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4Mar

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North Korea, USA

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...

22Dec

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China, North Korea

US Provocation and North Korea: Pretext for War with China

NOVANEWS JAMES PETRAS Introduction: US Empire building on a world-scale began during and shortly after WWII. Washington intervened directly in the Chinese civil war (providing arms to Chiang Kai Shek’s army while the Red Army battled the Japanese), backed France’s re-colonization war against the Viet Minh in Indo-China and installed Japanese imperial collaborator-puppet regimes in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. While empire building took place with starts and stops, advances and defeats, the strategic goal remained the same: to prevent the establishment of independent communist or secular-nationalist governments and to impose vassal regimes compliant to US interests. Bloody wars and coups (’regime changes’) were the weapons of choice. Defeated European colonial regimes were replac...

17Dec

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South Korean conservatives charge prosecutorial abuse in death of former security chief

NOVANEWS by World Tribune Following the Dec. 7 suicide of former Defense Security Command (DSC) chief Lt. Gen. Lee Jae-Su, conservatives in South Korea are calling on the liberal Moon Jae-In government to cease what they say is a “witch hunt” targeting political figures from the previous government. Lee was found dead in the lobby of a 13-story office building on Dec. 7. Police initially concluded he leaped to his death. The funeral hall for Lee Jae-Su, former chief of now-disbanded Defense Security Command. / Yonhap The Korea Times reported that Lee committed suicide “apparently due to pressure from an investigation” in which he “was questioned over allegations that he abused his power to conduct illegal surveillance of bereaved families of the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster.” The fer...

18Nov

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North Korea, South Korea

Deception in North Korea? Nope, But a New Flavor of Neocon

NOVANEWS By Peter Van Buren | Medium What is the state of diplomacy on the Korean peninsula? Are we again heading toward the lip of war, or is progress being made at an expected pace? Are there Asian Neocons fanning the flames for conflict in Pyongyang much as others did with Baghdad? A year ago, in November 2017, John Brennan estimated the chance of a war with North Korea at 20 to 25 percent. Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said the odds were 50/50. The New York Times claimed we were “slouching toward war” with the North, on a “collision course.” National security adviser HR McMaster said North Korea represented “the greatest immediate threat to the United States” and that the potential for war with the communist nation grew each day. The US lacked an ambas...

15Nov

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North Korea, South Korea

South Korea rejects report on North’s ‘undeclared missile sites’

NOVANEWS South Korea has dismissed a new report by a United States-based think tank that accused North Korea of being engaged in “deception” based on purported commercial satellite images that it said showed a number of “undeclared missile operating bases” inside the country. The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) claimed in a report on Monday that it had identified at least 13 of an estimated 20 undeclared missile operating bases according to new commercial satellite images. “These missile operating bases, which can be used for all classes of ballistic missile from short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) up to and including intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), would presumably have to be subject to declaration, verification, and dismantlement in any...

20Sep

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North Korea, South Korea

Korean defense chiefs sign ‘military pact’ after Kim & Moon adopt denuclearization roadmap

NOVANEWS South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have signed a joint statement following their bilateral talks in Pyongyang. The countries’ defense chiefs have meanwhile signed a separate military pact. As part of the military agreement, the neighbors will halt border drills from November 1, Yonhap reports. South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo and North Korea’s No Kwang-chol also agreed to stop military flights in the vicinity of the demarcation line. In addition, the agreement envisions setting up a buffer zone in the Yellow Sea and suspending maritime drills. As a clear sign of mutual trust, the Pyongyang military agreement also calls for the withdrawal of soldiers from the demilitarized zone and disarming the servicemen keeping watch at Panmun...

20Sep

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‘The Era of no war has started:’ Koreas reach new agreements

NOVANEWS The two Koreas have agreed to take further steps toward peace following a one-on-one meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is on his first ever visit to Pyongyang. The two leaders issued a joint statement at the end of the second day of their summit in the North Korean capital on Wednesday, agreeing to take a step closer to peace by turning the Korean Peninsula into a “land of peace without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats.” “The era of no war has started,” Moon said at a joint press conference with Kim after issuing the statement. “Today, the North and South decided to remove all threats from the entire Korean Peninsula.” He said that Kim “agreed to permanently close the Tongchang-ri missile engine test site ...

20Sep

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

US Must ‘Show Commitment’ to Peace Talks with North Korea

NOVANEWS The Trump administration needs to take a page from North Korea’s playbook and show some type of commitment to peace that amounts to more than just suspended war games, Simone Chun, fellow at the Korea Policy Institute and member of the Korean Peace Network, told Sputnik. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in marked their third meeting on Tuesday. Moon’s three-day visit to Pyongyang is expected to cover talks on the North’s continued denuclearization and the rebooting of dialogue between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the US. The pair previously met at the border village of Panmunjom on two different occasions in April and later in May of this year. Chun told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear on Tuesday that the ...

29Aug

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Are Trump Regime Hardliners Sabotaging US -North Korea Talks?

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research Note to readers: please click the share buttons above Washington can never be trusted. Its promises are consistently broken. Accepting US pledges at face value is hazardous. Washington has been in a state of undeclared war on the DPRK since adoption of the uneasy 1953 armistice. What’s going on post-mid-June Kim Jong-Un/Trump summit talks is reminiscent of how US/DPRK relations unravelled earlier. In 1994, US/North Korean talks were held. An Agreed Framework was signed. Pyongyang agreed to replace its nuclear power plant program with a light water nuclear reactor, along with steps toward normalizing relations with Washington. The Clinton regime agreed to build two light-water reactors by 2003. It promised to supply Pyongyang with 500...

27Aug

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The 'Ultimate Diversionary Tactic': Wag-the-Dog Concerns Emerge as Trump Cancels Pompeo's N Korea Trip

NOVANEWS "This will be the first of many efforts by Trump to distract attention from the legal hurricane that is gathering force around him." by: Jake Johnson Mike Pompeo shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a 2018 East weekend trip. (Photo: White House via AP) In a move that triggered fresh recognition of the power President Donald Trump possesses to ratchet up tensions—or even start a war—with a foreign adversary in order to distract from the "legal hurricane" that now engulfs his administration, Trump announced on Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be visiting North Korea for scheduled high-level talks. "I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because ...