Opinion

The Songun-Based Revolutionary Line is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution

Kim Jong Il July 24, 2022

The Songun-Based Revolutionary Line is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution

These days the Korean revolution, guided by the Party, has been making a victorious advance under the banner of Songun. Thanks to the Songun-based politics pursued by our Party, the revolutionary armed forces have been incomparably strengthened, the defence line of the homeland consolidated and a great change...more

Sri Lanka’s ambassador urges his country’s largest creditors Asian Development Bank and World Bank to take bigger role in debt restructure

Li Xuanmin and Lin Xiaoyi July 20, 2022

Sri Lanka’s ambassador urges his country’s largest creditors Asian Development Bank and World Bank to take bigger role in debt restructure

Sri Lanka has not reached any initial agreement with the IMF on debt relief, and its largest creditors -the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank - are urged to come up with a package that would speed up its debt restructuring process, Sri Lanka's Ambassador to...more

10 years on, world views China as established power different from West: GT surveys

Yang Sheng, Cao Siqi and Zhang Changyue July 15, 2022

10 years on, world views China as established power different from West: GT surveys

Editor's Note: Ten years ago, when China had just become the second-largest economy in the world for three years, the world was still cautiously observing whether China could develop sustainably and some from the West were even predicting that the story of China's rise would end up with...more

Western governments should prioritize the interests of their own people, not their political careers: Former Italian Undersecretary

Left Review Online July 14, 2022

Western governments should prioritize the interests of their own people, not their political careers: Former Italian Undersecretary

Editor's Note: During the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of "the East is rising, and the West is declining" in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, particularly the US, plagued by internal woes, have sought the old path of passing...more

10 years on, with growing confidence, China’s Gen-Z finds the West no longer attractive: GT surveys

Yang Sheng, Cao Siqi and Zhang Changyue July 12, 2022

10 years on, with growing confidence, China’s Gen-Z finds the West no longer attractive: GT surveys

Editor's Note: When it comes to rapid domestic development and global ascendance, there is hardly any parallel to what China has achieved over the past decade. In a poll conducted by the Global Times Research Center in 2012, over half of foreign respondents viewed China as a "world...more

MCC and the “plots” behind it

Jeevan Jagat June 10, 2022

MCC and the “plots” behind it

The Millennium Challenge Corporation Agreement (MCC Agreement) was approved by the House of Representatives after 20 years of opposition and protest from our people. Unfortunately, our demonstrations failed to prevent this agreement from making Nepal a pawn in the US Indo-Pacific strategy and even a geopolitical "abandoned pawn"...more

India expected to maintain autonomy at upcoming Quad summit, still cautious about IPEF despite being initial signatory: Analysts

Deng Xiaoci and Wan Hengyi May 25, 2022

India expected to maintain autonomy at upcoming Quad summit, still cautious about IPEF despite being initial signatory: Analysts

India, a South Asian power that has shown significant differences in attitude toward Russia and other three members of the four-nation coalition Quad, is expected to maintain its autonomy and continues to be cautious about the US-proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) for the sake of its own interests...more

US monetary policy deepens global debt crisis in developing economies, including Sri Lanka

Maya Majueran May 25, 2022

US monetary policy deepens global debt crisis in developing economies, including Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is grappling with the deepest economic crisis it has ever seen. The country has defaulted on its $78 billion worth of payments to international creditors, the first time in its history since its independence. Its debt obligations for this year alone exceed $7 billion, yet Sri...more

Relentless push to expand NATO represents US’ ill-fated attempt to restore a unipolar world

Andrey Kortunov May 25, 2022

Relentless push to expand NATO represents US’ ill-fated attempt to restore a unipolar world

The ninth enlargement of the NATO alliance is perhaps the most vivid illustration of the ongoing consolidation of the Collective West. A change in the political and military-strategic status of the two formerly neutral countries in Europe, Finland and Sweden, not only completely flips the geopolitical situation in...more

Nazism: UKraine’s Deadly Disease

Vyacheslav Tetekin, Dr.Sc. (History) April 15, 2022

Nazism: UKraine’s Deadly Disease

Today, as the military operation in Ukraine goes on, it is becoming increasingly evident that the ideological basis of the present Ukrainian government is extreme nationalism, or rather, overt Neo-Nazism. It is the continuation of the pro-Fascist Bandera movement which took the side of Hitler’s Germany during its...more

Europe risks ending up in a militarized dynamic again: US scholar James Peck

Xia Wenxin April 13, 2022

Europe risks ending up in a militarized dynamic again: US scholar James Peck

Editor's Note: The escalated conflict between Russia and Ukraine didn't just expose problems between the two countries. It also revealed the realities of other major players in the global geopolitical arena: China, the US, and Europe… How will the ongoing Ukraine crisis end? What should Europe learn from it?...more

‘They were waiting for the moment to shut down RT America’ – Chris Hedges

Wang Wenwen April 13, 2022

‘They were waiting for the moment to shut down RT America’ – Chris Hedges

As the Ukraine conflict goes on, the US has escalated its censorship of speech. Among those censored is Chris Hedges (Hedges), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a former host for RT America. Coincidentally, he left the New York Times 17 years ago due to his vocal opposition to...more

India’s distancing from US over Ukraine crisis has deeper implications

Martin Jacques April 12, 2022

India’s distancing from US over Ukraine crisis has deeper implications

The overwhelming assumption in the West is that the world, with a few exceptions, is strongly opposed to Russia's military actions in Ukraine. The West itself, including the great majority of Europe, seems to be of one voice in its condemnation. But worldwide the picture is rather more...more

Russia to become more geopolitically ‘Asian’ as Ukraine crisis drags on

Vladislav Gulevich April 11, 2022

Russia to become more geopolitically ‘Asian’ as Ukraine crisis drags on

The special military operation of the Russian army in Ukraine makes us think about the socio-cultural aftermath of this event that may influence Russian foreign policy and its geopolitical role in the world. Some experts say Russia will inevitably turn into a more "Asian" country as Europe almost...more

Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully

President Kim Il Sung April 10, 2022

Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully

Based on the noble ideals and principles laid down in the July 4 North-South Joint Statement, and taking into consideration the actual situation in our country in which different ideologies and social systems exist in north and south, we must seek the shortest and surest way to national...more