The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Complete assured annihilation, North Korea – US nuclear exchange, Rated XXX
9 April,
2013
20:03
The
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States have recently
exchanged bellicose nuclear rhetoric, bringing that much closer, the
greatest fear for all peace loving nations, namely the threat of nuclear
war. The world has witnessed one US led war after the other since the late
1990s and all parties to this latest escalation, regardless of who is at
fault, should be condemned, as should any act of aggressive war.
“Those who
would dominate their fellow man through force or trickery deserve neither
liberty nor life, those who stand passively by and watch also deserve
neither nor.”
The once
aqua marine glow of the Earth now shone a muted gray and white below. The
planet lay in desolate burned out nuclear ruins, not a single square mile of
it any longer able to sustain life. Gone were the lights of the cities at
night, gone was all the radio chatter, and every other sign of the endless
busyness that had been the human race.
During the
daylight passes over the wasteland below certain landmarks were still
discernable, part of a fence in Australia, the Great Wall of China and parts
of certain burned out cities. During the night nuclear fires could still be
seen to glow in many areas and occasionally explosions lit up the night and
quickly extinguished themselves. For the three Russian cosmonauts on the
ISS, who were running out of food, this was all that was left of the planet
they had watched blow itself into oblivion.
The plan
to take over the world had been the brainchild of a group of US
Neo-Conservative planners and had been launched by implementing the most
massive large-scale psychological operation in the history of all mankind,
namely the cold blooded murder of 3,002 Americans right in the open, in
front of the watching eyes of the entire world.
Although
the controlled demolitions of the skyscrapers was obvious, and all of the
details were documented by humankind, no one had ever been able to bring
those responsible to justice and people all over the world believed the post
traumatic suggestions and thought implants carried out during a massive
subliminal campaign that convinced them the murders were an attack on the
country by foreign terrorists.
For
decades they had conditioned the American people to see foreigners as less
than human, the government as all knowing and all powerful, and through
thousands of Hollywood disaster epics and movies that the only humans worthy
of remaining on Earth after everyone else was destroyed were Americans.
The fake
terrorist attack had worked exactly as had been planned and served as the
catalyst for global military expansion and the waging of aggressive war
after aggressive war, destroying each and every country that posed a threat
to what was to be an “American” world.
The
crowning achievement of the plan had taken years to construct and paired
with the expansion of the military to every corner of the world had brought
the country to a complete economic collapse, making the US debt two times
more than the GDP of the entire planet . That achievement was a global
network of missiles and their related infrastructure which the world’s
populace was told was a defensive system to keep America and its allies safe
from rogue nations who were bent on destroying Americans.
Through a
massive misinformation campaign that had taken decades to carry out the US
had carefully hidden the true nature of the global missile defense shield.
This had been helped by the fact that the US was able to plug into almost
every home, business and government in the world with the introduction of
its global military computer network which the citizens of the world
believed was just a harmless means of communicating.
Phase five
the Plan of the Centuries for America had called for fabricating a nuclear
threat from North Korea and then blasting the country off the face of the
Earth, this would have allowed for the complete taking over of the Asia
Pacific Region and the complete neutralization of the first strike
capabilities of the last two countries in the world who posed a challenge to
the Fourth Reich, the American Reich, namely Russia and China.
The
hypersonic nuclear missile that ended the world left the Korean Silo at
04:15 in the morning and hugged the ground as it flew towards its target,
evading all American warning systems and defense elements. It had been
launched by a team of Korean officers who had been working for the CIA for
decades and was supposed to reach its target, a city of 20 million, and wipe
it off the face of the map, which it did at 04:29.
With a
flick of the switch all of the missiles in the US missile defense shield
became lethal first strike weapons and at 04:30 they were launched on every
major city and population center on the planet. The annihilation of 8.5
billion people was necessary as the world’s population had reached 9 billion
and the Earth’s resources were not enough to sustain the planet for more
than ten more years. The American people had been conditioned to see
themselves as God’s chosen people and would forever pledge allegiance for
having been saved.
At 04:33
all targeted countries began launching their counter attacks on US targets
and at 04:34 US interceptors were launched to nullify the threat. At 04:35
everything appeared to be going as planned and the US president was
preparing to address what was left of humanity and claim the planet for the
United States.
At 04:36
the counter response to the launch of the interceptors was put into action
and electromagnetic bombs began to go off near each and every US control
facility rendering the entire US missile shield useless.
At 04:37
Washington DC was wiped off the face of the planet, followed by every other
city on the planet.
At 05:03
the human race no longer existed and every trace of the folly that had been
man was erased for all eternity.
All that
was left of the human species were three cosmonauts in the ISS, who now
watched through a porthole as a missile launched from a US autonomous space
drone became brighter and brighter against the backdrop of the moon, which
for some reason, appeared to be crying.
The DPRK: Another Regime Change/Central Bank Target for the US
1 April, 2013
21:29 1
With reports that North Korea has
stated that they are in a state of war with the South and the U.S. and their
surrogates continuing and upping the demonization of North Korea, it is
difficult to find an independent and fact based view on the conflict. One
fact is getting lost, North Korea is for the unification of the Koreas and
is for the betterment of all of the Korean people, while the South is for
all intents and purposes serving their overseas masters. Regardless whose
side you are on most of the world would agree, there must not be a military
solution to the Korean crisis and it is an internal problem that must be
solved by the Korean people without self serving outside interference. Most of the
world’s media are towing the U.S. line on the conflict between the Koreas,
with very few, if any, alternative media covering the subject with a view
from the North Korean side of the equation. Diplomats worldwide are also
showing restraint because no one wants to fuel a fire that could turn into a
nuclear confrontation and even pundits and expert are unusually toned down
in their views and statements. What is being
missed by everyone and what almost no one wishes to talk about relates to
North Korea’s position and the relationship that the world’s self-declared
“sole military super power” has had in fueling and provoking yet another
conflict, his time with possible nuclear repercussions. The fact that
the U.S. continues to operate from the same tired old playbook and operate
along completely predictable lines goes miles to point to the U.S. as a
country in decline and country lacking the intellectual fortitude necessary
to carry out its self-proclaimed role as the world’s policeman. This has
long been the case but few in the world have woken up to that fact, few dare
to stand up to the U.S. and even fewer will openly and publically question
the U.S. motives in their global expansion. How the current
and the ongoing Korean crisis ties into U.S. global military expansionism
and regime change is truly a subject that would require several books to
detail but it is something that must be mentioned and something that several
of my readers have asked about. Over the years
it has become clear, since the invasion of Yugoslavia and perhaps earlier,
that the U.S. has a predetermined and global agenda of global military,
energy, political, economic, religious and even racial domination, and North
Korea is just another piece in the U.S. game of geo-political chess. In the past I
have likened Mikheil Saakashvili to a “geo-political chess queen” because he
could have moved in any direction, using chess logic we might call North
Korea a rook, because they have a very limited range of moves they can make,
either moving forward or back in straight lines. Back to the
U.S. playbook; the U.S. has what one might call a “shopping list” of steps
they must take to ensure complete and total global domination, a list of
countries and regimes that they have targeted for change, forceful or
otherwise. This is a fact the world is aware of and one that is verifiable
by simply looking at the history of the last 30- 50 years, these countries,
regimes and regions include but are not limited to: Afghanistan, The Arctic,
Argentina, Africa, Asia, Belarus, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, India,
Iceland, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Serbia, space, Syria, and many others not
necessarily in that order. The goals in
all regions are different but follow two memes: military neutralization
through military saturation using the claim of “threat”, followed by
political regime change to allow for the complete exploitation of resources
with military resources to ensure security, and the second forcible military
or other neutralization of “enemies” who are anti-U.S. or pursue independent
policies which exclude U.S. participation or domination. North Korea
falls into several categories as a prime target for U.S. extermination,
although they may claim ideological differences we know this claim is a
farce when we simply look at the U.S. relationship to other countries and
the U.S, track record of, for example, placating Communist China, working
and funding Al-Qaeda, funding and backing Serbian Muslims, backing despots
and dictators worldwide, and a million other nefarious actions. So
ideological reasons are merely a convenient political precept, as I might
add are human rights and the most beloved but clerarly deceptive spread of
democracy. The U.S. needs
North Korea, and regardless of whether regime change is carried out, to
expand its military presence in the region. This is one reason it is against
U.S. interests that the Koreas actually unite and co-exist peacefully, if
the Koreas were to reach an independent peace arrangement excluding U.S.
interference this would block the U.S from continuing their military
expansionism in the region, so they will do anything to ensure that there is
never peace in the Koreas, or they will seek a pretext to annihilate the
North and allow for the installing of another U.S. puppet regime which will
allow them to do as they please in the region. The U.S. has
several problems in the case of North Korea; one, their intelligence as to
the real potential of North Korea’s military and their true ability to
launch a nuclear attack is faulty. Two, there is no widespread support for
an invasion of North Korea either internally or externally. Three, the U.S.
is already over-extended and economically on the verge of collapse. Four,
North Korea has beleaguered yet existing support from countries such as
Russia and China, who are against an escalation of the conflict and do not
really want to see another nuclear power, but who also do not wish to be
further surrounded by U.S. military elements, including U.S. “missile
defense” installations that will neutralize the Russian and Chinese
strategic deterrence and their own first strike
capabilities. We have seen
the scenario repeated time and time again and through that repetition we
have been able to see the weakness in U.S. military and strategic thinking,
namely an uncreative and dinosaur like mindset that is unable to adapt or
respond and that is blindly following a pre-set plan which I outlined above.
As for the way they carry out their plan we first saw their methods of
operation in Yugoslavia, then in Iraq, followed by Afghanistan, Libya and
any other country they have recently desired to invade, including Syria,
Iran and now North Korea. The formula they use is basically the same,
terrorize the world and U.S. populace with stories of a horrible imminent
and lethal threat, demonize the country in question endlessly in the media,
stage and organize provocations, destabilize the country or region, and then
organize, stage or provoke an event to allow for mobilization. If you doubt
their intentions then simply ask yourself, citizen of the world, U.S.
taxpayer and South Koreans in particular: Why has the U.S. never promoted a
real political or social solution that might serve to unify the Koreas?
After all that would be in the interests of all Koreans. Why does the U.S.
keep insisting on a forceful military solution to the split in the Koreas?
Because this is all they know how to do? Why do the U.S. and their
manipulated surrogates in the media and elsewhere keep promoting the idea
that North Korea is a dangerous threat to world peace and continue to
demonize the country? The answer to all these questions is: to prepare for a
forcible regime change. As almost any
independent minded person, country or entity might agree the U.S. has shown
it does not possess the necessary objectivity, intelligence, or even the
moral high ground to interfere in international affairs and attempt to
control the world, a role they have delegated to themselves and in my own
opinion should be barred from interfering and operating internationally in
the military sphere and in every other, that is the role of the UN and is
what it was set up for: to not allow for one country to dominate the world
by force, as the U.S. has been doing. So North Korea
is completely right in pointing out, as they did on Sunday, that nuclear
weapons are “the nation’s life” and will not be traded even for “billions of
dollars”. Obviously the North Korean leadership has paid attention to Iraq
and Libya, regimes that fell for U.S. lies when they got rid of their
weapons and were later invaded and decimated and then annexed. Will North
Korea attack? Experts the world over say this is highly unlikely, but that
depends on how far into a corner they are pushed. Can North Korea attack?
Now that is a question that even the U.S. “brain” the CIA cannot answer, if
they could North Korea would have been invaded long ago. If the world is
going to ever see peace, and the litmus test might be solving the Korean
crisis, the United States of America must no longer be allowed to interfere
anywhere it pleases in the world, the UN must be given independent “teeth”
to allow it to bring about real changes, and the in the case of North Korea
and Syria for that matter, an internal dialogue must be promoted and the
opposing factions must be forced to negotiate for the good of all their
people and not for the good of their imperialist or other masters.
The DPRK Pushed into Declaring War on the South
30 March, 2013 07:11 The wave of global condemnation that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will be facing shortly after declaring a state of war with the South will be great and no doubt countries the world over including the Russian Federation will urge all sides to seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis, but the DPRK did not declare war arbitrarily, once again the U.S. is meddling in another region in the world, and the result was and is completely predictable.
The
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has entered into a state of war with
South Korea and has threatened to strike United States targets in South
Korea as well as in the continental United States.
The news
may not be surprising as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been
making more and more bellicose statements as of late due in a large part to
war games involving South Korean and US forces that have recently been
taking place.
North
Korea has decided to go down a road which has lost it the support of even
some of its staunchest allies, and will no doubt see a tidal wave of global
condemnation for its declaration of war. However one thing is clear, the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea did not make such a move for no
reason, and the declaration of war was a predictable event for almost anyone
who has been watching the tensions rise in the region.
Rather
than defusing the situation and the tensions in the region and toning down
its war games, the United States chose to escalate tensions by doing the
only thing it appears capable of doing anymore on the international arena,
namely flexing its military muscles and drawing lines in the sand for its
enemies to cross.
The
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had the right to be concerned earlier
this week when it released statements condemning U.S. nuclear attack
submarines near its shores and U.S. nuclear missiles being aimed at its
territory and the West had a chance to take heed and tone down it aggressive
military posture but the U.S. decided rather to flex its muscles once again
and fly 2 B-2 stealth nuclear bombers into Korean airspace.
The
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea issued a statement before the
unprecedented B-2 incident that nuclear war had become a real possibility on
the Korean Peninsula. The statement was a warning as to the danger of
escalating the conflict which the U.S. has not heeded. Instead the immature
U.S. command structure decided to act like the schoolyard bullies they are
and force North Korea further into a corner.
There can
be no doubt that U.S. analysts are aware that North Korea is ruled by a
young ruler who needs to be seen as tough and strong in the face of mounting
opposition by the West and the South, and this is dangerous for all parties
concerned as the younger ruler may make more aggressive moves than his
predecessor in order to show that he is a strong and capable leader.
Regardless
of the reasons behind it, few can support the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea’s declaration of war on the South, but nevertheless it was the
predictable result of the West’s actions in the region, no matter how many
times they repeat that their exercises are “defensive” in nature.
It seems
odd that the world’s self proclaimed single military super power has to
conduct “defensive” exercises against such a small country as the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea, and the claims to thus are disingenuous.
The United
States and its NATO and Western Allies as well as South Korea as its
regional surrogate have no regard for peace, they wish to bring about a
scenario in which they can justify a military invasion of North Korea,
destroy the country, and allow for a permanent presence in the region, this
would fit in with U.S. and NATO global expansion plans, and serve to allow
for the further surrounding of China and Russia.
Russia has
been for peace in the region and has urged both sides in the conflict to
show restraint and maturity and this includes during the latest escalation.
Russia has
also condemned the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for its recent
nuclear tests because they only served to further destabilize and escalate
the situation in the region.
Regardless
of who is at fault all sides in this escalation must stand down and sit down
at the negotiating table, North Korea must not allow itself to be provoked
into war and South Korea must not allow itself to be a surrogate for those
hungry for war to break out in the region. The U.S. and its allies must also
learn when to withdraw as their actions are only pouring fuel on the fire, a
fire that could lead to a nuclear war, but apparently as long as the lives
that will be lost are Korean, the West is not all that concerned.
Heightened Tensions in the DPRK as War of Words Escalates: Pyongyang to Respond Aggressively
6
February, 12:59
Surrounded by enemy forces, besieged by sanctions,
demonized by the Western propaganda machine, the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea says it
will fight back and that anyone who
encroaches upon its dignity and sovereignty with any form of "sanctions"
will not be able to avoid deadly retaliation. The media is rife with
speculation as to what that retaliation may be but one thing is certain,
unless pushed into a corner, the DPRK will never launch a first strike. That
would be literal suicide.
In
response to new sanctions and more threats from the West North Korea has
said that they would be forced to take more serious measures than a simple
nuclear test. Although there was no exact description what those measures
would be, the West has ramped up the anti-Korean propaganda to new levels,
forcing the North to issue numerous responses.
The
Russian Federation has urged North Korea to show restraint despite the
heightened level of confrontation evident in the latest escalation of
tensions between North Korea and South Korea, the United States and their
allies.
North Korea continues to be pushed into a corner with
dozens of statements being released by various officials and committees of
the People’s Republic of North Korea. The Secretariat of the Committee for
the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued a press
release on the second of February full of
extremely strong language against the South and the United States.
The
language of the CPRK’s statement titled, “DPRK Will Retaliate against
Provokers: CPRK Secretariat” was unusually strong. In the statement they
called Chon Yong U, chief of Diplomacy and Security in Chongwadae, Ryu U Ik,
the Minister of Unification, confrontation maniacs of South Korea who along
with others had said that "the north should choose one, either survival or
nuclear weapons" and "stronger sanctions that the north can hardly hold off
have to be imposed".
The almost
open threat by the South to destroy the DPRK was a sign of the increasing
assertiveness of the South, something that has been stoked by the US Forces
in the region and the new sanctions that have been imposed on North Korea by
the United Nations.
With
regards to the statements made by Official Seoul the CPRK stated the
following: “The U.S. and the south Korean regime do not hesitate to make
such outbursts as calling for not ruling out even military ‘sanctions’.
Warmongers are inciting war fever while touring units in the forefront
areas.”
The CPRK
called intensified confrontation a “racket on the part of the U.S., the Lee
group and other hostile forces” and that, “… the UN "resolution on
sanctions" against the DPRK is a product of the deliberate and planned
intrigues to escalate the hostile steps against it to bar it from building
an economic giant, and to isolate and stifle it. But they are seriously
mistaken.”
In equally
threatening language the CPRK echoed calls made by other official
representatives for unspecified moves in response to what it sees as
deliberate actions to destroy the DPRK and a hint at just how bad the new
sanctions may be affecting the North Korean people: “The "sanctions" of the
enemies further hardened the will and strength of all service personnel and
people of the DPRK to defend their just cause and build the most powerful
nation, a highly-civilized socialist nation under the banner of justice.”
“The DPRK
is fully ready for both economic and military "sanctions", and anyone who
encroaches upon its dignity and sovereignty even a bit with any form of
"sanctions" will not be able to avoid deadly retaliation.”
Again what
that retaliation is, is not clear.
According to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency,
citing media
reports from the DPRK: “North Korea will
"ruthlessly strike" back if the United States launches preemptive attacks on
its nuclear facilities.”
Yonhap
quoted the Minju Chosun, a newspaper published by the North's Cabinet and
the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as saying: "If the United States and
warmongers attack and try to weaken us, such expectations will be a huge
miscalculation…” and “…if North Korea is attacked, its military and people
will rise up and mercilessly repel the perpetrators and start a victorious
war of national unification."
Meanwhile amid reports that a third North Korean
nuclear test is soon to take place Sky News reported that
a strange video appeared on You Tube, showing a North Korean dreaming of an
attack on the United States of America. According to Sky News “The video was
released via a website linked to the North Korean state news agency.”
The
official DPRK news agency KCNA issued a statement which read: "The DPRK has
drawn a final conclusion that it will have to take a measure stronger than a
nuclear test to cope with the hostile forces' nuclear war moves that have
become ever more undisguised."
The South
has reported that the DPRK may stage a double nuclear test but has not
provided details to support the claim and the South Korean Ambassador to the
United Nations said a North Korean nuclear test "seems to be imminent."
North
Korea which is struggling under intense sanctions and whose people are
paying the price for, the “sanctions” imposed on the country, sees the
development of its nuclear program as a right and a necessity. A right, the
same as any country has, to develop cheap and efficient nuclear power, and a
necessity, to protect its sovereignty and its territory from attack and
invasion by the South and the United States, two countries who continually
hound and provoke it.
North
Korea knows that one of the few things stopping the West and the South from
launching a full scale invasion is the fact that they are afraid that the
DPRK may in fact have a nuclear weapon which it may use to defend itself.
After the disarming or Iraq, Libya and other countries which were then
invaded, the DPRK knows that it cannot afford to stop its nuclear program,
it is the main deterrent they have.
The DPRK
also knows and has been very careful in not making initial provocative
statements but continues to respond aggressively to threats from the South,
it is also aware that any first strike would be suicide as it has seen the
US building up its forces all over the region.
In the
latest scandal the West is following the same old script we have seen time
and time again, namely: while provoking and carrying out aggressive
in-your-face- policies, imposing sanctions and building up military forces
near a country’s borders, this time the DPRK, the West claims the DPRK is
the aggressor and must be dealt with.
North
Korea is wise enough and mature enough to refrain from any act of aggression
against the South and the West, but it must walk a fine line between showing
it has might and can defend itself and making sure it does nothing that can
provoke an open military confrontation, hence the aggressive statements in
its own defense.
While
South Korea enjoys a relatively prosperous existence and is comfortable that
it has the United States to defend it, the North sees itself as more and
more being pushed into the corner and the people as well as the sate are
ready to fight to the end in what for them is a do or die situation.
Sanctions are not softening the resolve of the DPRK, but the opposite is
quite true. The DPRK is growing harder as South Korea is growing softer.
With the
United States attempting to consolidate its power and bring the entire
region under its sphere of military and economic influence, the DPRK is
country that they believe has to go. As does any country that follows
independent and robust foreign and internal polices and as with any
communist country.
The DPRK
has the right to defend itself and to defend its sovereignty, but it is
complete nonsense to believe that they would launch any kind of a first
strike.
North Korea's Failed Rocket: Is it a Game of Lose-Win or Win-Win? 14
April 2012, 12:13
South Korean people watch a TV screen showing a graphic of North Korea's
rocket launch, at a train station in Seoul on April 13, 2012. Photo: AFP
Last night, while half the world was asleep, dreaming of whatever it is half
the world normally dreams about, according to the reports which the People’s
Democratic Republic of Korea has released to the world, it attempted to
launch a meteorological satellite into orbit, a first for the country and
the first time they have attempted to launch a rocket of that magnitude.
The noble deed was meant to raise the spirits of its people and was timed to
mark the 100th birthday anniversary of the country’s first leader Kim Il
Sung.
Unfortunately, according to Western sources, the rocket broke up a few
minutes after take-off and the launch was a complete failure. Or was it?
Regardless of what the world is told to believe there are many who will
doubt the official version and hold the belief that the missile was shot
down by benevolent Western powers who want to protect the world from the
Axis of Evil. This could be regarded as a propaganda victory for the West. On
the other end of the spectrum North Korea also has a win to some point, they
can claim, and no doubt it is true, that in the face of dire threats and
extreme resistance, they stood up to the world’s policeman and launched
their little rocket anyway. They can spread rumors that it was Western
interference that caused the rocket to fail and continue trying. This, in
turn, could be claimed as a propaganda victory by the People’s Democratic
Republic of Korea. Yet
there is another aspect that perhaps North Korea, and those watching the
situation, have not really thought about, and that is that the West needs
North Korea to continue such activities, so regardless of what they do or
the results of their attempts at creating weapons or advancing their
technology, they will be playing into the West’s hands. The
only thing that North Korea could do, if it really wants to beat the West,
is to completely hide its weapons programs, to protect it from a real
invasion, and to appear to the world to have disarmed. The
West, in particular the United States and NATO need North Korea and Iran.
They need them desperately in order to justify the billions upon they
billions they are spending for the development of Reagan’s Star Wars shield
and the expansion of NATO and its ABM system into the Middle East and the
Asia-Pacific Region. Without these two countries NATO and its entire ABM
shield and their global expansion become something unnecessary, something
that few would likely support.
Yesterday we touched on the question why the West continues to call for
sanctions against Iran and why do they continue putting pressure on the
country to do something that they already know Iran is not doing; namely
attempting to build nuclear weapons. According to one expert Iran may be
dreaming about nuclear weapons but they are not doing anything to get them.
This is well known by the US Government. So why continue the propaganda?
Well because NATO and the US need a reason to continue their military
expansion and their incursions on the sovereignty of half the world. In
that light the worst thing that North Korea could do now, for the West, is
to either completely hide everything they are doing or to completely disarm.
If they disarm there is the likelihood that they will be invaded so as to
effect a regime change. But the West does not really want this. NATO needs
North Korea to continue seeking to improve its technology so they can keep
up their global escalation and claim they are protecting the world. For the
same reason they need Iran to continue its nuclear program. If
the West decides they do not need Korea anymore to justify their own
military escalation, then the country is in for a world of trouble and might
quite possibly be the subject of the world’s next military intervention.
Just some food for thought, thanks for checking in.
Russia, India, China
urge diplomatic reaction to N. Korea’s failed space launch
Russia, India and China have called for resorting exclusively to political
and diplomatic leverage to react to North Korea’s failed launch of a space
satellite. This came in a statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov following the talks of the three Foreign Ministers in Moscow earlier
today. Lavrov urged all countries to show restraint and came out against
slapping fresh sanctions on North Korea.
North Korea admits
satellite launch proved a failure The
North Korean mass media have admitted that the recent launch of a space
satellite did take place but proved a failure.
Earlier, the United States and Japan reported the news. The
US air defenses detected the takeoff of the rocket-carrier, of which the
first stage fell into the sea some 165 kilometres away from Seoul, while the
two other stages are believed not to have detached themselves at all. It was
in March that Pyongyang said it would launch a space satellite to mark the
birth centenary of North Korea’s first leader, Kim Il Sung. The plan was
strongly condemned by many countries, including Russia. The UN Security
Council has banned North Korea from launching rockets that involve the use
of ballistic missile technologies.
North Korean rocket
fails The
launch of the North Korean rocket ended in failure according to reports by
the U.S. government and Japan. The Pentagon reported that, according to
preliminary data, the rocket broke up shortly after takeoff. The
UN Security Council will meet today in an emergency session to discuss an
appropriate response.
Pyongyang’s plans to launch its own space rocket caused sharp condemnation
from many countries, including Russia. The
international community fears that under the guise of attempting to place a
satellite in orbit, North Korea may be testing a ballistic missile.
Pyongyang claimed that the mission had a peaceful goal, namely the placing
into orbit of a satellite was to have performed meteorological functions. The
launch was timed, by the authorities of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Koreas, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the country's first
leader, Kim Il Sung.
S. Korea launches search
for N. Korean rocket debris: official
South Korea's navy on Friday launched a salvage operation to retrieve the
debris from North Korea's failed rocket launch, a military spokesman said
Friday.
"We've located where the debris landed and we're making efforts to salvage
it," the Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman told AFP.
China urges 'restraint'
after failed N. Korea rocket launch
China on Friday urged "calm" and "restraint" from all sides after North
Korea's failed long-range rocket drew strong condemnation from the United
States and its allies. "We
hope all relevant parties can maintain calm and restraint, and refrain from
acts that would harm peace and stability on the peninsula and in the
region," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in a statement.
TASS, RIAN, AFP, IF
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