
Dr. Mark P. Barry
131.1K posts

Dr. Mark P. Barry
@DrMarkPBarry
Followed US-DPRK relations for 35+ years. Met Kim Il Sung in 1994; my NGO met Kim Jong Il in 2005. PhD, UVA. 📨 [email protected] 🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 ✎Migrated to Bsky🦋





again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state





Karoline Leavitt: "we had a very stupid and incompetent leader in this White House for four years who gave away many of our best weapons for nothing, for free, to another country very far away by the name of Ukraine." Honestly, the sheer heartlessness, ruthlessness, and cruelty of saying that while we are still under attack, trying to survive. While entire families are being killed in russian bombings due to a lack of air defense missiles, and when we barely survived last winter’s humanitarian catastrophe caused by russian strikes on our infrastructure. I don’t know... I’m just stunned.






"The boss is getting fed up. Some people around him warn him against going to war with Iran, but I think there is 90% chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks," one Trump adviser said








