South Korea

Posted by: John Phoenix US imperialism and its minion, the South Korean regime, began large scale joint military exercises on 22 August 2022 – the first in four years.  These exercises, held along the border with the DPRK, included joint aircraft carrier strike drills and amphibious landing training, making them the largest-scale drills undertaken since 2018 at which time they were scaled down ahead of a summit to be held between the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, and the then US president, Donald Trump.  Coinciding with these drills, South Korea also staged a four-day civil defence exercise involving 480,000 people. Yoon Suk-yeol, the South Korean president, stated that “in order to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula, our watertight security posture must ...

US imperialism and its minion, the South Korean regime, began large scale joint military exercises on 22 August 2022 – the first in four years.  These exercises, held along the border with the DPRK, included joint aircraft carrier strike drills and amphibious landing training, making them the largest-scale drills undertaken since 2018 at which time they were scaled down ahead of a summit to be held between the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, and the then US president, Donald Trump.  Coinciding with these drills, South Korea also staged a four-day civil defence exercise involving 480,000 people. Yoon Suk-yeol, the South Korean president, stated that “in order to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula, our watertight security posture must serve as a basis”. Just the...

By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor Results of the Biden-Moon Summit and China’s Response by Konstantin Asmolov, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: There were no surprises that came for this meeting, other than the US giving its approval for S. Korea to build its own ICBMs. It seemed a strange gesture, particularly for South Korea, as that would require China to target them prior to being part of a US strike platform against China. It’s always better to watch nuclear missiles going over your head and disappearing into the horizon, and to learn where they struck in the m...