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Largest ever US-NATO naval war drills in Pacific a threat to both peace and marine life
Jun 25, 2022 22:02While the world's attention is focused on the crisis in Eastern Europe, half-way around the world, in the Pacific Ocean, competition/confrontation of the U.S. and NATO toward China and North Korea is taking an increasingly military turn. The US military's Indo-Pacific command headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai'i, Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC 2022, military war games, will have 38 ships from 26 countries, 4 submarines, 170 aircraft and 25,000 military personnel practicing naval war maneuvers.
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For peace with North Korea, Biden must end the US-South Korea military exercises
Feb 01, 2021 15:48Due to their scale and provocative nature, the annual U.S.-South Korea combined exercises have long been a trigger point for heightened military and political tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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US must commit to arms reduction if it wants North Korea to do so
Dec 31, 2020 09:35North Korea says the only way it will give up its nuclear weapons is if the U.S. “abandons its hostile policy,” — in other words, takes reciprocal steps toward arms reduction — but so far, Washington has made no moves nor indicated any intention of moving toward that goal.
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Time to call it quits in Korean peninsula
Jun 29, 2020 15:44The irony is that US wars and trade restrictions against other nations have backfired, dealing a major blow to the commercial interests of Western companies and investors. For example, the economic sanctions, military pressure, and intemperate threats against Pyongyang will equally prove counterproductive.
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With a quarter of the world’s population under US sanctions, countries appeal to UN to intervene
Apr 01, 2020 08:08The governments of China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela – all under sanctions from the United States – sent a joint statement to the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights and the Director-General of the World Health Organization calling for an end to the unilateral American economic blockade, as they are, “illegal and blatantly violate international law and the charter of the United Nations.”
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Dem candidates attack Trump's Korea policy – from the Right
Aug 01, 2019 09:46At the first US Democratic presidential debate, on June 27, Senator Kamala Harris called North Korea “a real threat in terms of its nuclear arsenal” and said President Donald Trump “embraces” the country’s Leader Kim Jong-un for the sake of a photo op.”
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The greatest wall of all
Mar 26, 2019 14:35The quixotic Donald Trump’s idiotic idea of erecting walls on the US border with Mexico to prevent the influx of what he claims illegal immigrants has been coupled with Trump’s wrong policies in other cases.
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Why the Hanoi summit failed
Mar 05, 2019 21:39The Hanoi Summit between North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump did not advance the national security of any of the countries in East Asia, the United States, or the world. The puzzle is why two leaders would travel so far and leave emptyhanded. Michael Haas, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai`i, has written an analysis on the reason behind failure of the recent Hanoi summit.
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America is determined to fight the world
Oct 09, 2018 15:42Boosted by its victory in the Cold War, the United States has allowed hubris to dominate its foreign-policy decision-making.
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Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions – the final demise of Dollar hegemony?
Aug 25, 2018 22:37Sanctions left and sanctions right. Financial mostly, taxes, tariffs, visas, travel bans – confiscation of foreign assets, import and export prohibitions and limitations; and also punishing those who do not respect sanctions dished out by Trump, alias the US of A, against friends of their enemies.