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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.
MIKE MARTIN surveys the regional opposition to US attempts to force the region into a military confrontation with China
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK