North Korea

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Incase anyone is watching:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090527/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear

[OverkillZJ]

Wow.

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I love how you cant find a spot of info about any of this on CNN

[beat1078]

I have other links but they won't work for you guys. They all say basically the same thing.

This is a snap from another article:

//UNCLAS//
Los Angeles Times
May 27, 2009
Pg. 1
Bond With N. Korea Is Reexamined In China
By Barbara Demick
BEIJING -- When is it time to dump an old friend who insists on behaving badly? The debate is raging in China.
North Korea's latest nuclear test raises the question of just how long the bonds forged between old communist allies will endure.
The test was conducted barely 50 miles from the Chinese border. The ground rumbled in northeast China, and some schools were evacuated because of fears of an earthquake.

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This seems to me like the Cuban Missile crisis all over again. Tensions will raise, threats will be made, everyone on high alert. I hope it ends the same way.

[Wrecker]

Wow just what we need a third war. I hope it can be resolved internationaly with out us being the police force of the world again.

[Deadman 94 xj]

"It is a laughable delusion for the United States to think that it can get us to kneel with sanctions," it said in an editorial. "We've been living under U.S. sanctions for decades, but have firmly safeguarded our ideology and system while moving our achievements forward. The U.S. sanctions policy toward North Korea is like striking a rock with a rotten egg."



...and the UN wants to reestablish talks. They were correct when the trib called it "The war of nerves".

[Bird_Flu]

This guy is a certified lunatic, I'm betting if him and his closest advisers were suddenly "not around anymore" then the rest of the current regime may be more willing to negotiate.



http://atlmalcontent.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/kim.jpg

[Deadman 94 xj]

LOL,

I was in Korea during the last World Cup soccer event. On their way to the event, a group of North Korean cheerleaders stopped their bus because of what they saw out side. It was a Banner of Kim hanging outside in the rain. They couldn't believe that the South Koreans had let his image be rained on. They took the banner down.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200802/200802140016.html

[BAD_GNR]

LOL,

I was in Korea during the last World Cup soccer event. On their way to the event, a group of North Korean cheerleaders stopped their bus because of what they saw out side. It was a Banner of Kim hanging outside in the rain. They couldn't believe that the South Koreans had let his image be rained on. They took the banner down.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200802/200802140016.html


Shouldn't it be ROR?

[Deadman 94 xj]

Shouldn't it be ROR?


Yes, it should have been ROR, ROR.

[beat1078]

South Korea raises threat level from 3 to 2!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/asia/28korea.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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Level 2 is the second highest level of vigilance and it is invoked when military officials fear “a grave threat” from the North, the defense officials said.


I bet all the GIs are on lock down over there. No more jucy girls and partying in the ville for them.

[beat1078]

More from the news front:

NKorea Appears To Be Testing Long-Range Missile
By Lara Jakes, Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says North Korea appears to be working on a long-range missile but it's not clear yet what they plan to do with it.
At a Manila news conference Monday with Philippines Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro Jr., Gates said there have been some signs that North Korea is preparing another long-range missile.
The reclusive communist regime tested a long-range missile in April, but other launches over the last week have been only short-range.
"But, says Gates, "at this point, it's not clear what they're going to do."
He says the threat posed by North Korea was one best tackled by partnering nations.
Gates is in the Philippines discussing the region's military and security issues

[beat1078]

Just a little article about the topic.
Figured that it was interesting; not headline news but still interesting to stay informed.

//UNCLAS//
June 23, 2009
Pg. 7
U.S. Keeps Close Eye On North Korean Ship
By Jay Solomon and Yochi J. Dreazen
The Pentagon continues to trail a North Korean cargo ship believed headed toward Myanmar, in part because U.S. officials worry that Pyongyang plans to transfer major weapons systems and possibly nuclear technologies to the repressive Southeast Asian country, current and former U.S. officials said.
North Korea has used Myanmar ports and airstrips to transfer arms and contraband to third countries, including Iran, these officials said. Myanmar's military government also has purchased on the open market technologies that are potentially usable in a nuclear program, and North Korean arms companies involved in the nuclear trade have become active in Myanmar, said U.S., Asian and United Nations officials.
North Korean workers, meanwhile, have aided Myanmar's military junta in building underground tunnels near the new capital city of Naypyitaw that could have military applications, say U.S. officials.
U.S. and U.N. officials said there could be nonmilitary reasons to explain Myanmar's actions, and they acknowledge there is no "smoking gun" to back fears of nuclear proliferation inside the Southeast Asian country. But U.S. and Asian diplomats draw strong similarities between the military governments in Pyongyang and Naypyitaw and their efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction as deterrents against U.S. power.
"Given North Korea's nuclear trade to Syria, its attempts to sell Scuds to Myanmar, and its ongoing sales of conventional arms, there's reason to be worried about a WMD relationship," said Michael Green, who tracked Myanmar as a top adviser to former President George W. Bush. In 2004, Myanmar's military junta was in negotiations to buy Scud missile parts from Pyongyang, but the Bush administration convinced Myanmar to back off.
Pentagon officials said Monday that the U.S. Navy continues to track a North Korean cargo ship, in an operation that could serve as a test case for U.N. sanctions enacted last month to try to choke off Pyongyang's weapons trade.
The cargo ship Kang Nam left North Korea on Wednesday and has been trailed by the USS John S. McCain heading south toward the Myanmar coast, according to Pentagon officials. A second U.S. destroyer, the USS McCampbell, is set to pick up the trail with the aid of a P-3 reconnaissance plane.
Pentagon officials said the guided-missile destroyers haven't been given orders to intercept the Kang Nam and hadn't requested permission to do so. "Right now, we're just watching," a Pentagon official said.
North Korea analysts said the cat-and-mouse game highlights a potential weakness in last month's U.N. Security Council resolution concerning North Korea. The measure only allows U.N. member states to inspect vessels with the consent of the nation whose flag the ship is flying. Since North Korea is unlikely to give such permission, U.S. officials acknowledge that they are largely powerless to stop and search the Kang Nam. The resolution also calls for ships seeking port services from U.N. member countries to be refused, but that is unlikely to come up in this case.
U.S. and Asian diplomats have voiced alarm about the growing military and trade relationship between North Korea and Myanmar. The two countries severed diplomatic ties in the 1980s after North Korean agents assassinated South Korean ministers on a state visit. But Myanmar formally opened an embassy in Pyongyang last year.
In August 2008, Washington worked with the Indian government to deny flyover rights to a North Korean Air Koryo jet, which Washington believed was moving missile components to Iran from Myanmar. Officials from one of North Korea's principal arms companies, Nomchongang Trading Co., have also become active inside Myanmar in recent months, former U.S. officials said.
Officials at Myanmar's embassies in Bangkok and Washington, D.C., and at the Ministry of Information in Myanmar didn't respond to questions about the country's alleged nuclear ambitions. North Korea has denied selling nuclear equipment.
Earlier this month, an online magazine of Yale University's Center for the Study of Globalization published photos believed to show tunnels being built under Myanmar's new capital of Naypyitaw with the help of North Korean technicians, ostensibly for military purposes. The accuracy of the photos couldn't be verified.
Several Myanmar citizens, some of them expatriates, have claimed direct knowledge of a nuclear-weapons program, including a reactor under construction near Maymyo, according to Myanmar experts. But the remote area is off-limits to outsiders without government permission and the reports haven't been independently confirmed.
Residents in the area say foreign technicians, including from Russia, have visited the town recently. Russia has acknowledged an agreement with Myanmar to help build a nuclear reactor and do civilian nuclear research, but says no projects have materialized.
Myanmar is a party to the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that went into effect in 1970, and thus has committed not to develop nuclear weapons. It also has reached agreements with the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency to verify that Myanmar isn't diverting nuclear research, material, or technology to make nuclear weapons. Still IAEA officials have privately voiced their concerns about Myanmar's recent purchases of dual-use technologies.