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Trump Vows to End “Provocative” War Games on Korean Peninsula After Historic Summit with Kim Jong-un Here’s the interview I did last night on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
The Shorrock Files
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
Tim Shorrock
Tim Shorrock is a Washington-based investigative journalist who grew up in Japan and South Korea. He is the author of SPIES FOR HIRE: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence, published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster (see him talking about his book here). Over the past 35 years, his work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, including The Nation, Salon, Daily Beast, Mother Jones, The Progressive, Foreign Policy in Focus and Asia Times. He also appears frequently on the radio as a commentator on intelligence, contracting, foreign policy, East Asia and North and South Korea. He has been interviewed on Democracy Now, NPR’s Fresh Air, HuffPostLive and many other outlets.
The moment Trump and Kim shook hands
Here was the scene a few moments ago in the Singapore International Media Center when Trump and Kim met for the first time. “I feel really great,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s gonna be a great discussion and I think tremendous…
What to expect at the Trump-Kim summit
My first video report from Singapore, produced with Newstapa This is what resulted from a day of reporting and running around in Singapore with my Newstapa colleague Nambeon Kim. About two hours after we filmed this, I attended a White House…
The Nation and Newstapa Get a Seat at the Table
Your correspondent and Nambeon Kim now have their credentials! First White House briefing at 5pm today. Some pics from both press rooms – 2,500 reporters are registered! Because there’s no story yet, reporters are interviewing other reporters. I just spoke to…
Good Morning, Singapore!
One day to go until summit time Hello faithful readers and supporters! Here’s the view from my hotel window this morning as I prepare to scope out the scene to cover the Trump-Kim Summit tomorrow. First stop will be…
A big ‘no’ from Trump, then a big ‘yes’ from Korea
The Trump-Kim summit was off – then it was rescued by Moon Jae-in. It made for a week of ups and downs for the Korea Peace Process and a busy two days for Dispatch Korea. Let’s start with today’s news, via Hankyoreh: …
US activists denied travel to North Korea
The US State Department has denied special permits for travel to North Korea to two prominent American women mobilizing international support for the Korea peace process. Christine Ahn, the founder and international coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, an international coalition…
Presidential adviser Moon Chung-in on the DPRK’s warning to Trump and Bolton
On Wednesday, Moon Chung-in, a Korean academic and a key foreign policy adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, delivered an important policy speech in Seoul. Mostly, he expressed regret about the latest dispute between North and South and optimism…
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Korea Aerospace Industries under FBI scrutiny
This is a pretty big deal, posted tonight at the Washington Post: A California man who says he served as a translator last year for Michael Cohen and a South Korean aerospace firm that paid Cohen’s company $150,000 said Tuesday that FBI…
A citizen journalist in Gwangju spotted the F-22s
Earlier today: “A citizen took a picture of an F-22 flying in the skies over Gwangju this afternoon and posted it on an internet community page, which is apparently how it became known that the F-22 had arrived in South…
Another media freakout on North Korea (Updated)
Five days ago, after reading stories in the Korean press about the latest US-South Korean military exercises called “Max Thunder,” I tweeted out a warning that the strategic weapons being deployed might set off red flags in Pyongyang. I'm a…
How the U.S. prevented ROK retaliation in 2010 and what it could mean to the DPRK today
Here’s a blast from the past that could illuminate the future of US-North Korean relations. There’s been a lot of talk lately about how US troops in South Korea might fare after a peace agreement is signed between the US…
No Washington Consensus today at MSNBC
This morning, Christine Ahn of Women Cross DMZ and Joe Cirincione of Ploughshares both spoke eloquently about the President Moon-led peace process in Korea, surprisingly on Joy Reid’s show. Watch the interview here. Surprisingly, the most liberal of the networks has been…
DPRK invites the press for “on the spot” reporting on its nuclear test site
North Korean state media today announced that it will invite foreign reporters to observe the dismantling of its “northern nuclear test ground” under the mountain called Punggye-ri between May 23 and May 25, depending on the weather. Here’s the word…
New details on the US-North Korean intelligence connection
Hankyoreh has more details today about Kim Yong-chol, the former North Korean intelligence chief and Kim Jong Un’s key adviser on his talks with Trump. It is notable that Kim Yong-chol has emerged as Pompeo’s negotiating partner when the Workers’…
Director of CIA’s Korea Mission Center in Pyongyang with Pompeo
The CIA, as I’ve been saying for weeks, is running the show for Trump’s North Korea peace and denuclearization initiative, and its role is expanding as the date (June 12) for the Kim summit draws ever closer. Last night, just…
Korea Aerospace is buying influence on … “accounting standards”?
Some critical background on KAI’s $150K payment to Trump’s lawyer So how ridiculous is this? Here’s the story in the WSJ: The Avenatti memo also said Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. made a $150,000 payment to Mr. Cohen in November 2017. Korea Aerospace said it…
With intelligence leaks, the contractors are the culprits
This is the only article I ever published in the Washington Post. The only reason I got it in was because I first sent it to Dana Priest, one of the Post’s finest investigative reporters, who recommended it to her…
America is not an innocent bystander in Korea
I wrote this in 2017 as Trump’s Secretary of Defense James Mattis – soon to be fired by the bizarre former president – was visiting South Korea and Japan to prepare for what many saw as an inevitable war with…
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