Korean Sota Osa II ?

Jaahas, nyt alkaa herätä epäilys niitten PK:n ydikoetunnelien tuhoamisista. Sori, en muista, mistä luin. Minäkin sitä vähän kattelin, että menee tuossa suuaukot tärviölle, mutta entäs itse tunnelit.
 
Onkos sillä mitään väliä romahtiko pelkät suuaukot vai tunnelit kokonaisuudessaan? Eikös ne mennyt siinä viime syksyn possahduksessa jo siihen kuntoon että ne ois muutenkin pitäny romuttaa? Tässä oli reilu puoli vuotta aikaa keräillä kaikki tärkeimmät vimpaimet talteen sieltä. Nyt samalla kun Kimi poimii toisella kädellä irtopisteitä luolien räjäytyksellä, niin toisella kädellä porailee selän takana uusia reikiä tulevia kokeita varten.
 
Prospect theory explores how people make decisions under considerations of varying risk. It also explores whether winning streaks and losing streaks really exist. Its major finding (for which Kahnemann and Tversky were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics) is that we tend to see “risk-aversion in choices involving sure gains and risk-seeking in choices involving sure losses.” That is, people are more risk-tolerant when attempting to regain what has been lost. So, a gambler who is winning will then confine herself to more probabilistically likely outcomes (safer bets), thereby increasing the likelihood of continued gains (a winning streak). But a gambler who’s losing will grow increasingly desperate to replenish her losses and make riskier bets.

It’s instructive to review the evolution of Trump’s North Korea policy in this light. His opening gambit was a long-odds bet that “maximum pressure” could precipitate that country negotiating away its nuclear weapons. When that failed to produce the intended result, Trump belittled North Korea’s leader, then bombastically threatened “fire and fury,” then impulsively agreed to a first-ever bilateral summit with that same leader, then advanced the notion that he (Trump) would deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace, then indulged in flattery of Kim Jong Un, then instructed the Pentagon to develop plans for withdrawing U.S. forces from Korea, then allowed his administration to claim the deal with North Korea would parallel Libya forsaking its chemical weapons, then called off the summit in a most unusual letter for the annals of diplomacy, then portrayed the cancellation as a negotiating tactic and dispatched envoys to North Korea to work out details for the summit.

Now, the summit is being revived with even more sensational expectations. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the meeting as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the course for the world.” And the U.S. is making even greater demands, with Pompeo expanding the call for “complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” so that it includes not just weapons, but also North Korea’s fissile material, its nuclear infrastructure, and its long-range missile capability, including rocket engines and space launch vehicles.
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/20...ble-real-time-experiment/148667/?oref=d-river

To put it simply, Trump has a tendency to double down. He makes more outlandish claims when the truthfulness of his statements are challenged. He increases demands when they go unmet. He makes problems bigger when he can’t get what he wants. For example, having failed to force better terms out of Canada and Mexico in NAFTA negotiations, Trump has escalated from trade talks to trade war, levying tariffs of 25 percent and claiming national security necessity against America’s neighbors and closest allies.

Kahnemann and Tversky’s theory indicates that if Trump continues to rack up losses, his demands will become more and more exaggerated. It will not be enough for him to meet with Kim Jong Un—it will have to be the most important meeting of heads of state in history. He may even be willing to barter away American advantages in order to get any deal that allows him to claim success.
 
Kahnemannin ja Tverskyn teoria vaikuttaa sinänsä loogiselta, mutta tuon kirjoittajan yritys rinnastaa Trumpin Pohjois-Koreaa koskeva politiikka häviöllä olevaan uhkapelaajaan, joka jatkuvasti korottaa panoksia saadakseen häviämänsä rahat takaisin, on kyllä lievästi sanottuna kaukaa haettu.
 
Hieman lisää tietoa noista potkujen saaneista.

North Korea’s top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said on Sunday, a shakeup that could signal the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is working to silence dissent ahead of a summit with Donald Trump in Singapore next week.

The US official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, was commenting on a report by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency that all three of the North’s top military officials were believed to have been replaced.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tary-officials-sacked-as-nuclear-summit-nears

The US official did not identify the three military officials. Yonhap identified them as defence chief Pak Yong-sik; chief of the Korean People’s Army’s (KPA) general staff, Ri Myong-su and Kim Jong-gak, the director of the KPA’s General Political Bureau.

Citing an unnamed intelligence official, Yonhap said No Kwang-chol, first vice minister of the Ministry of People’s armed forces, had replaced Pak Yong-sik, while Ri Myong-su was replaced by his deputy, Ri Yong-gil. It said army general Kim Su-gil’s replacement of Kim Jong-gak was confirmed in a North Korean state media report last month.

The White House, State Department, CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not immediately respond to requests for official comment.

Lower-level US-North Korean talks to prepare for the summit are continuing but have made only “halting progress,” according to a second US official briefed on the discussions.

That official said US negotiators’ efforts to press for definitions of immediate, comprehensive, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation by North Korea had run into opposition from the White House.
 
Days before Kim Jong Un is set to meet US President Donald Trump in Singapore, the North Korean leader is revealing plans to meet yet another leader -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Assad will visit Kim in North Korea, the latter country's state news agency KCNA said Sunday. The report did not specify a date for the meeting, and Syrian state media has so far not reported on the planned visit.

If the meeting takes place in Pyongyang, it would be the first time a world leader has visited Kim in the capital.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/03/asia/assad-visit-kim-jong-un-intl/index.html
 
Sekin on aika outo kuvio, että miten ihmeessä Syyria ja Pohjois-Korea ovat läheisiä. Mutta niin ne vain ovat olleet jo vuosikymmeniä, varsinkin sotilaallisen yhteistyön merkeissä.
North Korea's Syrian Connection
Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, North Korea has been consistently one of Syria’s closest international allies, and has provided rhetorical, technical, and direct military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to retain power.
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Since 2013, there have been numerous reports that North Korea has sent combat troops, or at the very least, engineers and technical advisers to Syria to strengthen Assad’s hold on power and assist his counterinsurgency efforts against opposition forces.
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decades of Syria-North Korea military cooperation gave Pyongyang an intimate understanding of Syria’s military terrain that can only be matched by that of Damascus’s long-standing allies, Russia and Iran. Since the 1960s, North Korea has maintained a small-scale military footprint in Syria, and North Korean troops gained combat experience on Syrian territory during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
 
Sekin on aika outo kuvio, että miten ihmeessä Syyria ja Pohjois-Korea ovat läheisiä. Mutta niin ne vain ovat olleet jo vuosikymmeniä, varsinkin sotilaallisen yhteistyön merkeissä.
North Korea's Syrian Connection

Helppohan se on ymmärtää....roistovaltioilla on ystäviä vain toisissa roistovaltioissa. Muut kun eivät huoli ystäviksi.
 
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The venue for next week’s summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is home to beautiful beaches, casinos and some of the best golf courses in Asia.

But Sentosa island – where the US president and the North Korean leader will meet on 12 June – has a dark past.

While its contemporary name means “peace and tranquility”, Sentosa was used as a Japanese prisoner of war camp for British and Australian servicemen after allied forces surrendered to the Japanese in 1942.

It was also the site of summary executions of large numbers of Singaporean Chinese – including civilians – suspected of being involved in anti-Japanese activities. Many of the killings were carried out on the island’s beach, now home to the 18-hole Serapong golf course.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rk-past-of-sentosa-the-trump-kim-summit-venue
 
The U.S. military is increasing spending on a secret research effort to use artificial intelligence to help anticipate the launch of a nuclear-capable missile, as well as track and target mobile launchers in North Korea and elsewhere.

The effort has gone largely unreported, and the few publicly available details about it are buried under a layer of near impenetrable jargon in the latest Pentagon budget. But U.S. officials familiar with the research told Reuters there are multiple classified programs now under way to explore how to develop AI-driven systems to better protect the United States against a potential nuclear missile strike.

If the research is successful, such computer systems would be able to think for themselves, scouring huge amounts of data, including satellite imagery, with a speed and accuracy beyond the capability of humans, to look for signs of preparations for a missile launch, according to more than half a dozen sources. The sources included U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the research is classified.

Forewarned, the U.S. government would be able to pursue diplomatic options or, in the case of an imminent attack, the military would have more time to try to destroy the missiles before they were launched, or try to intercept them.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...to-find-hidden-nuclear-missiles-idUSKCN1J114J
 
Viimeksi muokattu:
Lee Cheol cannot remember how many times he was forced to gather with his fellow soldiers at an airfield outside Pyongyang in North Korea and watch as firing squads executed enemies of the state. But one thing he does remember is that these public displays of violence increased under Kim Jong-un.

“I was very traumatised, I couldn’t eat or sleep for days,” Lee says, recalling the first time he was made to watch teams of soldiers unload their AK-47s into the condemned. “I remember the sound of a person being hit by a bullet, it’s very different from the sound of a target, but after seeing it so many times I became numb.”

Lee spent nearly eight years in the North Korean army, starting when he was 16. It was his only chance at a better life, and of going to university. But his military career was marked with intense violence that included public executions and regular beatings doled out on his unit as a form of collective punishment.

It is estimated that between 80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners are detained in four large political prison camps in North Korea, according to a landmark United Nations inquiry that compiled evidence of a raft of crimes against humanity.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-rights-abuses-likely-to-be-ignored-at-summit

But Paek and Lee’s experiences are unlikely to register at a hastily arranged summit with designs on reshaping the regional political landscape.

“It’s a missed opportunity and unfortunate human rights are being sidelined in a rush to rapprochement and solving security problems,” says Sokeel Park, director of research and strategy at the rights group Liberty in North Korea.

“Everyone sees North Korea as a security problem, but it’s not, it’s a country and these problems are a symptom of its fundamental way of operating. Unless there are changes in the system, there won’t be any lasting breakthroughs,” he added. “You can’t have a normal security relationship with such an abnormal country.”
 
Tämän mukaan EK ei halua yhdistyä, mutta he haluavat saada aikaan rauhan kansojen välille. Mitä sen jälkeen tapahtuu on tällä hetkellä toissijainen asia.

South Koreans around the world will be closely watching events in Singapore next week to see if the United States-North Korea summit on Jun 12 will be a success.

Those living here will have a ringside seat to the historic event, and everyone that Channel NewsAsia spoke to on Wednesday (Jun 6) said they have high hopes that the meeting will pave the way for a security breakthrough on the Korean Peninsula.

They want US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to declare a formal end to the 1950 to 1953 Korean War, which only stopped after an armistice, not a peace treaty, was signed.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...ant-trump-kim-summit-success-end-war-10398230

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly fears an attempt on his life at the historic Singapore summit that will bring the hermit kingdom leader the furthest he’s ever been from his country since coming to power.

U.S. officials believe Kim is worried about security and the possibility of an assassination attempt at the high-stakes summit where he will meet President Trump for the first time after months of back-and-forth negotiations, sources told Bloomberg.

In 2017, North Korea accused U.S. and South Korean intelligence services of hatching an assassination plot against Kim with a "biochemical substance."

According to North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, “a hideous terrorists’ group” directed by CIA and South Korean spies “ideologically corrupted” a North Korean dissident identified as “Kim” and paid the man more than $20,000 to carry out the attack.

North Korea’s Ministry of State Security called the supposed plot a “last-ditch effort” that had gone “beyond the limits.”
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...will-kill-him-at-singapore-summit-report.html
 
Singaporen pääministeri Lee Hsien Loong ilmoitti sunnuntaina tapaavansa erikseen Pohjois-Korean johtajan Kim Jong-unin ja Yhdysvaltain presidentti Donald Trumpin. Tapaamiset ajoittuvat sunnuntaille ja maanantaille.

Tulevana tiistaina Yhdysvaltain ja Pohjois-Korean johtajien välillä käytävien neuvottelujen odotetaan keskittyvän ydinaseiden lopettamiseen diplomaattisia ja taloudellisia kannustimia vastaan. Mikäli Pohjois-Korea luopuu ydinaseohjelmasta, Yhdysvallat mitä todennäköisimmin tukee maata taloudellisesti.

Donald Trumpin ja Kim Jong-unin tapaaminen järjestetään Singaporessa Sentosan saarella. Turvatoimet ovat massiiviset ja järjestelyt ovat kalliit sekä tavallista mittavammat.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10247038
 
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived Sunday in Singapore ahead of one of the most unusual and highly anticipated summits in recent world history, a meeting on Tuesday with US president, Donald Trump, meant to settle a standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear bomb arsenal.

The jet carrying Kim landed at the airport Sunday afternoon amid huge security precautions. Singapore released a picture of Kim and the foreign minister shaking hands. A large limousine with a North Korean flag could then be seen surrounded by other black vehicles with tinted window as it sped through the city’s streets to the St. Regis Hotel, where China’s President Xi Jinping once stayed.

The US delegation, en route from the G7 meeting in Canada. The US president was set to meet with Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, on Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-singapore-historic-summit
 
Pohjois-Korean johtajasta Kim Jong-unista tiedetään varmuudella yksi asia.

Hän haluaa elää.

Ydinaseen laukaiseminen kohti Yhdysvaltoja ei palvele tätä päämäärää. Se olisi käytännössä välitön kuolemantuomio Kimille ja hänen lähipiirilleen.

Itsemurhan sijaan Pohjois-Korean johtajan uskotaan suunnittelevan pitkää valtakautta maansa johdossa. Tästä kertovat muun muassa Kimin lähipiiriinsä kohdistamat stalinistiset puhdistukset.

Myös ydinaseet todistavat nuoren johtajan elämänhalusta. Kim uskoo niiden olevan ainoa toimiva pelote Yhdysvaltoja vastaan.

Hän saattaa olla oikeassa.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10239282

During a security lockdown inside and outside Singapore’s five-star St Regis hotel before the arrival of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday, only two journalists moved freely along the blockaded street, flanked by crowds held back by police.


The two were North Korean cameramen waiting to capture images of their leader, who all North Koreans are duty-bound to revere, arriving for a historic summit with US president Donald Trump.

The pair – dressed in identical black suits, with lapel badges showing former North Korean leaders and flanked by Singapore police – were busy getting into the best position for Kim’s arrival, setting up cameras in the middle of the road. The behaviour of the two cameramen, and of North Korean security guards who accosted tourists taking photos, offered a glimpse into how isolated, tightly regimented North Korea works.

In authoritarian North Korea, where Kim’s family has passed on power through three generations, images propagated by state media such as the Korea Central News Agency, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper and Korean Central Television, help build a leader’s legitimacy and glorify his status.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...north-korean-security-bars-onlookers-pictures

The Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman apologised to viewers on Sunday, after referring to Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un of North Korea in Singapore as “that meeting between the two dictators”.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...der-kim-jong-un-as-a-meeting-of-two-dictators
 
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The bodyguards running alongside Mr Kim's limousine and those who walk in close proximity to him are part something called Central Party Office #6, or formally, it's known as the Main Office of Adjutants.

They form the immediate line around Mr Kim and are selected from Korean People's Army (KPA) recruits fulfilling their national service conscription obligations.

Criteria for selection includes a height requirement - they need to be approximately the same height as the supreme leader - and must not have any visual impairments.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44434596

Finally, a bodyguard is subjected to a rigorous background investigation in which his or her family, going back two generations, is vetted. Many personnel of the Main Office of Adjutants are related to the Kim family, or to other elite North Korean families.

Once they are accepted to become bodyguards (refusing the job offer is not really an option), they are subjected to an intensive training program. Bodyguards are trained in a manner similar to the KPA's Special Operations Forces.

This includes training in the use of handguns, evasion techniques and a variety of martial arts. Bodyguard trainees undergo physical endurance challenges, behavioural conditioning and physically rigorous drills.

The bodyguards form a ring around him with the protective perimeter having a 360-degree view of both the people near him and the location. Walking, riding ahead, or in advance of Mr Kim are between three to five bodyguards including the director of the Main Office of Adjutants.

Alongside him are between four to six bodyguards, with two to three on his right and left. Bringing up the rear are an additional four to five bodyguards.

In a sign of their power in the regime, they are some of the only North Korean citizens permitted to carry loaded firearms next to their country's leader, usually a semi-automatic handgun and a back-up weapon.
 
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