North Korea

NOVANEWS How Obama is creating a crisis on the Korean Peninsula By Gregory Elich This article was originally published on Counterpunch.org. Relations between the United States and North Korea have reached a nadir, and in most Western media reports it is the seemingly irrational harsh rhetoric emanating from North Korea that is to blame. Inexplicably, we are told, North Korea has chosen to raise tensions. What is missing from this image of hostile North Korean behavior and blameless American victimhood is context. As is often the case, the media present events in an isolated fashion as if arising suddenly and without cause. One does not have to look very far back in time to discern what is troubling the North Koreans. In recent months, the Obama Administration has taken a number of steps th...

NOVANEWS Hysterical propaganda is aimed at hiding the fact that imperialism seeks to monopolise space technology. On 16 March, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced proudly that in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the founding President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, it will be launching a polar-orbiting earth observation satellite, Kwangmyongsong-3, to be blasted off southward from the Sohae satellite launching station in Cholsan county, North Phyongan province between 12 and 16 April, lifted by carrier rocket Unha-3. The Korean authorities stressed (a) that the satellite’s purposes are purely peaceful; (b) that care has been taken to ensure that no neighbouring country will be affected by any debris; and (c) tha...

NOVANEWS The DPRK has been living under the threat of a US nuclear attack for more than 60 years. Issued by: CPGB-ML Tensions are currently extremely high on the Korean peninsula and a serious danger exists of a new war breaking out, whether by design or miscalculation. The imperialist powers, their south Korean stooges and their compliant media are trying to paint the socialist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as the source of the war danger, pointing to forceful, but often misquoted or distorted, statements from Pyongyang in an attempt to embellish their case. Not only do they seek in this way to portray the victim as the aggressor; they would also have people believe that a nuclear issue exists in and around Korea solely due to the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons. How...

NOVANEWS ed note–the simple proof that the current hysteria over North Korea is nothing lies–once again, surprise, surprise–with Israel. If this were TRULY a ‘crisis’ that were about to explode, involving full-blown war with the US, Israel would be screaming bloody murder over it, as (1) it would take the Jewish state’s screeching over Iran’s nuclear program off the front pages, and (2) any commitment of American troops, hardware, resources, etc, towards war with North Korea would be troops, hardware, resources, etc not available for use against Iran, as Israel is demanding. The fact that all this Korea noise took place just prior to the recent nuclear meeting involving the P5+1 indicates that once again the JMSM is whipping up fear over ‘rogue states’ possessing nuclear weapons, indeed...

NOVANEWS Retired Cuban leader sternly cautions North Korea and US of dangers of nuclear war in first column in nearly nine month. Associated Press in Havana guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 April 2013  Fidel Castro said he was was appalled by the level of debate in the Republican race. Photograph: Reuters Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro published his first column in nearly nine months on Friday, urging both friends and foes to use restraint amid tensions on the Korean Peninsula. In the brief piece published in Communist Party daily Granma and other official media, Castro warned of the impact that nuclear war could unleash in Asia and beyond. He said Havana has always been and will continue to be an ally to North Korea, but gently admonished it to consider the well-being of humankin...

NOVANEWS Pentagon’s false propaganda conceals truth about crisis By Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition A B-2 can drop up to eighty 500 lb (230 kg) GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400 lb (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. This statement was originally published on the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) website. The American war propaganda machine does a thorough job in misleading the public about the high-stakes struggle the Pentagon is waging against North Korea. On March 28, the Obama administration ordered and the Pentagon executed a mock bombing attack on North Korea by U.S. B-2 stealth bombers equipped to drop nuclear bombs—the most advanced nuclear-capable plane in the U.S. Air Force. In recent months, the U.S. has also used nuclear-capable...

NOVANEWS by The Extinction Protocol   March 30, 2013 – NORTH KOREA – The order came after US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Washington would not be cowed by Pyongyang’s bellicose threats and stood ready to respond to “any eventuality.” Mr. Kim directed his rocket units on standby at an overnight emergency meeting with top army commanders, hours after nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth bombers were deployed in ongoing US joint military drills with South Korea. In the event of any “reckless” US provocation, North Korean forces should “mercilessly strike the US mainland … military bases in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea,” he was quoted as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). While North Korea has no proven ability to conduct such strikes...

NOVANEWS By Brian Becker, ANSWER Coalition national coordinator On March 28, the Obama administration ordered and the Pentagon executed a mock bombing attack on North Korea by U.S. B-2 stealth bombers equipped to drop nuclear bombs—the most advanced nuclear-capable plane in the U.S. Air Force. In recent months, the U.S. has also used nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to simulate the bombing of North Korea.The American war propaganda machine does a thorough job in misleading the public about the high-stakes struggle the Pentagon is waging against North Korea. The B-2s, each of which costs taxpayers more than $3 billion, dropped inert bombs near North Korea. It is not necessary to speculate how the United States would react if North Korea sent nuclear-capable bombers close to U.S. territory and...

NOVANEWS North Korea has revealed its plans to strike targets in Hawaii and the continental United States in photos taken in Kim Jong-un's military command centre. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (sitting) convening an urgent operation meeting at 0:30 am on 29 March 2013 at an undisclosed location Photo: EPA By Julian Ryall, Tokyo The photos appeared in the state-run Rodong newspaper and were apparently taken at an "emergency meeting" early on Friday morning. They show Kim signing the order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at US targets, the paper said, with large-scale maps and diagrams in the background. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered strategic rocket forces to be on standby to strike US and South Korean targets at any tim...