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7Jun

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

Mystery “Grim Reaper” CIA Officer Thrust into Spotlight Ahead of Kim Summit

NOVANEWS By: Zero Hedge While President Donald Trump seems intent to make a deal with North Korea seemingly at any cost, the CIA has apparently deployed one of its most hawkish North Korea hands to be at the president’s side during the summit, allowing the intelligence community to rein in any of the president’s excesses as it angles for a historic diplomatic achievement. In a piece published late Wednesday, Bloomberg profiles Andrew Kim, a CIA officer who first came to prominence when he was photographed sitting alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during Pompeo’s first meeting with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. Source: Zero Hedge Kim has become an integral part of the White House’s North Korea team – a role that is unusual for an intelligence official. “It does seem unusual,” s...

7Jun

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

For Lasting Peace, President Moon Must Lead South Korea Out of America’s Orbit

NOVANEWS By Stuart Smallwood Antiwar.com Featured image: South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un embrace each other after releasing a joint statement at the truce village of Panmunjeom, Friday. / Korea Summit Press Pool It didn’t take much for the leaders of the two Koreas to put an end to the decades-long culture of crisis pervading the Korean Peninsula. With a phone call, a quick drive to the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone, and a public embrace, South Korean President Moon Jae-inand North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un emphasized the absurdity of the barrier wedged between a people with a common history, culture and language. It was the United States’ aversion to diplomacy that encouraged Moon and Kim into one another’s arms on M...

3Jun

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North Korea, South Korea, USA

Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula: A Blessing for South Korean People

NOVANEWS By Prof. Joseph H. Chung Global Research We have gone through, for the last three months, unusual experiences. We could admire the humanism in sports; we were touched by the beauty, the elegance and the professionalism of North Korean singers and dancers. We saw, through the Kim-Moon summit and the North-South exchange of musical groups, that the North-South blood tie was stronger than the North-South regime divide. We were hoping with all our mind and heart for the closing of the last pages of the Cold War. But we realized that the Pyongyang Wall was pretty high. We pray that the Singapore summit will make the Pyongyang Wall crumble, once and for all, as did the Berlin Wall. We have been, for the last three month, hearing and reading, in connection with the nuclear iss...

31May

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North Korea, South Korea

Onward Migration: Why Do North Korean Migrants Leave South Korea?

NOVANEWS BY JAY SONG “Houses of Parliament,” a series of oil paintings by Claude Monet (the one shown here is “Trouée de soleil dans le brouillard” or “Sunlight in the fog”), gives an impression of London in the distance. The UK, a preferred destination for many North Korean migrants, is also quite distant for those in Northeast Asia. | Image: Wikicommons For North Koreans considering a new life in South Korea, there are two basic and competing narratives: South Korea is the land of milk and honey, or it is a place of capitalist exploitation and class-based inequality (Sino-NK has studied discourse on the latter). Neither is completely true, but there are kernels of truth in both narratives. On the one hand, as a developing body of literature indicates, many North Korean migrants are s...

29May

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Credit Moon, Not Trump or Kim, for the Breakthrough With North Korea

NOVANEWS South Korea’s president has been planning his peace gambit for his entire life. If peace breaks out on the peninsula, he’ll deserve the bulk of the applause. By J. ALEX TARQUINIO SEOUL, South Korea—Last summer, South Korea’s new president, only two months into his term, announced sweeping new goals—including the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, inter-Korean industrial economic zones and traffic networks that he described as a“New Korean Peninsula Economic Map,” and a peace treaty. “The five-year plans for state affairs announced today will be the blueprint and compass for a new Korea,” Moon said. Few people outside of the country took much notice—Americans have been too busy debating whether their own president, Donald Trump, deserves credit for bringi...

28May

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North Korea, South Korea

Seventy Years After Korea's Division, Women Lead Push for Peace

NOVANEWS By Jon Letman Women representing South Korea and more than 16 other countries gathered this week in Seoul for the #WomenPeaceKorea symposium and Women's DMZ walk. (Photo: Jeehyun Kwon) When scores of Korean women representing a coalition of some 30 peace groups and NGOs entered South Korea's National Assembly on the banks of Seoul's Han River, they weren't alone. This week, the Korean peace makers were joined by an international delegation of women peace activists for a symposium focused on ending the Korean War. A women's peace walk along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is scheduled for May 26. When women participate in negotiations, the likelihood of achieving peace increases substantially and that peace lasts longer. For the fourth time since 2015, these activists gat...

27May

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Canada, North Korea, South Korea

Canada, the Corean Dispute and Foreign Policy Mythology

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler Repeat after me: Canada is seldom a force for good in the world, Canada is seldom a force for good in the world. Thomas Walkom’s “Canada should board Korean peace train” is yet another example of how the progressive end of the dominant media has been seduced by Canadian foreign policy mythology. The leftist Toronto Star columnist offers an astute analysis of what’s driving rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula. He points out that the two Koreas are moving the process forward and that Pyongyang believes “complete denuclearization” of the Peninsula includes the US forces in the region aiming nuclear weapons at it. But, Walkom’s column is cloaked in naivety about Canada’s role in the geopolitical hotspot. He ignores the international summit Ottawa and Washington orga...

27May

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South Korea

South Korean President Moons Bolton

NOVANEWS By Ray McGovern Thanks no doubt to his bellicose national security adviser John Bolton, President Donald Trump has now lost control of the movement toward peace between the two Koreas. Trump has put himself in a corner; he must now either reject — or, better, fire — Bolton, or face the prospect of wide war in the Far East, including the Chinese, with whom a mutual defense treaty with North Korea is still on the books. The visuals of the surprise meeting late yesterday (local time) between the top leaders of South Korea and North Korea pretty much tell the story. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in drove into the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), and Seoul quickly released a one-minute video of what, by all appearances, was an extremely warm encounter with Kim Ju...

18May

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Korean gambit

NOVANEWS http://argumenti.ru/society/2018/05/572774?typelink=openlink № 19(612) from 17.05.18 ["Arguments of the Week", Alexander Chuikov ] On June 12, Singapore will host the first ever summit of DPRK and US leaders. The parties, which are still on the verge of a nuclear conflict, have been able to come to the negotiating table. Unless, of course, the unpredictable Donald trump changes his mind. Perhaps the meeting will be the beginning of the unification of the two Koreas on the principle of "one country – two systems." And if Russia and China will only welcome such a debut on the Korean Peninsula, then Japan and a number of other South-Eastern "players" will do everything to prevent the process of unification. What pawns will be sacrificed? What Korean endgame will be formed on th...

24Apr

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On a Korean Peace Plan, The Role of the CIA. The Kim-Trump Summit, Will it Take Place? 'Video'

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Michael Welch What happened in the days leading up to the historic Kim-Moon summit on April 27th on the South side of at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)? A future meeting between Kim and Trump had been envisaged. But Trump now seems to have hesitations: President Donald Trump on Thursday morning suggested that some of the elements of his potential summit later this year with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are up in the air. “It could be that I walk out quickly, with respect, but it could be. It could be that maybe the meeting doesn’t even take place. Who knows?” … The President said in the past, North Korea-US relations were “very, very nasty you know with little Rocket Man and with the buttons.” But now, he said, “they want to me...