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Contrary to demands by Representative Peter King (R- New York) that the whistleblower Web site WikliLeaks be "designated a foreign terrorist organization" for making public thousands of previously secret U.S. diplomatic cables, the Web site should be honored for performing a vital public service to the world by revealing that North Korea sold 19 nuclear-capable R-27 missiles to Iran, giving Tehran the potential to fire them at targets throughout Europe and even toward the Russian capital, Moscow. The documents, if accurate, show that Iran and North Korea pose a far greater threat to world peace and stability than previously thought.
http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2010/11/exposed-iran-and-n-korea-pose-greater.htmlContrary to demands by Representative Peter King (R- New York) that the whistleblower... more
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China officials have repeatedly expressed grave concerns about their communist alley North Korea, it is revealed in the latest WikiLeaks cables. Pyongyang was behaving like a "spoiled child", a Chinese foreign ministry official is quoted as having said in 2009.Chinese officials reportedly told their South Korean counterparts that Beijing placed little value on the North as a buffer state.And they even suggested that the peninsula should be reunified under Seoul's control.The revelations come as regional tensions remain high after the North shelled a South Korean island a week ago.Another leaked cable reveals that China's Vice Foreign Minister, He Yafei, downplayed Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to Pyongyang, telling the US Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg: "We may not like them... [but] they are a neighbour."Another cable relays a discussion over an official lunch in February 2010 between former South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo and the US ambassador to Seoul, Kathleen Stephens.The minister is said to have revealed that a new, younger generation of Chinese leaders no longer regarded North Korea as a useful or reliable ally, and would not risk renewed armed conflict on the peninsula.
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SEOUL, South Korea — President Lee Myung-bak promised in a televised speech on Monday to make sure that North Korea “pays a dear price” should it attack the South again.
His toughly worded address at the Blue House, the presidential palace in Seoul, made no mention of China’s initiative over the weekend to defuse the latest crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Analysts said that omission signaled South Korea’s disappointment that China was not doing more to rein in North Korea, which relies heavily on China for economic aid.
China called on Sunday for “emergency consultations” in early December in Beijing with North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States. The so-called six-party talks among those nations, aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapon program, have failed in the past, usually ending with North Korean officials walking out.
Coupled with hastily arranged high-level meetings with North and South Korean leaders, China’s proposal illustrated its nervousness over the escalation in tensions on the peninsula since North Korea’s lethal shelling last Tuesday of a South Korean island in the disputed maritime border area between them.
“I think it is a dramatic change of Chinese policy to address its growing concern,” said Zhu Feng, deputy director of the Center for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. “This initiative shows that Beijing is more proactive.”
Even so, the Chinese response, which appeared to be studiously neutral, was far from what either South Korea or the United States had publicly sought.
In his Monday morning address, South Korea’s president thanked the United States, Japan, Russia and other nations for condemning North Korea’s artillery attack on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong, which left 4 dead and 16 injured.
Monday brought a fresh show of support, as Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan called the shelling “barbaric” and said he hoped to meet with Mr. Lee in Tokyo next month.
President Lee said the shelling constituted a new level of aggression from North Korea. In the future, he said, South Korea will respond to such attacks in kind.
He replaced the defense minister last week after the military failed to quickly return fire after the Yeonpyeong assault and fired far fewer rounds than the North Koreans.
Mr. Lee said South Korea had showered North Korea with humanitarian aid and striven peacefully to reduce the threat of its nuclear weapons but the North had reacted with unremitting hostility, including the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, which left 46 crewmen dead.
“I cannot help but be infuriated at the brutality of the North Korean regime,” he said. “Our people have clearly come to know that any more endurance and tolerance will cultivate even bigger provocation.”
Two polls of South Koreans, released in the last two days, underscored their dismay over North Korea’s belligerence, unhappiness over their military’s response to the latest incident and disappointment in China’s reaction. But one of the surveys, by the East Asia Institute, also suggested that South Koreans were deeply ambivalent over how to react to North Korea. While nearly 7 in 10 said military aggression called for retaliation, more than half also said they preferred conciliatory policies toward North Korea.
Especially annoying to many South Koreans is China’s failure to criticize North Korea for last week’s artillery barrage, which resulted in the first South Korean civilian deaths from North Korean weaponry since the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War. Instead, China’s state-run media gave equal prominence to North Korea’s claim that the United States had masterminded the crisis.
“This is disappointing,” Yoon Duk-min, a regional security specialist at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security in Seoul, said of China’s proposal. “The six-party talks are a dialogue to solve the nuclear issue, not the current crisis on the peninsula.”
Kim Yong-hyun, a professor at Dongguk University, said South Korea was unlikely to accept China’s offer to host talks because it would seem to reward North Korea’s violence. “Maybe after time passes, but not now,” he said.
The Chinese effort came as the United States, South Korea’s most powerful ally, conducted four-day naval war exercises with South Korean forces in the Yellow Sea in response to the shelling, a move that both China and North Korea have criticized as provocative.
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Jang Gee-Yeon, a tanker-driver on the island of Yeonpyeong, wasn’t scared at first when the North Korean shells started landing. “We’d been told there were going to be exercises, so I thought it was just a misfire,” he said. “Then I got a call saying it was real. I was in shock. I ran up to the village and it was burning in at least thirty places. There could have been more. The smoke was so thick, I couldn’t see everywhere.”
The island only has one small fire engine, so Jang and his colleagues decided to convert their tanker into a lashed-up pump. “We fixed it up so we could spray water from it,” he said. “I drove. There was nobody else. We got a hose and we put out five house fires and three fires on the mountain above the village. We were looking up the whole time, worried that another bomb would land on top of us.”
If Hollywood ever needs somewhere to start World War Three, Yeonpyeong would be a good choice. North Korea is in plain view, about as far away as Portsmouth is from Ryde. A notice at the ferry terminal warns you to call a hotline number if you see enemy frogmen. On Tuesday afternoon, from an artillery base close enough to be visible through binoculars, the North Koreans launched a rather more direct assault.
A whole street of houses and shops in the village stands charred and ruined. Blackened bar-stools and twisted bicycles show the force of the blast, and even three days later the smell of burning remained. Dogs, some of them wounded, run or limp through the streets, abandoned by their owners in the panic to get away. The village is empty of all but journalists. On the boat back, I spoke to a policeman who collected the bodies of the two civilians killed. “One of them was just a totally burnt-out shell, a skeleton,” he said. “The other was scattered, blown apart.”
According to local media, the North Koreans used “hyperbaric,” or fuel-air, explosives – rare and unusually destructive weapons, only just this side of breaching international law. But then the attack itself, Pyongyang’s first, in its own words, “precisely aimed” land assault on South Korea's civilians since the end of the war in 1953, broke wholly new and dangerous ground.
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calls for calm after North Korea fires barrage at South Korean island
China, Japan and Germany express their concern about Pyongyang’s attack on the island of Yeonpyeong, and call on both parties to resolve their differences peacefully.
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YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – China tried Sunday to defuse tension over a recent North Korean attack on the South by proposing an emergency meeting in Beijing, hours after the U.S. and South Korea launched naval war games in a united show of force.
Beijing's top nuclear envoy called for an emergency meeting among the six nations involved in the stalled North Korean nuclear disarmament talks to calm tempers over North Korea's artillery barrage Tuesday that killed four people on South Korea's front-line island of Yeonpyeong.
Nuclear envoy Wu Dawei said in a statement issued in Beijing that the international community, particularly members of the six-party talks — the two Koreas, Japan, the U.S., China and Russia — were deeply concerned about recent developments. He called for a meeting of chief nuclear negotiations in China in early December.
However, it was unclear whether the proposal would be accepted. Seoul and Washington have resisted restarting the disarmament-for-aid talks until Pyongyang shows a concrete commitment to denuclearization.
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Analysis: US carrier visit a dilemma for China
BEIJING – This weekend's arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea poses a dilemma for Beijing: Should it protest angrily and aggravate ties with Washington, or quietly accept the presence of a key symbol of American military pre-eminence off Chinese shores?
The USS George Washington, accompanied by escort ships, is to take part in military drills with South Korea following North Korea's shelling of a South Korean island Tuesday that was one of the most serious confrontations since the Korean War a half-century ago.
It's a scenario China has sought to prevent. Only four months ago, Chinese officials and military officers shrilly warned Washington against sending a carrier into the Yellow Sea for an earlier set of exercises. Some said it would escalate tensions after the sinking of a South Korean navy ship blamed on North Korea. Others went further, calling the carrier deployment a threat to Chinese security.
Beijing believes its objections worked. Although Washington never said why, no aircraft carrier sailed into the strategic Yellow Sea, which laps at several Chinese provinces and the Korean peninsula.
This time around, with outrage high over the shelling, the U.S. raising pressure on China to rein in wayward ally North Korea, and a Chinese-American summit in the works, the warship is coming, and Beijing is muffling any criticisms.
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Ominous clouds are on the horizon in the Pacific off California and in the waters off China. An escalating conflict between North & South Korea has brought an aircraft carrier close to the Chinese coast. Earlier this fall there was video of a missile being launched off of Los Angeles a report that was quickly “explained” only some reports indicate a cover-up may be under way. Here we present a pair of stories that illustrate the rising tensions between these two trading partners.
Meanwhile most of our armed Forces are engaging Muslim terrorists whose growing influence in the region are a direct threat to the Chinese. At what point do sensible people ask themselves why the attacks of 9/11 by a small terrorist group we helped create justify fighting a huge war covering five countries Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen? If American forces weren’t engaging radical Muslims in this region they would all be lining up to support the growing Muslim rebellion in western China.
For too long we have engaged in a reckless policy that has plunged us deeply into debt and threatens our way of life. For a long time American business has helped empower a brutal dictatorship that has violently suppressed and dissent. For what the current Chinese government has done in Tiananmen Square, Tibet and to the Falun Gong we have made them into the economic power of the day. In doing so have sold out our ideals in the name of a fast buck only a fairly small number of people got those fast bucks.
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Pyonyang has already condemned military war exercises between the U.S. and South Korea, saying that those naval maneuvers which are due to start on Sunday will bring Korea to the brink of war. It added that 'these military exercises between U.S. imperialists and their South Korean bellicose puppets are directed against North Korea'.
In the meantime, the Chinese have expressed concern over these exercises, and declared that it opposed any action that would undermine the stability of the Korean peninsula. Following North Korea's artillery shelling on Tuesday on South Korean Yeonpyeong Island. which left four dead and more than twenty injured, China was urging restraint. A Reuters report announced that Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi met with North Korean ambassador Ji Jae Ryong, and spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan; he reiterated that all relevant parties should handle the matter 'responsibly'.Pyonyang has already condemned military war exercises between the U.S. and South... more
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There's at least one thing Sarah Palin was not thankful for this Thanksgiving: the media.
In a Facebook post Thursday evening, Palin excoriated the press for seizing on a gaffe made on Glenn Beck's radio show the previous day, when she suggested that North Korea was an ally to the U.S.
"It seems they couldn't resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline," Palin wrote.
"If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck's radio show ," the post continued, "they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime."
Journalists have made an entire beat out of Palin's frequent criticism of their ranks. (The Cutline is obviously guilty as charged.) Earlier this week, there was widespread coverage of Palin's most recent attack on CBS anchor Katie Couric, who she claimed has "such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say."
Palin says she prefers getting her message across via Twitter and Facebook.There's at least one thing Sarah Palin was not thankful for this Thanksgiving:... more
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'Using a burst of artillery fire to signal its fury with South Korea and its U.S. allies, North Korea warned the conditions brewing in the Korea peninsula have pushed it to the "brink of war."
The flash of artillery fire could be heard in Yeonpyeong, the same island that North Korea attacked earlier in the week when four people died and buildings were set ablaze.
Only a few dozen South Koreans have stayed behind on Yeonpyeong, which lies only 11 kilometres from the shores of North Korea. They ran to shelters after seeing the faraway flash of artillery on Friday.
The Friday artillery fire did not hit any South Korean targets, though it was launched while U.S. Gen. Walter Sharp was touring the part of Yeonpyeong that came under attack.
The commander of the 28,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea called out the North Korean regime for violating the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.
"We at the United Nations Command will investigate this completely and call on North Korea to stop any future attacks," Sharp said Friday.
But in North Korea, the Pyongyang government was insistent that the U.S. was an aggressor, by stating an intention to take part in joint military drills with South Korea in disputed waters.
A North Korean military official bragged about the Tuesday attack in which the military "precisely aimed and hit the enemy artillery base".'
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During yesterday's Glenn Beck radio show Sarah had to be corrected by the co-host on the current hostilities between the two Koreas.During yesterday's Glenn Beck radio show Sarah had to be corrected by the co-host... more
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The Obama administration called on China Wednesday to rein in North Korea after its artillery attack on a South Korean island, as the Pentagon ordered the USS George Washington aircraft carrier strike group to the Yellow Sea for naval exercises with South Korean forces.
Search crews on the island located off South Korea's west coast also recovered the charred bodies of two civilians Wednesday.
China, which has a defense agreement with communist North Korea, is the key to changing Pyongyang's behavior, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.
"We do believe that China has influence with North Korea," he said. "We don't want to understate or overstate that. It's not that China can dictate a particular action to North Korea. It is that China, together with the United States and other countries, have to send a clear, direct, unified message that it is North Korea that has to change."
At the United Nations, Security Council, members held talks on the attack, but news reports indicated that action on the matter was unlikely. The Security Council took months to condemn North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship and then did not mention North Korea by name.
An unidentified relative of Seo Jeong-woo, a South Korean marine killed on Yeonpyeong Island by North Korea's artillery attack, weeps during a memorial service at a military hospital Wednesday. (Associated Press)
At Incheon, South Korea, residents of the bombed island told stories of the midafternoon artillery barrage.
"Over my head, a pine tree was broken and burning," said Ann Ahe-ja, who was among the hundreds of evacuees from Yeonpyeong Island arriving at the port. "So I thought, 'Oh, this is not another exercise. It is a war.' I decided to run. And I did."
In addition to the two civilians, two South Korean marines were killed and 18 wounded in the artillery strike, which destroyed 30 homes.
The shelling followed South Korean military exercises involving artillery fire south of the island.
Wang Baodong, a Chinese Embassy spokesman in Washington, said all parties in the crisis must "help relax the tension."
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China should use its influence over North Korea to defuse the crisis sparked by the North's shelling of a Southern island, US officials say.
State department spokesman PJ Crowley said Beijing's role was pivotal and urged Beijing to be clear on the issue.
China is the only nation with influence in the North but Beijing has so far issued statements urging restraint and has refused to blame the North.
Two South Korean civilians and two marines died in Tuesday's shelling.
The burnt bodies of two men in their 60s were found on Wednesday on the island, which lies near the disputed Yellow Sea border.
The latest TV pictures of the island show neighbourhoods reduced to rubble with shops and homes burnt and destroyed.
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Sarah Palin’s choosing sides in the conflict between North and South Korea–and picking Kim Jong Il?
Couldn’t be. But there she is on Glenn Beck’s radio show saying just that: “This speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policy. But obviously we’ve gotta stand with our North Korean allies.”
The host helpfully corrects her, “South Korean allies.”
The scrambled tongue moment–as that’s surely what Palin will say it was–does bring up a charge made in John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s book, Game Change, which portrays Palin as dangerously uninformed–a candidate for the vice presidency who didn’t understand that Korea was divided:
She knew nothing. She had to be taken through World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and Palin was not aware there was a difference between North and South Korea. She continued to insist that Iraq was behind 9/11; and when her son was being sent off to Iraq, she couldn’t describe who we were fighting.
Now, in fairness to Sarah Palin, she’s got a lot on her plate right now–a book tour, a reality show, and a daughter who landed in third place on Dancing with the Stars–so remembering arcane international details like which country has a lunatic dictator with nuclear weapons and which one has American troops can be difficult.
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The bodies of two civilians have been found on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, shelled in yesterday's attack by North Korea."Two people aged in their 60s were found dead allegedly as a result of yesterday's shelling," said a police spokesman in the nearby port of Incheon.The South Korean coastguard service said the two men were construction workers. Two South Korean marines also died, and many were injured when dozens of artillery shells hit the island - most of them striking a military base.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called it one of the "gravest incidents" since the end of the Korean War.The US president has pledged to stand shoulder to shoulder with South Korea.
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Is the United States about to go to war with the most bizarre nation on earth? A lot of Americans would actually welcome "the Korean War Part 2", but before people get too excited it is important to keep in mind that we have never been at war with a nation that actually possesses nuclear weapons. At this point it is unclear exactly how powerful North Korea's nuclear weapons are, but nearly everyone does agree that they are crazy enough to use them.Is the United States about to go to war with the most bizarre nation on earth? A lot... more
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Despite the fact that South Korea admits it fired the first shots that prompted the North to retaliate, the vast majority of the establishment press are feverishly blaming North Korea for a new escalation in the crisis, while failing completely to acknowledge the fact that the whole fiasco was generated as a direct result of Uncle Sam’s policy through two separate administrations to ensure hereditary dictator Kim Jong-Il and his successors acquired the atom bomb.
As we have exhaustively documented, North Korea’s nuclear belligerency was almost exclusively a creation of the U.S. government in that they armed the Stalinist state both directly and indirectly through global arms dealers under their control, namely Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. While labeling North Korea as part of the “axis of evil,” the U.S. government was enthusiastically funding its nuclear weapons program at every stage.
Both the Clinton and Bush administrations played a key role in helping Kim Jong-Il develop North Korea’s nuclear prowess from the mid 1990’s onwards.
Just as with Saddam Hussein’s chemical and biological weapons program, it was Donald Rumsfeld who played a key role in arming Kim-Jong-Il.
If the tensions between the Koreas were to escalate into all out war, don’t expect the castrated American corporate media to mention how Kim Jong-Il and his successors grew to be such a threat in the first place – with the aid of nuclear weapons enthusiastically supplied by the U.S. government and its surrogates.
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Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
November 23, 2010
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.Despite the fact that South Korea admits it fired the first shots that prompted the... more
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WASHINGTON -- The White House said President Barack Obama was "outraged" Tuesday following North Korea's artillery attack against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, the latest in a series of provocations that have reawakened concerns about the threat posed by the communist country and its reclusive leadership.WASHINGTON -- The White House said President Barack Obama was "outraged"... more
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