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31Mar

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North Korea, USA

N.Korea slams Pompeo and says will ‘walk our way’

Mike Pompeo by Agence France-Presse North Korea on Monday warned it could cut off dialogue with the United States and slammed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for urging the international community to maintain sanctions on its regime. Pompeo last week told nations to “stay committed to applying diplomatic and economic pressure” over the North’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes while calling on the nuclear-armed state to return to talks. A string of weapons drills by Pyongyang has come during a prolonged hiatus in disarmament talks with the United States and despite recent overtures from Washington offering help to contain the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, an unnamed official in charge of negot...

24Mar

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North Korea, South Korea

North Korea fires multiple projectiles: South’s military

Nuclear-armed North Korea on Monday fired what Japan said appeared to be ballistic missiles, a week after a similar weapons test by Pyongyang.Analysts say the North has been continuing to refine its weapons capabilities during its long-stalled nuclear discussions with the US, which have been at a standstill since the collapse of the Hanoi summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump more than a year ago. The North “appeared to have carried out joint firing drills involving various types of multiple rocket launchers”, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, expressing “strong regret” over Pyongyang’s actions. Initially they said three projectiles were involved, before changing the description to “multiple”. The devices were fired northeastwards into the sea from S...

28Oct

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Trump Walks Away From North Korea Nuclear Talks

BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Ahistoric summit to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula ended without an agreement Thursday, after talks between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fell apart. Their second summit meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, failed after Kim Jong Un demanded that the U.S. lift all sanctions on North Korea in exchange for dismantling the Yongbyon enrichment facility — an important North Korean nuclear site. We speak with Christine Ahn, founder and executive director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War. Uncompromised, uncompromising news Get reliable, independent news and commentary delivered to your inbox every day.Your Email TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Hanoi, Vietnam, ...

1Oct

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North Korea, UN, USA

UN Works with Intelligence Contractors to Destabilize North Korea Dialogue

By William CRADDICK Just a few days after NBC News and National Public Radio (NPR) launched propaganda attempts to undermine the peace process between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the United Nations has waded into the fray with a new attempt to build a case for retaining sanctions that have proven to be a sticking point between the negotiation teams. Much like previous reports, the United Nation’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on North Korea utilized misleadingly interpreted satellite footage provided by private firms who have contractual connections to the CIA and Pentagon. The panel’s findings will ultimately be used to support policies that are aimed at playing on North Korean fears and make them more likely to withdraw or en...

21Jul

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Korea: In the Era of Peace, Dissolve the UN Command, A Relic of the Cold War

By Peoples' Party of South Korea Global Research On July 7, 1950, the United Nations Security Council recommended the creation of a US-led the unified command, but the United States referred to it as the United Nations Command using the name of the United Nations. As the UN Secretary-General has confirmed twice, the United Nations Command in Korea is not a subsidiary organ of the United Nations. However, the United Nations Command has the authority to start a war on the Korean peninsula without a UN Security Council resolution,to take over North Korean region, and to use Japanese bases and services without consulting with the Japanese government. Therefore, the United Nations Command in Korea is a dangerous war apparatus that can threaten the peace on the Korean penin...

30Jun

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Trump’s Dubious Outreach to North Korea

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research US relations with other countries, especially sovereign independent ones it doesn’t control, are long on unacceptable demands, woefully short on seeking cooperative relations. Two summits between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-unfailed to improve bilateral relations. They featured one-sided unacceptable US demands in return for empty promises — how Washington always deals with nations it wants transformed into vassal states. The Trump regime wants a North Korean client state bordering China. Its hardliners want the DPRK rendered defenseless by eliminating its nuclear deterrent and ballistic missiles. According to John Bolton earlier, “(w)e have very much in mind the Libya model from 2003, 2004. There are obviously differences...

18May

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Iran, North Korea, Russia, USA

USA: “$1 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Plan”. Take out Russia, Iran and North Korea?

NOVANEWS “The Doomsday Forum”: Senior Military, Nuclear Weapons Officials Convene… America’s “$1 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Plan”. Take out Russia, Iran and North Korea? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research Author’s Note This article was first published on July 8, 2016 America’s pre-emptive nuclear doctrine was firmly entrenched prior to Donald Trump’s accession to the White House. The use of nukes against North Korea has been on the drawing-board of the Pentagon for more than half a century. In June 2016 under the Obama administration, top military brass together with the CEOs of the weapons industry debated the deployment of nuclear weapons against Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. The event was intended to sensitize senior decision makers. The focus was on building a ...

3Apr

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Why the US-DPRK summit meeting in Hanoi failed

NOVANEWS The US arrived in Vietnam with no intention of negotiating anything, but cracks are again appearing between Trump and his advisers. Proletarian writers On 28 February 2019, a much-hyped summit meeting was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, between Donald Trump, representing the United States, and Kim Jong Un, representing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It had been hoped that as a result of this meeting some progress would be made towards normalising relations between the two countries, with the DPRK agreeing further to reduce the development of its nuclear capacity in return for some relief from the crippling sanctions that have been inflicted upon it by the US imperialist bullies and those who go along with them – either as allies or for fear of sanctions being i...

13Mar

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Women Must Be Central to Negotiating the US-Korea Peace Process

NOVANEWS Women peacemakers march in Paju, South Korea, after crossing the demilitarized zone on May 24, 2015, for the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament.STEPHEN WUNROW BY: Christine Ahn, When the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un ended abruptly in Hanoi two weeks ago, my heart sank. As a Korean-American, I have been working for nearly two decades to end the Korean War, which has kept Koreans living under the constant threat of war and devastated three generations of Korean families. I had traveled to Hanoi with a delegation of women peacebuilders to celebrate what many Korea experts anticipated — that the two leaders would declare an end to the Korean War. Instead, talks collapsed and now the Trump administr...

4Mar

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Korean American activist on Singapore Summit response

NOVANEWS By C. Kim C. Kim is a Korean American anti-war activist and organizer with the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). They posted the following status on their personal Facebook page. This is long, but I need to get it off my chest because I am seeing way too many well-meaning folks allowing their opposition to Trump to turn into inadvertent opposition to the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Know your history. Korea was colonized by Japan for 35 years. This was a brutally violent occupation. Ex: Koreans were flogged for speaking Korean. Over 100,000 Korean women were abducted and made to be sex slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army. Then, at the end of WWII, two young U.S. naval officers hastily and arbitrarily divided Korea using a small National Geogra...