[The 4th Media Editor’s note: The following speech was made by Mr. Park Gilyeon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), on October 1, 2013, at the occasion of the…
Category: UN
The Likudists suddenly find that the whole world wants peace in the Middle East rather than war These are hard times for the Israeli right. Used to bullying the US – and especially its present,…
While the General Assembly was discussing the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is another matter altogether that concerned the diplomats: are the United States still the superpower they have claimed to be…
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem wages fresh blow at west at the UN meeting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has taken a fresh jab at the west and its Arab allies at the UN…
History shows that Israel is apt to create turmoil for American foreign policy when it doesn’t get its way. After President Barack Obama’s history-making telephone conversation with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, held while Rouhani was en…
There are several ways to interpret the Obama Administration’s August 31, 2013 decision to ask the US Congress to vote on a so-called«limited strike» against Syria. These interpretations need to be analyzed to see what the…
Right, the US either *let it happen* — or *made it happen* — to ‘justify’ illegal NSA spying and drone strikes in Africa to steal the oil. U.S. was warned about Kenya mall attack U.S. intelligence…
During his speech at the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Iran´t President Hassan Rouhani called for a world disarmament conference to establish a nuclear-free region in the Middle East and said, that…
Russia has collected sufficient evidence to implicate Syrian rebels in using chemical weapons near Aleppo on March 19. According to Foreign Minister Lavrov, sarin gas, that was unleashed against civilians outside the northern…
The Greater Middle East’s Greatest Rebuff to Uncle Sam What if the sole superpower on the planet makes its will known — repeatedly — and finds that no one is listening? Barely a decade ago, that would have seemed like a conundrum from some fantasy Earth in an alternate dimension. Now, it is increasingly a plain description of political life on our globe, especially in the Greater Middle East. In the future, the indecent haste with which Barack Obama sought cover under the umbrella unfurled by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Syrian chemical weapons crisis will be viewed as a watershed moment when it comes to America’s waning power in that region.