The Editor speaks: No Robin Hood v The Sheriff of Nottingham
We have another case today (published in iNews Briefs) of banking fraud. The story is headlined “Banks accused of rigging Canadian rate benchmark”. It involves “Nine large banks, including six from Canada”, who have been accused of “conspiring to rig…
Kim Jong Un’s 3 kids
The mysterious lives of the 3 kids who are believed to be Kim Jong Un’ By Michelle Mark From Business Insider North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is believed to have three children with his wife Ri Sol-ju. There are…
Pentagon: North Korea fired ICBM
From Newsmax The Pentagon says North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday Korea time. The missile traveled 2,800 miles and landed close to Japan and was the first test by Pyongyang since a missile fired over its neighbor…
Harvard: North Korea preparing smallpox, plague attacks
By James Morrison From Newsmax Aside from threatening nuclear war against the United States, North Korea is also suspected of secretly developing a vast biological-weapons program that could unleash fear and death in crowded cities, a Harvard University study warns….
IKEA is opening a store near the North Korean border
By Oliver Pechter, Business Insider Nordic In the midst of an ongoing crisis with a saber-rattling North Korea, Swedish furniture giant Ikea is opening a gigantic department store in South Korea, close to the border. This news was reported by Korea…
Here’s how the market responds when the US goes to war
By Mark Armbruster, CFA Institute From Business Insider The stock market hates uncertainty, and there is plenty of uncertainty with respect to the tensions over the latest round of North Korean missile tests. This post, originally published 13 September 2013, focused…
China has the tools to cripple North Korea’s economy — here’s why it won’t
By Joe Mcdonald, Associated Press From Business Insider BEIJING (AP) — China has the economic tools to pressure North Korea but fears pushing Kim Jong Un’s government so hard it collapses. Though China has long been the North’s main trading…
Nikki Haley to UN: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un ‘Begging for War’
From Newsmax U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Monday it was time for the U.N. Security Council to impose “the strongest possible measures” on North Korea over its sixth and largest nuclear test because “enough is…
US Navy ship and oil tanker collide near Singapore
From BBC Ten US Navy sailors are missing and five have been injured after a US destroyer and an oil tanker collided near Singapore, the Navy says. The guided missile destroyer USS John S McCain was sailing east of Singapore…
China and North Korea’s worst nightmare is coming true with US missile defenses in South Korea
By Alex Lockie From Business Insider In light of surging tensions between North Korea, its neighbors, and the US, South Korea has decided to deploy more powerful US missile defense batteries. South Korean President Moon Jae In, who had initially been…