88Comrade2000 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ff588106-3cb1-11e5-8613-07d16aad2152.html#axzz3iCMrfugO NK to start Pyongyang Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balki1867 Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Pyongyang Time-- Is that like Gangnam Style? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 https://sg.news.yahoo.com/korea-blames-north-mine-blast-threatens-harsh-response-014418195.html S. Korea blames North for mine blast, threatens 'harsh' response South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of planting landmines that maimed two soldiers on border patrol, sending military tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring as it threatened to make Pyongyang pay a "harsh price". The Defence Ministry said it believed three landmines exploded in the incident last Tuesday, hitting a patrol in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) -- a buffer zone stretching two kilometres on either side of the actual frontier line dividing the two Koreas. "We are certain they were North Korean landmines planted with an intention to kill by our enemies who sneaked across the military border," ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters. One soldier underwent a double leg amputation, while the other had one leg removed. In a statement, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said its military would make North Korea "pay a harsh price proportionate for the provocation it made."Describing the attack as a "baseless act" and "wanton violation" of non-aggression accords, the statement urged the North to apologise for the attack and punish those responsible. The Defence Ministry declined to comment on what was meant by the term "harsh price" or to speculate on the options being considered for a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 The south will retaliate with the flaming bag of poo trick right outside the negotiation building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 LOL, we're quoting the Hindustan Times now? (j/k) In seriousness, I read another article where they also mentioned that the DVD drop is largely an empty gesture. Very few people in NK own computers or DVD players, and the ones that do only have them because they are in high favor with the Party. true... they should drop phone books with the interview sketched in teh margins as a stop action flipshow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSkins0721 Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 North Korea executes vice premier for discontent with leader: Yonhap SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's vice premier was executed by firing squad this year after showing discontent with the policies of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean media report said on Wednesday Yonhap News Agency cited an unnamed source as saying that the 63-year-old Choe Yong Gon, a former delegate for North-South cooperation, was executed, marking another death of a senior official in a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took charge in late 2011. The Yonhap report said Choe had expressed disagreement with Kim's forestry policies in May and had shown poor work performance. It provided no further details. http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-executes-vice-premier-discontent-leader-yonhap-102404638.html You guys need to keep an eye on your work performance.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 https://theintercept.com/2015/10/26/pentagon-missionary-spies-christian-ngo-front-for-north-korea-espionage/ THE PENTAGON’S MISSIONARY SPIES ON MAY 10, 2007, in the East Room of the White House, President George W. Bush presided over a ceremony honoring the nation’s most accomplished community service leaders. Among those collecting a President’s Volunteer Service Award that afternoon was Kay Hiramine, the Colorado-based founder of a multimillion-dollar humanitarian organization. Hiramine’s NGO, Humanitarian International Services Group, or HISG, won special praise from the president for having demonstrated how a private charity could step in quickly in response to a crisis. “In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” read Hiramine’s citation, “HISG’s team launched a private sector operation center in Houston that mobilized over 1,500 volunteers into the disaster zone within one month after the hurricane.” But as the evangelical Christian Hiramine crossed the stage to shake hands with President Bush and receive his award, he was hiding a key fact from those in attendance: He was a Pentagon spy whose NGO was funded through a highly classified Defense Department program. The secret Pentagon program, which dates back to December 2004, continued well into the Obama presidency. It was the brainchild of a senior Defense Department intelligence official of the Bush administration, Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin. Boykin, an evangelical Christian who ran into criticism in 2003 for his statements about Islam, settled on the ruse of the NGO as he was seeking new and unorthodox ways to penetrate North Korea. Long a source of great concern to the U.S. and Western Europe because of its nuclear program, North Korea was the most difficult intelligence target for the U.S. “We had nothing inside North Korea,” one former military official familiar with U.S. efforts in the country told me. “Zero.” But Hiramine’s NGO, by offering humanitarian aid to the country’s desperate population, was able to go where others could not. It is unclear how many HISG executives beyond Hiramine knew about the operation; Hiramine did not respond to repeated requests for comment and neither did any of his senior colleagues. Few, if any, of the rest of the organization’s staff and volunteers had any knowledge about its role as a Pentagon front, according to former HISG employees and former military officials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Part of me loves stories like that. But I also feel bad because that's probably the last time North Koreans see western humanitarian aid for a few centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Part of me loves stories like that. But I also feel bad because that's probably the last time North Koreans see western humanitarian aid for a few centuries. I think it also unfortunately gives more cover for places like Russia and Egypt to crack down on NGOs and accuse them all of being spies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 I think it also unfortunately gives more cover for places like Russia and Egypt to crack down on NGOs and accuse them all of being spies. Yep. We are extremely stupid to have done this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Yep. We are extremely stupid to have done this. Smart for doing it. Stupid for letting it become public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Smart for doing it. Stupid for letting it become public. Stupid for having done it, given the always high risk that it would become public. We don't control NGOs but they are a huge source of soft power, projecting Western values around the world. Now every NGO will be suspect as a CIA stooge. Putin is going to have a field day with this. It was a short term minor gain in intelligence in North Korea that ran a major risk of a massive long term backlash everywhere in the world. Good tactics, bad strategy - a pretty typical mistake for spies, bureaucrats and military people who only care about their immediate objective and can't see the bigger picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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