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Ladybbird · 18-11-22, 14:48

North Korea ICBM Had Range to Hit US Mainland - Japan

North Korea has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile with enough range to hit the US mainland, Japan's defence minister says.

BBC News 18 NOV 2022.

The missile landed in the sea roughly 210km (130 miles) west of Hokkaido.

The US has condemned the launch, while South Korea has ordered stronger deterrence measures against the North.

On Thursday North Korean FM Choe Son Hui warned of a "fiercer" response to any increased US military presence in the region.

It also launched a short range ballistic missile the same day.

That followed Sunday's meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, US President Joe Biden and Japan's PM Fumio Kishida in Cambodia, in which the three countries agreed to increase their military co-operation.

On Friday US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said Mr Biden had been briefed and the US would consult with partners.

North Korea has fired more than 50 missiles over the past two months, most of them short-range. These long-range launches are rarer, and pose a direct threat to the US, as the missiles are designed to carry nuclear warheads to anywhere on the US mainland.

The latest intercontinential ballistic missile (ICBM) was fired at 10:15 local time (02:15 GMT) from near the North Korean capital Pyongyang, military chiefs in Seoul said.

It reached an altitude of 6,100km on a lofted trajectory and travelled 1,000km (621 miles), reaching a speed of Mach 22, South Korea's military said.

A lofted trajectory means the missile flies much higher into space but across a shorter distance than it would if fired on a normal trajectory.

But Japan's defence minister Yasukazu Hamada said the missile had sufficient range to reach the US.

"Based on calculations taking the trajectory into account, the ballistic missile this time around could have had a range capability of 15,000km, depending on the weight of its warhead, and if that's the case, it means the US mainland was within its range," he said.

"We have told (Pyongyang) that we absolutely cannot tolerate such actions," Mr Kishida told reporters in Thailand.

North Korea's pattern over the past months has been to launch missiles in response to US military activity around the Korean Peninsula.

In October, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan - the first time it had done so in five years.

The North is currently developing a new type of long-range missile, the Hwasong-17. It is larger than the ICBMs it has successfully tested in the past, and experts believe could be capable of carrying multiple warheads, which would make it harder to defend against.

Several attempts to launch the Hwasong-17 are thought to have failed. Earlier this month the North launched an ICBM but it failed mid-flight, according to the South Korean military.

"Even if the North does successfully launch the Hwasong-17, the threat will not have significantly increased", said Yang Uk, a military expert from the Asan Institute. "It must prove it has mastered the technology to be able to mount enough small nuclear warheads onto the ICBM", he said.

Pyongyang has conducted six nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017, and it has completed preparations for a seventh test. Experts believe it may use the opportunity to test a compact nuclear device.

It is also working to improve its short-range missiles and conventional military capabilities.

Ladybbird · 30-07-23, 03:14

North Korea: Kim Jong Un Shows Off Missiles to Russia Defence Chief Shoigu

Grinning Kim Jong-un and Putins’ Defence Chief Salute MASSIVE Nuke as It Rolls By

BBC 30 JULY 2023

Kim Jong Un showed off North Korea's latest weapons to Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday.

Pyongyang invited the Russian delegation led by Mr Shoigu, as well as Chinese officials.

They will attend Pyongyang's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, marked typically by massive military parades.

The weapons on display included the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Successfully tested in April, it is believed to be the country's first ICBM to use solid propellants, which makes it quicker to launch than liquid-fuel ones.

Also on show were two new drone designs, including one resembling the primary offensive strike drone used by the US Air Force, according to NK News, a specialist site focusing on North Korea.

Mr Shoigu's visit comes amid accusations that Pyongyang is supplying Russia with arms for use in its war in Ukraine - a claim that both Pyongyang and Moscow deny.

North Korea's KCNA news agency said Mr Kim and Mr Shoigu discussed "matters of mutual concern" in the fields of national defence and on the international security environment.

The delegations' visit for North Korea's Victory Day - as the 1953 end of hostilities is called in the North - is expected to finish on Thursday with an extensive military parade. The Koreans are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the conflict ended.

Both Russia and China are long time allies of North Korea. Their visit marks the first time Mr Kim has thrown open the doors to foreign guests since the Covid pandemic.

The last time Pyongyang invited foreign government delegates for a military parade was in February 2018.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, 26 July 2023

Mr Shoigu praised the North Korean military as the "most powerful in the world", according to state media

Mr Kim had a "friendly talk" with Mr Shoigu, who handed him an autographed letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin, KCNA said, adding that he had later called North Korea's military "the most powerful" in the world.

The visiting Chinese delegation, led by politburo member Li Hongzhong, also handed a personal letter from Mr Xi to Mr Kim.

Mr Kim reportedly told Mr Li that "the Korean people will never forget the fact that the brave soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers shed blood to bring about the war victory".

Beijing had sent troops in the autumn of 1950 to support North Korea in the war against South Korea. The then Soviet Union also supported North Korea in the war.

Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Russia has remained a natural ally for North Korea because of their mutual dislike for the US.

Some analysts say the inclusion of Chinese and Russian envoys in this year's Victory Day parade hints at a possible loosening of Covid restrictions.

This comes weeks after images of North Koreans walking around without masks were shown on state media.

The reclusive country had sealed itself off from all trade and diplomatic ties in early 2020, even with Russia and China, its main economic and political partners.

Ladybbird · 05-11-23, 05:52

I Helped 1,000 People Defectors Escape From North Korea

BBC 5 NOV 2023

Pastor Seungem Kim claims to have rescued more than 1,000 defectors in the past ten years. He leads the Caleb Mission Church in South Korea.

After their son was killed by North Koreans, his wife vowed that the couple would devote themselves to saving defectors.

Pastor Kim has helped more than 1,000 North Korean defectors escape the country - and says more than 200 others have asked for his help.

Ladybbird · 22-11-23, 06:39

North Korea Launches Spy Satellite Into Orbit

North Koreas’ Spy Satellite is a Big Deal, Regardless of How Advanced its Technology Is

Rocket launch underlines Kim Jong-un’s ability to sidestep UN sanctions and suggests ballistic missile building abilities have reached a higher level

BBC 22 NOV 2023

North Korea is already believed to be capable of striking the US mainland with a nuclear weapon; now it claims that it can spy on enemy troops, after state media reported the regimes’ first successful launch of a surveillance satellite, drawing an immediate response from South Korea.

While Japan, South Korea and the US could not immediately confirm if the satellite’s payload had entered orbit late on Tuesday, a North Korean presence in space would add to military tensions on the peninsula and highlight the ineffectiveness of international sanctions.

Hours after the North’s space agency claimed its Chollima-1 rocket had “accurately placed” the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit, the South said it was partially suspending an agreement designed to lower cross-border tensions. The defence ministry in Seoul said it would also resume aerial surveillance activities near the countries’ heavily armed border.

North Korea could use satellites to more effectively target South Korea and Japan or conduct damage assessments during a war, according to Ankit Panda at the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

But even if, as some experts believe, the satellite is not technologically advanced enough to conduct military reconnaissance, it underlines Pyongyang’s ability to sidestep UN sanctions targeting its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes – possibly with help from another internationally isolated regime: the Kremlin.

Malaysian embassy has closed. Kim Jong-un closed slate of North Korea’s embassies as sanctions bite

While the launch differed from the volley of ballistic missile tests overseen by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in the past two years, it drew on the same technologies the regime uses to test its increasingly sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

That will only generate further unease in Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, where officials quickly condemned North Korea’s latest provocation.

The US national security council spokesperson, Adrienne Watson, said the launch “raises tensions and risks destabilising the security situation in the region and beyond”.

Possessing a rocket that can place a satellite into orbit suggests that the North can also build a missile capable of carrying a warhead of a size comparable to the satellite – a worrying development acknowledged by the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, who said last week that the successful launch of a reconnaissance satellite “would signify that North Korea’s ICBM capabilities have been taken to a higher level”.

The move has already soured already precarious ties between North and South Korea, whose hardline leader was informed of the launch during a state visit to Britain.

Officials in Seoul said they would immediately suspend a 2018 agreement and resume “frontline aerial surveillance” of North Korea. The inter-Korean comprehensive military created buffer zones and no-fly zones near the heavily armed inter-Korean border and includes a ban on the use of artillery, naval drills and surveillance activities, as well as open lines of communication.

In Japan, the prime minister, Fumio Kishida, said the satellite launch posed a “serious threat that affects the safety of the people”.

While some civilian experts believe the Malligyong-1 satellite can probably only identify large targets such as warships and planes, the use of multiple satellites promised by the North would vastly improve its ability to remotely monitor US, South Korean and Japanese troops.

Irrespective of its practical applications, Kim will extract maximum propaganda value from the launch – which came after two embarrassing failures in May and August.

Developing a working surveillance satellite is a key component of his mission to improve the North’s ability to counter what he sees as increasing threats from the US, whose aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson and its battle group arrived at the South Korean port of Busan this week in the latest demonstration of US firepower in the region.

It will take time to gain a comprehensive understanding of the satellite’s technological strengths, but officials in South Korea believe it could have incorporated unspecified Russian expertise – “payment” for the North’s alleged shipment of munitions for the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.

During his much-publicised trip to Russia in September, Kim discussed space technology with Vladimir Putin, who took his counterpart on a tour of Russia’s state-of-the-art Vostochny cosmodrome.

Its practical usefulness aside, the satellite is another sign that the prospects for a resurrection of “nuclear diplomacy” with Washington are their dimmest since Kim’s failed summit with Donald Trump in 2019.

“What is already clear is that this is not a one-off event but part of a North Korean strategy of prioritising military capabilities over economic development, threatening rather than reconciling with South Korea, and further aligning with Russia and China instead of pursuing diplomacy with the United States,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.

Easley said there were “many reasons to be sceptical’ about the North’s claims about the satellite. “State-controlled media claims of a successful launch do not mean the satellite will actually perform meaningful reconnaissance functions,” he added.

Chad O’Carroll, founder of the NK News website, said the regime could now claim to possess a military reconnaissance satellite, provided it could communicate with North Korean base stations.

“South Korea’s government will attempt to suggest the satellite has little to no military reconnaissance value and try and reassure citizens its military capabilities remain hidden,” O’Carroll wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“But even if capabilities are relatively basic, the satellite will give real-time intelligence on military movements and installations throughout the region. This is a big shift.”

Ladybbird · 28-11-23, 06:19

UN Security Council Meets to Discuss North Korea

North Korea Claims Spy Satellite Has Photographed White House and Pentagon on 21 November.

Malligyong-1 Also Sent Detailed Pictures of US Nuclear Aircraft Carriers, Says Regime

BBC 28 NOV 2023

An official from the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs briefs the council after North Korea claimed that it had successfully launched a military reconnaissance satellite on 21 November.

North Korea has claimed its recently launched satellite has sent back “detailed” images of the White House, the Pentagon and US nuclear aircraft carriers that have been viewed by the regime leader, Kim Jong-un.

The existence of the images has not been independently verified, and experts say it is too soon to determine if the Malligyong-1 spy satellite is functioning properly, a week after its launch.

On Tuesday, the state-run KCNA news agency said Kim, who viewed the launch then hosted a banquet for scientists and space programme workers, had viewed photos of the two US government sites, which were taken late on Monday night.

The satellite also took photographs of a US naval base, a shipyard and an airfield in Virginia, KCNA said, adding that the images contained four US nuclear aircraft carriers and a British aircraft carrier.

The regime in Pyongyang will be eager to extract maximum propaganda value from last Tuesday’s launch, which drew immediate condemnation from Washington and raised tensions along the heavily armed inter-Korean border.

The North has also claimed the satellite took photos of military installations in South Korea, as well as the US Pacific territory of Guam and the state of Hawaii. None of the images have been made public.

Military officials in South Korea say they believe Malligyong-1 has entered orbit, but have so far been unable to tell if it is capable of taking and sending images from space.

The spy satellite, which is thought to have been made possible with Russian technological help, sparked angry scenes at the UN security council on Monday.

The North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, sitting at left, meets with senior staff of the National Aerospace Technology Administration (Nata), during a party in celebration of the claimed launch of a spy satellite.

Ladybbird · 02-01-24, 05:02

North Koreas’ Kim Jong Un Says Military Should Thoroughly Annihilate US, South Korea If Provoked

MADMAN Kim Jong Un WARNS US Policy is Making WAR Inevitable and Orders Military to Prepare For WAR

North Korea has welcomed in the new year by issuing further military threats against its neighbours in the south and the United States, saying it is prepared for all-out war

MailOnline 2 JAN 2024

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Koreas' loopy leader Kim Jong Un said his military should "thoroughly annihilate" the United States and South Korea if provoked, state media reported Monday, after he vowed to boost national defense to cope with what he called an unprecedented U.S.-led confrontation.

North Korea has increased its warlike rhetoric in recent months in response to an expansion of U.S.-South Korean military drills. Experts expect Kim will continue to escalate his rhetoric and weapons tests because he likely believes he can use heightened tensions to wrest U.S. concessions if TRUMP wins the U.S. presidential election in November.

In a five-day major ruling party meeting last week, Kim said he will launch three more military spy satellites, produce more nuclear materials and develop attack drones this year in what observers say is an attempt to increase his leverage in future diplomacy with the U.S.

In a meeting Sunday with commanding army officers, Kim said it is urgent to sharpen "the treasured sword" to safeguard national security, an apparent reference to his country´s nuclear weapons program. He cited "the U.S. and other hostile forces´ military confrontation moves," according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

Kim stressed that "our army should deal a deadly blow to thoroughly annihilate them by mobilizing all the toughest means and potentialities without moment´s hesitation" if they opt for military confrontation and provocations against North Korea, KCNA said.

In his New Year´s Day address Monday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he will strengthen his military's preemptive strike, missile defense and retaliatory capabilities in response to the North Korean nuclear threat.

"The Republic of Korea is building genuine, lasting peace through strength, not a submissive peace that is dependent on the goodwill of the adversary," Yoon said, using South Korea's official name.

At the party meeting, Kim called South Korea "a hemiplegic malformation and colonial subordinate state" whose society is "tainted by Yankee culture." He said his military must use all available means including nuclear weapons to "suppress the whole territory of South Korea" in the event of a conflict.

South Korea´s Defense Ministry warned in response Sunday that if North Korea attempts to use nuclear weapons, South Korean and U.S. forces will punish it overwhelmingly, resulting in the end of the Kim government.

KCNA said North Korean officials held talks on Monday to implement an order by Kim to disband or reform organizations handling relations with South Korea to fundamentally change the principle and direction of the North's struggle against the South. There was no immediate explanation of how that might alter inter-Korean relations, which have been stalled for an extended period.

Experts say small-scale military clashes between North and South Korea could happen this year along their heavily armed border. They say North Korea is also expected to test-launch intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the mainland U.S. and other major new weapons.

North Koreas' Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un orders military to prepare for war

Ladybbird · 22-01-24, 13:43

UK Intelligence Sends UN Experts Photographs of North Korean Arms Shipments to Russia

Report shows Russian ships loading at North Korean port, amid accusation that Pyongyang supplies missiles and shells

The Guardian 22 JAN 2024

The UK has provided satellite photographs of North Korean cargo shipments to Russia to a panel of UN experts as part of an attempt to trigger an official investigation into arms deals in violation of international sanctions.

North Korea has been accused of supplying ballistic missiles and hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to the Russian government for its war in Ukraine since Vladimir Putin met with Kim Jong-un in Russia’s far east in September.

Their bilateral relationship appears to be expanding. Putin met the North Korean foreign minister, Choe Son-hui, in the Kremlin this week during a rare, five-day trip by the senior Pyongyang official. The two discussed “further development of our relations in all areas, including sensitive ones”, according to a Kremlin spokesperson.

An unpublished UK defence intelligence report seen by the Guardian shows imagery taken between September and December of three Russian ships, the Maia, Angara and Maria, loading containers at North Korea’s revived Najin port before transiting to Russian ports in the far east. While the agency said it could not identify what was in the containers, it followed a US announcement last week that ballistic missiles from North Korea had been used by Russia in Ukraine last week.

A map from the report providing an overview of the transport of materials between Russia and North Korea.

“Russia’s use of North Korean weapons in Ukraine is a violation of multiple UN security council resolutions,” said a UN diplomat. “It undermines international efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and exposes just how desperate Russia has become in its failed invasion.

This and other evidence submitted to the UN sanctions committee should trigger a full investigation into Russia and DPRK’s [North Korea’s] flagrant breaking of international sanctions.”

The report, along with other evidence from the United States and other countries, was provided to the UN panel of experts on North Korean proliferation, which is expected next month to publish its first final report since suspected North Korean shipments of ammunition to Russia sharply increased this year.

The ships in the report were all placed under sanctions by the US government in 2022 for their links to the Russian ministry of defence’s shipping company, Oboronlogistika OOO, which has “been involved in Russia’s illegal seizure and occupation of Crimea since 2014, as well as private Russian maritime shipping companies that transport weapons and other military equipment for the [government of Russia]”.

Two of the three ships were also identified in a recent report by the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. It showed a growth in transshipments from North Korea to Russia that “reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale”.

A third was identified by NK News, an independent news website focusing on North Korea, as “part of a group of commercial vessels that have completed multiple deliveries of military equipment and munitions provided by the DPRK to Russia”.

The deliveries have been cited as enabling military strikes against Ukraine in December and January that “killed dozens of people and injured hundreds more”.

Prosecutors in Kharkiv told the Guardian that suspected fragments of North Korean-made Iskander missiles had been sent to Kyiv for analysis and said the missiles had subtle differences: hand-drawn lettering for serial numbers, and a different nozzle exhaust cone and welding.

A statement released by eight members of the security council, including the UK and US, said: “These heinous attacks were conducted, in part, using ballistic missiles and ballistic missile launchers procured from [North Korea].”

The White House’s senior director for arms control, Pranay Vaddi, said this week that the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea was “unprecedented” and warned that Russian military assistance to North Korea could undermine the US nuclear deterrence policy in South Korea and Japan.

“I think the nature of North Korea as a threat in the region could drastically change over the coming decade as a result of this cooperation,” he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies thinktank.

Choe met Putin, the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the deputy prime minister Alexander Novak during her visit to Russia.

North Korea also signalled that it may be receiving Russian help for its space programme.

Before the meeting with Putin, a member of the North Korean delegation was photographed with a document apparently titled Observation List in Space Technology Field, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

The list appeared to include the Progress Rocket Space Centre and the Voronezh mechanical plant, known to produce engines, although the writing was not completely clear, the news agency wrote.

Putin had previously pledged to help North Korea build satellites, and North Korea managed to launch its first spy satellite in November. South Korea alleged that Russia had helped build the spy satellite.

18-11-22, 14:48	#51
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: North Korea Has Ballistic Missiles With Range to Hit US Mainland North Korea ICBM Had Range to Hit US Mainland - Japan North Korea has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile with enough range to hit the US mainland, Japan's defence minister says. BBC News 18 NOV 2022. The missile landed in the sea roughly 210km (130 miles) west of Hokkaido. The US has condemned the launch, while South Korea has ordered stronger deterrence measures against the North. On Thursday North Korean FM Choe Son Hui warned of a "fiercer" response to any increased US military presence in the region. It also launched a short range ballistic missile the same day. That followed Sunday's meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, US President Joe Biden and Japan's PM Fumio Kishida in Cambodia, in which the three countries agreed to increase their military co-operation. On Friday US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said Mr Biden had been briefed and the US would consult with partners. North Korea has fired more than 50 missiles over the past two months, most of them short-range. These long-range launches are rarer, and pose a direct threat to the US, as the missiles are designed to carry nuclear warheads to anywhere on the US mainland. The latest intercontinential ballistic missile (ICBM) was fired at 10:15 local time (02:15 GMT) from near the North Korean capital Pyongyang, military chiefs in Seoul said. It reached an altitude of 6,100km on a lofted trajectory and travelled 1,000km (621 miles), reaching a speed of Mach 22, South Korea's military said. A lofted trajectory means the missile flies much higher into space but across a shorter distance than it would if fired on a normal trajectory. But Japan's defence minister Yasukazu Hamada said the missile had sufficient range to reach the US. "Based on calculations taking the trajectory into account, the ballistic missile this time around could have had a range capability of 15,000km, depending on the weight of its warhead, and if that's the case, it means the US mainland was within its range," he said. "We have told (Pyongyang) that we absolutely cannot tolerate such actions," Mr Kishida told reporters in Thailand. North Korea's pattern over the past months has been to launch missiles in response to US military activity around the Korean Peninsula. In October, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan - the first time it had done so in five years. The North is currently developing a new type of long-range missile, the Hwasong-17. It is larger than the ICBMs it has successfully tested in the past, and experts believe could be capable of carrying multiple warheads, which would make it harder to defend against. Several attempts to launch the Hwasong-17 are thought to have failed. Earlier this month the North launched an ICBM but it failed mid-flight, according to the South Korean military. "Even if the North does successfully launch the Hwasong-17, the threat will not have significantly increased", said Yang Uk, a military expert from the Asan Institute. "It must prove it has mastered the technology to be able to mount enough small nuclear warheads onto the ICBM", he said. Pyongyang has conducted six nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017, and it has completed preparations for a seventh test. Experts believe it may use the opportunity to test a compact nuclear device. *It is also working to improve its short-range missiles and conventional military capabilities.* __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

30-07-23, 03:14	#52
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: North Korea WARNS Military Could Thoroughly Annihilate US & is Prepared For WAR North Korea: Kim Jong Un Shows Off Missiles to Russia Defence Chief Shoigu Grinning Kim Jong-un and Putins’ Defence Chief Salute MASSIVE Nuke as It Rolls By BBC 30 JULY 2023 Kim Jong Un showed off North Korea's latest weapons to Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday. Pyongyang invited the Russian delegation led by Mr Shoigu, as well as Chinese officials. They will attend Pyongyang's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, marked typically by massive military parades. The weapons on display included the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Successfully tested in April, it is believed to be the country's first ICBM to use solid propellants, which makes it quicker to launch than liquid-fuel ones. Also on show were two new drone designs, including one resembling the primary offensive strike drone used by the US Air Force, according to NK News, a specialist site focusing on North Korea. Mr Shoigu's visit comes amid accusations that Pyongyang is supplying Russia with arms for use in its war in Ukraine - a claim that both Pyongyang and Moscow deny. North Korea's KCNA news agency said Mr Kim and Mr Shoigu discussed "matters of mutual concern" in the fields of national defence and on the international security environment. The delegations' visit for North Korea's Victory Day - as the 1953 end of hostilities is called in the North - is expected to finish on Thursday with an extensive military parade. The Koreans are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the conflict ended. Both Russia and China are long time allies of North Korea. Their visit marks the first time Mr Kim has thrown open the doors to foreign guests since the Covid pandemic. The last time Pyongyang invited foreign government delegates for a military parade was in February 2018. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, 26 July 2023 *Mr Shoigu praised the North Korean military as the "most powerful in the world", according to state media* Mr Kim had a "friendly talk" with Mr Shoigu, who handed him an autographed letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin, KCNA said, adding that he had later called North Korea's military "the most powerful" in the world. The visiting Chinese delegation, led by politburo member Li Hongzhong, also handed a personal letter from Mr Xi to Mr Kim. Mr Kim reportedly told Mr Li that "the Korean people will never forget the fact that the brave soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers shed blood to bring about the war victory". Beijing had sent troops in the autumn of 1950 to support North Korea in the war against South Korea. The then Soviet Union also supported North Korea in the war. Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Russia has remained a natural ally for North Korea because of their mutual dislike for the US. Some analysts say the inclusion of Chinese and Russian envoys in this year's Victory Day parade hints at a possible loosening of Covid restrictions. This comes weeks after images of North Koreans walking around without masks were shown on state media. The reclusive country had sealed itself off from all trade and diplomatic ties in early 2020, even with Russia and China, its main economic and political partners. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

05-11-23, 05:52	#53
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: North Korea WARNS Military Could Thoroughly Annihilate US & is Prepared For WAR I Helped 1,000 People Defectors Escape From North Korea BBC 5 NOV 2023 Pastor Seungem Kim claims to have rescued more than 1,000 defectors in the past ten years. He leads the Caleb Mission Church in South Korea. After their son was killed by North Koreans, his wife vowed that the couple would devote themselves to saving defectors. Pastor Kim has helped more than 1,000 North Korean defectors escape the country - and says more than 200 others have asked for his help. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

22-11-23, 06:39	#54
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: North Korea WARNS Military Could Thoroughly Annihilate US & is Prepared For WAR North Korea Launches Spy Satellite Into Orbit North Koreas’ Spy Satellite is a Big Deal, Regardless of How Advanced its Technology Is Rocket launch underlines Kim Jong-un’s ability to sidestep UN sanctions and suggests ballistic missile building abilities have reached a higher level BBC 22 NOV 2023 North Korea is already believed to be capable of striking the US mainland with a nuclear weapon; now it claims that it can spy on enemy troops, after state media reported the regimes’ first successful launch of a surveillance satellite, drawing an immediate response from South Korea. While Japan, South Korea and the US could not immediately confirm if the satellite’s payload had entered orbit late on Tuesday, a North Korean presence in space would add to military tensions on the peninsula and highlight the ineffectiveness of international sanctions. Hours after the North’s space agency claimed its Chollima-1 rocket had “accurately placed” the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit, the South said it was partially suspending an agreement designed to lower cross-border tensions. The defence ministry in Seoul said it would also resume aerial surveillance activities near the countries’ heavily armed border. North Korea could use satellites to more effectively target South Korea and Japan or conduct damage assessments during a war, according to Ankit Panda at the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. But even if, as some experts believe, the satellite is not technologically advanced enough to conduct military reconnaissance, it underlines Pyongyang’s ability to sidestep UN sanctions targeting its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes – possibly with help from another internationally isolated regime: the Kremlin. Malaysian embassy has closed. Kim Jong-un closed slate of North Korea’s embassies as sanctions bite While the launch differed from the volley of ballistic missile tests overseen by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in the past two years, it drew on the same technologies the regime uses to test its increasingly sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). That will only generate further unease in Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, where officials quickly condemned North Korea’s latest provocation. The US national security council spokesperson, Adrienne Watson, said the launch “raises tensions and risks destabilising the security situation in the region and beyond”. Possessing a rocket that can place a satellite into orbit suggests that the North can also build a missile capable of carrying a warhead of a size comparable to the satellite – a worrying development acknowledged by the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, who said last week that the successful launch of a reconnaissance satellite “would signify that North Korea’s ICBM capabilities have been taken to a higher level”. The move has already soured already precarious ties between North and South Korea, whose hardline leader was informed of the launch during a state visit to Britain. Officials in Seoul said they would immediately suspend a 2018 agreement and resume “frontline aerial surveillance” of North Korea. The inter-Korean comprehensive military created buffer zones and no-fly zones near the heavily armed inter-Korean border and includes a ban on the use of artillery, naval drills and surveillance activities, as well as open lines of communication. In Japan, the prime minister, Fumio Kishida, said the satellite launch posed a “serious threat that affects the safety of the people”. While some civilian experts believe the Malligyong-1 satellite can probably only identify large targets such as warships and planes, the use of multiple satellites promised by the North would vastly improve its ability to remotely monitor US, South Korean and Japanese troops. Irrespective of its practical applications, Kim will extract maximum propaganda value from the launch – which came after two embarrassing failures in May and August. Developing a working surveillance satellite is a key component of his mission to improve the North’s ability to counter what he sees as increasing threats from the US, whose aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson and its battle group arrived at the South Korean port of Busan this week in the latest demonstration of US firepower in the region. It will take time to gain a comprehensive understanding of the satellite’s technological strengths, but officials in South Korea believe it could have incorporated unspecified Russian expertise – “payment” for the North’s alleged shipment of munitions for the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. During his much-publicised trip to Russia in September, Kim discussed space technology with Vladimir Putin, who took his counterpart on a tour of Russia’s state-of-the-art Vostochny cosmodrome. Its practical usefulness aside, the satellite is another sign that the prospects for a resurrection of “nuclear diplomacy” with Washington are their dimmest since Kim’s failed summit with Donald Trump in 2019. “What is already clear is that this is not a one-off event but part of a North Korean strategy of prioritising military capabilities over economic development, threatening rather than reconciling with South Korea, and further aligning with Russia and China instead of pursuing diplomacy with the United States,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. Easley said there were “many reasons to be sceptical’ about the North’s claims about the satellite. “State-controlled media claims of a successful launch do not mean the satellite will actually perform meaningful reconnaissance functions,” he added. Chad O’Carroll, founder of the NK News website, said the regime could now claim to possess a military reconnaissance satellite, provided it could communicate with North Korean base stations. “South Korea’s government will attempt to suggest the satellite has little to no military reconnaissance value and try and reassure citizens its military capabilities remain hidden,” O’Carroll wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. *“But even if capabilities are relatively basic, the satellite will give real-time intelligence on military movements and installations throughout the region. This is a big shift.”* __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. 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28-11-23, 06:19	#55
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: UN Sec.Council Discusses N.Korea Threat After Spy Satellites Nuclear Aircraft Ph UN Security Council Meets to Discuss North Korea North Korea Claims Spy Satellite Has Photographed White House and Pentagon on 21 November. Malligyong-1 Also Sent Detailed Pictures of US Nuclear Aircraft Carriers, Says Regime BBC 28 NOV 2023 An official from the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs briefs the council after North Korea claimed that it had successfully launched a military reconnaissance satellite on 21 November. North Korea has claimed its recently launched satellite has sent back “detailed” images of the White House, the Pentagon and US nuclear aircraft carriers that have been viewed by the regime leader, Kim Jong-un. The existence of the images has not been independently verified, and experts say it is too soon to determine if the Malligyong-1 spy satellite is functioning properly, a week after its launch. On Tuesday, the state-run KCNA news agency said Kim, who viewed the launch then hosted a banquet for scientists and space programme workers, had viewed photos of the two US government sites, which were taken late on Monday night. The satellite also took photographs of a US naval base, a shipyard and an airfield in Virginia, KCNA said, adding that the images contained four US nuclear aircraft carriers and a British aircraft carrier. The regime in Pyongyang will be eager to extract maximum propaganda value from last Tuesday’s launch, which drew immediate condemnation from Washington and raised tensions along the heavily armed inter-Korean border. The North has also claimed the satellite took photos of military installations in South Korea, as well as the US Pacific territory of Guam and the state of Hawaii. None of the images have been made public. Military officials in South Korea say they believe Malligyong-1 has entered orbit, but have so far been unable to tell if it is capable of taking and sending images from space. The spy satellite, which is thought to have been made possible with Russian technological help, sparked angry scenes at the UN security council on Monday. The North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, sitting at left, meets with senior staff of the National Aerospace Technology Administration (Nata), during a party in celebration of the claimed launch of a spy satellite. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

02-01-24, 05:02	#56
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: UK Intel Sends UN Photos of North Korean Arms Shipments to Russia North Koreas’ Kim Jong Un Says Military Should Thoroughly Annihilate US, South Korea If Provoked MADMAN Kim Jong Un WARNS US Policy is Making WAR Inevitable and Orders Military to Prepare For WAR North Korea has welcomed in the new year by issuing further military threats against its neighbours in the south and the United States, saying it is prepared for all-out war MailOnline 2 JAN 2024 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Koreas' loopy leader Kim Jong Un said his military should "thoroughly annihilate" the United States and South Korea if provoked, state media reported Monday, after he vowed to boost national defense to cope with what he called an unprecedented U.S.-led confrontation. North Korea has increased its warlike rhetoric in recent months in response to an expansion of U.S.-South Korean military drills. Experts expect Kim will continue to escalate his rhetoric and weapons tests because he likely believes he can use heightened tensions to wrest U.S. concessions if TRUMP wins the U.S. presidential election in November. In a five-day major ruling party meeting last week, Kim said he will launch three more military spy satellites, produce more nuclear materials and develop attack drones this year in what observers say is an attempt to increase his leverage in future diplomacy with the U.S. In a meeting Sunday with commanding army officers, Kim said it is urgent to sharpen "the treasured sword" to safeguard national security, an apparent reference to his country´s nuclear weapons program. He cited "the U.S. and other hostile forces´ military confrontation moves," according to the official Korean Central News Agency. Kim stressed that "our army should deal a deadly blow to thoroughly annihilate them by mobilizing all the toughest means and potentialities without moment´s hesitation" if they opt for military confrontation and provocations against North Korea, KCNA said. In his New Year´s Day address Monday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he will strengthen his military's preemptive strike, missile defense and retaliatory capabilities in response to the North Korean nuclear threat. "The Republic of Korea is building genuine, lasting peace through strength, not a submissive peace that is dependent on the goodwill of the adversary," Yoon said, using South Korea's official name. At the party meeting, Kim called South Korea "a hemiplegic malformation and colonial subordinate state" whose society is "tainted by Yankee culture." He said his military must use all available means including nuclear weapons to "suppress the whole territory of South Korea" in the event of a conflict. South Korea´s Defense Ministry warned in response Sunday that if North Korea attempts to use nuclear weapons, South Korean and U.S. forces will punish it overwhelmingly, resulting in the end of the Kim government. KCNA said North Korean officials held talks on Monday to implement an order by Kim to disband or reform organizations handling relations with South Korea to fundamentally change the principle and direction of the North's struggle against the South. There was no immediate explanation of how that might alter inter-Korean relations, which have been stalled for an extended period. Experts say small-scale military clashes between North and South Korea could happen this year along their heavily armed border. They say North Korea is also expected to test-launch intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the mainland U.S. and other major new weapons. North Koreas' Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un orders military to prepare for war

22-01-24, 13:43	#57
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: UK Intel Sends UN Photos of North Korean Arms Shipments to Russia UK Intelligence Sends UN Experts Photographs of North Korean Arms Shipments to Russia Report shows Russian ships loading at North Korean port, amid accusation that Pyongyang supplies missiles and shells The Guardian 22 JAN 2024 The UK has provided satellite photographs of North Korean cargo shipments to Russia to a panel of UN experts as part of an attempt to trigger an official investigation into arms deals in violation of international sanctions. North Korea has been accused of supplying ballistic missiles and hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to the Russian government for its war in Ukraine since Vladimir Putin met with Kim Jong-un in Russia’s far east in September. Their bilateral relationship appears to be expanding. Putin met the North Korean foreign minister, Choe Son-hui, in the Kremlin this week during a rare, five-day trip by the senior Pyongyang official. The two discussed “further development of our relations in all areas, including sensitive ones”, according to a Kremlin spokesperson. An unpublished UK defence intelligence report seen by the Guardian shows imagery taken between September and December of three Russian ships, the Maia, Angara and Maria, loading containers at North Korea’s revived Najin port before transiting to Russian ports in the far east. While the agency said it could not identify what was in the containers, it followed a US announcement last week that ballistic missiles from North Korea had been used by Russia in Ukraine last week. A map from the report providing an overview of the transport of materials between Russia and North Korea. “Russia’s use of North Korean weapons in Ukraine is a violation of multiple UN security council resolutions,” said a UN diplomat. “It undermines international efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and exposes just how desperate Russia has become in its failed invasion. This and other evidence submitted to the UN sanctions committee should trigger a full investigation into Russia and DPRK’s [North Korea’s] flagrant breaking of international sanctions.” The report, along with other evidence from the United States and other countries, was provided to the UN panel of experts on North Korean proliferation, which is expected next month to publish its first final report since suspected North Korean shipments of ammunition to Russia sharply increased this year. The ships in the report were all placed under sanctions by the US government in 2022 for their links to the Russian ministry of defence’s shipping company, Oboronlogistika OOO, which has “been involved in Russia’s illegal seizure and occupation of Crimea since 2014, as well as private Russian maritime shipping companies that transport weapons and other military equipment for the [government of Russia]”. Two of the three ships were also identified in a recent report by the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. It showed a growth in transshipments from North Korea to Russia that “reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale”. A third was identified by NK News, an independent news website focusing on North Korea, as “part of a group of commercial vessels that have completed multiple deliveries of military equipment and munitions provided by the DPRK to Russia”. The deliveries have been cited as enabling military strikes against Ukraine in December and January that “killed dozens of people and injured hundreds more”. Prosecutors in Kharkiv told the Guardian that suspected fragments of North Korean-made Iskander missiles had been sent to Kyiv for analysis and said the missiles had subtle differences: hand-drawn lettering for serial numbers, and a different nozzle exhaust cone and welding. A statement released by eight members of the security council, including the UK and US, said: “These heinous attacks were conducted, in part, using ballistic missiles and ballistic missile launchers procured from [North Korea].” The White House’s senior director for arms control, Pranay Vaddi, said this week that the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea was “unprecedented” and warned that Russian military assistance to North Korea could undermine the US nuclear deterrence policy in South Korea and Japan. “I think the nature of North Korea as a threat in the region could drastically change over the coming decade as a result of this cooperation,” he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies thinktank. Choe met Putin, the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the deputy prime minister Alexander Novak during her visit to Russia. North Korea also signalled that it may be receiving Russian help for its space programme. Before the meeting with Putin, a member of the North Korean delegation was photographed with a document apparently titled Observation List in Space Technology Field, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. The list appeared to include the Progress Rocket Space Centre and the Voronezh mechanical plant, known to produce engines, although the writing was not completely clear, the news agency wrote. Putin had previously pledged to help North Korea build satellites, and North Korea managed to launch its first spy satellite in November. South Korea alleged that Russia had helped build the spy satellite. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. 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