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Tag: North Korea
What happens if America stops underwriting world order?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Because there are bad guys and bullies out there, a muscular cop – however imperfect – brings a degree of reassurance
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The western media’s appalling embrace of North Korea
Reading Time: 4 minutes The international media is so blind in its disdain for Trump that they are whitewashing the crimes of one of the world’s most repressive regimes
West complicit in North Korea’s 21st-century slave trade
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hundreds of thousands of World Cup soccer fans will buy tickets to sit in stadiums being built in Russia and Qatar with slave labour