Late last week, NBC News suggested North Korea increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons in recent months and now may be trying to hide this from the US as peace negotiations continue. But reporting by other outlets suggests this story may be another example of fake news. The stories, which report North Korean […]
On Tuesday, two leaders of countries that have been at each other’s throats for more than 70 years met and signed a document that seems to lead toward peace and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula – a U.S. foreign policy goal since it became evident the North Koreans were developing nuclear weapons. But North Korean […]
President Trump canceled the summit meeting with North Korea, and the North Koreans came crawling back – saying in less than a day they wanted to keep talking and continuing to pursue the meeting, June 12, in Singapore. But according to the mainstream media, this meant Trump was now in a weakened position to negotiate. […]
Donald Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the mainstream media is still wrapping its mind around it. CBS News, HuffPost and the Washington Post each published pieces mocking the nomination or otherwise condemning the idea. Presidents are known by one sentence, the CBS piece begins, quoting Clare Booth Luce of the Time magazine […]
It did not sit well with the Washington Post that President Trump made plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Kim Jong Un wants to be seen as Donald Trump’s equal. A meeting would do that,” read one headline on the Post website. “The North Koreans will go into this process with […]
New York Times reporter David Sanger appeared on CNN this week and praised North Korea’s “brilliance” in its negotiations with the United States in the past. Sanger made the point that they offered some concessions, but in the end, the West kowtowed to North Korea’s demands. It appears Sanger is correct, but to say that […]
For all the bleating about President Trump’s tweetstorms on North Korea, his strategy seems to be working. After decades of the U.S. watching North Korea build a nuclear arsenal for its homeland and a missile supply network for unsavory characters around the world, the president has decided to force the issue. The latest example came […]
President Trump’s belief that strong foreign policy is the best way to secure America has scared the left and its allies in the mainstream media. When Trump set North Korean leader Kim Jong Un straight on who would win a battle between the two countries, the media dutifully freaked out. “North Korean Leader Kim Jong […]
Even by many of his critics’ accounts, President Donald Trump’s Asia trip was largely a success. “During his first visit to Northeast Asia as president, [Trump] stayed on script, deepened relationships with his counterparts and succeeded in communicating the right combination of assurance regarding the United States’ commitment to its allies and resolve in the […]
President Trump has met with dozens of world leaders, signed hundreds of billions of dollars of trade deals and thrilled audiences throughout his Asia trip. But the top two news items out of his trip have been a tweet about North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and his remark that Vladimir Putin continued to deny Russian involvement […]