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North Korean Government Builds Underground Tunnels to Flee the Country
North Korean government is ready to flee the country, suggested Hwang Jang-yop, a former secretary of the North’s Workers’ Party during a program on Free North Korea Radio, a Seoul-based anti-Pyongyang station. He himself fled the country for South Korea 12 years ago.
According to a statement made by 86-year old Hwang Jang-yop, there were secret tunnels built more than 984 feet below ground that stretch for some 31 miles.
He claimed that these tunnels could be used by the government not only to hide from a possible nuclear attack, but also to flee the country. He explained that the tunnels have been there since 1973.
One such tunnel linked Pyongyang to the port of Nampo on the shore of the Yellow Sea. This is the tunnel that might be used by the governing elite to escape to China in case of emergency
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North Korea 'preparing to launch more missiles'
North Korea may be preparing to launch more short-range missiles, one day after it fired five off its east coast, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has said.
Clinton’s North Korea Trip May Cost The US
The release of the two US television journalists from North Korea may be regarded triumph but the reality is that the United States may have paid a high price to bring the women home. When Mr Clinton touched down in North Korea the former president was seen as the man who could force the hand of Kim Jong Il and orchestrate the release of the journalists. In reality it emerged that it was Kim Jong Il himself who had invited Mr Clinton to Pyongyang and had guaranteed freedom for the reporters as long as the visit would not be linked to the issue of North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
North Korea in 'final phase' of uranium enrichment
North Korea has announced that it is in the “final phase” of enriching uranium in defiance of UN sanctions, as the rogue Stalinist state sought to put pressure on the international community to re-engage in negotiations.
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Defectors tell of Burma's secret nuclear reactor
Two of Asia's most oppressive regimes may have joined forces to develop a nuclear arsenal, according to strategic experts who have analysed information supplied by a pair of Burmese defectors. The men, who played key roles in helping the isolated military junta before defecting to Thailand, have provided evidence which suggests Burma has enlisted North Korean help to build its own nuclear bomb within the next five years.
A propaganda coup for North Korea
Bill Clinton's unexpected and successful trip to Pyongyang to secure the release of two American journalists sentenced to 12-year prison terms was a highly theatrical coup for the former president. His surprise arrival in North Korea, the three hours of face-to-face talks with an ailing though evidently still sentient Kim Jong-il, the tearful dawn homecoming in California – it was a perfectly executed foreign-policy triumph, played out live on the world's TV screens.
North Korea Launches Several Missiles Off Its Eastern Coast
South Korea's Defense Ministry says North Korea launched five missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, following similar tests earlier this week.
The Yonhap news agency quotes military officials as saying the missiles appear to be a type of short-range Scud missile
U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From Korea
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions escalate between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea's recent moves to restart its nuclear-weapon program and resume test-firing long-range missiles.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that the U.S. is concerned that Pyongyang might soon fire a missile toward Hawaii. Some senior U.S. officials expect a North Korean test by midsummer, even though most don't believe the missile would be capable of crossing the Pacific and reaching Hawaii.
Chinese boats fear naval clash between North and South Korea
More than half of China's 280-strong fishing fleet had withdrawn from the area around the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea, an area where there were bloody exchanges took place in 1999 and 2002, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. It was unclear if the vessels, in the area for the short but lucrative crabbing season, were ordered to leave or were acting under their own volition, however it will be seen as a further sign of the growing "war of nerves" on the Korean Peninsular
North Korea’s Nukes: Paid For By The U.S. Government
Amidst the cacophony of condemnation from all sides following North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test, there has been no mention whatsoever of how the secretive Stalinist state got its weapons in the first place - they were paid for by the U.S. government.
Both the Clinton and Bush administrations played a key role in helping Kim Jong-Il develop North Korea’s nuclear prowess from the mid 1990’s onwards.
The hypocrisy being spewed forth from all sides in reaction to today’s news that North Korea tested an underground nuclear device equivalent to 10 times the power of their first test in October 2006 is akin to when the U.S. cited Iraq’s possession of chemical and biological weapons as a reason to invade in 2003, having first checked the receipt of course, since it was Donald Rumsfeld who brokered the deal to supply Saddam with those weapons in the first place.
Rumsfeld was also the man who presided over a $200 million dollar contract to deliver equipment and services to build two light water reactor stations inNorth Korea in January 2000 when he was an executive director of ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB confirmed that Rumsfeld was at nearly all the board meetings during his involvement with the company.
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US Prepares for Possible Missile Launch
SEOUL, South Korea (June 18) - The United States has positioned more missile defenses around Hawaii as a precaution against a possible North Korean launch across the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. "We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii," Gates said. Gates told reporters at the Pentagon he has sent the military's ground-based mobile missile system to Hawaii, and positioned a radar system nearby. Together the systems theoretically could detect and shoot down a North Korean missile if it came to that. "Without telegraphing what we will do, I would just say ... we are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect Americans and American territory," Gates said.
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