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12Mar

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Dramatic Change in the Military Doctrine of the DPRK?

NOVANEWS By Konstantin Asmolov As it was reported on Friday by the KCNA, during a visit to a closed firing range where advanced multiple rocket launchers were tested, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced that the country should be prepared to use its nuclear weapons at any moment to ensure its self-defense. The North Korean supreme leader has also underlined that he perceives the upcoming South Korean-US maneuvers as a dangerous gamble that could lead to disastrous consequences, so he ordered the North Korean army to raise all forces to high alert. The KCNA has also noted that “hostile forces led by the United States,” adopted a resolution that is “undermining the rights of the DPRK as a sovereign state.” The part that one can consider to be crucial in all this information warfare is...

8Mar

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Why UN Sanctions Against North Korea Are Wrong. “The Americanization of the Korean Peninsula”

NOVANEWS By Stephen Gowans Global Research “What the U.S. really wants is not the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula but the Americanization of the Korean peninsula.” “DPRK foreign minister [1] After successfully concluding negotiations with China to craft a new raft of international sanctions against North Korea, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power stepped in front of reporters to declare that the northeast Asian country, “one of the most brutal regimes the world has ever known,” would not be allowed to achieve “its declared goal of developing nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. The international community cannot allow” this to happen, she said. “The United States will not allow this to happen.” [2] A week later, the United Nations Security Coun...

8Mar

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UN Sanctions Won’t Put Pyongyang Off Nuclear Weapons

NOVANEWS The draft resolution for tougher sanctions against North Korea that the US submitted to the UN with China’s backing will not discourage Pyongyang from developing nuclear and ballistic missiles, North Korean expert Michael Madden told Sputnik. On Friday, Washington, with Beijing’s backing, submitted a new resolution to the UN Security Council for additional sanctions against North Korea to deter it from progressing further with its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Michael Madden, a North Korean expert who runs the North Korean Leadership Watch blog, told Radio Sputnik that the sanctions are unlikely to succeed in stopping the programs, even if they do harm to the North Korean economy. ”It’s not a terrific economy but in the last couple of years they’ve had modest growth ...

17Feb

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Striving for socialism, reunification and peace in Korea

NOVANEWS www.cpgb-ml.org North Korea’s leader vows that the country will keep advancing “under the unfurled red flag of the revolution”. Strengthening the party, further building up the national economy and improving the people’s living standards, continuing to strive for national reunification and resisting the danger of imperialist war were among the main themes of the new year address for 2016 delivered by Comrade Kim Jong Un, leader of the socialist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).Noting that last year, the people of the DPRK had celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) as a “proud and significant revolutionary event”, Comrade Kim stated:“The moving scenes unfolded on the October celebration square shook ...

16Feb

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DPRK conducts successful H-Bomb test

NOVANEWS www.cpgb-ml.org US imperialism steps up pressure on Korea and China in an effort to preserve its role of no 1 playground bully. On 6 January 2016, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced that it had successfully carried out its first ever H-bomb test, based on “indigenous wisdom, technology and efforts”. It also confirmed that the test had been carried out safely, with no adverse environmental effects.Explaining the political context of this further augmentation of the DPRK’s military strength, a statement from the country’s government said: “This test is a measure for self-defence that the DPRK has taken to firmly protect the sovereignty of the country and the vital rights of the nation from the ever-growing nuclear threat and blackm...

12Feb

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China at odds with US over N Korea response

NOVANEWS The BRICS Post An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council early Monday has “strongly condemned” North Korea’s launch of a satellite into space, but China and the US differed on the type of response debated among world powers. North Korea says the satellite launch was for peaceful and scientific research purposes, but global powers fear that the launch was a part of Pyongyang’s development of its ballistic missile program. United States ambassador Samantha Powers called for robust responses to “violations” committed by the North Koreans. It is likely the Security Council will draft a number of measures to increase and deepen economic sanctions already in place on North Korea. However, North Korea’s only ally in the Security Council – China – fears that too severe...

11Feb

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New US Spy Satellite Lifts Off as Obama Criticizes N. Korean Launch

NOVANEWS Sputnik Days after criticizing North Korea for launching a satellite into space, the United States sent its own, brand new military satellite into orbit Wednesday morning. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is the agency in charge of the United States’ fleet of spy satellites, and early Wednesday morning, the NRO sent its latest above stratosphere. The NROL-45 satellite was sent into space on the back of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The NRO already has three additional launches scheduled for the upcoming year. Two will lift off in May and June, both from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The third will launch from Vandenberg in December. The NRO will not say, specifically, what kind of operations these sa...

1Feb

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The Testing of a DPRK Hydrogen Bomb and Sino-North Korean Relations

NOVANEWS By Konstantin Asmolov Our analysis of the international response to North Korea’s test of a hydrogen bomb directs our attention to China’s position and US-China debates about “what to do and who to blame.” First, let’s look to the statement by Xinhua news agency on January 8. On the one hand, North Korea’s actions have been condemned, on the other hand, it was pointed out that “it was Washington’s antagonistic approach that pushed Pyongyang to carry on the development of nuclear weapons.” “The US military approach put Pyongyang in an acutely insecure position and encouraged the country to ignore the restrictions on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. The DPRK, balancing on the brink of a nuclear war, really deserves international condemnation, as it seriously undermines the re...

16Jan

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North Korea offers to stop nuclear tests

NOVANEWS Press TV North Korea says it would stop its nuclear tests if the United States signed a peace treaty with Pyongyang and stopped its joint annual military maneuvers with South Korea. An unnamed spokesman for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry made the offer early on Saturday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)reported. “Still valid are all proposals for preserving peace and stability on the [Korean] Peninsula and in Northeast Asia, including the ones for ceasing our nuclear test and the conclusion of a peace treaty in return for US halt to joint military exercises,” the spokesman said. In response to a question concerning Pyongyang’s call for a peace treaty, the US State Department said recently it remained open to dialogue. The onus, it said, was on North Korea to take “meaningful...

15Jan

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Understanding and defending North Korea

NOVANEWS By Liberation Staff Pyongyang skyline | Photo source: [10] The following is an interview with a DPRK representative at their embassy in London that took place in October 2013. It is reposted from the Invent the Future website. A delegation from the United States will be going to the DPRK for May Day 2016. Posted by Carlos Martinez on November 15, 2013 What follows is an extensive interview with Yongho Thae, Minister of the Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in London, conducted by Carlos Martinez. The interview took place at the DPRK embassy in London in October 2013. Topics covered include the DPRK’s nuclear programme, the nature of the DPRK’s political system, the DPRK’s place in a changing global political landscape, tourism, Syria, and Latin America. G...