U.S. rejects reduction of maximum pressure on North Korea
Geostrategy-Direct Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 7 denied that the Trump administration had any plan or practice to reduce the maximum pressure on North Korea (more…)
Pompeo significantly toughens U.S. State Department’s stance on China
Geostrategy-Direct The newly-minted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking the U.S. State Department’s usually dovish and excessively conciliatory stance on China in a different direction, only weeks after (more…)
U.S. troops leave Seoul for new mega base, out of North Korean artillery range
Geostrategy-Direct For more than 7 decades, the U.S. military command in South Korea has called the Yongsan Garrison in the center of the densely populated capital city of Seoul (more…)
Amid tensions and uncertainty, Japan buys more U.S. missile defense radars
Geostrategy-Direct The Japanese government has purchased two new sets of the expensive ground-based Aegis Ashore radar system for its multi-billion dollar missile defense system against North Korea and China. (more…)
China escalates use of illegal laser ‘dazzlers’ against U.S. military pilots
Geostrategy-Direct The Pentagon is alarmed by China’s rapid increase in the use of weaponized laser devices to attack low-flying American military aircraft in the East China Sea. In May, (more…)
Trump authorizes continued ‘maximum pressure’ on North Korea
Geostrategy-Direct Ten days after his historic “good feeling” summit with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Un in Singapore, President Donald Trump on June 22 issued a statement authorizing continuing tough (more…)
Cambodia rapidly rising as another Chinese-sponsored rogue state
Geostrategy-Direct The Iranians are notorious for sponsoring Islamic terrorists throughout the Middle East. China is however outdoing Iran in sponsoring rogue regimes such as North Korea throughout the Pacific (more…)
Japan poll finds deep skepticism on North Korea; Abe seeks Kim meeting
Geostrategy-Direct A whopping 77.6 percent of Japanese do not believe a complete denuclearization would happen in the Korean Peninsula, according to a latest Kyodo News Service nation-wide poll conducted (more…)
Trump terms cancellation of joint US-ROK ‘war games’ temporary
Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump on June 17 made it very clear that the cancellation of joint US-ROK military exercises is only meant to be temporary not permanent and as (more…)