Spanningen op het Koreaanse schiereiland - Nukes, nukes, nukes #18

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Op maandag 15 mei 2017 04:31 schreef Stabiel het volgende:

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Volgens andere berekeningen kan de raket dan weer een bereik van 5000 á 6000 kilometer halen.

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Op maandag 15 mei 2017 20:37 schreef halfway het volgende:
Denken jullie nu echt dat de VS, China, Rusland, Zuid Korea en Japan duimen zitten te draaien?

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Op maandag 15 mei 2017 20:11 schreef TLC het volgende:
Heeft de poep al het plafond bereikt ?

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Op dinsdag 16 mei 2017 03:04 schreef Odaiba het volgende:
''All options are on the table, even a military one...''

Nou streep die militaire optie maar door.

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Op dinsdag 16 mei 2017 04:37 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:

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Flink van de toren blazen, met groot vertoon richting NK, nu nogal stil na een geslaagde test.

Ik wilde hem het voordeel van de twijfel geven maar meneer 'art of the deal' zie ik dit termijn niet afmaken of in ieder geval niet herkozen worden.

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Op dinsdag 16 mei 2017 07:17 schreef theNull het volgende:
Reuters World @ReutersWorld
BREAKING: Symantec, Kaspersky looking into technical clues that suggest North Korea-linked Lazarus Group may be behind global cyber attack

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Op dinsdag 16 mei 2017 11:17 schreef tailfox het volgende:
Gebeurd er nog iets?

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North Korea's missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday, after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday's test-launch.

The reclusive North, which has defied all calls to rein in its weapons programs, even from its lone major ally, China, said the missile test was a legitimate defense against U.S. hostility.

The North has been working on a missile, mounted with a nuclear warhead, capable of striking the U.S. mainland.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has called for an immediate halt to Pyongyang's provocations and has warned that the "era of strategic patience" with North Korea is over. U.S. Disarmament Ambassador Robert Wood said on Tuesday China's leverage was key and it could do more.

South Korean Defence Minister Han Min-koo told parliament Sunday's test-launch was "successful in flight".

"It is considered an IRBM (intermediate range ballistic missile) of enhanced caliber compared to Musudan missiles that have continually failed," he said, referring to a class of missile designed to travel up to 3,000 to 4,000 km (1,860 to 2,485 miles).

Asked if North Korea's missile program was developing faster than the South had expected, he said: "Yes."

The North's KCNA news agency said Sunday's launch tested its capability to carry a "large-size heavy nuclear warhead". Its ambassador to China said in Beijing on Monday it would continue such test launches "any time, any place".

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SkyNewsBreak twitterde op zondag 21-05-2017 om 10:37:19 South Korea's military says North Korea has fired an "unidentified projectile" from a location near Pukchang reageer retweet

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NBCNews twitterde op zondag 21-05-2017 om 11:13:38 South Korean defense ministry official tells @NBCNews they are still unsure whether it's an ICBM or not. reageer retweet

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SkyNewsBreak twitterde op zondag 21-05-2017 om 11:29:13 Japanese govt says North Korea's ballistic missile likely landed outside exclusive economic zone with no reported damage to ships or planes reageer retweet

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RT_com twitterde op zondag 21-05-2017 om 11:24:49 #BREAKING: US and Japan confirm #NorthKorea conducted missile #launchhttps://t.co/sAXOBbhpat #Korea https://t.co/Qxif8cvYzG reageer retweet

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SkyNewsBreak twitterde op zondag 21-05-2017 om 11:26:36 White House says it is aware of missile launch & system has "shorter range than missiles launched in North Korea's three most recent tests" reageer retweet

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Op zondag 21 mei 2017 11:28 schreef theNull het volgende:
De testen volgen elkaar snel op. Beter grijpen ze snel in.

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Op zondag 21 mei 2017 11:35 schreef Khazra het volgende:
Goed van Noord-Korea. Doorgaan met die handel.

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Landen die niks moeten hebben van de Yanks.

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L0gg0l twitterde op zondag 21-05-2017 om 12:38:46 Japan's Abe has ordered to confirm safety of airplanes, ships. Prepare for other contingencies following DPRK missile launch -- Kyodo reageer retweet

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Op maandag 22 mei 2017 12:04 schreef So_Surreal het volgende:
Ik ben benieuwd of er ingegrepen gaat worden wanneer ze daadwerkelijk weer een nucleaire test doen...

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Kim Dong-yub, a military expert at Kyungnam University's Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, said the North appeared to be testing and perfecting both solid and liquid-fueled missiles, which might help explain why the pace of its tests had increased.

"I think the team to develop liquid fuel missiles are being pitted against the solid fuel team," Kim said. "The liquid fuel team succeeded on May 14 so the solid fuel team went for another round to achieve success. That is why the speed of North Korea's missile development is going beyond imagination."

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Op maandag 22 mei 2017 22:56 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Conflicts twitterde op dinsdag 23-05-2017 om 10:46:09 BREAKING: N. Korea flies an unidentified projectile across border with S. Korea: military - @YonhapNews reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 23 mei 2017 10:48 schreef Infection het volgende:

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Conflicts twitterde op dinsdag 23-05-2017 om 10:46:09 BREAKING: N. Korea flies an unidentified projectile across border with S. Korea: military - @YonhapNews reageer retweet

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Conflicts twitterde op dinsdag 23-05-2017 om 10:49:36 @YonhapNews MORE: South Korean's military says it fired 90 machine gun shots towards North Korea in response. - @ReutersJean reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 23 mei 2017 10:51 schreef Infection het volgende:

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Conflicts twitterde op dinsdag 23-05-2017 om 10:49:36 @YonhapNews MORE: South Korean's military says it fired 90 machine gun shots towards North Korea in response. - @ReutersJean reageer retweet

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US President Donald Trump's top official at the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has clashed against an Australian-led agency for not alerting the UN to North Korea's production of a substance sometimes used to make chemical weapons.

The US is disturbed the UN's World Intellectual Property Organisation, headed by senior Australian diplomat Francis Gurry, did not notify the UN Security Council about North Korean applying to patent sodium cyanide, which is on the international sanctions list.

The dual-purpose sodium cyanide is a compound that is sometimes used to make poisons and chemical weapons, but is often employed to extract gold, which North Korea is naturally endowed in.

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A day after their meeting Ms Haley released a statement - in response to media questions - voicing concern about WIPO's handling of North Korea's patent application for producing the chemical compound.

"The thought of placing cyanide in the hands of the North Koreans, considering their record on human rights, political prisoners, and assassinations is not only dangerous but defies common sense," Ambassador Haley said.

"We urge all UN agencies to be transparent and apply the utmost scrutiny when dealing with these types of requests from North Korea and other rogue nations."

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WIPO responded to Ms Haley, saying it believed that patent disclosures were not covered by the UN sanction rules and that an international treaty likely prohibits it from tipping off the UN Security Council.

"WIPO has never submitted a patent for review to the Sanction Committee, and the Committee staff has confirmed to us no Member State ever has either," WIPO said.

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It is not known whether the WIPO issue was discussed between Ms Bishop and Ms Haley, with one official source in New York saying they didn't believe it was raised.

A spokeswoman for Ms Bishop said Australia was closely monitoring the matter.

"WIPO has provided assurances that news reporting criticising its involvement in North Korea's patent application is inaccurate, and that it will assist the relevant UN sanctions committees with respect to any clarification necessary," she said.

The UN sanctions list bans the export and import of hundreds of chemicals and technologies to or from North Korea.

It is understood that WIPO's refusal to alert the UN Security Council was influenced by the Patent Cooperation Treaty not permitting WIPO to give the UNSC patent applications before their public release, in order to protect inventors.

"By contrast, military inventions are typically kept secret and are not filed as patent applications since, if they were, they would eventually become public," WIPO said.

North Korea's patent application was made to China's national intellectual property office.

WIPO was an administrative conduit in the process, receiving the application, translating the language into English and French and eventually publishing a notification on its website.

China determined that North Korea's sodium cyanide technology was invented elsewhere in the 1970s, so a patent is highly unlikely to be granted.

A US official said it was "common sense" that WIPO, a UN agency, should report North Korea's attempt to use the dual-purpose sodium cyanide.

A UN source said it was possible member countries could change or clarify the interpretation of the treaty at an international meeting in October to direct WIPO to explicitly disclose such applications to the Security Council.

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Pyongyang's state media on Thursday published their first report on the trial of ousted South Korean President Park Geun-Hye two days earlier, calling her an "arch-traitor" and "bitch".

The Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' Party, printed an inside-page report headlined "Bitch Park Geun-Hye's shameless attitude sparks anger".

Conservative Park took a hard line against the nuclear-armed North during her time in office, earning her its enduring loathing and abuse.

The official Korean Central News Agency regularly referred to her as the "witch of Chongwadae", the South's presidential palace known as the Blue House.

Rodong Sinmun cited media reports from the South for its article, which said Park had been arrested and indicted in "a scandal of an unprecedented scale".

"A pathetic-looking bitch Park Geun-Hye who has been in jail after being kicked out of the Blue House as a result of mounting public anger and people's candlelight protests against the arch-traitor, was brought to the court by prison bus, handcuffed and wearing a prison number 503 on her chest", it said.

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YonhapNews twitterde op zondag 28-05-2017 om 23:20:35 (URGENT) N. Korea fires off what appears to be a missile: S. Korean military https://t.co/og6HjKv4S6 reageer retweet

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YonhapNews twitterde op zondag 28-05-2017 om 23:29:19 N. Korea fires off what appears to be a ballistic missile: S. Korean military https://t.co/3jpdr1lB9A reageer retweet

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News_Executive twitterde op zondag 28-05-2017 om 23:36:20 UPDATE: North Korean Missile headed towards the sea of Japan, South Korean cabinet to hold an emergency cabinet meeting. reageer retweet

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RT_com twitterde op zondag 28-05-2017 om 23:43:00 DETAILS: S. Korea's President Moon Jae-in orders NSC Standing Committee in less than an hour - officials... https://t.co/W5l3DKuNQI reageer retweet

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juliamacfarlane twitterde op zondag 28-05-2017 om 23:46:46 #Breaking Japan goverment spokesman says North Korean missile appears to have landed in Japan; SKorea convening emergency cabinet meeting reageer retweet