Showing posts with label NKorea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NKorea. Show all posts

Thursday, April 29, 2004

The Main Story

Well maybe the biggest story lately came on about the twenty-second of the month when an explosion or two occurred in Ryongchon, North Korea leaving deep craters, and almost half the wounded were blinded. Was that Earth Day? What is the official reason again? - Oh yeah, an "accident" that's cloaked in secrecy.

Joe Vialls has a theory, and below I'm posting a link. Does he have access to highly classified information? It's an interesting link, but it seems no one is able to verify what he is saying until very much later. Has the US already been using "mini-nukes"? You know the mainstream media would never come out with stuff of this nature. It seems secrets are everywhere. You don't think so? No? OK then. :)

Here's the link: Ryongchon - Nuclear Trigger for American Conscription?

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

6-Way Talks On NKorea

China has helped set up another round of 6-way talks with North Korea, the US, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, scheduled to begin February 25th in Beijing. But has either of the two principals really changed their stance since the last round of talks that produced nothing but more bitterness? Will Bush negotiate with an "axis of evil"? Last December Vice President Cheney said in reference to North Korea, "I have been charged by the President with making sure that none of the tyrannies in the world are negotiated with. We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it." And North Korea said it would never give up its "nuclear deterrent" unless its security was guaranteed and aid recommenced. I guess you can only hope that talking will in fact lead to an understanding that nuclear war isn't the only path that can be taken and some agreement can be reached.

Still, everyone knows that both the US and North Korea have enough nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction.

Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Lessons on How To Oppress and Subjugate

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From The New York Times: December 7, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/international/middleeast/07TACT.html?pagewanted=print&position=
Tough New Tactics by U.S. Tighten Grip on Iraq Towns
By DEXTER FILKINS
ABU HISHMA, Iraq, Dec. 6 — As the guerrilla war against Iraqi insurgents intensifies, American soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire. In selective cases, American soldiers are demolishing buildings thought to be used by Iraqi attackers. They have begun imprisoning the relatives of suspected guerrillas, in hopes of pressing the insurgents to turn themselves in. ... American officials say they are not purposefully mimicking Israeli tactics, but they acknowledge that they have studied closely the Israeli experience in urban fighting. Ahead of the war, Israeli defense experts briefed American commanders on their experience in guerrilla and urban warfare. The Americans say there are no Israeli military advisers helping the Americans in Iraq. ...

From The New Yorker: Issue of 2003-12-15, Posted 2003-12-08
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031215fa_fact
MOVING TARGETS
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
... An American who has advised the civilian authority in Baghdad said, “The only way we can win is to go unconventional. We’re going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We’ve got to scare the Iraqis into submission.” ...

From The Guardian: Tuesday December 9, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1102940,00.html
Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq
By Julian Borger in Washington
Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has sent urban warfare specialists to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the home of US special forces, and according to two sources, Israeli military "consultants" have also visited Iraq. ... US special forces teams are already behind the lines inside Syria attempting to kill foreign jihadists before they cross the border ...

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At Asia Times: Nov 26, 2003
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EK26Dg01.html
Bush's North Korea policy still a shambles
(By Aidan Foster-Carter)
George W Bush:
"Not every situation needs to be resolved through military action. And I would cite to you North Korea and Iran," he told British newspapers.

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Also a comment I posted at Baltimore Independent Media:
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/5735/index.php
Of the ways for Bush to retain his office, one is to rig the election again and another is an emergency that requires the implementation of martial law. and due to his policies he will have plenty of opportunities to enflame present crises. Here's just one (and another one could be a war for oil in the Caspian Sea arena with Russia as an opponent):
[I've been saying this for a long time - that I don't expect a fair election in 2004, or even any election at all. But, in other news today, Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean's campaign.]

From AP at Yahoo: Tue Dec 9, 7:16 AM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031209/ap_on_re_as/k
N. Korea Sets Condition for Halting Nukes
By SANG-HUN CHOE, Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Tuesday it will freeze its nuclear weapons program if Washington takes the communist country off its list of terrorism-sponsoring nations and provides fuel aid. If this demand is met by the United States, North Korea also said it will join a second round of six-nation talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear weapons programs. North Korea would "freeze" its nuclear activities in exchange for "measures such as the U.S. delisting the DPRK as a 'terrorism sponsor,' lift of the political, economic and military sanctions and blockade and energy aid including the supply of heavy fuel oil and electricity by the U.S. and neighboring countries," a spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by its official news agency, KCNA. ... "This would lay a foundation for furthering the six-way talks," the spokesman said. "What is clear is that in no case the DPRK would freeze its nuclear activities unless it is rewarded." ...

From AP at My Way News: Dec 9, 4:34 PM (ET)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20031209/D7VB3VM00.html
U.S. Rejects New N. Korea Offer on Nukes
By SOO-JEONG LEE
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea announced Tuesday it would freeze its nuclear weapons projects in return for the United States providing energy aid and removing Pyongyang from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. President Bush rejected the offer. ... "The goal of the United States is not for a freeze of the nuclear program," Bush said at a White House news conference with Premier Wen Jiabao of China, which is spearheading the drive to resume talks with North Korea. "The goal is to dismantle a nuclear weapons program in a verifiable and irreversible way," Bush said. "That is the clear message we are sending to the North Koreans." ... Under its initial proposal, North Korea would declare its willingness to give up nuclear development, allow nuclear inspections, give up missiles exports and finally dismantle its nuclear weapons facilities. In return, it demanded economic and humanitarian aid, security assurances, diplomatic ties and new power plants. ...

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US troops are learning from the Israelis how to enrage and oppress people whose lands they occupy (not that they need any help), and Bush is showing NKorea what a tough negotiator and "diplomat" he is by accepting no terms and expecting to get whatever he wants for nothing. [I shouldn't say for nothing. It's the threat of nuclear war that he uses as a bargaining chip.]