To clear away the myths that have grown up over the past 13 years about what is possible in terms of dealing with the North [Interview] US expert questions ‘provocation-negotiation-reward’ cycle of N. Korea Robert…
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The UN Sanctions Committee Must Make its Records Public The terms “transparency” and “accountability” are used with greater frequency at United Nations briefings than in practically any other venue. Yet, information on the…
… three times faster than through Suez Canal Putin is inching closer to his goal of turning Russia into a major transit route for trade between eastern Asia and Europe by prying open North…
Perception-framing and its Repercussions: The Soon-to-be-extinct Art of Americanization and Demonization in the Information Era This week the United States made unprecedented steps towards rapprochement with Iran. The US also maintained its friendship with…
A Message for Peace. Towards a Peace Agreement and the Withdrawal of US Troops from Korea* Introduction Armistice Day, 27 July 1953 is day of Remembrance for the people of Korea. It is a…
North Korea is gaining fame among international investors. The country experiences a rapid growth in the number of entities who are attracted by investment opportunities in the country. Investors in the DPRK unanimously agree, that a lasting…
The relationship between China and North Korea is a subject that attracts much discussion and speculation in today’s policy circles and media. The history of Sino–North Korean friendship is typically traced to the time of…
HAVANA (Reuters) – North Korea gave Cuba extensive military support in the 1980s, former President Fidel Castro said on Wednesday as the United Nations investigated a cargo of hidden Cuban arms discovered last…
President Truman said at the Peace Conference with Japan in San Francisco in Sept. 1951 that “It is a treaty that will work. It does not contain the seeds of another war. It is a…
Who is the Threat? North Korea or the United States? While the Western media portrays North Korea’s nuclear weapons program as a threat to Global Security, it fails to acknowledge that the US has being threatening North Korea with a nuclear attack for more than half a century. On July 27, 2013, Armistice Day, Koreans in the North and the South will be commemorating the end of the Korean war (1950-53). Unknown to the broader public, the US had envisaged the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea at the very outset of the Korean War in 1950. In the immediate wake of the war, the US deployed nuclear weapons in South Korea for use on a pre-emptive basis against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in violation of the July 1953 Armistice Agreement.