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Kim Yong Chol (right) former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un's closest aides, sits across from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a meeting today
DISCUSSIONS in New York between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and General Kim Yong Chol revive hopes of progress towards a reduction of tension and the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
Over recent weeks North Korea has made consistent attempts to keep discussions on track and to enhance confidence-building measures.
But there should be no illusions about the underlying threats to world peace — or that they result from a dangerous brinkmanship by the United States.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony
