October 14, 2007
N. Korea Beefs Up Guard At Nuclear Test Site
N. Korea beefs up guard at nuclear test site
SEOUL (Reuters)
North Korea has increased security around a site where it conducted a nuclear test last year, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
"Intelligence information was obtained that guards were being reinforced at the nuclear test site, along with (additional fencing)," it quoted an unnamed South Korean government source as saying.
"South Korea and U.S. authorities are keeping a close watch on the area and analysing the North's intentions."
But the source dismissed the likelihood of a second test at the Gilju site in North Hamkyung province, citing Pyongyang's pledge to the international community to disable its nuclear facilities.
North Korea marked the first anniversary of the nuclear test on October 9 that made it globally ostracised and the target of painful sanctions.
Wild Thing's comment........
Does Bush really believe that N. Korea is going to abide by our demands? I sure wouldn't. They must think Hillary is going to get elected so they’re getting ready to get all new updated equipment from the Pentagon.
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January 15, 2007
North Korea Conducts Emergency Drill Of Top Security
It reminds me of the 80's song......by Corey Hart - "Sunglasses At Night".
North conducts emergency drill of top security
January 15, 2007
Joong Ang Daily
Several security organs directly in charge of the safety of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, conducted an emergency drill in Pyongyang on Friday, intelligence sources from South Korea and the United States said.
Military troops and tanks from the Pyongyang Defense Command were deployed rapidly while increased military communications were noted that day.
In addition, the Escort Bureau, in charge of protecting Mr. Kim, also had a busy day, the sources said. The incident sparked a flurry of activity by the South's intelligence community, as the increased military activity in the North's capital did not fit the usual pattern of winter drills conducted by the North's military.
The fact that security organs closely guarding the North's leader's safety were involved in the activities sparked momentary suspicion among some sources that a military coup might have occurred in the North.
By the end of the day, however, intelligence officials here concluded that the drill was to prepare for any unforeseen changes inside the power structure of Kim Jong-il's inner circle.
A source familiar with the circumstances said, "We have confirmed that the activities pertained not to a real situation but were part of a drill to respond to a possible scenario."
The source added that the situation did not require an emergency meeting by authorities in the South.
Nevertheless, intelligence officials said that drills of this kind rarely happen in the North.
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October 15, 2006
N. Korean Ambassador to UN Walks Out In A Huff
N. Korean Ambassador to UN, Park Kil-yon, walks out after the resolution(against N. Korea) is adopted
On the morning of Oct. 15(S. Korean time), UN Security Council was convened and ambassadors of member nations declared N. Korean nuclear test as a threat to international community. As soon as they unanimously approved the resolution for sanction against N. Korea, N. Korean Ambassador to UN, Park Kil-yon, announced N. Korea's view and walked out of the meeting 10/15/06 (UN Headquarter = Yonhap News)
(UN Headquarter = Yonhap News) Cho Bok-rae, Kim Kye-hwan = U.S. Ambassador to U.N., John Bolton, was enraged at the walk-out of N. Korean Ambassador to UN, Park Kil-yon, from the conference room, after rejecting the resolution. His angry remarks also drew fire from Russian delegation.
Ambassador Bolton was upset over Park's behavior, and said, "It is the contemporary equivalent of Nikita Khrushchev pounding his shoe on the desk,",and loudly demanded to consider expulsion of N. Korea from UN.
Then, Russian Ambassador to UN, Vitaly Churkin, told the Chairman of the Security Council, Japanese Ambassador, Oshima Kenjo, to ask Bolton "not to use an inappropriate metaphor even when he is upset," a scene reminiscent of repeated clashes between U.S. and Soviet Union at UN during Cold-war days.
After the resolution was approved, N. Korean Ambassador walked out of the conference room, announcing that N. Korea "totally reject" the resolution, and any further pressure from U.S. would be regarded as a declaration of war.
Talking to reporters gathered outside the Security Council conference room, he maintained that the nuclear test is justifiable in light of U.S. nuclear threat and hostile policy, and the Security Council resolution applied double standard and lacked fairness. He condemned the resolution as 'gangster-like act.'
Japanese Ambassador said he was surprised at the Park's rejection of the resolution, but it was not unexpected, and expressed his displeasure, saying, "N. Korea showed the same reactions when a resolution (against N. Korea) was adopted after July missile launches."
Wild Thing's comment....
Gotta Love Mr.Bolton! giggle He is great!! I watched this on TV and Bolton called it like he saw it, and was right on target. Bolton said, "I'm addressing the empty chair there" and then went into the Krushchev shoe-banging analogy. He was right to call out the North Koreans for their boorish behavior.
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October 13, 2006
North Korea Bombs Out When It Comes To Electricity
North Korea might now have The Bomb, but it doesn't have much electricity
As the world grapples with how to rein in the "axis of evil" state which this week conducted a nuclear test, this spectacular satellite photo unveiled yesterday by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shows in stark detail the haves and have-nots of the Korean peninsula.
The regime in the north is so short of electricity that the whole country is switched off at 9 p.m. - apart from the capital of Pyongyang where dictator Kim Jong-il and his cohorts live in relative luxury. But even there, lighting is drastically reduced.
The result, as shown in this picture taken one night earlier this week, is a startling contrast between the blacked-out north and the south, which is ablaze with light, particularly around major cities and the capital, Seoul, in the north-west of the country.
Mr Rumsfeld showed the picture to illustrate how backward the northern regime really is - and how oppressed its people are. Without electricity there can be none of the appliances that make life easy and that we take for granted, he said.
"Except for my wife and family, that is my favourite photo," said Mr Rumsfeld.
"It says it all. There's the south, the same people as the north, the same resources north and south, and the big difference is in the south it's a free political system and a free economic system."
"The people in the north are starving, their growth is stunted. It's a shame, a tragedy."
An aide added: "This oppressive regime is too busy trying to make war to make life comfortable for its people."
Wild Thing's comment........
Dictatorship for Dummies
#1 Keep the people poor and starving
#2 See rule #1
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