The Independent Newspaper at Wake Forest University Friday, September 17, 2021
President Donald Trump recently announced he will meet with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un. While a specific date for the meeting has yet to be decided, officials have said that it will happen by May. This is a major milestone for the two countries, as it marks the first […]
Incoming National Security Advisor John Bolton once wrote a book titled Surrender Is Not An Option. The hawkish former UN Ambassador is not one to spare quarter. President Trump’s newest appointee comes on the heels of Three Star General H.R. McMaster’s resignation from his post. McMaster and the President had […]
During the 2018 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea on February 9, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence elected to stay seated and not applaud the unified Korean team. The Vice President sat only a few feet away from Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of Kim Jong-un, […]
On Tuesday night President Trump gave his first State of the Union Address to Congress where he expressed that the state of our union is “strong” because the people of our nation are “strong”. In a speech that lasted for an hour and twenty-one minutes and had 115 applause lines, […]
On September 19, 2017, President Donald Trump spoke at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York for the first time as President. Unsurprisingly, a number of news sources had contrasting interpretations of his 41-minute address. President Trump opened his address with some positive domestic updates for […]
Just a few days ago, my dad called me to inform me of a special airing of a documentary regarding the Vietnam War. He then proceeded to impress upon me how serious an impact such a war had on every aspect of American lives. This got me to thinking about […]
North Korea recently conducted its fifth nuclear weapons test. This was the second nuclear detonation by North Korea this year alone and the September explosion was more than ten times stronger than North Korea’s first nuclear test. All five known tests are believed to have taken place close to or […]