North Korea

Trump, Moon discuss North Korea’s threat to scrap summit

Source: Dawn United States (US) President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday discussed North Korea’s recent threats to cancel its unprecedented summit with Washington, Seoul’s presidential office said. After weeks of warm words and diplomatic backslapping, Pyongyang abruptly threatened to pull out of the planned summit […]

Scatological Spying

Source: Dawn Nevertheless, Kim doesn’t commute with his commode because he’s one of those people who simply can’t use other people’s loos; the travelling toilet is actually for security reasons: Kim is concerned that foreign powers and hostile agencies are constantly trying to steal a sample of his stools in […]

A mean son of a bitch

Source AT My guess is that he was chosen precisely on that account. You have to be a mean son of a bitch to be a dictator in the Kim family mold. If, in fact, he’d been a secret reformer, Kim had time after his father’s 2011 death to show […]

Trump and Kim to hold historic first meeting

Source: ET  President Donald Trump has agreed to a historic first meeting with Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America’s high-stakes nuclear standoff with North Korea. Standing in front of the White House, South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong announced the first ever meeting between a US […]

North Korea, Myanmar in a sanctions-busting embrace

Source. Asia Times. The revelations of Myanmar’s continued missile-related imports from North Korea show that the two sides’ military relations are alive and well despite Naypyitaw’s repeated claims that they have been severed. They also underscore that Myanmar’s autonomous and powerful military, and not the civilian elected government, continues to […]