Asia

The mass exodus of Christians from the Muslim world

(AP PHOTO/AMR NABIL) A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway.  Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recently said:… Read more →

China says US is destabilizing region by increasing presence in Asia

Photo: (AP/US NAVY) BEIJING –  In its latest account of national defense efforts, China said Tuesday that the United States is destabilizing the Asia-Pacific region by strengthening its military alliances and sending more ships, planes, and troops to the area. The U.S. policy known as the “pivot” to Asia runs counter to regional trends and “frequently makes the situation tenser,” the… Read more →

North Korea states ‘nuclear war is unavoidable’ as it declares first target will be Japan

Photo: Express NORTH KOREA has warned Japan that Tokyo would be the first target in the event of a war on the Korean Peninsula, as it increased threats of an attack. In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist country lashed out at Tokyo’s standing orders to destroy any missile heading toward Japan, threatening such… Read more →

In bitter irony for China, North Korea furthers U.S. strategic goals

Photo Credit: Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji (Reuters) – Nobody but Kim Jong-un knows what he hopes to achieve with his saber-rattling campaign, but the young North Korean leader probably didn’t set out to aid the United States, the sworn enemy of three generations of Kims, at the expense of his country’s main ally, China. In a boon for U.S. policy that can only add… Read more →

Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/Files (Reuters) – The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. “If you follow us, I’ll kill her,” the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city in central Myanmar. It was Thursday, March 21…. Read more →

North Korea warns military cleared to wage nuclear attack against US

South Korea says North Korea has moved a missile with “considerable range” to its east coast after an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean army warned the U.S. Wednesday that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using “smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear” weapons. South Korea’s defense minister said Thursday the missile moved is not capable of hitting… Read more →

Watch Out, World Bank: Here Comes the BRICS Bank

Photo: Alexander Joe/ AFP/ Getty Images Leaders of the five BRICS nations plan to create a development bank in a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias. The bank would use $50 billion of seed capital shared equally between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa but would undoubtedly be dominated by China. It would be the… Read more →

US deploys B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea

The U.S. military announced Thursday that two B-2 stealth bombers were sent to South Korea to participate in a training exercise, demonstrating the Pentagon’s commitment to defend its ally against threats from North Korea. The two B-2 Spirit bombers flew more than 6,500 miles from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to South Korea, dropping inert munitions before returning to the… Read more →

North Korea to cut all channels with South as “war may break out any time”

Photo Credit: Reuters/KCNA (Reuters) – Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at “any moment”, it said on Wednesday, days after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack. The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third… Read more →

South Korea and US begin military drills as North Korea threatens war

Photo: (AP) SEOUL, South Korea –  North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010. Enraged over the South’s joint military drills with the United States and recent U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang has piled threat on top of… Read more →