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Has it been 50 years? Remembering the Tet, the Blue House raid and North Korea’s capture of the Pueblo

January 28, 2018
Tags: virginia beach, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, tet offensive, lunar new hear, viet cong, danang, hue, Saigon, pueblo, blue house raid, Jim Mattis
By World Tribune on January 23, 2018

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Donald Kirk

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia ― How quickly we forget. Memories, dates and events fade away, only to be revived on anniversaries. A lot of historical events are barely recalled.

I was in a country named “South” Vietnam 50 years ago when North Vietnamese and Viet  Read More 
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Running with the nuclear football: Is acting crazy the best way to deal with Kim Jong-Un?

October 13, 2017
Tags: Trump, Trumpster, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Peter Arnett, Earl Wheeler, COFRAM, DMZ, Korea, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Vietnam War. Khe Sanh, General MacArthur
October 12, 2017
Special to WorldTribune.com

By Donald Kirk

Donald Trump at times engages in such flights of rhetorical fancy that a lot of people think he’s crazy or anyway unpredictable.

How can you be sure of a president who talks about destroying North Korea, who holds out “the military option” ― but professes to  Read More 
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As Korean crisis looms, a Kissingeresque 'Peace-is-at-hand' fix is the wrong answer

February 12, 2015
Tags: Kissinger, John Negroponte, Paris peace, Rory Kennedy, "Last Days in Vietnam, " North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Le Duc Tho
As Korean crisis looms, a Kissingeresque ‘Peace-is-at-hand’ fix is the wrong answer
Special to WorldTribune.com
By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com
Comparisons between the Korean and Vietnam wars have always been misleading if not ridiculous, never more so than when Henry Kissinger, in a new documentary, “Last Days in Vietnam,” says that he  Read More 
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