vrijdag 24 april 2009

Fotoserie Noord-Korea in The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe heeft in The Big Picture een indrukwekkende fotoreportage geplaatst van Noord-Korea.

De Amerikaanse krant meldt: “News stories about North Korea have been quite frequent recently, with their test launch of a rocket over Japan, withdrawal from nuclear disarmament talks coupled with a threat to restart their nuclear program, reports that their nuclear attack capabilities may be larger than previously thought - and their recent arrest and indictment of two U.S. reporters on its border with China.”

“Even with all this attention, photographs from North Korea are still restricted and hard to come by, “ according to the newspaper.

In The Boston Globe: Recent scenes from North Korea

dinsdag 14 april 2009

Security Council Condems DPR Korea’s recent launch

De veiligheidsraad van de Verenigde Naties heeft de raketlancering van Noord-Korea veroordeeld. Pyongyang heeft daarop besloten uit het Zes-Partijen-overleg te stappen.

Veiligheidsraad veroordeelt Noord-Korea
The Security Council spoke out against the recent rocket launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), stressing the importance of preserving peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in North-East Asia.

In a statement read out by Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, which holds the Council’s rotating presidency, the 15-member body deems the 5 April launch to be in contravention of resolution 1718, which demanded that the country “not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile,” following its claims to have conducted a nuclear test in October 2006.

“The Security Council demands that the DPRK not conduct any further launch,” according to today’s statement, which expressed the body’s desire for a “peaceful and diplomatic solution to the situation” and welcomed Member States’ efforts to reach a “comprehensive solution through dialogue.”

It also said that it will adjust sanctions, imposed by the 2006 resolution, by the end of this month.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the adoption of today’s statement, “which sends a unified message of the international community” on the DPRK’s launch.

According to a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Ban voiced hope that the Council’s actions today will “pave the way for renewed efforts towards the peaceful resolution of all outstanding issues in the region, including through the early resumption of the Six-Party Talks and the inter-Korean dialogue.”

Expressing its support for the also expressed it support for the resumption of the so-called Six-Party Talks – involving China, DPRK, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States – the Council called on these nations to step up efforts to implement the Joint Statement of 19 September 2005 in which the DPRK committed itself to abandon nuclear weapons and rejoin the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). (Source: UN: Apr 13 2009)

Noord-Korea staakt overleg
De Noord-Koreaande regering heeft intussen besloten niet langer deel te zullen nemen aan het internationale overleg over zijn nucleaire programma. Pyongyang reageert daarmee op de veroordeling door de VN van de recente Noord-Koreaanse raketlancering.
http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/225/BUITENLAND/article/detail/236982/2009/04/14/Noord-Korea-stapt-uit-overleg.dhtml

woensdag 8 april 2009

Gekte in Zuid-Korea: Aanval van Aliens of satellietlancering?

Craziness in South Korea: Alien Annihilation or North Korean Nukes?
The last week has been a strange one for South Korea. Beginning on the last day of March a series of deafening sonic booms have been heard over the entire nation prompting many to believe they were under alien attack.

Now it appears that the deafening roars that set of car alarms and had panicky pedestrians running for cover in sheer terror were probably related to the satellite launch and the various air forces monitoring the area.
http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/04/craziness-in-south-korea-alien.html

dinsdag 3 februari 2009

Dreiging tussen Noord-Korea en Zuid-Korea

North Korea warns of possible war with South Korea

South Korea -- North Korea warned Sunday that South Korea's confrontational policies may trigger a war on the divided peninsula, a message coming two days after the communist country vowed to abandon all peace agreements with its southern neighbor.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/01/AR2009020100679.html

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