When it comes to hurling insults, Moscow is not a patch on Pyongyang

by Rashmee

Posted on June 18, 2022


When it comes to insults, the Russians could do worse than take classes  from the …

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Platinum Jubilee and the ‘pong of Pyongyang’

by Rashmee

Posted on June 4, 2022


Midway through the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, someone mentioned the distinct “pong of Pyongyang“.…

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Barbary wars V 2.0 against cyber-piracy?

by Rashmee

Posted on June 9, 2021


/ TAKE UP ONE IDEA US officials say they have recovered $2.3 million – more …

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For now, Trump-Iran talks are about talking

by Rashmee

Posted on September 1, 2019 / The Arab Weekly


Chances are the Iranians won’t be as wily — and as smart — as North …

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If you doubted there’s no globocop any more, read this

by Rashmee

Posted on August 11, 2019


No one’s paying any particular attention to what the US says or thinks about anything …

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John Bolton’s trip to Mongolia was not like being sent to the Gulag. Here’s why

by Rashmee

Posted on July 4, 2019


John Bolton, President Trump’s National Security Advisor, generally gets a bad press as a hawkish …

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What’s a tough guy like Donald Trump to do?

by Rashmee

Posted on May 13, 2019


North Korea, Iran and Venezuela are misbehaving – truly and terribly. Kim Jong Un, Hassan …

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Nearly half of North Korea’s population needs humanitarian aid. But the missile programme goes on

by Rashmee

Posted on March 8, 2019


How do we know North Korea had its worst food harvest in more than a …

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Things Mr Trump and Mr Kim never discussed

by Rashmee

Posted on March 1, 2019


Even before Donald Trump met North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for the second time, it …

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The Trump-Kim Show, Season 2, Day 2

by Rashmee

Posted on February 28, 2019


What was the point of Donald Trump meeting Kim Jong Un twice in two years? …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK