Tag Archives: North Korea

Great backgrounder. Apparently, Dennis Rodman was a lot more important in bringing the Trump-Kim summit about that most people realize or the media and establishment are willing to admit. The article also provides an inside view of North Korea that gives the lie to Western propaganda, as well as exposing the US media attempt to destroy Rodman personally.Zero Anthropology“One Day This Door is Going to Open”: A Review of “Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang” (Documentary) Maximilian C....

Good summary with timeline. Project SyndicateWhat Sank the Kim-Trump Summit?Ramesh Thakur, a former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, is emeritus professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and co-convenor of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Good points. The best part is in the final several paragraphs.The Unz Review Foreign Policy Insiders Try to Scuttle Trump-Kim Nukes Deal Mike Whitney

Shot across the bow of US?EcnsXi backs DPRK development China Daily

Well North Korea keeps saying "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" instead of "North Korea," and that has a specific meaning in North Korean parlance. That is dislodging the US nuclear [extended] deterrence from the region. So, we are not talking about the denuclearization of North Korea per se, but disarmament or dislodging the US presence from the region. These are two very different conceptual definitions....  Sputnik International Kim Worked Assiduously to Develop Nukes, He's...

Diplomatic ping-pong. China seeks a "win-win," while Washington regards geopolitics as a zero-sum game.Asia Times Beijing’s ‘win-win’ Korean Peninsula scenario Xuan Loc DoanSee alsoNot only Turkey.Geopolitics AlertTurkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians Jim Carey

Backgrounder.NEOWill China Give North Korea Up? Konstantin Asmolov, leading researcher at the Centre for Korean Studies at the Institute of the Far East RAS

Trump’s national-security officials are making many of the same arguments Bush’s did in 2003.... When you lose The Atlantic....The AtlanticThe North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar Kori Schake, fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University also The Trump administration is preparing to roll out its new National Security Strategy, a document meant to guide its national security policies. Yet a Trump administration staffer who reviewed a draft of the document—and shared key...

What's happening behind the scenes.The Vineyard of the SakerHow the DPRK riddle is freaking out the US establishmentThe Saker

The US Constitution stipulates that only Congress has the authority to declare war. But Article II of the same document also says the President has the power to unilaterally order military action when he determines that a foreign political entity poses a clear and present danger to the safety and security of the US. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said at the same hearing of Trump’s powers, “I think it would have to be fact-based and given consideration as to the circumstances around an...