Page 10 - Changed World News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Pyongyang is likely to end up with fewer friends than before the pandemic. Despite having launched a terrible war and turned an entire nation into a totalitarian prison, during the 1960s the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea made a major push for international recognition. At the time the DPRK appeared to some as the more successful of the Koreas. Moreover, the world seemed filled with ideological friends, especially from the growing number of emerging nations experimenting with economic collectivism and political authoritarianism. Since then, however, the disastrous failure of sociali...

DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. (DFA) In a video message, Locsin commended Filipinos overseas for doing what they are best known for– “selfless service and gentle nurture so desperately needed” amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “During this pandemic, the Filipino diaspora has contributed much to the world in keeping besieged healthcare systems afloat, especially in the most advanced countries; in manning maritime vessels key to trade and commerce; and in running critical infrastructure of many countries,” he said. Part of the solution Locsin said Filipinos will surely be p...

U.S. officials long have treated diplomatic relations as a reward. It is not. It is the best means of dealing with other governments, friend and foe alike.

Antiwar.com Original Of course, the world would be a better place if the North did not possess nuclear weapons. But after roughly three decades and six U.S. presidents insisting that North Korea cannot, must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, it has them. Probably a lot of them – 60 is one common estimate. And a recent Rand Corporation/Asan Institute study figures that Pyongyang could end up with 200 weapons by the end of the decade, which would make it a significant secondary nuclear power. [The G-7 nevertheless expressed its commitment "to the goal of complete, verifiable and irreve...

South Korea Should Embrace Liberty in Confronting Pyongyang The government of one of the world’s most important and successful nations has exhibited a shocking fear of exposing its people to information freely available throughout most of the world. The Republic of Korea barely survived the Korean War, which ended 68 years ago. The ROK also barely survived the ensuing peace. The country was ravaged by war. Seoul changed hands four times. South Korean civilian casualties were in the hundreds of thousands. Destruction was widespread with massive numbers of people driven from their homes. An...