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29May

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

Credit Moon, Not Trump or Kim, for the Breakthrough With North Korea

NOVANEWS South Korea’s president has been planning his peace gambit for his entire life. If peace breaks out on the peninsula, he’ll deserve the bulk of the applause. By J. ALEX TARQUINIO SEOUL, South Korea—Last summer, South Korea’s new president, only two months into his term, announced sweeping new goals—including the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, inter-Korean industrial economic zones and traffic networks that he described as a“New Korean Peninsula Economic Map,” and a peace treaty. “The five-year plans for state affairs announced today will be the blueprint and compass for a new Korea,” Moon said. Few people outside of the country took much notice—Americans have been too busy debating whether their own president, Donald Trump, deserves credit for bringi...

29May

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North Korea, USA

Trump Says North Korea Summit May Go Ahead After ‘Productive Talks’

NOVANEWS By: Nick Wadhams and: Shannon Pettypiece Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli reports on Trump’s latest comments about meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. President Donald Trump says his June historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un may be back on and could be extended following “very productive” talks between the two countries. “We are having very productive talks with North Korea about reinstating the Summit which, if it does happen, will likely remain in Singapore on the same date, June 12th, and, if necessary, will be extended beyond that date,” Trump said in a tweet Friday night. Trump abruptly canceled the planned summit in a letter to Kim on Thursday -- and then pivoted a day later. “We are talking to them now,” he told reporters in Washington earl...

28May

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North Korea, USA

Provocation and imperial ultimatum or Kim-Trump Summit?

NOVANEWS by Julio Yao Villalaz Yet again, Julio Yao, the international analyst from Panama addresses the events surrounding the announced summit between the President of North Korea, Kim Jong-un and the US President Donald Trump, a meeting that now appears to be in danger owing to unacceptable declarations issued by John Bolton, the National Security Advisor to President Trump. John Bolton, the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, Donald Trump Some days ago, we reported that the summit between the President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-un, and the President of the Korean Republic, Moon Jae-in was a monumental historical success for the Korean Peninsular. Denuclearization, disarmament, peace agreement, reunification we...

28May

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North Korea, USA

KIM CAVES – North Korea begs Trump to save Singapore summit

NOVANEWS Less than 24 hours after the US president canceled the June 12th meeting, Pyongyang says it will meet Trump ‘anytime, any way’ by: RICKY TWISDALE On Thursday, US President Donald Trump, to the dismay of many, published a letter announcing he was calling off a much heralded tête-à-tête with North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-un, aimed at ending the North’s nuclear program. It followed weeks of aggressive statements by both sides, which appeared to have been set off by US National Security Advisor John Bolton suggesting in an interview that the “Libya model” (disarmament followed by regime change) should be applied to North Korea. It wasn’t long after Trump’s pulling the plug on the Singapore summit that critics began raining condemnation on the former real estate mogul’s...

28May

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North Korea, South Korea

Seventy Years After Korea's Division, Women Lead Push for Peace

NOVANEWS By Jon Letman Women representing South Korea and more than 16 other countries gathered this week in Seoul for the #WomenPeaceKorea symposium and Women's DMZ walk. (Photo: Jeehyun Kwon) When scores of Korean women representing a coalition of some 30 peace groups and NGOs entered South Korea's National Assembly on the banks of Seoul's Han River, they weren't alone. This week, the Korean peace makers were joined by an international delegation of women peace activists for a symposium focused on ending the Korean War. A women's peace walk along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is scheduled for May 26. When women participate in negotiations, the likelihood of achieving peace increases substantially and that peace lasts longer. For the fourth time since 2015, these activists gat...

28May

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North Korea, USA

NO ONE NEEDS ANOTHER KOREAN WAR

NOVANEWS by Eric Margolis Panmunjom, the ‘peace village’ on the incredibly tense demilitarized zone (aka DMZ) between North and South Korea, is one of the weirdest places I’ve ever visited. Tough North Korean soldiers lurk about, watched by equally tough South Korean troops in one-way sunglasses and an aggressive judo ‘warrior’ stance. When I was filming at Panmunjom, we were warned to beware of North Koreans who could at any moment rush into the main conference room and drag us into North Korea. It was into this crazy house that the new, jet-lagged US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was transported from turbulent Washington. After a quick look at the DMZ, Tillerson announced `no more Mr. Nice Guy.’ The US had run out of `strategic patience’ with North Korea and will go to war to en...

28May

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North Korea, USA

Stop Kicking Sand in Kim's Face

NOVANEWS ERIC MARGOLIS It’s got to be either one of the stupidest acts that I can recall or a very wicked plan by Washington neocons to sabotage Korean peace talks. How else to describe the decision by Big Brother USA and junior sidekick South Korea to stage major air force exercises on North Korea’s border. The prickly North Koreans had a fit, of course, as always when the US flexes its muscles on their borders. Continuing South and North Korean peace talks scheduled this week were cancelled by the furious North Koreans. The much ballyhooed Singapore summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is now threatened with cancellation or delay. Who can blame the North Koreans for blowing their tops? As Trump administration mouthpieces were gabbing about peace...

28May

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North Korea, USA

Foreign Policy Insiders Try to Scuttle Trump-Kim Nukes Deal

NOVANEWS MIKE WHITNEY The biggest obstacle Donald Trump is going to face in his upcoming negotiations with Kim Jong-un, is not Kim’s unwillingness to abandon his nuclear weapons program, but resistance from powerful elements in the foreign policy establishment who will do everything they can to scuttle the agreement. We’ve already seen an example of this just this week when US nuclear bombers were included in the US-Korea joint military drills that are currently underway in the south. The B-52′s were clearly added to the massive “Max Thunder” exercises to provoke the DPRK leadership, increase tensions, and convince Kim that it was pointless to trust Washington. The move was bitterly criticized in North Korea’s state media which summed up the situation like this: “At a time when th...

27May

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Gaza, North Korea, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

North Corea raps Zionist “brutal massacres” in Gaza

NOVANEWS By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr North Corea has condemned Nazi use of violence against unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, describing what happened with them as “brutal massacres.” Kim Yong-nam, head of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Corea, sent a message of sympathy to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, with the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper calling Nazi actions as a “bloody suppression”. The newspaper said that Yong-nam in the message expressed deep condolences to the victims and their families. “He vehemently denounced Israel for its brutal massacres and indiscriminate use of force against peaceful demonstrators demanding their legitimate rights.” He affirmed North Corea’s unwavering support for and solidarity with the just cause of the Palest...

27May

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Canada, North Korea, South Korea

Canada, the Corean Dispute and Foreign Policy Mythology

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler Repeat after me: Canada is seldom a force for good in the world, Canada is seldom a force for good in the world. Thomas Walkom’s “Canada should board Korean peace train” is yet another example of how the progressive end of the dominant media has been seduced by Canadian foreign policy mythology. The leftist Toronto Star columnist offers an astute analysis of what’s driving rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula. He points out that the two Koreas are moving the process forward and that Pyongyang believes “complete denuclearization” of the Peninsula includes the US forces in the region aiming nuclear weapons at it. But, Walkom’s column is cloaked in naivety about Canada’s role in the geopolitical hotspot. He ignores the international summit Ottawa and Washington orga...