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11Sep

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North Korea, USA

Why Trump Won’t Start a War with North Korea

NOVANEWS A War with North Korea Serves No Strategic Purpose By Mike Whitney CounterPunch Donald Trump isn’t going to start a war with North Korea. That’s just not going to happen. Not only does the United States not have the ground forces for such a massive operation but, more important, a war with the North would serve no strategic purpose at all. The US already has the arrangement it wants on the Peninsula. The South remains under US military occupation, the economic and banking systems have been successfully integrated into the US-dominated western system, and the strategically-located landmass in northeast Asia provides an essential platform for critical weapons systems that will be used to encircle and control fast-emerging rivals, China and Russia. So what would a war acco...

10Sep

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North Korea, Russia

There Will Be No New Korean War’: What Putin Knows That Western Pundits Don’t

NOVANEWS © Sputnik/ Michael Klimentyev At the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that there would not be another large-scale military conflict on the Korean peninsula. Russian political observer Anatoly Wasserman explains what it is that the Russian president knows that many observers don't. Addressing participants of the forum on Thursday, Putin said he believed all the parties involved in the standoff in the Korean peninsula are likely to "have enough common sense and understanding that they bear responsibility to the people in the region, and [that] we could solve this problem by diplomatic means." "Like my South Korean counterpart, I am sure that there will not be...

8Sep

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North Korea: “Annihilation”, “Massive Military Response” or Economic Warfare?

NOVANEWS Washington Contemplates a Total Freeze on Trade with North Korea, as well as Possible Sanctions Directed against China By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research Defense Secretary “Mad Dog” James Mattis confirmed at a Press Conference that the “North Korea threat to the US will be met with ‘massive military response'” while cautioning that “‘We are not looking for the annihilation of North Korea – we have many options.” (emphasis added). Mattis stated that president Trump “wanted to be briefed on each of the “many military options””: “Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam, or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming.” Annihilation was the objective of the Korean war (1950-53). ...

8Sep

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What the Media Isn’t Telling You About North Korea’s Missile Tests. The DPRK has No Plans to Nuke the West

NOVANEWS By Mike Whitney CounterPunch Here’s what the media isn’t telling you about North Korea’s recent missile tests. Last Monday, the DPRK fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan’s Hokkaido Island. The missile landed in the waters beyond the island harming neither people nor property. The media immediately condemned the test as a “bold and provocative act” that showed the North’s defiance of UN resolutions and “contempt for its neighbors.” President Trump sharply criticized the missile test saying: “Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table.” What the media failed to mention was that, for the last three weeks, Japan, S...

8Sep

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Trump Springs the Neocon Trap Again: North Korea’s ‘Test’ Is No Act of War

NOVANEWS Here we go again. There seems to be no end to the escalation of tensions between North Korea and the United States and its allies. By Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire Yesterday, Pyongyang’s state broadcaster came out declaring what it claims was another ‘successful test’, this time with a hydrogen bomb, which they say could be mounted on to their still as yet nonexistent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Seizing the moment, state news anchor Ri Chun Hee proudly announced that the test was a “perfect success,” and symbolises the country’s final step on the long road to attaining a “state nuclear force.” All very exciting. Still, there has been no independent verification of the claim, but why let that get in the way of a promising international security c...

8Sep

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The People of North Korea. Vilified Nation, What is the Truth

NOVANEWS The Western Media Does Not Speak of the People of North Korea. Photos From a Week in the DPRK By Eva Bartlett In Gaza Featured image: Children in Pyongyang Orphanage before performing drumming. August 29, 2017. From August 24-31, I visited the DPRK (North Korea) as part of a very small delegation interested in hearing from North Koreans themselves about their lives, the US sanctions and incessant war manouevres, their history and more. A sample of photos and videos, with more to follow soon. Please bear in mind that this country is among the most vilified on earth–along with Syria and formerly (now-destroyed) Libya, to name a few. Western media does not speak of North Korea’s people, nor of the amazing infrastructure, free housing and medical care, impressive agricultu...

8Sep

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The Beggars for War: The US, North Korea and Bankruptcy

NOVANEWS By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research The statement before members of the United Nations Security Council was both brash and high strung. The US ambassador had clearly decided that firm words were needed to understand the continuing military advances of North Korea. To do so, Nikki Haley, far from the sharpest tool in the US diplomatic toolbox, hit upon what Kim Jong-unwas doing: “begging for war.”[1] “Enough is enough,” she warned those gathered in the emergency session. “War is never something the United States wants. We don’t want it now. But our country’s patience is not unlimited.” Troubling then, that the United States should be encouraging the circumstances for that war to take place. Haley’s points suggest the exhaustion of options. They also cast a light on c...

8Sep

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Russia and China Versus the West on North Korea

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research Their positions are world’s apart – evident in Monday’s Security Council meeting on North Korea. Russia and China urge diplomacy to resolve a deepening crisis. They want tensions defused. They oppose counterproductive tougher sanctions, threats and saber rattling, encouraging enhanced development of North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Above all, they want war on the Korean peninsula avoided. They sensibly proposed a double-freeze. In return for Washington, South Korea and Japan halting their provocative military exercises Pyongyang believes are rehearsals for war, Russia and China call for suspension of the DPRK’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya warned that possible confro...

7Sep

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‘Even without nukes, military conflict with N. Korea will turn South into desert’

NOVANEWS Solving the Korean Peninsula crisis through diplomacy is in everyone’s interests, geopolitical experts have told RT, citing potential scenarios of South Korea being turned “into a desert,” or other states, not directly involved, being severely affected by a “stray missile.” If the current situation in East Asia is not resolved, a number of countries “will be living under a threat of a nuclear volcano erupting,” Russian diplomat and an expert in Asian studies, professor Georgy Toloraya told RT.com. “Everyone understands perfectly well that for North Korea, if it initiates an aggressive strike, a military conflict will mean a complete and immediate destruction, because no one can deny the US military might,” Toloraya said. “However, for the US, attempts to solve this problem ...

6Sep

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North Korean delegation arrives in Russia, to be joined shortly by South Korean President

NOVANEWS By Adam Garrie | The Duran Hours after the 9th annual BRICS summit wrapped up in Xieman, China, delegates from East and South East Asia have begun arriving in the Russian city of Vladivostok for the Eastern Economic Forum. The Forum is an event designed to enhance economic partnerships and cooperation between multiple Asian nations including Russia, China, Japan, Vietnam and the Korean states. This year’s summit occurs days after North Korea tested what is thought to be a hydrogen-weapon. Russia and China have both condemned the move and support UN sanctions against Pyongyang, but are equally opposed to further crippling unilateral sanctions from Washington. With many suspecting that North Korea would boycott the event, Russian officials have confirmed otherwise, stating that...