by WorldTribune Staff, September 7, 2025 Real World News During the massive military parade in Beijing on Sept. 3, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and invited guest Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing advances in medicine that will extend life expectancy with a focus on organ transplants. “Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2025 Real World News With the world media focused on Russia-Ukraine diplomacy, the key mover on the geopolitical world stage not represented at the White House on Aug. 18 is still Communist China. But another major wildcard which may have been discussed at the Alaska summit is North Korea which […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2025 Real World News Can America’s alliance with South Korea survive one of the most virulently anti-American leaders to ever hold the top office in Seoul? That question is about to be put to the test as South Korea’s leftist President Lee Jae-Myung heads to Washington, D.C. on Aug. […]
FPI / August 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the late spring, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been preparing for its major military coercive exercise on Sept. 3rd marking with its massive military parade the 80th anniversary of “the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance […]
Special to WorldTribune Robert Morton, August 6, 1978 [Forty-seven years before the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a Tokyo-based correspondent visited the family and neighbors of former journalist Yuji Yokoyama and filed this report.] HIROSHIMA, Japan — Thirty-three years ago today, this city experienced hell as it had never been experienced […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2025 Real World News Why does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regard the conquest of Taiwan as essential to its quest for global dominance? That the regime sees the island nation and democracy as an existential threat is poorly understood outside of the mainland and China-focused think tanks, an analyst […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The visit to Asia by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exposed one reality that many people did not realize: The United States cannot count on its ally, the Republic of Korea, for support if war breaks out in the Taiwan Straits. The United States, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The assassination of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, deprived the Asia-Pacific region of a statesman whose greatest legacy is that of a staunch foe of China and North Korea. Americans may remember him as pro-American, an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The insistence of a pair of brothers on scattering hundreds of thousands of leaflets from balloons fired over North Korea confronts the South with tough questions. Is it worth upsetting North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and his sister, Kim Yo-Jong, knowing the negative effects the leaflets are […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk A detail generally overlooked in all we’ve been reading about the misfired Iranian missile that brought down the Ukraine airliner with 176 people aboard: It was almost certainly made in North Korea and sold to Iran or made in Iran from a North Korean design and technology. The relationship […]
