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| Topic Started: Jun 18 2010, 12:31 PM (160 Views) | |
| LoisFaith2000 | Jun 18 2010, 12:31 PM Post #1 |
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North Korean border guard shoots 3 Chinese dead ARE WE BUILDING TOWARD WORLD WAR 3 ? It appears so Tuesday, 8 June 2010 China-North Korea bridge The four were allegedly shot close to the countries' border. China says a North Korean border guard shot and killed three people near the countries' border last week. A fourth person was reportedly injured in the incident near the north-eastern border town of Dandong China has made a formal complaint to North Korea, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry said. The two countries are considered to be close allies and Beijing rarely makes any public criticism of its isolated neighbour. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a regular news conference in Beijing that the four residents of Dandong, in Liaoning province, had been shot "on suspicion of crossing the border for trade activities". "China attaches great importance to that and has immediately raised a solemn representation with the DPRK," he said, using North Korea's full name. Mr Qin said the case was being investigated, but gave no further details. Pyongyang has not commented on the accusations. Illegal traders regularly cross the border between North Korea and China, taking black market goods into the impoverished country. Close ally China is North Korea's main trading partner and the country perceived to have the most influence on the state. Map Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been high since the sinking of a South Korean warship in March with the loss of 46 lives. An international investigation blamed North Korea for the sinking, but China has resisted pressure to condemn its ally. Instead, it has urged both the Koreas to show restraint. Last month, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, was reported to have visited China to seek economic and political support. China is crucial to North Korea's fight for economic survival, providing Pyongyang with food, fuel and much-needed investment. Beijing is also a participant in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme. The talks have been going on since 2003 without much progress. BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10263325.stm China says North Korean border guard shot and killed 3 Chinese last week June 08, 2010 FOX http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010...e-week-676306674/?test=latestnews South Korea warship sunk, by who? N.K? -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37770391 South Korean fighter jet downed Fri., June 18, 2010 SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Air Force says a fighter jet crashed into the sea after a training mission and its two pilots were killed. The Air Force said the F-5 jet went missing off the east coast early Friday as it was returning to its air base in Gangneung after finishing a training mission. The base is about 147 miles (237 kilometers) east of Seoul. The Air Force said rescuers recovered the bodies of the two pilots. The Air Force also grounded all F-5 jets for safety checks. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. In March, two F-5 jets crashed into a mountain during training, killing three airmen. Edited by LoisFaith2000, Jun 18 2010, 12:33 PM.
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jun 28 2010, 02:45 PM Post #2 |
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North Korea heats up rhetoric toward U.S. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/24/north.korea.wartime.law/ North Korea may consider a tougher punishment for a jailed American citizen if the United States "persists in its hostile approach" toward Pyongyang, North Korea's official news agency said Thursday. North Korea said the United States is "persistently antagonizing" the country over the sinking of a South Korea warship in March, an act Seoul blames on North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency reported. "Such moves have gone beyond the tolerance limit," said North Korea, which vehemently denies the charge that it fired a torpedo at the ship, the Cheonan, sinking it and killing 46 members of its crew. The United States is ramping up international pressure against North Korea, KCNA said. "The DPRK had already solemnly declared that it would consider the prevailing situation as a war phase and handle all relevant issues according to a wartime law," the news agency said. DPRK is an acronym for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North Korea said it is examining what "additional" steps it will take against Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an American man who has been sentenced to eight years hard labor for illegally entering North Korea. He was arrested after crossing the North Korea-China border on January 25. A wartime law status could amount to tougher penalties. The American was, according to South Korean press reports, an English language teacher with strong Christian convictions, who had taken part in anti-North Korean protests in the South. "The U.S. government is requesting the DPRK to leniently set him free from a humanitarian stand, but such thing can never happen under the prevailing situation and there remains only the issue of what harsher punishment will be meted out to him. If the U.S. persists in its hostile approach toward the DPRK, the latter will naturally be compelled to consider the issue of applying a wartime law to him," the new agency reported. The loss of the Cheonan in March raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula. North and South Korea presented their cases to the United Nations recently, with South Korea urging the Security Council to take "timely and appropriate measures." North Korea's envoy said that if the "Security Council releases any documents against us, condemning or pressuring us ... then myself as diplomat, I can do nothing. ... The follow-up measures will be carried out by our military forces." ======================== http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE65R10U20100628 6/28: NK warns of military action against SK and the US over "heavy weapons" in truce village North Korea issues new warning to U.S. over truce village Mon Jun 28, 2010 North Korea warned of military action against South Korea and the United States on Monday, claiming the allied forces had brought "heavy weapons" into the DMZ truce village of Panmunjom. Reclusive North Korea, the focus of stalled six-party talks aimed at halting its nuclear weapons programme, also said it had no choice but to bolster its nuclear deterrent in the face of a hostile United States. The North, accused by the South and the United States of sinking one of its naval vessels in March, has already raised tension to a new height by threatening war if it is punished for the naval attack which it says was fabricated by the South. South Korean and U.S. forces remain in a tense standoff with the North at Panmunjom that straddles the Demilitarised Zone after it was established at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. "U.S. forces introduced weapons (to the truce village) at around 7:25 a.m. on June 26," the North's official KCNA news agency said, quoting its military, adding that the weapons must be withdrawn immediately. "If it does not comply with the principled demand of the Korean People's Army, strong military counter-measures will be taken in the area," the agency said. North Korea's military, with 1.2 million troops, is one of the largest in the world. The two sides are technically still at war as the 1950-53 conflict ended with a truce, not a peace treaty. A U.S. military spokesman could not immediately comment on what may have occurred in the truce village on Saturday that triggered the North's comments. On Sunday, the North rejected a call for a meeting of the commission overseeing the truce and demanded direct military talks with the South to discuss the sinking of the South Korean navy corvette in which 46 sailors died. A delegation from the U.S.-led U.N. Command is probing whether North Korea violated the armistice by sinking the Cheonan, a probe the North has denounced as a sham. North Korea said, not for the first time, that it faced a U.S. administration bent on imposing a nuclear threat and that it had no choice but to bolster its own nuclear deterrent. "Historical facts prove that the DPRK was quite right when it made a decision to react to nukes with a nuclear deterrent," KCNA said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "The recent disturbing development on the Korean peninsula underscores the need for the DPRK to bolster its nuclear deterrent in a newly developed way to cope with the U.S. persistent hostile policy towards the DPRK and military threat towards it." U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday the world needs to rally around South Korea in order to send North Korea a clear message over the sinking of the corvette. Edited by LoisFaith2000, Jun 28 2010, 02:50 PM.
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jan 24 2012, 11:00 PM Post #3 |
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South Korea looking to buy Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/south-korea-looking-to-buy-israel-s-iron-dome-aerial-defense-system-1.408964 South Korea has offered to buy a significant quantity of Israeli-made weapons and defense systems, including the anti-rocket Iron Dome system, if Israel agrees to purchase South Korean fighter jets. The Israel Air Force is looking to replace its aging fleet of American-made A-4 Skyhawk jets, which are used to train fighter pilots. |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jan 25 2012, 01:09 AM Post #4 |
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US, S. Korean troops ready for joint war games Published on 25 January 2012 - 6:15am US and South Korean troops are preparing for their annual joint war games in coming weeks, an official said Wednesday, despite the sensitive power transition underway in North Korea. The two countries "are preparing for the Key Resolve exercise", a US military spokesman told AFP, adding the schedule was not finalised. South Korea's defence ministry declined to comment. Media reports said the exercises -- which the North blasts as warmongering -- would go ahead as scheduled. Pyongyang last year threatened a military response to the fortnight-long Key Resolve computerised drill, which is normally followed by a joint air, ground and naval training exercise known as Foal Eagle lasting several weeks. The exercises last year involved 12,300 US troops and some 200,000 South Korean service members including reservists. They passed off without incident. Seoul and Washington, which bases 28,500 troops in the South, say the drills are defensive and routine but the North habitually terms them a rehearsal for invasion. It has taken a hostile tone with the South since its leader Kim Jong-Il died on December 17 and was replaced by his youngest son Jong-Un. The new leader has been appointed armed forces chief and has visited several units in an apparent attempt to burnish his military credentials. This year's Key Resolve will start on February 27, the Korea JoongAng Daily newspaper reported. "It's true that we have weighed whether we should go ahead with the exercise or not after North Korean leader Kim's death at the end of last year," an unidentified senior Seoul official was quoted as saying. "But the North's wintertime drills are continuing and the military threats still persist, so we've decided to go ahead with our military exercise as scheduled." North Korea's air force has conducted more training than normal this winter despite Kim's death, Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. On Wednesday Yonhap also quoted sources as saying Key Resolve would start on February 27 and continue for two weeks. Pyongyang's new regime has vowed retaliation against Seoul for alleged disrespect during the mourning period for its late leader. Cross-border tensions have been high since the South accused the North of torpedoing a warship with the loss of 46 lives in March 2010. The North denied involvement but eight months later shelled a border island and killed four South Koreans. |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jan 25 2012, 01:20 AM Post #5 |
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How far off can we be from the 'Dudumen vision'? CHINA & RUSSIA STRIKE A Vision Received by Dumitru Duduman, April 22 1996 I was still awake, when suddenly I heard a trumpet sound in my vision I was in America. I saw 3 men dressed alike. Two of the men carried weapons. One of the armed men came to me. "I woke you to show you what is to come. He said. "Come with me." I didn't know where I was being taken, but when we reached a certain place he said, "stop here!" A pair of binoculars was handed to me, and I was told to look through them. "Stand there, don't move, and look. You will see what they are saying and what they are preparing for America." I saw a great light. A dark cloud appeared over it. I saw the president of Russia and a short, chubby man, who said he was the president of China, and two others. The last two also said where they were from, but I did not understand but I gathered they were part of Russian controlled territory. The Russian president began to speak to the Chinese one. "I will give you the land with all the people, but you must free Taiwan of the Americans. Do not fear, we will attack them from behind." A voice said to me, "Watch where the Russians penetrate America." I saw these words being written - Alaska, Minnesota, Florida. "When America goes to war with China, the Russians will strike without warning." The other two presidents spoke, "We, too, will fight for you." Each had a place already planned as a point of attack. All of them shook hands and hugged. Then they all signed a contract. One of them said, "We're sure that Korea and Cuba will be on our side, too. Without a doubt, together, we can destroy America." The president of Russia began to speak insistently, "Why let ourselves be led by the Americans? Why not rule the world ourselves? They have to be kicked out of Europe, too! Then I could do as I please with Europe!" The man standing beside me asked, "This is what you saw: they act as friends, and say they respect the treaties made together. But everything I've shown you is how it will REALLY happen. You must tell them what is being planned against America. Then, when it comes to pass, the people will remember the words the Lord has spoken." Who are you?" I asked. "I am the protector of America. America's sin has reached God. He will allow this destruction, for He can no longer stand such wickedness. God, however, still has people that worship Him with a clean heart as they do His work. He has prepared a heavenly army to save these people." As I looked, a great army, well armed and dressed in white, appeared before me. The Man said, "Do you see that? This army will go to battle to save My chosen ones. Then, the difference between the godly and the ungodly will be evident." |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jan 25 2012, 01:28 AM Post #6 |
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 Hundreds’ of North Korean Nuke Scientists in Iran Hundreds of nuclear scientists from North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il died Saturday, are working in 10 different locations in Iran, The South Korean-based Korea Times reported this week. North Korea has been known to be working closely with Iran, Pakistan and Syria on nuclear development, but the disclosure of the number of scientists in the Islamic Republic spells out the close ties between the two powers, part of what Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called the ”axis of evil.” The Korea Times quoted an unnamed source that the scientists and missile engineers are working at the Natanz and Qom sites, among others. Iran is operating a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. Despite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denials, Israel and Western powers assume the objective of the enrichment plant is to use the uranium to build a nuclear weapon, while engineers try to build a missile capable of delivering it. North Korea has an enrichment plant in its own country and has conducted nuclear tests. Both it and Iran are under United Nations sanctions for not cooperating with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. “The source with access to intelligence on the years-long weapons collaboration between Pyongyang and Tehran said the North Koreans are visiting Iran via third countries and many of them are being rotated every three to six months.” the newspaper reported. “The North Korean experts are from the country's so-called Room 99, which is directly supervised by the North's ruling Workers' Party Munitions Industry Department,” it added. ”The room, which can be translated as office or bureau, is widely believed to be engaged in exports of weapons and military technology.” http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Ne...1#.Tu7-3npEZRE |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jan 25 2012, 01:41 AM Post #7 |
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 praying for the people of North Korea  daily life in North Korea http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44085856/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/ |
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