Korean Sota Osa II ?

It looks like Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis may be next in line to get the boot for disloyalty to President Donald Trump.

For some time now, Mattis has made statements and pursued policies at odds with Trump’s predilections, especially when it comes to strengthening U.S. commitments to NATO and assuring allies in Asia. But his most recent challenges have been particularly upfront, and this time Trump hit back.

The latest flap began Tuesday, when Mattis was asked at a news conference about the future of U.S. joint military exercises with South Korea. At the June summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Trump had promised to suspend those exercises, saying they were provocative and expensive.

On Tuesday, Mattis—who hadn’t been consulted on this move at the time—made his opposition to Trump’s move clear. The suspension, he said, was taken “as a good-faith measure,” he said. Then he added, “We have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises.”

In response, the next day, without mentioning Mattis by name, Trump issued a remarkable rebuke—an unusual four-part tweet, headed “STATEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE,” which read, in part:


President Donald J. Trump feels strongly that North Korea is under tremendous pressure from China because of our major trade disputes with the Chinese Government. … Nonetheless, the President believes that his relationship with Kim Jong Un is a very good and warm one, and there is no reason at this time to be spending large amounts of money on joint U.S.-South Korea war games. Besides, the President can instantly start the joint exercises again with South Korea, and Japan, if he so chooses. If he does, they will be far bigger than ever before. As for the U.S.-China trade disputes, and other differences, they will be resolved in time by President Trump and China’s great President Xi Jinping. Their relationship and bond remain very strong.
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In other words: Butt out, Mattis; Trump is the only one who decides whether to restart the exercises, and meanwhile he’s handling everything just fine.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/trump-north-korea-rant-bad-news-for-mattis.html
 
The US justice department has charged an alleged North Korean spy for helping to perpetrate cyber-attacks against the National Health Service that saw operations cancelled, ambulances diverted and patient records made unavailable following a worldwide hack in 2017 which affected computers in more than 150 countries.

Park Jin Hyok, 34, was also involved in an attack against the Sony Corporation in 2014 and an $81m theft from the Bank of Bangladesh in 2016, a criminal complaint released on Thursday claimed.

It was not immediately clear if North Korea, which authorities said the operative was working on behalf of during the WannaCry cyber-attack, would make Park available to US law enforcement authorities.

Park was thought to have operated from China, but prosecutors said they now believe he is in North Korea.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/us-doj-north-korea-sony-hackers-chares
 
US President Donald Trump spooked the Pentagon leadership with a tweet that – had it been sent – would have been read by North Korea as a sign of an imminent US attack, journalist Bob Woodward has said in an interview.

Woodward, whose new book Fear: Trump in the White House hits book stores on Tuesday, described the incident in the interview with CBS as the most dangerous moment of Trump’s nuclear standoff with North Korea.

"He drafts a tweet saying ‘We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea – family members of the 28,000 people there,’” Woodward said, referring to families of US troops stationed on the Korean peninsula.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/10/trump-almost-sent-tweet-north-korea-imminent-attack
 
The White House is planning a second meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un after the North Korean leader sent a “very warm” letter to the US president requesting one.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, on Monday said Trump received a “very warm, very positive” letter from Kim and that the administration was “already in the process of coordinating” the summit.

Talks between the US and North Korea have stalled since the leaders shook hands at a summit hailed as “historic” in Singapore in June.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-latest-news-second-summit-kim-jong-un-letter
 
The United States has accused Russia of pressuring an independent panel of UN experts to alter a report that implied “Russian actors” were involved in breaking sanctions against North Korea.

Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, expressed disappointment in the panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea “for caving to Russian pressure and making changes to what should have been an independent report”.

Haley said the panel should release the original report, which cited “a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products” for North Korea in violation of UN sanctions. It said some products allegedly were off-loaded from Russian ships.

At the end of August, Russia blocked publication of the report because it disagreed with the findings. Agence France-Presse reported that diplomatic sources at that time also said Russia blocked a US request that two Russian shipping companies and six of their vessels be sanctioned over oil shipments to the North.

“Russia can’t be allowed to edit and obstruct independent UN reports on North Korea sanctions just because they don’t like what they say,” Haley said.

“This is a dangerous precedent and a stain on the important work of the panel,” Haley said, calling for the initial version of the report – dating from early August – to be published.

The news came as the US sanctioned a Chinese technology firm and its Russian sister company, saying they are both controlled by North Koreans and provide revenue to Pyongyang. It comes as the US is redoubling efforts to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.

“These actions are intended to stop the flow of illicit revenue to North Korea from overseas information technology workers disguising their true identities and hiding behind front companies, aliases, and third-party nationals,” treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

The US in July had demanded without success an end to all oil exports to North Korea, citing satellite photographs and expert reports to claim illegal ship-to-ship transfers had allowed Pyongyang to evade sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

In its original report the UN panel included the names of Russian ships and entities that had contravened UN sanctions, opening the way for international measures against them.

Russia “obtained the removal of the main part of the paragraphs” concerning it, a diplomat said, speaking anonymously.

“The sanctions committee gave in,” a move raising questions about its independence, he said.

By blocking since early August release of the original document, Russia explained that the report relied mainly on American information and did not take into account a Russian analysis of the application of sanctions.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-to-russia-on-north-korea-sanctions-report-us
 
Nyt olen kyllä kuin klapilla päähän lyöty. Mitä vittua rumputin puuhailee?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said President Trump previously came close to pulling U.S. troops out of South Korea and added that Trump will reconsider doing so if North Korea is "playing" him.

Graham said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that moving troops out of South Korea would signal that the U.S. is "preparing for military conflict." The senator added that the current engagements between the U.S. and North Korea could be "fruitful," but that "we're not out of the woods yet."
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http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-...-consider-moving-troops-out-of-south-korea-if
 
John Hilly kirjoitti:
En kyllä minäkään ymmärrä tätä joukojen poisvetämistä, enkä Grahaminkaan järkeilyä.
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Olisiko The Hillin jutun kirjoittajalla tullut jokin väärinymmärrys. Siitähän on huhuttu, että Trump olisi harkinnut joukkojen perheiden yms. siviilien poisvetämistä, ja että se olisi tulkittu Pohjois-Koreassa varautumikseksi sotaan.
 
South Korea launched its first ever missile-capable attack submarine on Friday, despite a recent diplomatic thaw with the nuclear-armed North.

The $700 million, 3,000-tonne Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine is capable of firing both cruise and ballistic missiles and the first of three planned diesel-electric boats to go into service in the next five years.

It represented a "leap forward in the country's" defence industry, President Moon Jae-in told a launch ceremony at the Daewoo shipyard where it was designed and built.

"Peace through power is the unwavering security strategy of this government."

Moon will head to Pyongyang next week for a third summit with the North's leader Kim Jong Un, as US-led efforts to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons have stalled.

"We have set off on a grand journey toward the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," Moon said.

"But peace is not given gratuitously," he added. "Peace through power is the unwavering security strategy of this government."

The new submarine is fitted with six vertical launch tubes and features indigenous sonar and combat management systems.

Aside from the new vessels, South Korea has an existing fleet of 18 smaller submarines, all built in co-operation with Germany.

According to the defence ministry, the North has 70 ageing submarines and submersibles, and Yonhap news agency reported that it has also developed a new 2,500-tonne submarine fitted with a vertical launch system
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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/S_Korea_launches_its_first_missile-capable_submarine_999.html
 
Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he is willing to meet Kim Jong-un in a move that could lower simmering tensions between Tokyo and Pyongyang. But he insisted that any summit with the North Korea must lead to resolution of the regime’s cold war abductions of Japanese citizens.

Speaking at the UN general assembly in New York on Tuesday, Abe said he was prepared to make a “new start” in Japan’s relations with the North, months after Donald Trump’s historic meeting with Kim in Singapore.

“North Korea is now at a crossroads at which it will either seize, or fail to seize, the historic opportunity it was afforded,” Abe said.

“In order to resolve the abduction issue, I am also ready to break the shell of mutual distrust with North Korea, get off to a new start and meet face to face with chairman Kim Jong-un.

“But if we are to have one, then I am determined that it must contribute to the resolution of the abduction issue.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...nzo-abe-willing-to-meet-kim-jong-un-at-summit
 
Donald Trump
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has said he is in no rush for North Korea to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, noting that missile testing had stopped while sanctions on Pyongyang had not been relaxed.

“I’ve got all the time in the world,” Trump said, at a freewheeling press conference after his appearance at the UN general assembly.

His relaxed tone marked a stark change from the president’s claims after his summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June, which Trump said would lead to rapid disarmament.

It also marks a contrast with a claim a week ago by the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo who said that negotiations would lead to the “rapid denuclearisation of North Korea, to be completed by January 2021.”

In his remarks on Wednesday, Trump suggested he had rebuked Pompeo for talking about a deadline.

“I told Mike Pompeo, I said: Mike don’t get into the time frame,” the president said. “I think we are really going to do something that is very important, but we are not playing the time game. If takes two years three years, or five months. It doesn’t matter. There is no nuclear testing and there is no testing of rockets.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/27/trump-north-korea-no-rush-denuclearise
 
China and Russia have broken with the US over the maintenance of sanctions on North Korea, arguing they should be relaxed in view of the “positive development of the past few months”.

The rift became apparent in a session of the UN security council called by the US and chaired by the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. It suggested that the international consensus over North Korea, which had led to a steady escalation of sanctions since 2006, had stalled in the wake of a flurry of summit diplomacy by Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington.

The security council foreign ministers meeting on Thursday marked the second diplomatic setback for the US in two days, the day after Donald Trump was roundly rebuffed by other world leaders when he sought to gain support for the reimposition of sanctions on Iran.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...cil-north-korea-sanctions-china-russia-pompeo
 
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Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, will travel to Pyongyang on Saturday to try to further denuclearization talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the state department has announced.

Pompeo will also travel to Japan, South Korea and China between 6 and 8 October, US state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday.

“I think it shows forward progress and momentum that the secretary is making his fourth trip back in less than a year,” Nauert said. “Of course, we have quite a ways to go but we look forward to the next steps in this conversation,” she added.

Pompeo’s visit comes ahead of a planned second summit between Kim and Donald Trump. The invitation to return to Pyongyang to discuss North Korean denuclearization efforts was made during a meeting with North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong-ho amid UN sessions last week.

Nauert said the meetings in Japan, South Korea and China were intended to brief counterparts on the talks in Pyongyang.

Kim has committed to give up his country’s nuclear weapons although his actions have fallen short of Washington’s demands for a complete inventory of North Korea’s weapons programs and irreversible steps to give up a nuclear arsenal that potentially threatens the United States.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/02/mike-pompeo-north-korea-kim-jong-un
 
A new state-sponsored attack from North Korea is being seen as an effort by the cash-strapped dictatorship to raise funds by exploiting foreign banks.

Researchers with FireEye say that a new attack targeting banks, dubbed APT38*, is a billion-dollar money grab from a new group of North Korean actors separate from the infamous Lazarus group.

According to FireEye, the APT38 group is apparently operating as a subset of a larger North Korean hacking operation known as TEMP.Hermit. The bank-focused group is now thought to be behind North Korean attacks including the 2016 Bank of Bangladesh heist and the 2018 Banco de Chile attack, incidents that had previously only been believed to have been TEMP.Hermit operations.

As a result, researchers have had to reassess their picture of North Korea's hacking operation, finding the entire operation to actually be the work of a number of increasingly specialised operations.

In the case of APT38, the operation consists of individuals that come from 16 different government organisations and operate in at least 11 different countries. The group specialises in extracting huge sums of cash from banks via the SWIFT transaction system, often using sophisticated attacking tools that had previously been reserved for attacks on governments for espionage operations.

"APT38 executes sophisticated bank heists typically featuring long planning, extended periods of access to compromised victim environments preceding any attempts to steal money, fluency across mixed operating system environments, the use of custom developed tools, and a constant effort to thwart investigations capped with a willingness to completely destroy compromised machines afterwards," FireEye said.

Those nukes won't fund themselves

Why the use of such sophisticated and intricate operations just to attack banks? FireEye said it believed the political pressure and economic sanctions that have piled up against Pyongyang over the years have made the country go to great lengths to obtain new cash infusions.

Absent other ways to bring in funds, North Korea has now resorted to using its hacking resources to divert cash from other countries.

"Increasingly heavy and pointed international sanctions have been levied on North Korea following the regime's continued weapons development and testing," FireEye explained.

"The pace of APT38 activity probably reflects increasingly desperate efforts to steal funds to pursue state interests, despite growing economic pressure on Pyongyang."

The researchers don't expect the attacks to let up any time soon, either. Despite outreach efforts from the Trump administration and increased pressure by the US Department of Justice to crack down on individual hackers, the APT38 group is showing no signs of letting up.

"Based on the large scale of resources and vast network dedicated to compromising targets and stealing funds over the last few years, we believe APT38’s operations will continue in the future," said FireEye.

"In particular, the number of SWIFT heists that have been ultimately thwarted in recent years coupled with growing awareness for security around the financial messaging system could drive APT38 to employ new tactics to obtain funds especially if North Korea’s access to currency continues to deteriorate." ®

* In infosec terms, an acronym for "advanced persistent threat" - a sustained attack by a team of bad actors on a network/s which remains undetected for a long period of time, sometimes years (usually well-funded, sometimes by a state, so the group can remain, er, "persistent").
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/03/north_korea_tcash/

Laitoin tänne koska paremman korean valtiollisten teot edes auttavat tämän konfliktin pitenemistä. Uskon vahvasti että he ovat olleet tärkeä osa Kimin kyvyissä rakentaa ydinase kapasiteetti. En ymmärrä kuitenkaan mihin heidän rauhanpyrkimyksensä kaikkosivat sitä mukaa kun lumet suli. Saa nähdä miten paljon naapuri apua auttaa heitä tämän talven yli. Uskon että Kiina on avannut rajansa ja apua kulkee edes takaisin myös öljyn muodossa. Uskon myös että PKn valtiolliset ovat rajojen ulkopuolella ja niiden joukossa voi olla myös vieraanmaalaisia, mitkä on rekrytty heidän puolelle viimeisen kahden kymmenen vuoden ajalla.

En ole tavannut yhtään heikäläistä mutta uskon että maailmalla riittää cybersodan tutkijoita, jotka haluaisivat jutella heidän kanssaan. Jos rauhanneuvottelut jossain vaiheessa jatkuvat, ATP38n pitää olla asialistalla ja ainakin osa heistä pitää saattaa vastuuseen Haagin tuomioistuimen eteen. Luulen että se on ainoa keino millä saadaan pelisäännöt valtiollisten vehkeilyille.
 
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Kim Jong-un has said he expects “great progress would surely be made” on issues between North Korea and the US after secretary of state Mike Pompeo visited Pyonyang for “productive and wonderful talks”.

Kim “explained in detail the proposals for solving the denuclearization issue”, according to paraphrased remarks reported by the official Korean Central News Agency, but neither side has revealed those plans.

Kim also said he was confident relations between the two countries would “continue to develop favorably in the future” and expected a second summit with Donald Trump to be held “sooner or later”.

The two countries will soon begin talks to negotiate the particulars of the meeting, following the historic summit in Singapore in June, according to South Korea’s presidential office which was briefed by US officials.

“I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim again, in the near future,” Trump tweeted saying Pompeo had a “good meeting”.

Kim is expected visit Russia soon and Chinese president Xi Jinping may make a trip to North Korea, according to remarks by South Korean president Moon Jae-in who met with Pompeo late Sunday.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...o-upbeat-on-successful-morning-in-north-korea

It is unclear if Trump could persuade Kim to relinquish his nuclear arsenal in a second meeting. North Korea has resisted calls for unilateral denuclearisation, slammed the US for continued sanctions pressure and demanded Washington make “corresponding” concessions.
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South Korea has considered lifting economic sanctions designed to force North Korea to relinquish its nuclear weapons, drawing a swift rebuke from Donald Trump and exposing a rift in Seoul’s alliance with Washington.

On Thursday the South Korean foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha, suggested Seoul was increasingly willing to lift sanctions imposed in 2010 after the sinking of a navy corvette that killed 46 sailors. The move would be mostly symbolic since South Korea would still be required to follow United Nations sanctions, which cover much of the same areas.

Kang said “a review is under way” when asked about the measures that prohibit almost all inter-Korean exchanges outside of humanitarian assistance.

The remark drew criticism from Trump. “They won’t do it without our approval. They do nothing without our approval,” Trump said. In Washington, officials have vowed to maintain a “maximum pressure” campaign until the North denuclearises.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rea-signals-it-may-ease-north-korea-sanctions
 
Paavi mahdollisesti matkaa PKhon vierailulle.

Pope Francis has indicated he may make an official visit to North Korea, one of the worst countries in the world for persecuting Christians, thousands of whom are incarcerated in labour camps.

An invitation from the closed state’s leader, Kim Jong-un, was relayed to the pope by South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, a Catholic, during a private audience at the Vatican on Thursday.

Moon “conveyed [Kim’s] desire for a papal visit to North Korea”, with a formal invitation directly from Pyongyang to follow, said the South Korean presidential office.

According to the statement, Francis said: “If the invitation comes, I will surely respond to it and I can possibly go.” It would be North Korea’s first papal visit since it was founded in 1948.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/pope-francis-open-to-north-korea-visit-kim-jong-un
 
En tiedä mikä on enään todellista tuolla suunnalla.
The two Koreas and the US-led United Nations Command have agreed to remove weapons in a border village where troops from both sides face off daily, the latest sign of increasingly warm relations between the once-hostile neighbours.

Seoul’s defence ministry said in a statement that, following trilateral talks on Monday, agreement had been reached to withdraw firearms and guard posts from the Joint Security Area (JSA), also known as the truce village of Panmunjom.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...emoved-from-korean-truce-village-of-panmunjom
 
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