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Was er trouwens niet een centraal Noord-Korea topic? Kan 'm niet vinden, of ik kan gewoon niet met de searchfunctie omgaan 
Het niet doorgaan met het overleg met medvedev is wel een teken dat Kim helemaal alleen staat, wat zal ie doen nu, geen communistische hulp meerquote:Op donderdag 30 juni 2011 00:30 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Was er trouwens niet een centraal Noord-Korea topic? Kan 'm niet vinden, of ik kan gewoon niet met de searchfunctie omgaan
Er gaat niets boven lekker in de zon zitten in de achtertuin met een heel koud glas bier , als je al 72 jaar bent en nog gezond, laat ze maar lachen de sukkels
China is nog altijd een sterke bondgenoot.quote:
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Het niet doorgaan met het overleg met medvedev is wel een teken dat Kim helemaal alleen staat, wat zal ie doen nu, geen communistische hulp meer
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Nou dat vraag ik me af, ze worden die schreeuwlelijk ook wel wat zat hoorquote:
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China is nog altijd een sterke bondgenoot.
Er gaat niets boven lekker in de zon zitten in de achtertuin met een heel koud glas bier , als je al 72 jaar bent en nog gezond, laat ze maar lachen de sukkels
Ze hebben liever de blaffende teckel Noord-Korea als de Amerikanen in de achtertuin. Maar je hebt gelijk, de steun van de Chinezen is verminderd, de contacten zijn wat verwaterd.quote:
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Nou dat vraag ik me af, ze worden die schreeuwlelijk ook wel wat zat hoor
Desalnietemin komt er wel een nieuwe economische zone tussen China en Noord-Korea.
En nou ga ik toch echt m'n mand in
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Noord-Korea is ook nog vriendjes met Iran, Myanmar en Zimbabwe.quote:
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Het niet doorgaan met het overleg met medvedev is wel een teken dat Kim helemaal alleen staat, wat zal ie doen nu, geen communistische hulp meer
Ik zag ze in een paar Britse documentaires voorbij komen.quote:
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Die overheidsdocumenten zijn mij niet bekend, heb je daar een bron van voor mij?
Wellicht Channel 4 of BBC.
Daarin werd gesproken over de logistiek van kampgevangenen en de behandelingen(martelingen) in zo'n kamp.
Zaterdag 17 juli 15:05
KoosVogels: "Ik trek me erop af, nou goed? Domme spleetoog."
Af gaan op uiterlijk en een user-icon....
Faal van de eeuw.
KoosVogels: "Ik trek me erop af, nou goed? Domme spleetoog."
Af gaan op uiterlijk en een user-icon....
Faal van de eeuw.
Netjes geregeld daar.quote:
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De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
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Speech van Kim Il Sung - 'For a free and peaceful new world'
Pyongyang, 29 april 1991
Esteemed Mr. President of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Honourable delegates,
The opening today of the 85th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in PyongYang, the capital of our country, gives the Korean people great pleasure.
Allow me to bid a hearty welcome to the parliamentary delegates from many countries, to the delegates from international organizations and to all other guests from foreign countries.
This conference is an important opportunity to deepen mutual understanding between the national assemblies of various countries, develop cooperation among them and strengthen friendship and solidarity the Korean people and other peoples throughout the world.
I hope that, through your sincere efforts, the 85th Inter-Parliamentary Conference will hold succesful discussions on the items on the agenda and achieve excellent results.
Honourable delegates,
The national assembly of each country, as its highest legislative body, has a mission and responsibility to realise democratic government. Democracy must be not only the basic ideal of state administration for championing people's right to independence, but also a common ideal of world politics for ensuring equality and cooperation among countries. the foreign policy of a state is the extension of its domestic policy. Therefore, making individual countries democratic is closely connected with the undertaking to make the international community democratic. The members of national assemblies who are working with devotion for the development of democratic government in their own countries should also contribute actively to making world politics democratic, and thus fulfill their resonsibilities and role as statesmen of the present age.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union, which was founded more than a century ago in order to realise the noble ideal of peace and cooperation, has contributed to safeguarding world peace and to developing friendship and cooperation among countries and peoples. With the development of the times and historical progress, the Inter-Parliamentary Union has assumed a heavier mission and greater responsibility in the international political arena.
Today, humanity finds itself at a turning point in historical progress. The old age of domination and subjugation that lasted for thousands of years has come to an end, and a new age is being ushered in, the new age when all countries and all nations shape their destiny independently. Mankind is now faced with the common task of strengthening the historical current and building a free and peaceful new world.
In order to build the new world aspired to by mankind, it is necessary to abolish the unequal old international order in all fields of politics, the economy and culture and establish an equitable new international order. There are large and small countries in the world, but there cannot be major and minor countries; there are developed nations and less developed nations, but there cannot be nations destined to dominate other nations or those destined to be dominated. All countries and nations are qual members of the international community and as such have the right to independence and equality. No privilege and no arbitrariness should be tolerated in international relations; friendship and cooperation among countries must be fully developed on the principles of mutual resect, non-interference in the affairs of other countries, equality and mutual benefit.
Peace is the common aspiration of humanity, and only when peace is ensured can the people create an independent new life. The wrong idea and policy of trampling upon the independence of other countries and other nations and of dominating others are the cause of the current threat to peace. In order to safeguard peace, all countries and nations must maintain independence, oppose poer politics, and develop a powerful joint international struggle to prevent aggression and war.
Disarmament and the abolition of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction is the most pressing task in ensuring peace. The large stockpile of nuclear weapons now on Earth is a menace to the survival of mankind itself. It is intolerable that the valuable results of science and technology created by mankind and social wealth be used for the production of the means of aggression and war that threaten man's survival, and not for the well-being and development of humanity. The testing and production of nuclear weapons must be banned, the number of existing nuclear weapons must be reduced and, then, nuclear weapons must be completely abolished.
The Korean people, who are constantly under the threat of nuclear weapons, have proposed the abolition of nuclear weapons as a vital matter relating to the destiny of the nation. We strongly assert that the Korean peninsula should be made a nuclear-free, peace zone. We strongly support the peace movement of the peoples of many countries for disarmament and for the creation of nuclear-free, peace zones.
Building a free and peaceful new world is the mature requirement of our times. Today, domination and subjugation, agression and war can benefit nobody; for the peoples of all countries to develop independently and live peacefully together is the correct way for humanity to take. Historical progress may suffer setbacks, but the forces of independence and peace will grow in strength as the days go by, and the just cause of creating a new world will triumph without fail.
The unity of the people throughout the world and cooperation among them are the guarantee for the victory of their common cause of creating a new world. The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the centre of international deliberation by independent national assemblies, must concern itself with making the international community democratic on the basis of independence and safeguarding world peace and security, and must contribute to promoting unity and cooperation among peoples. The ideas of independence, peace and friendship which our Republic consistently maintains in its international relations accord with the ideas advocated by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In future our Republic will further strengthen its ties and cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and be faithful to mankind's common cause of creating a free and peaceful new world.
Delegates,
Today our people are working hard to build a genuine society for the people in which man's complete independence will be realised, and to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of their country.
The political philosophy of our state is the Juche idea which requires that all consideration should be centred on man and that everything should be made to serve him. By fighting in single-hearted unity under the banner of the Juche idea our people have been able to build, even under the most difficult conditions and circumstances, man-centred socialism in which the people are the genuine masters of the society and everything in society serves them. the democratic character of our society finds clear expression in the fact that all the people, as the masters of the state, equally enjoy a sound and stable life in its material and cultural aspects, exercising completely equal political rights and that, on the basis of comradely love and obligation, they work together for a common goal and develop together, helping one another and leading one another forward.
Our people take great pride and self-confidence in their just cause; they will work to the end to build an ideal society for mankind in accordance with their own belief and by their own efforts.
Reunifying Korea is the vital requirement of our nation; it is an important question in international politics.
The Korean people are a homogenous nation that has lived on the same territory generation after generation, a nation celebrated for its long history and fine cultural traditions. There is no internal cause for our nation to live divided. Ours was not a defeated country in the Second World War; our people contributed to destroying fascism through their long-drawn-out national-liberation struggle. In spite of this, after the war our country was divided into north and south, contrary to the will of the Korean nation, and the nation is still divided. This is not only a source of untold misfortune and sufferingfor our nation bt also a cause of the unstable and dangerous situation in the Asian region. Both from the point of view of national independence and of the cause of peace in Asia and the rest of the world, the question of Korea's reunification requires an immediate settlement.
To this end we consistently maintain the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity which the north and the south agreed upon and jointly declared; we hold that on these principles the country should be reunified by founding a confederacy based on one nation, one state, two systems and two governments. We consider that this conforms with the desire of the Korean nation to develop independently as one reunified nation and meets the requirement of the present era of independence and peace. We recognise that it is also the most feasible way of reunifying the country peacefully when different ideas and systems actually exist in the north and the south.
The desire of our nation for reunification has already become fused to surmount the barrier of division, and their belief that Korea is one has become unshakable. We will actively develop the dialogue between the north and the south in conformity with the mounting trend throughout the nation towards reunification, and will make every possible effort to remove all obstacles to reunification.
The statesmen of today who treasure justice and democracy in international politics cannot be indifferent to the misfortune and suffering of the peoples of other countries; they must cooperate to ensure the just settlement of international questions which affect the estiny of nations. We expect that the parlaiments and statesmen of all countries, not to mention the countries responsible for the Korean issue, will pay close attnetion to the matter of the reunification of our country and cooperate actively for the just settlement of this question.
You delegates are the distinguished guests of our people. Everywhere you go our people will receive you warmly and bid you a hearty welcome.
I hope that your stay in our country will be pleasant and useful and I wish you success in your honourable work.
Thank you.
Bron:
Kim Il Sung, For a free and peaceful new world Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang (1991)
Pyongyang, 29 april 1991
Esteemed Mr. President of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Honourable delegates,
The opening today of the 85th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in PyongYang, the capital of our country, gives the Korean people great pleasure.
Allow me to bid a hearty welcome to the parliamentary delegates from many countries, to the delegates from international organizations and to all other guests from foreign countries.
This conference is an important opportunity to deepen mutual understanding between the national assemblies of various countries, develop cooperation among them and strengthen friendship and solidarity the Korean people and other peoples throughout the world.
I hope that, through your sincere efforts, the 85th Inter-Parliamentary Conference will hold succesful discussions on the items on the agenda and achieve excellent results.
Honourable delegates,
The national assembly of each country, as its highest legislative body, has a mission and responsibility to realise democratic government. Democracy must be not only the basic ideal of state administration for championing people's right to independence, but also a common ideal of world politics for ensuring equality and cooperation among countries. the foreign policy of a state is the extension of its domestic policy. Therefore, making individual countries democratic is closely connected with the undertaking to make the international community democratic. The members of national assemblies who are working with devotion for the development of democratic government in their own countries should also contribute actively to making world politics democratic, and thus fulfill their resonsibilities and role as statesmen of the present age.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union, which was founded more than a century ago in order to realise the noble ideal of peace and cooperation, has contributed to safeguarding world peace and to developing friendship and cooperation among countries and peoples. With the development of the times and historical progress, the Inter-Parliamentary Union has assumed a heavier mission and greater responsibility in the international political arena.
Today, humanity finds itself at a turning point in historical progress. The old age of domination and subjugation that lasted for thousands of years has come to an end, and a new age is being ushered in, the new age when all countries and all nations shape their destiny independently. Mankind is now faced with the common task of strengthening the historical current and building a free and peaceful new world.
In order to build the new world aspired to by mankind, it is necessary to abolish the unequal old international order in all fields of politics, the economy and culture and establish an equitable new international order. There are large and small countries in the world, but there cannot be major and minor countries; there are developed nations and less developed nations, but there cannot be nations destined to dominate other nations or those destined to be dominated. All countries and nations are qual members of the international community and as such have the right to independence and equality. No privilege and no arbitrariness should be tolerated in international relations; friendship and cooperation among countries must be fully developed on the principles of mutual resect, non-interference in the affairs of other countries, equality and mutual benefit.
Peace is the common aspiration of humanity, and only when peace is ensured can the people create an independent new life. The wrong idea and policy of trampling upon the independence of other countries and other nations and of dominating others are the cause of the current threat to peace. In order to safeguard peace, all countries and nations must maintain independence, oppose poer politics, and develop a powerful joint international struggle to prevent aggression and war.
Disarmament and the abolition of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction is the most pressing task in ensuring peace. The large stockpile of nuclear weapons now on Earth is a menace to the survival of mankind itself. It is intolerable that the valuable results of science and technology created by mankind and social wealth be used for the production of the means of aggression and war that threaten man's survival, and not for the well-being and development of humanity. The testing and production of nuclear weapons must be banned, the number of existing nuclear weapons must be reduced and, then, nuclear weapons must be completely abolished.
The Korean people, who are constantly under the threat of nuclear weapons, have proposed the abolition of nuclear weapons as a vital matter relating to the destiny of the nation. We strongly assert that the Korean peninsula should be made a nuclear-free, peace zone. We strongly support the peace movement of the peoples of many countries for disarmament and for the creation of nuclear-free, peace zones.
Building a free and peaceful new world is the mature requirement of our times. Today, domination and subjugation, agression and war can benefit nobody; for the peoples of all countries to develop independently and live peacefully together is the correct way for humanity to take. Historical progress may suffer setbacks, but the forces of independence and peace will grow in strength as the days go by, and the just cause of creating a new world will triumph without fail.
The unity of the people throughout the world and cooperation among them are the guarantee for the victory of their common cause of creating a new world. The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the centre of international deliberation by independent national assemblies, must concern itself with making the international community democratic on the basis of independence and safeguarding world peace and security, and must contribute to promoting unity and cooperation among peoples. The ideas of independence, peace and friendship which our Republic consistently maintains in its international relations accord with the ideas advocated by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In future our Republic will further strengthen its ties and cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and be faithful to mankind's common cause of creating a free and peaceful new world.
Delegates,
Today our people are working hard to build a genuine society for the people in which man's complete independence will be realised, and to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of their country.
The political philosophy of our state is the Juche idea which requires that all consideration should be centred on man and that everything should be made to serve him. By fighting in single-hearted unity under the banner of the Juche idea our people have been able to build, even under the most difficult conditions and circumstances, man-centred socialism in which the people are the genuine masters of the society and everything in society serves them. the democratic character of our society finds clear expression in the fact that all the people, as the masters of the state, equally enjoy a sound and stable life in its material and cultural aspects, exercising completely equal political rights and that, on the basis of comradely love and obligation, they work together for a common goal and develop together, helping one another and leading one another forward.
Our people take great pride and self-confidence in their just cause; they will work to the end to build an ideal society for mankind in accordance with their own belief and by their own efforts.
Reunifying Korea is the vital requirement of our nation; it is an important question in international politics.
The Korean people are a homogenous nation that has lived on the same territory generation after generation, a nation celebrated for its long history and fine cultural traditions. There is no internal cause for our nation to live divided. Ours was not a defeated country in the Second World War; our people contributed to destroying fascism through their long-drawn-out national-liberation struggle. In spite of this, after the war our country was divided into north and south, contrary to the will of the Korean nation, and the nation is still divided. This is not only a source of untold misfortune and sufferingfor our nation bt also a cause of the unstable and dangerous situation in the Asian region. Both from the point of view of national independence and of the cause of peace in Asia and the rest of the world, the question of Korea's reunification requires an immediate settlement.
To this end we consistently maintain the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity which the north and the south agreed upon and jointly declared; we hold that on these principles the country should be reunified by founding a confederacy based on one nation, one state, two systems and two governments. We consider that this conforms with the desire of the Korean nation to develop independently as one reunified nation and meets the requirement of the present era of independence and peace. We recognise that it is also the most feasible way of reunifying the country peacefully when different ideas and systems actually exist in the north and the south.
The desire of our nation for reunification has already become fused to surmount the barrier of division, and their belief that Korea is one has become unshakable. We will actively develop the dialogue between the north and the south in conformity with the mounting trend throughout the nation towards reunification, and will make every possible effort to remove all obstacles to reunification.
The statesmen of today who treasure justice and democracy in international politics cannot be indifferent to the misfortune and suffering of the peoples of other countries; they must cooperate to ensure the just settlement of international questions which affect the estiny of nations. We expect that the parlaiments and statesmen of all countries, not to mention the countries responsible for the Korean issue, will pay close attnetion to the matter of the reunification of our country and cooperate actively for the just settlement of this question.
You delegates are the distinguished guests of our people. Everywhere you go our people will receive you warmly and bid you a hearty welcome.
I hope that your stay in our country will be pleasant and useful and I wish you success in your honourable work.
Thank you.
Bron:
Kim Il Sung, For a free and peaceful new world Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang (1991)
Als iemand intresse heeft in "Over de Juche Filesofie" van Kim Jong-il in het Nederlands als e-book stuur me dan even een PM.
Bron: nosop3.nlquote:Is persvrijheid mogelijk in een land waar geen vrijheid is? Voor die uitdaging staat het Amerikaanse persbureau Associated Press. Gisteren maakte AP bekend dat het als eerste westerse persbureau een permanente tekst- en fotoafdeling zal openen in Noord-Korea. In het persbericht spreekt directeur Tom Curley van een "historisch en belanghebbende" overeenkomst met het Noord-Koreaanse persbureau KCNA. Vooralsnog staat Noord-Korea op de één na laagste notering van persvrijheid in de wereld. Alleen Eritrea staat lager, dat ook wel het Noord-Korea van Afrika wordt genoemd.
In 2006 had AP ook al een primeur in Noord-Korea. Toen maakte het persbureau bekend dat AP Television News als eerste westerse nieuwsorganisatie een videoafdeling kreeg in het totalitaire land. Dat bureau wordt bemand door een Noord-Koreaanse staf en bestuurd vanuit Hong Kong. Veel van de schaarse videobeelden die het buitenland bereiken komen van dit bureau.
On/afhankelijk
Directeur Curley verzekert in het persbericht dat AP het nieuws uit Noord-Korea op een "betrouwbare en inzichtvolle wijze" zal blijven brengen. Toch zijn er twijfels over de mogelijkheid van persvrijheid in een regime dat volgens Amnesty International zeer strikte beperkingen oplegt aan de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Volgens de Verenigde Naties staan de Noord Koreaanse media enkel in dienst van de persoonlijkheidscultus van de leider Kim Jong-il en zijn wijlen vader Kim Sung-il.
Hoofdredacteur Kathleen Carroll gaf in een artikel op de nieuwswebsite The Huffington Post commentaar op deze twijfel. "AP opereert onafhankelijk, ongeacht van locatie. Punt uit." Volgens Carroll heeft AP in voorgaande jaren geen last gehad van censuur. In het artikel merkt The Huffington Post echter op dat de berichtgeving van AP uit het land tot nu toe beperkt blijft tot verslagen van in scène gezette pers-evenementen.
Eerdere toenaderingen
Het regime in Noord-Korea lijkt de laatste jaren toenadering te zoeken met het Westen. In 2008 werden zo'n tachtig Amerikaanse journalisten toegelaten om verslag te doen van het bezoek van het New Yorkse philharmisch orkest aan de hoofdstad Pyongyang.
Al eerder kreeg de Nederlandse documentairemaker Pieter Fleury in 2004 na maanden van onderhandelen toestemming voor het filmen van haar documentaire "Noord-Korea: een dag uit het leven". In oktober 2010 kreeg NOS-correspondent Wouter Zwart samen met selecte groep internationale media onverwacht toegang tot het land. Weliswaar onder de stricte begeleiding van gidsen.
Wat de recente overeenkomst tussen Noord-Korea en AP zal betekenen voor de persvrijheid blijft nog onzeker. Maar de eerste stappen lijken te zijn gemaakt.
Ik ben benieuwd in hoeverre er daar sprake zal zijn van onafhankelijke nieuwsvergaring, het meeste zal wel via het KCNA aangereikt worden. Daar komt bij dat de AP-journalist(en) hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet vrij door het land mogen reizen.quote:
Als je ook zo een land ziet, het is gewoon helemaal wit, ze kunnen het beter noemen het verdwenen land 
Er gaat niets boven lekker in de zon zitten in de achtertuin met een heel koud glas bier , als je al 72 jaar bent en nog gezond, laat ze maar lachen de sukkels
Geloof het of niet, Wouter Zwart van de NOS (Azië correspondent) zat bij mij in het vliegtuig naar DPRK. Die mocht daar toen zelfs live een item uitzenden.quote:
Toen nog op televisie gezienquote:
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Geloof het of niet, Wouter Zwart van de NOS (Azië correspondent) zat bij mij in het vliegtuig naar DPRK. Die mocht daar toen zelfs live een item uitzenden.
Ik heb via een blog over NK deze foto's tegen gekomen van het Noord-Koreaanse platteland:
http://www.voanews.com/korean/news/photo-galleries/123654389.html
http://www.voanews.com/korean/news/photo-galleries/123654389.html
Dat komt door Google, Yahoo Maps en Bing Maps hebben wel gewoon een kaart van Noord-Korea:quote:
Als je ook zo een land ziet, het is gewoon helemaal wit, ze kunnen het beter noemen het verdwenen land
http://www.bing.com/maps/(...)ZS01My45MDMzMjAzMTI1
http://maps.yahoo.com/
Mooie foto's!quote:
Ik heb via een blog over NK deze foto's tegen gekomen van het Noord-Koreaanse platteland:
http://www.voanews.com/korean/news/photo-galleries/123654389.html
Maar eens kopen, kijken of het wat is.quote:The Survival of North Korea: Essays on Strategy, Economics and International Relations
Suk Hi Kim, Bernhard Seliger, Terence Roehrig
Order at Amazon.com
About the Book
Since the end of the Cold War, scholars and analysts have been predicting the collapse of the communist regime in North Korea. Yet, despite a deteriorating economy characterized by declining industrial output, outdated technology, and difficulty feeding its people, the country has been able to persist in spite of these daunting obstacles and continues to plod along. How has North Korea been able to survive, and how long can it last without significant change to its economic and political structures? How can we peacefully resolve the North Korean nuclear standoff through constructive dialogue? This book examines North Korea’s survival strategy and practical solutions to a fifty-year nuclear standoff through a series of essays written by thirteen of the world’s foremost scholars and leading experts on strategy, economics, and international relations. The Survival of North Korea, edited by Kim, Roehrig, and Seliger, is essential reading for anyone interested in peace in Northeast Asia. The book will be invaluable in helping policy-makers, diplomats, politicians, researchers, and other North Korea watchers to understand the three closely related issues about North Korea: (1) why North Korea will continue to survive; (2) how the United States and North Korea can build a mutual confidence; and (3) why a dialogue is the only viable way to resolve the North Korea problem peacefully.
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Dat blog waar eerder naar gelinkt werd, bestaat niet meer.
Die docu van Sue Lloyd-Roberts staat volledig online, is wel interessant: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8701959.stm
Die docu van Sue Lloyd-Roberts staat volledig online, is wel interessant: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8701959.stm
Echt. Iedereen daar is dun/vermagerd. Zelfs de goed-verzorgde zakenmannen zouden op een pro-ana website kunnen.quote:
Ik heb via een blog over NK deze foto's tegen gekomen van het Noord-Koreaanse platteland:
http://www.voanews.com/korean/news/photo-galleries/123654389.html
quote:North Korea threatens 'new' nuclear deterrent
Tensions remain very high over the sinking of a South Korean ship
North Korea is threatening to introduce a new nuclear deterrent because of US hostility, amid tensions over a sunken South Korean warship.
It also accused the US of taking weapons into Panmunjom, the truce village in the demilitarised zone.
The statements came hours after US President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart to take a stronger stance on the warship issue.
Investigators say North Korea sank the warship with a torpedo on 26 March.
Forty-six sailors died when the South Korean ship, the Cheonan, split in two and went down near the disputed inter-Korean maritime border.
South Korea is seeking a UN Security Council response over the incident, for which North Korea denies all responsibility.
New bomb?
The North Korean statement, carried by official news agency KCNA, did not give any details of how the communist country could bolster its nuclear capability.
"The recent disturbing development on the Korean peninsula underscores the need for (North Korea) to bolster its nuclear deterrent in a newly developed way to cope with the US persistent hostile policy toward (the North) and military threat toward it," it quoted the foreign ministry as saying.
North Korea has carried out two nuclear tests. It is thought to have both plutonium and uranium-based weapons programmes.
The BBC's John Sudworth, in Seoul, says the comments could also be meant as a hint that it is trying to build a hydrogen bomb, a massively more powerful weapon than the type it is already known to possess.
North Korea announced in May that it had successfully conducted a nuclear fusion reaction, the type used in a hydrogen bomb.
But that kind of breakthrough would require a major technological leap and many experts doubt whether North Korea has the facilities or the resources, our correspondent says.
In a second statement on Monday, North Korea accused the US of bringing weapons into Panmunjom, the truce village that lies in the demilitarised zone, on 26 June.
"Strong military counter-measures" would be taken if the weapons were not removed, the statement said.
US troops said that they were checking the report.
The two North Korean statements came as Mr Obama held what he called blunt talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao on the warship issue.
China's stance is key to any unified Security Council response, because it holds a veto.
Beijing has in the past opposed strong measures against Pyongyang because it fears the collapse of its impoverished neighbour.
Mr Obama said that while he understood China's position, there was "a difference between restraint and wilful blindness to consistent problems".
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Let us know.quote:
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Maar eens kopen, kijken of het wat is.
Heb laatst ook een puike analyse van Luttwak over NK gelezen. Zal kijken of ik hem nog kan vinden.
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Ik heb wel wat reviews gevonden, over het algemeen vrij positief:quote:
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Let us know.
Heb laatst ook een puike analyse van Luttwak over NK gelezen. Zal kijken of ik hem nog kan vinden.
"The media is full of pundits predicting the imminent collapse of North Korea. To date, North Korea has proven them wrong, year after year. This is the first book to explain systematically why North Korea has endured against all odds. It also shows why, in spite of the efforts of the greatest powers on Earth to force it to abandon its nuclear weapons program, it has refused to capitulate and has instead pursued its own path to become nuclear-armed. Given the complicated nature of the international conflict focused on and in Korea, no book can provide a decisive answer to why North Korea survived. But with its many carefully interwoven threads of argument and evidence, this book provides the reader with insight into the full complexity of the Korean conflict. The book reflects the urgency of ending the standoff on the Peninsula and of avoiding a war that could easily escalate into a catastrophic, nuclear war " (5/5 sterren)
Ik denk dat het de aanschaf sowieso wel waard is.
Daar gaat weer een deel van de toch al schamele oogstquote:“The Rainy Season Has Come”
Typhoon-5 Meari hit the Korean Peninsula on Sunday [26 June]. The storm was expected in Sinu’iju, North P’yo’ngan Province, on Monday [27 June] before hitting China’s east coast. Xinhua reports:
Thousands of people have been evacuated amid storm-triggered floodings, authorities said Sunday.
The tropical storm is expected to make a landing near the city of Donggang, northeast Liaoning Province, or areas to the north of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at Monday dawn, the National Meteorological Center said in its latest bulletin.
The storm was projected at the Yellow Sea, about 35 kilometers southeast off the coast of eastern Shandong Province, at 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the bulletin. The storm is moving north at 20 to 25 kilometers per hour, packing sustained gusts of 23 meters per second near its center.
Strong winds and heavy rain are forecast near the coasts of Shandong, Liaoning and the province of Jilin. The strength of the storm will be reduced after landing, the meteorological authorities said.
Off the coast of Shandong, the stormy weather sank or stranded three vessels on Sunday. Twenty-six people on board of the mishapped vessels have all been rescued, according to a spokesman with the provincial maritime safety administration.
Gales whipped through the Bohai Strait and over the northern part of the Yellow Sea while torrential rains pounded most parts of Liaoning, eastern Shandong, and part of Jiangsu Province on Sunday, raising water level of the Taihu Lake in Jiangsu to critical level at one point.
According to KCNA, the storm affected areas of South Hwanghae Province early Sunday morning:
Typhoon-5 Meari is moving northward at speed of 60 km per hour in the DPRK.
Strong wind of 10-13 m per second hit Haeju and Kaesong cities, Ongjin and Sepho counties and other areas from 03:00 to 09:00 Sunday.
Rainfall of 105 mm was registered in Hoeyang County, 90 mm in Kosong and Pongchon counties, 79 mm in Thongchon and Chongdan counties, 76 mm in Yonan County, 73 mm in Kosan County and 70 mm in Changdo County from 12:00 Saturday to 12:00 Sunday.
Tidal waves are foreseen to hit coastal areas of South Hamgyong Province and Kangwon Province on Sunday afternoon.
Even as Meari weakens and makes its way to the PRC, heavy downpours are expected in the Peninsula (at least the southern part) on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to KBS World:
Typhoon Meari has passed over waters west of Baeknyeong Island and is soon expected to reach the North Korean border city of Sinuiju.
The Korea Meteorological Administration forecasts the typhoon to weaken into an extratropical cyclone once it reaches Sinuiju Monday afternoon.
Rainclouds left by the typhoon will hang over South Korea on Monday, bringing five to 20 millimeters of more precipitation in the central region.
Skies over the nation will gradually clear up in the afternoon, but the monsoon front will return on Tuesday with showers falling over Jeju Island in the morning and the southern coastal regions by night.
People are urged to take precautions as a heavy downpour is forecast nationwide Wednesday.
On Friday Rodong Sinmun published an editorial about various instructions and measures to mitigate flooding and rain damage. KCNA reported about Kim Cho’ng-il’s instruction “to establish measures well to prevent rainy season damage”:
A nationwide campaign has been launched in the country to prevent damage from heavy rainfalls.
Collieries and mines throughout the country are working on setting pit drainages in good condition.
In the sector of land and environmental conservation, necessary measures have been taken to improve reservoirs and streams and dredge rivers and waterways.
In the railway transport sector, a deep attention has been paid to protecting iron bridges, railways and other structures and facilities from flood and landslide.
Meanwhile, cooperative farms have directed much effort to preventing damage from flood and strong wind possible in the rainy season.
During the summer of 2010, the DPRK saw several hundred deaths and widespread damage due to heavy rains. Some of the problems resulting from the rain could not be contained, and crossed the DPRK-ROK border such as box mines washing up in ROK, as well as malaria-infected mosquitoes caused by stagnant water.
A flooded village in Sinhu'ng, South Hamgyo'ng Province in KCTV footage from July 2010. (Photo: KCNA-Yonhap)
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is ook wel het meest verdoemde land ter wereld, wat een ellende kan een man een volk aandoenquote:Op vrijdag 1 juli 2011 23:27 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
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Daar gaat weer een deel van de toch al schamele oogst
Er gaat niets boven lekker in de zon zitten in de achtertuin met een heel koud glas bier , als je al 72 jaar bent en nog gezond, laat ze maar lachen de sukkels
