by Daniel Pipes Washington Times July 14, 2019 “Why has Sweden become the North Korea of Europe?” That’s what a Dane semi-facetiously asked Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks at a conference I attended in 2014. Vilks unconvincingly muttered about Swedes’ partiality for consensus. Now, along comes Ryszard Legutko, a Polish professor of philosophy and leading politician, […]
President Trump says Kim Jong Un was honored to have him step across the border into North Korea. John Roberts reports from Seoul, South Korea.
The United States’ seizure, announced Thursday, of a North Korean vessel in Indonesia likely won’t affect already stalled denuclearization negotiations. That’s the assessment of Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation. “The U.S. legally seized the ship that Indonesia seized last year. Indonesia seized the ship for violation of U.N. […]
North Korea fired an unidentified projectile on Thursday, Reuters reported, citing South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff. The report comes less than a week after its leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of multiple rockets and missiles. The projectile was fired from North Korea’s northwest toward the east, the South’s JCS said in a […]
by Ted By Theodore ShoebatShinzo, the Prime Minister of Japan, just said that the days of dialogue with North Korea are over. Translation? Japan wants war. And its not just about North Korea, its about using the situation of North Korea as a pretext for reviving Japanese militarism. According to one report: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe […]
by Tyler Durden With each passing day and each new ICBM launch from a seemingly unhinged North Korean dictator, the fears of an attack on the U.S. mainland, though faint, increasingly weigh on the hearts and minds of Americans, particularly those in California. As The Guardian points out today, those fears have even prompted a group of California […]
(CNSNews.com) – Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told “Fox News Sunday” that he plans to draft sanctions against Pyongyang preventing countries who do business with them from doing business with the U.S. “We’ve already started with sanctions against North Korea, but I’m going to draft a sanctions package to send to the president for his strong […]
(CNSNews.com) – Kim Jong-un is “begging for war,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told the U.N. Security Council on Monday, urging it to adopt the “strongest possible” measures against North Korea, because “only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy.” Speaking at an emergency council session called in […]
By Ariel Natan PaskoWhy should Jews globally, and Israelis, care about what’s going on, way over there on the Korean peninsula? Because as good world citizens we should? Because the second largest Jewish community, after Israel, is being threatened in America? Because the North Koreans are Weapons of Mass Destruction proliferators? Because of their aiding […]
By Robert Laurie Here I thought (not really) we were on the brink of global nuclear devastation. The talking heads at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC were hyperventilating. At any second atomic fire would rain down upon the sweet, innocent, heartland of America. Why? Because Trump had “dangerously mishandled” the situation with North Korea. We […]
