jeopardy, will take place. Kim repeats commitment to Korean Peninsula denuclearization after letter from Putin “We’ll be meeting on June 12 in Singapore,” Trump said, add...

1Jun

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Yongusil 93: Socialism’s Influence on Syngman Rhee and the Founding of the Republic

NOVANEWS BY DAVID FIELDS A new working paper for the Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project explores and influence and meaning of socialism on Syngman Rhee and the founding of the Republic of Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in caused a stir this spring when he stated that he was opposed to homosexuality in a televised debate while campaigning to replace impeached President Park Geun-hye. Moon’s statements especially drew attention because he was the candidate for the Democratic Party of Korea — Korea’s leading “liberal” party. In response, seasoned Korean observers began explaining both how Korean liberals are both further to the left and further to the right than foreign observers might expect. In fact, both views are correct. The left-right paradigm, popular ...

31May

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North Korea, South Korea

Onward Migration: Why Do North Korean Migrants Leave South Korea?

NOVANEWS BY JAY SONG “Houses of Parliament,” a series of oil paintings by Claude Monet (the one shown here is “Trouée de soleil dans le brouillard” or “Sunlight in the fog”), gives an impression of London in the distance. The UK, a preferred destination for many North Korean migrants, is also quite distant for those in Northeast Asia. | Image: Wikicommons For North Koreans considering a new life in South Korea, there are two basic and competing narratives: South Korea is the land of milk and honey, or it is a place of capitalist exploitation and class-based inequality (Sino-NK has studied discourse on the latter). Neither is completely true, but there are kernels of truth in both narratives. On the one hand, as a developing body of literature indicates, many North Korean migrants are s...

31May

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China, North Korea

Symbol and Substance: China’s Scramble for Influence in the Korean Peace Process

NOVANEWS BY TOM FOWDY Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un during the first of their meetings, in Beijing in late March. | Image: Xinhua News Agency China’s cooperation in increasing international pressure on North Korea during 2017 served to accelerate declining relations between the two states. Now, with potential peace ostensibly looming, China is seeking to reverse course. A burst of diplomacy has Beijing scrambling to pick up the pieces and reclaim influence it feels it lost, all while Kim fitfully courts Washington. Pyongyang won’t easily play ball with Beijing. Tom Fowdy looks at the Chinese angle.– Christopher Green, Senior Editor. Symbol and Substance: China’s Scramble for Influence in the Korean Peace Process by Tom Fowdy It is an alliance which exists more in symbolism than substance...

30May

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North Korea, Russia

Lavrov meets Kim in Pyongyang, gifts him ‘box for secrets’ (PHOTO, VIDEO)

NOVANEWS North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov / Russian Foreign Ministry Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has already exchanged several firm handshakes with Kim Jong-un during his visit to Pyongyang on Thursday. Photos show the two engaged in pleasant diplomatic protocol. In one of the photos, Lavrov has a relaxed, good-natured expression, while Kim apparently took a more formal approach to the photo-op. The Russian diplomat has travelled to the North Korean capital to hold talks with senior officials aimed at supporting intra-Korean negotiations and de-escalation on the Korean Peninsula. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov / Russian Foreign Ministry Lavrov added a bit of suspense to his meeti...

29May

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Historically, the Biggest Violator of Human Rights on the Korean Peninsula Isn't North Korea

NOVANEWS By Joseph Essertier US armed forces target rail cars south of Wonsan, North Korea, an east coast port city, in 1950 during the Korean War. (Photo: US Army Military History Institute) On February 22, 2018, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Vice President Mike Pence described North Korea as "the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet, an evil family clique that brutalizes, subjugates, starves and imprisons its 25 million people." As a rare, concrete example of North Korea's "horrendous human rights abuses and crimes against humanity," Pence trotted out the tragic case of Otto Warmbier, who suffered a "severe neurological injury" of unknown cause, according to the coroner in Ohio, and died at the age of 22 after being released by North Korea's g...