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Global perspective: US-China tension may offer new opportunity for N. Korean diplomacy
April 12, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen in this file photo. (Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK), adopted a policy of parallel construction of economy and nuclear arsenal in March 2013, less than a year and a half after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. At that time, few observers expected the reclusive country s rapid advance in missile development four years later. Following its successful development of a large-scale rocket booster in March 2017, North Korea has test fired medium-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles one after another since May of that year. In November, Pyongyang launched the Hwasong-15 missile that is said to be capable of reaching the east coast of the United States. Kim Jong Un thus declared the completion of the nat
Cuba has the highest rate of recovered Covid-19 patients in the Americas
A health worker collects a sample for a COVID-19 test from a baby who arrived on a flight from Mexico at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. The airport received its first commercial flights in over 8 months, since the country locked down to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
(GRANMA) With the highest rate of patients recovered from Covid-19 in the Americas 94.2% as of March 20, according to the Ministry of Public Health and two of its five candidate vaccines in the final stage of clinical trials, Cuba is consolidating its national strategy to confront the pandemic, with results that were recognized by the President of Bolivia, Luis Arce.
Saturday, 13:48, 06/02/2021
VOV.VN - The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam has assigned Politburo member Vo Van Thuong to hold the post of the permanent member of the Party’s Secretariat of the new tenure.
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong (R) on February 6 hands over the Politburo’s decision to assign the new post to Vo Van Thuong
Thuong, 51, was re-elected to the Party’s Political Bureau at the freshly-concluded 13th National Party Congress in Hanoi.
He used to work as the First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Secretary of the Quang Ngai provincial Party Committee, and the Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.
February 6, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from John Riddell s Marxist Essays and Commentary The Communist International (or Comintern) was founded in Moscow in 1919, with the goal of helping to extend the socialist revolution that had taken place in Russia across Europe and around the world.
The Russian Communist (Bolshevik) party that had led in establishing Soviet power was respected in the International as a prime source of strategic and tactical guidance. Yet the Comintern’s statutes did not accord any primacy to the Russian Communist Party (RCP). Like other Comintern sections, the Russian party was answerable to the International’s world congresses.