Donald Trump welcomes Japan’s offer of mediation with Iran
Source: The Guardian President acknowledges Abe’s close links to Tehran and says US ‘would like to talk’ By Justin McCurry in Tokyo Donald Trump has said he would support Shinzo […]
Don’t let America turn North Korea into another Iraq
William M Arkin The news has taken on a theme: North Korea is only stringing the US along, and the controlled leaks feel very similar to what unfolded with Iraq […]
Crisis, Harmony & Faith – The Week in Review
The Economist commented earlier this week that “care for migrants is changing the world of religion”. The Waldensians, a Christian sect which was once under the persecution of the Catholic Church […]
Two Koreas to hold third summit of Kim, Moon next month No date announced yet
No date announced yet By Reuters – Aug 13,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This photo taken on April 27, shows North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un (left) shaking hands with South Korea’s […]
War-war and jaw-jaw
Jun 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Give the man a break. US President Donald Trump found out in Singapore that, as Churchill said, “Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War.” […]
Trump praises Kim on Fox & Friends: ‘I want my people to do the same’
President called North Korean leader a ‘strong head’ and said Obama had been ‘essentially ready to go to war’ with the country Martin Pengelly @MartinPengelly Fri 15 Jun 2018 An […]
North Korea’s disastrous economy is the logical endpoint of Trump’s protectionism. So what now?
History shows that autarkic impulses tend to be closely associated with authoritarianism and national aggression – so we need to think carefully about the implications of this summit in Singapore […]
Press review ‘And the winner is … Kim Jong-un’
By Thomas Stephens This content was published on June 12, 2018 US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un shake hands during the signing of a document after […]
Trump-Kim summit: president says US ‘will be stopping the war games’ – live
Donald Trump offers Kim Jong-un security guarantees in document signed by the two leaders Singapore summit: Kim Jong-un says ‘world will see major change’ What have Trump and Kim signed? […]
Trump-Kim Singapore summit: All the latest updates
US president and North Korean leader are set to meet on Tuesday in a landmark summit in Singapore. more on Singapore Kim-Trump meeting: More theatrics than substance?today Final preparations […]
Singapore Trump-Kim summit: Singapore hosting a potential watershed moment in world history
By Mubin Saadat 11 Jun 2018 For the first time, a sitting US President and a North Korean leader, representing two countries which have never seen eye to eye, will meet face to face, and the island nation of Singapore will host this historic event. Just weeks ago, when Kim and […]
Trump Kim summit: North Korea sets out its Singapore agenda
https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.19.5/iframe.html Media captionBig planes and jogging guards: Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have arrived in Singapore Kim Jong-un will discuss a “permanent… peace-keeping mechanism” with US President Donald Trump when […]
North Korea’s Kim arrives in Singapore for summit with Trump
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore, June 10, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. (Reuters Photo) North Korean leader […]
Madmen in authority
Jun 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Harold James PRINCETON — In The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes famously worried that, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”. Yet, even without […]
Trump says Singapore summit with Kim is back on
Source: CNN President Donald Trump said Friday he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore, a summit he previously canceled in a letter. Trump received a top-level visitor from North Korea on Friday who came bearing a letter from the country’s dictator Kim Jong […]
Kim Jong-un has ‘fixed will’ to meet Trump after surprise summit with President Moon Jae-in
Our Foreign Staff 27 May 2018 • South Korea said President Moon Jae-in met with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday inside the Demilitarised […]
North Korea REJECTS ‘Libya-style’ denuclearisation as World War 3 fears REIGNITE
NORTH Korea has rejected a Libya-style denuclearisation agreement in a move that will surely reignite World War 3 fears following a period of peace on the nation’s peninsula. By Joseph […]
North Korea threatens to CANCEL nuclear summit with Trump because it believes ‘provocative military ruckus’ of joint U.S.-South Korea drills are rehearsal for invasion
June 12 Singapore summit between Trump and Kim is suddenly in jeopardy North Korean government blames joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises Pyongyang sees the drills as a rehearsal for a […]
Historic summit
May 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The success of the summit held between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart President Kim Jong-un exceeded all optimistic expectations […]
The Inter-Korean Summit, in Summary
Apr 27, 2018 | (KOREA SUMMIT PRESS POOL/Getty Images) Highlights The highly symbolic meeting between the two Korean leaders produced a declaration with long-expected agreements on nonaggression, humanitarian exchanges, peace-building […]