US-North Korea Archives

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...

The Dubious Story of the Murder of Kim Jong-nam, Brother of DPRK Leader Kim Jong-un

NOVANEWS By Stansfield Smith In the West, even among people who consider themselves not susceptible to government-corporate media propaganda, any wild story about North Korea can be taken as credible. We should ask ourselves why that is the case, given what we know about the history of government and media fabrications, often related to gaining our acquiescence to a new war. The corporate media reports North Korean agents murdered Kim Jong Nam with a banned chemical weapon VX. They fail to add that the US government is not a signatory to the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. They rarely note the Malaysian police investigating the case have not actually said North Korea is connected to his death. The story of his death or murder raises a number of serious questions. North Kore...

US-North Korean Relations in a Time of Change

NOVANEWS By Gregory Elich The months ahead may reveal the direction that U.S.-North Korean relations will take under the Trump administration. After eight years of ‘strategic patience’ and the Rebalance to Asia, those relations now stand at their lowest point in decades. Many foreign policy elites are expressing frustration over Washington’s failure to impose its will on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). There are increasing calls for a change in policy, but what kind of change do they have in mind? We may be at the point of a major transition. President Trump has given mixed signals on North Korea, ranging from saying he is open to dialogue, to insisting that North Korea cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons and that he could solve the dispute with a single cal...