Biden Must End Sanctions Against North Korea and Finally End the Korean War
Simone Chun, Truthout 21 May 21, Noam Chomsky recently argued that the Biden administration’s foreign policy remains committed to maintaining U.S. global hegemony through sanctions and nuclear weapons. Nowhere else in the world is this more evident than in the Korean Peninsula, where the U.S. is pressuring its “ally” South Korea into the front lines of a long-simmering confrontation with China, and where a nuclear standoff between the U.S. and an increasingly isolated North Korea remains a real possibility.
On the early morning of May 13, residents of the central farm town of Seongju, South Korea, joined in protest against the deployment of the latest battery of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in their backyard. Chained together to form a human barrier, they physically blocked the road to the nearby U.S. base. Two thousand South Korean police
Korea leans toward partially joining Quad
Posted : 2021-05-17 16:55
Updated : 2021-05-17 21:37
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, participates in a Quad summit remotely with Indo-Pacific nation leaders at the White House, Washington, D.C., March 12. Reuters-Yonhap
By Kang Seung-woo
Ahead of the summit between President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Joe Biden later this week, Korea appears to be leaning toward participating in the U.S.-led Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) partially, as the country is allegedly reviewing how to cooperate with the strategic forum s working groups in non-military sectors.
Given that the Quad has been regarded as a means to contain China, Korea has been reluctant to accept the U.S. s repeated calls to join, due to Beijing being Seoul s largest trading partner.
Quad is not Asian NATO, White House NSC senior director says
Posted : 2021-05-08 08:14
Updated : 2021-05-08 08:14
Edgard Kagan, a senior director on the National Security Council of the White House, speaks during an online forum, The Quad and Korea, held by the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies, Friday. Captured from live streaming
By Nam Hyun-woo
Edgard Kagan, a senior director on the National Security Council of the White House, said the U.S.-created Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is not a security alliance or an Asian NATO, defying the wide held view here that it is a platform designed to contain China.
Seoul trip loses appeal for Chinese leader
Posted : 2021-04-08 15:18
Updated : 2021-04-08 16:56
President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, Dec. 23, 2019. Korea Times file
By Kang Seung-woo
Despite the South Korean government s years-long efforts to contrive Chinese President Xi Jinping s visit to Seoul, chances of him traveling here before President Moon Jae-in leaves office next year are gradually diminishing, as Beijing seems to be intent on using the trip as a bargaining chip amid a deepening U.S.-Sino rivalry, while the visit itself is losing its charm for China due to a lack of benefits, according to diplomatic observers.