New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
While the Biden administration continues to promote its tired mix of sanctions and incentives to force North Korea to disarm, a coalition of women’s peace groups is calling on the US government to try what no American leader has done…
Spreading disinformation on North Korea’s satellite launch facility is a new low. So I got some answers about the site from 38 North. On Tuesday and Wednesday, NBC Nightly News broadcast a story by Andrea Mitchell making lurid allegations that…
Just posted at The Nation: “The Trump-Kim Talks Ended Abruptly—but Negotiations Will Continue.” I wrote this from DC after staying up all night watching Trump announce the failure of this go-round with the DPRK. My colleague Kathleen Richards reported from…
My interview with The Real News On Friday, I spoke to Aaron Mate of The Real News in Baltimore about this week’s agreement by the ROK, the DPRK and the UN Command to remove guard posts along the DMZ. I noted…
In a surprise development, the Pentagon just announced it was suspending the next round of military exercises with South Korea to give diplomacy a chance to work. This comes after days of acrimony between the Trump and Moon administrations over…
Who says North and South Korea can’t get along? This strikes me as very significant. Yonhap: SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) — The two Koreas are wrapping up their demining operations in part of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to carry out…
Over at Harper’s yesterday, Washington journalist Max Blumenthal broke a major story about the Trump administration and North Korea. His scoop was buried in a typically gutsy story from Max about UN Ambassador (and major neocon) Nikki Haley and a speech she…
In the midst of the massive pushback in Washington against the Trump administration’s denuclearization talks with Kim Jong Un, a former US intelligence analyst did some truth-telling about past negotiations. “The Agreed Framework did not fail; it was murdered. It…
I got a surprise today. North Korea’s Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) cited my documents on the 1980 Kwangju Uprising in South Korea. The citation appeared in a story looking back at the event and exploring its significance in recent…
