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12Jan

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Canada, North Korea, South Korea

Canada Should Play Conscientious Role in Korea

NOVANEWS By Prof. Graeme McQueen and Christopher Black Global Research Featured image: A family eats ice cream in North Korea (Source: Eva Bartlett) Lawyer Chris Black and Prof. Graeme MacQueen are helping build a revitalized peace movement. Part of that involves standing up to the barrage of propaganda on North Korea, and demanding that our government play a more positive role in defusing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. We discuss their recent op-ed article in the Toronto Star, the less-known reality of Korea, and the U.S. as a stopping block to peace.

10Jan

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North Korea, USA

Trump’s Nuclear Threat Warrants Removal From Office

NOVANEWS By Marjorie Cohn A man watches a television news broadcast showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's New Year's speech, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on January 1, 2018. (Photo: JUNG YEON-JE / AFP / Getty Images) Donald Trump's veiled threat to use nuclear weapons against North Korea is not only horrifying, but also illegal. It warrants his removal from office. On New Year's Day, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un asserted, "The entire area of the US mainland is within our nuclear strike range. The United States can never start a war against me and our country," adding, "The United States should know that the button for nuclear weapons is on my table." Kim clarified that he would not use those weapons except in response to aggression. Not to be outdone by Kim, ...

7Jan

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North Korea, South Korea

Sabotaging Peace in Korea

NOVANEWS By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF It just might be that the two Koreas are figuring out a way to avoid war, much to the anger and chagrin of President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment, who are obviously increasingly viewing war as inevitable and even in the best interests of the United States. Why, even the U.S. mainstream press, which oftentimes seems to operate as an ex officio spokesman for the U.S. government, appears irritated over North Korea’s initiation of talks with South Korea. The press describes North Korea’s overtures not as an attempt to avoid war but instead as a cynical attempt to “drive a wedge” between the United States and South Korea. Actually, it’s President Trump, who is obviously upset that the Koreas are marginalizing him, that is using his...

7Jan

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China, North Korea

Beijing responds to report of secret aid to North Korea with two words

NOVANEWS ‘Fake news’ Asia Times An unverified report that Beijing was negotiating a secret deal with Pyongyang, published on Tuesday by the Washington Free Beacon, and syndicated by the Washington Times newspaper, has not gained much traction beyond that spattering of conservative American news outlets, garnering only a healthy dose of skepticism. Not surprisingly, China was also not interested. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang responded Wednesday to a Chinese-language question on the report with two words – in English. “Fake news,” Geng was quoted as saying in the official transcript of Wednesday’s regular press breifing. Next question, please. The “top secret” document published in the report was purported to be from “a person who once had ties to the Chinese in...

5Jan

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North Korea, South Korea

How Politics Shaped the Korean War

NOVANEWS By: Carol Duff, MSN, BA, RN www.nationalparks.org As is the case in any war, politics can be a driving force. Militarist Carl von Clausewitz said that “war is politics by another means.” The Korean War was no different than any other war. Many decisions involving the conduction of the war were politically driven on both the domestic and foreign fronts. Conversely United States’ politics was affected by the Korean War. The United States was involved in the economic recovery of Europe at the end of World War II. This assistance had the beginnings of anti-Russian communist intent. The Truman Doctrine promised U.S. aid to any country who sought protection from aggression, either externally or internally, by countries or factions within countries who espoused Communism....

5Jan

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North Korea, USA

The Real Reason Washington Is Worried About North Korea’s ICBM Test

NOVANEWS The Real Reason Washington Is Worried About North Korea’s ICBM Test. An Effective Self-Defense? With its ICBM test signaling its capability to retaliate against US aggression, North Korea has made clear that the United States’ seven decades long effort to topple its government may never come to fruition—a blow against US despotism, and an advance for peace, and for democracy on a world scale By Stephen Gowans What's Left This article first appeared on GR in July 2017. A number of countries have recently tested ballistic or cruise missiles and a handful, not least Russia and China, possess nuclear-tipped ICBMs capable of striking the United States. And yet the missiles and nuclear weapons program of only one of these countries, North Korea, arouses consternation in Washin...

4Jan

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North Korea, USA

Trump Threatens N.Korea with Nuclear War

NOVANEWS Trump Threatens North Korea with Nuclear War. My Nuclear Button is Bigger and it Works By Peter Symonds World Socialist Web Site The Trump administration has begun the year with an open and reckless threat of nuclear war against North Korea—a conflict that would inevitably drag in other nuclear-armed powers, with catastrophic consequences for the world. In a New Year’s speech, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un offered talks with South Korea to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula but warned the US he was ready to defend North Korea. The entire US mainland, he declared, was “within the range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office.” US President Donald Trump fired off a derogatory and provocative tweet: “Will someone from his ...

4Jan

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North Korea, USA

Trump Nuking North Korea Would “Make America Great Again”?

NOVANEWS Trump Nuking North Korea Would “Make America Great Again”? Trump is a Modern-day Machiavelli Who doesn’t Care about Morals and Ethics By Andrew Korybko Global Research If Trump is willing to accept the enormous loss of American life — which are the only people that he cares about as the US President — then turning the Korean Peninsula into Asia’s nuclear panhandle would indeed “Make America Great Again” by permanently handicapping its Russian & Chinese geostrategic competitors as well as its Japanese & South Korean economic ones. The war of words between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald J. Trump has suddenly taken a very foreboding turn, with both men now talking about “nuclear buttons” and openly hinting at the prospects of carrying out...

3Jan

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North Korea, South Korea

As North and South Korea Reciprocate Offers of Talks, Trump Responds: “I Too Have a Nuclear Button”

NOVANEWS While the U.S. has been cold toward Kim Jong Un's offer of Olympics talks with South Korea, Seoul has extended the hand of full-fledged diplomacy. By Telesur South Korea has responded to North Korean leader Kim Jong- un‘s diplomatic overture with an offer Tuesday to hold high-level talks between the countries on the border next week. On New Year’s Day, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un announced that the country will seek participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in South Korea between Feb. 9-25, foretelling 2018 as a “year of reconciliation” even as he noted that he now had a “nuclear button” on his desk, referring to the country’s now-powerful nuclear deterrence and weapons delivery system. In a Twitter message posted Tuesday night, U.S. Preside...

28Dec

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North Korea, USA

How Cheney and His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis

NOVANEWS By Gareth Porter, Truthout Former Vice President Dick Cheney gathers with other senior members of the US Government during remarks by former President George W. Bush about the North Korean missile launches in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington July 5, 2006. (Photo: Brooks Kraft LLC / Corbis via Getty Images). The Trump administration has been telling people for months that the crisis with North Korea is the result of North Korea's relentless pursuit of a nuclear threat to the US homeland and past North Korean cheating on diplomatic agreements. However, North Korea reached agreements with both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations that could have averted that threat, had they been completed. Instead, a group of Bush administration officials led by then...