May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: Quotes indicating that U.S. special forces had made reconnaissance incursions into North Korea were fabricated, United States Forces Korea told a Voice of America journalist in a statement. U.S. Army Gen. Neil Tolley, commander of U.S. special operations on the Korean peninsula, was quoted in The Diplomat magazine as saying ...
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May 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: U.S. Army Gen. Neil Tolley, commander of U.S. Special Operations Forces in South Korea, told an audience in Tampa that U.S. and South Korean forces have been sent into North Korea to spy on the communist country’s vast collection of underground tunnels and military installations. The extraordinary admission, which went unreported ...
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May 1, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
Excerpted from The Washington Times: The U.S. military is discussing significant changes in its war plans to adhere to President Obama’s new strategic guidance that downplays preparing for conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and counts on allies to provide additional troops. War planning for Iran is now the most pressing scenario, or what the ...
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Apr 16, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
Excerpted from Washington Times: China likely provided the mobile long-range missile launcher that North Korea displayed in a military parade over the weekend, which would put Beijing in violation of U.N. sanctions, analysts say. The 16-wheeled vehicle, known as a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL), is apparently based on a Chinese design, said Ted Parsons of IHS Jane's ...
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Apr 13, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - North Korea's widely condemned rocket splintered into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff Friday, an embarrassing end to a launch that Pyongyang had infused with national pride during a week of high-level political meetings and celebrations. Within minutes of the early morning launch, the United States and South ...
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Apr 12, 2012 1 Comment ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from ABCNEWS: An anticipated missile launch by North Korea failed today when the country fired the long-range test rocket in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions and an agreement with the United States. The 90-ton rocket launched with a larger than anticipated flare. But U.S. officials said that the missile is believed to have ...
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Apr 12, 2012 Comments Off Toro520
Associated Press: PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Fighter jets roared through the skies over downtown Pyongyang on Thursday as the world watched to see whether North Korea would defy international warnings and launch a long-range rocket over the Yellow Sea. The five-day window for the launch of a rocket mounted with an observation satellite opened Thursday as ...
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Apr 11, 2012 Comments Off Toro520
Reuters: YONGYANG (Reuters) - Impoverished North Korea rejected international protests over its planned long-range rocket launch and said on Wednesday that it was injecting fuel "as we speak", meaning it could blast off as early as Thursday. If all goes to plan, the launch, which North Korea's neighbors and the West say is a disguised ballistic missile ...
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Apr 3, 2012 2 Comments ›› Infidel كافر
DNA - North Korea is preparing to unveil a long-range missile that is capable of striking targets in the United States. Reconnaissance satellites have identified the huge missile at a government research and development facility in Pyongyang, South Korean government sources told the newspaper Chosun Ilbo. Analysts estimate the weapon to be 130ft long and ...
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Apr 3, 2012 1 Comment ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from FOXNEWS - An agency of the United Nations has quietly shipped computers and sophisticated computer servers to the government of North Korea, despite ongoing U.N. sanctions against the regime for its efforts to build nuclear weapons, Fox News has learned. The complicated method chosen by the Geneva-based agency, the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property ...
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Apr 1, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
FOXNEWS SEOUL, South Korea – New satellite images of a North Korean rocket launch site show a mobile radar trailer and rows of what appear to be empty fuel and oxidizer tanks, evidence of ramped-up preparation for what Washington calls a cover for a long-range missile test. An analysis of images provided Monday to The ...
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Mar 25, 2012 1 Comment ›› Infidel كافر
FOXNews - ( SEOUL, South Korea ) Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch. "North Korea will achieve nothing by threats or provocations," Obama said during a news conference Sunday in Seoul, South ...
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Mar 6, 2012 Comments Off Toro520
JPost: A senior German defense figure said in a report this week that Iran may be significantly further ahead in its nuclear weapons program than public intelligence assessments have so far suggested. Hans Ruhle, who directed the planning department of the German Defense Ministry from 1982 to 1988, argued that Iran may have been involved in the ...
Continue ReadingJan 4, 2012 3 Comments ›› Toro520
AFP: The South Korean and US military will soon sign a new plan to counter any North Korean attacks and hold regular exercises, Seoul said Wednesday, amid wariness over the North's power transition. "We believe there remains a possibility of provocations by the North during the power succession to Kim Jong-Un," deputy defence minister Lim Kwan-Bin ...
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Reuters: North Korea called on its people to rally behind new leader Kim Jong-un and protect him as "human shields" while working to solve the "burning issue" of food shortages by upholding the policies of his late father, Kim Jong-il. The North's three main state newspapers said in a policy-setting editorial traditionally published on New Year's Day ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2011 2 Comments ›› Angelia
Bloomberg: North Korea warned the world not to expect change from the regime under new leader Kim Jong Un and threatened a “roar of revenge” against South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, ahead of New Year messages by both sides that analysts say will focus on inter-Korean relations. Lee had provoked North Korea by raising security alerts ...
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Reuters: U.N. offices around the world lowered their flags to half-staff to mark the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday in a move the world body said was routine but which prompted objections from some human rights activists. In New York, where the flag outside U.N. headquarters was lowered, spokesman Eduardo del Buey said ...
Continue ReadingDec 26, 2011 Comments Off Angelia
Brawl breaks out in Seoul after group of Kim Jong Il supporters attempt to erect a memorial incense altar in memory of the late North Korean President.
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The Guardian: The Pakistani army has rejected a US investigation that concluded mistakes on both sides led to US air strikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and severely damaged the already strained relationship between the two countries. The response indicates the report will do little to ease tensions, a worrying development for the US because ...
Continue ReadingDec 21, 2011 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Reuters) - North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said. The source added that the military, which is trying to develop a ...
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