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North Korea would reconsider its participation in the historical Pyongyang-Washington summit in Singapore planned for June 12,  the country’s state-run news agency KCNA reported on May 16. According to a press statement of North Korean First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un stated that its country isn’t interested in any negotiations that envisage only unilateral denuclearization without guarantees. Kim Jong Un criticized the “so-called Libya mode of nuclear abandonment” as this move hadn’t been an “expression of intention to address the issue through dialogue.” “It is essentially a manifestation of awfully sinister move to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq which had been collapsed due to yielding the whole of their countries to big powers,” the statement reads. “It is absolutely absurd to dare compare the DPRK, a nuclear weapon state, to Libya which had been at the initial stage of nuclear ...

ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGEL EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY On May 15, a spokeswoman for the US Department of State Heather Nauert  described Kiev’s raids  on offices of Russian news agencies as a legitimate fight against “Russian propaganda.” “We understand that Ukraine, like a lot of other countries, has been concerned about intense propaganda,” Nauert told journalists during the press briefing. “Goodness, when we talk with a lot of our allies and partners overseas, they certainly have fallen victim and understand the influence and the reach of Russian propaganda. So we do understand Ukraine’s concerns about that.” On May 15, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) raided the offices of Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti and TV channel RT and detained Kirill Vyshynsky, who heads the Ukrainian bureau of RIA Novosti, and some other journalists, whom are now being questioned by security forces. General Prosecutor of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko justified the raids calling...

Written by  Prof Michel Chossudovsky ; Originally appeared at  Global Research I extend my greetings to the  Korea International Peace Forum (KIPF) .  My thoughts are with the people of Korea in their quest for peace, unification and national sovereignty. The pathbreaking April 27  Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula  signed by  Chairman Kim Jong-un  and  President Moon Jae-in  constitutes an expression of solidarity and commitment. It reaffirms that there is only one Korean Nation. It lays the groundwork for cooperation, reunification and demilitarization of the Korean peninsula. While the inter-Korean dialogue initiated prior to the winter Olympic games has set the stage for an era of cooperation and reconciliation between North and South, it does in in itself ensure the U.S. demilitarization of the Korean peninsula. U.S. Foreign Policy is based on the Art of Deception ...