Bradley K. Martin
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Did US raise a false flag on Nordstream blasts?
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said an odd thing on March 7 when TASS asked him to compare his version of the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipeline explosions (US Navy divers did it, he had reported Fe… → Read More
Dae-Sook Suh, Kim Il Sung’s biographer, dead at 90
Much used to be made of the fact that the man who became known as Kim Il Sung had been named Kim Song Ju at birth. Kim Il Sung was his nom de guerre, acquired in the 1930s in Manchuria. Some report… → Read More
Philippine-born pretenders pursue QAnon global ‘monarchy’
Following up a report that the self-crowned “Queen of Canada” is expanding her QAnon-inspired movement into the United States, Asia Times has noticed that → Read More
North Koreans: Watching foreign movies is ‘impure’
On a night drive from North Korea’s east coast to Pyongyang, the driver stopped at a floodlit guard post. A rare American visitor who was riding in the → Read More
Kim birthday brings joy to nobody in North Korea
Here's Kim Il Sung quoted in my book Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, as he recalls in his memoirs his days as a 14-year-old boarding student → Read More
Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice hits the big time: HBO
Yakuza and Asia Times go way back together, to the daily's very first day. The Japanese gangsters, then burrowing ever deeper into legitimate business, → Read More
If Putin has his way, Kim Jong Un may be next
"Win or lose, let’s have a war,” says the headline. "Residents Desperate for Sanctions Relief Support Regime’s Recent Missile Launches to Pressure US." → Read More
Truth-fiction strangeness contest: Russia as Magog
Little could be weirder than to be, as I am, the author of a financial/religious/political thriller called Nuclear Blues, watching the Ukraine conflict → Read More
Could a credit default swaps scam be Putin’s game?
What if Vladimir Putin’s protracted, blowing-hot-and-cold deployment of the Russian military to wartime footing against Ukraine has been motivated by other than geopolitical motive? What if Putin h… → Read More
China probably won’t hog 2022 electric car market
In the wake of surging electric vehicle (EV) sales in China, it might seem that the Chinese market has already won the “EV race” – meaning the race to → Read More
Omicron Christmas and a crappy New Year in Tokyo
As early as December 6, based on a grim worst-case scenario, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed strict measures to defeat the Omicron variant. → Read More
What to do about North Korea
I was reminded, when a researcher asked me to respond to a survey, that there was a story I'd been meaning to write. The survey questions were generally → Read More
Helluva time to sell a US-North-South Korea alliance
Talk about unfortunate timing. Just as we were about to witness the lightning total collapse of America's Afghan "ally" in the face of advances by the → Read More
Why Kim may be re-emphasizing guerrilla warfare
Remember the report, the month before last, saying that North Korea’s ruling party had backed off on paper from its commitment to encourage a revolution → Read More
Hungry North Korean soldiers ‘terrorize civilians’
Kim Jong Un's deemphasis of the military at a time of widespread food shortages has left many serving and recently discharged soldiers hungry enough to → Read More
The Pope going to Pyongyang: for what?
Try this on for curious juxtaposition: South Korea’s top spook is “working for a possible visit by Pope Francis to North Korea.” An account by a Seoul-based Roman Catholic publica… → Read More
Credible reports of a North Korean food crisis
"People are dying," warns Jiro Ishimaru of the current situation in North Korea. "People are dying for lack of food and medicine." The founder and chief → Read More
The great federal-debt Ponzi scheme
The discrepancy between raging inflation and soggy Treasury bond yields remains a cognitive dissonance in financial markets. There’s a simple explanation → Read More
Kim not exaggerating the food shortage; it’s bad
Kim Jong-un last week said publicly that North Korea is experiencing food shortages. "The people's food situation is now getting tense," he told senior → Read More
Japanese journalism giant Takashi Tachibana dies
Takashi Tachibana, whom many fellow journalists would rank as the best of his era in Japan, has died in Tokyo at age 81 after a long illness, his family → Read More