Alexander Mercuris
7th august, 2017
The latest UN Security Council resolution on the North Korea crisis shows that it is China’s approach which is prevailing.
Posts Tagged ‘North Korea’
China gets its way on North Korea despite resistance in Washington
Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2017
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Chinese soft power, North Korea, retreat from empire | Leave a Comment »
The real story on North Korea and its healthcare
Posted by smeddum on July 23, 2010
July 21, 2010
WhatsLeft
By Stephen Gowans
The United States has announced that it is adding a new tranche to the Himalaya of sanctions it has built up since 1950 against North Korea, sanctions I outlined in my last article Amnesty International botches blame for North Korea’s crumbling healthcare. Calling the new sanctions “measures” – perhaps to escape the disfavor the word has fallen into after sanctions wiped out the lives of half of million Iraqi children in the 1990s — US secretary of state Hillary Clinton purred reassuringly that the new “measures are not directed at the people of North Korea.” [1] She didn’t predict, however, whether they would add to the misery the previous umpteenth round of sanctions has already visited upon the lives of North Koreans, even if she says they aren’t directed at them, but we can be pretty sure they will. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nobel Peace Price winner scorns North Korean peace offer
Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2010
Stephen Gowans
12th January, 2010
North Korea recently let Washington know that it will dismantle its nuclear weapons if the United States signs a formal peace treaty ending the Korean War. This, offered Pyongyang, could be negotiated through bilateral talks between the United States and north Korea.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: North Korea, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
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