Spanningen op het Koreaanse schiereiland #29 Little Hands man

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Op zondag 24 september 2017 17:43 schreef Infection het volgende:

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Jij hebt je blijkbaar nooit echt in Noord-Korea verdiept. Natuurlijk zijn er velen die daadwerkelijk een grote fan van hun leider zijn, maar velen doen alsof om niet gevangen genomen of geëxecuteerd te worden. Nooit de verhalen en video's gezien van nep-huilende Koreanen om de dood van Kim Jong Il?

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Op zondag 24 september 2017 20:14 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Klopt, het is van alles wat. Ik kan me ook een verhaal herinneren van een vrouw die het allemaal maar gewoon ging geloven omdat dat haar level dragelijk maakte. Dus je hebt ook nog een soort tussenweg van wel alle propaganda geloven, maar ergens in je achterhoofd houden dat het eigenlijk allemaal niet waar is.

Het probleem is dat de oude generatie die zich nog een verenigd Korea kan herinneren bijna weg is. Vrijwel de hele populatie is nu opgegroeid met de propaganda.

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Op zondag 24 september 2017 20:40 schreef Gabrunal_2013 het volgende:

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Een verenigd Korea naar zuid Koreaans model zou pas een ramp zijn. De Amerikanen zouden hiermee hun invloedssfeer nog verder vergroten en ook in Azie aan de grens met Rusland en China staan met hun imperialistische leger. Dat scenario lijkt me een stuk gevaarlijker dan een Kim die alleen zijn eigen regime probeert te beschermen. In geval van een oorlog zou het beste scenario zijn als China met Rusland uiteindelijk het land bezetten en zo bufferfunctie van het land gewaarborgd blijft. Hoe het beste om te gaan met vluchtelingenstromen en wederopbouw zou ik niet direct weten. Het wordt bijzonder lastig in ieder geval.

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Trump says Iran 'working with North Korea' after ballistic missile test

President Trump accused Iran of collaborating with North Korea to strengthen their missile technology Saturday evening in a Twitter post criticizing the 2015 nuclear agreement between the U.S., Iran and five other nations.

"Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel," Trump wrote. "They are also working with North Korea. Not much of an agreement we have!" Nonproliferation experts have long suspected North Korea and Iran are sharing know-how when it comes to their rogue missile programs. Earlier this month, CIA Director Mike Pompeo told Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier" that Iran would "certainly be someone who would be willing to pay" for that expertise.

"The North Koreans have a long history of being proliferators and sharing their knowledge, their technology, their capacities around the world," Pompeo said. "As North Korea continues to improve its ability to do longer-range missiles and to put nuclear weapons on those missiles, it is very unlikely if they get that capability that they wouldn't share it with lots of folks."

Trump posted the tweet hours after Iran claimed to have successfully tested a new ballistic missile capable of reaching parts of the Middle East, including Israel.

The missile, known as the Khoramshahr, has a range of 1,250 miles and is based on a North Korean design. A similar missile was tested in late January and blew up 600 miles after launch.

The Iranian test-launch constituted a direct challenge to Trump, who last month signed a bill imposing mandatory penalties on those involved in Iran's ballistic missile program and anyone who does business with them.

Trump has vowed repeatedly to take a tougher line toward Iran than his predecessor, threatening at various times to renegotiate or even dismantle the nuclear deal, and shoot Iranian boats out of the water if they provoke U.S. naval vessels in the Persian Gulf.

On Wednesday, Trump told reporters that he had made a decision about whether or not to pull out of the nuclear deal, but declined to say what it was.

Earlier this week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed Iran would strengthen its missile capabilities without asking for any country's permission, just days after Trump accused Iran in an address to the United Nations General Assembly of exporting violence to Yemen, Syria, and other parts of the Middle East.

In that speech, Trump criticized the nuclear deal as "one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into."

"Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States," the president proclaimed, "and I don't think you've heard the last of it, believe me."

The nuclear deal between Iran and world powers does not strictly prohibit Iran from developing missiles but after the deal came into effect last year, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution calling on Iran not to take any actions related to ballistic missiles "designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons" for eight years.

Iranian officials have argued that the measure only applies to missiles specifically designed to carry nuclear warheads.

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"Meer dan 100.000 Noord-Koreanen manifesteren in Pyongyang tegen VS"

Noord-Korea heeft in de hoofdstad Pyongyang een manifestatie georganiseerd tegen de Verenigde Staten. Meer dan 100.000 mensen "uit alle lagen van de bevolking" kwamen op straat, zo meldt het Noord-Koreaanse staatspersagentschap KCNA. De manifestanten scharen zich achter hun leider Kim Jong Un en willen "de vernietiging van de vijand".De Noord-Koreanen willen "de Amerikaanse imperialisten, de gezworen vijand, volledig van de aardbol verwijderen", klonk het. Tijdens de manifestatie werden eerdere uitlatingen van Kim Jong Un gescandeerd. Die laatste zei dat hij de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump "zeker en vast zal temmen" met vuur. Hij noemde Trump "de mentaal gestoorde Amerikaanse sufferd". Trump van zijn kant liet eerder deze week optekenen dat hij Noord-Korea "volledig kan vernietigen".

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Behind North Korea's Nuclear Advance: Scientists Who Bring Technology Home



Pyongyang's recent weapons tests are a reminder of a conundrum: How has the nation advanced in arms despite international efforts to keep expertise out of its hands? The answer may lie in students it sends abroad. When North Korea tested what it said was a domestically produced hydrogen bomb on Sunday--a week after launching its 18th ballistic missile of the year--it was a reminder of a conundrum at the heart of the country's nuclear program. How has it advanced so rapidly despite concerted international efforts to keep weapons-related technology out of its hands?

The answer may lie in expertise brought home by North Korean scientists who studied abroad, especially in China, sometimes in apparent violation of 2016 United Nations sanctions that ban teaching North Koreans certain subjects. Hundreds of North Korean scientists have studied outside the country in recent years, according to a Wall Street Journal review of official figures, academic papers and data from universities, many in areas the U.N. says could help Pyongyang's weapons programs.

Early in its six-decade quest for a nuclear arsenal, North Korea relied on technology and experts from the Soviet Union, then later from Iran and Pakistan. That it can now draw on its own scientists indicates it will only become harder to contain Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. "We should be very concerned about North Korean researchers abroad, particularly in China," said Katsuhisa Furukawa, a member from 2011-2016 of the U.N. panel of experts monitoring sanctions enforcement on North Korea.

Among those scientists is Kim Kyong Sol, who was still at China's elite Harbin Institute of Technology more than a year after the U.N. introduced its sanctions, doing a Ph.D. in mechatronics--a blend of mechanical engineering, electronics and programming--according to university staff. In March this year, he published a paper in China co-written by a senior engineer in Beijing's military-run space program.

After reviewing Mr. Kim's paper at the Journal's request, Mr. Furukawa concluded it fell into a category banned by U.N. sanctions. Foreign-educated North Koreans' work in multiple disciplines, said Mr. Furukawa, now an independent analyst, has "surely contributed to the accumulation of scientific know-how and information relevant to its weapons program." North Korea's technological advances go beyond nuclear science. Any research or contacts abroad that could help North Korea launch objects into space is of concern to the U.S. as it tries to stop Pyongyang from perfecting ways to attack America or its allies.

Pyongyang has launched Earth-observation satellites, which can be used for reconnaissance and targeting. It has also test-fired missiles from a submarine and said it could conduct an electromagnetic-pulse attack, designed to cripple electric grids by detonating a nuclear device on a satellite. The technology Mr. Kim studied, called MR damping, can be used to stabilize spacecraft and absorb shock in missile-launch systems, including in submarines, as well as to reduce vibration in cars, buildings and helicopters, U.S. experts in the field said.

Mr. Kim returned home in June, university staff said. He didn't respond to emails. China's foreign ministry said Beijing was "strictly implementing" all U.N. resolutions on North Korea. It didn't respond to questions about Mr. Kim, nor did Harbin Institute of Technology. The concern among U.S. officials is that Pyongyang exploited a lack of strict education sanctions before the 2016 U.N. ban to dispatch scientists and bring back "dual use" expertise--with civilian and military applications--and could continue to benefit from any lax enforcement of the ban.

Some of those officials said they fear that even with strict sanctions enforcement, Pyongyang may already have sufficient indigenous know-how for its nuclear goals. There is evidence North Korea produces its own rocket engines, the Journal reported in August, citing a U.S. intelligence official, contradicting a recent think-tank report suggesting its engines are from Ukraine or Russia.

Homemade claims
Kim Jong Un made a point of bragging that his claimed hydrogen bomb was indigenous: "All components of the H-bomb were homemade and all the processes ranging from the production of weapons-grade nuclear materials to precision processing of components and their assembling," the nation's official Korean Central News Agency quoted him as saying.



Following North Korea's second nuclear-bomb test in 2009, the U.N. in a package of sanctions in response called on countries to "prevent specialized teaching or training" within their territories or by their nationals that could help Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development.

The U.N. imposed the 2016 ban on teaching specific subjects in response to a fourth nuclear test in January of that year and broadened it to encompass disciplines such as advanced engineering and materials science after another test last September. In a report this February, U.N. experts said they found several North Koreans studying physics in Italy and four studying material science, engineering and electronic communications in Romania last year after the ban. The report said all were redirected to permitted subjects. The institutions didn't respond to requests for comment.

In 2016, U.N. experts said two North Koreans were training that year before the ban at an Indian space technology center where 32 others had attended since 1996, including one who recently headed Pyongyang's satellite control center. The Indian center said it no longer accepts North Koreans.

China in recent years has accounted for the bulk of North Korean scientists abroad, the Journal found in a review of official figures and data from universities in countries where the most North Koreans typically have studied. In China, 1,086 North Korean postgraduates studied in 2015, the last year for which official data are available, according to a Chinese Ministry of Education publication, up from 354 in 2009. The publication doesn't show which schools they attended or what they studied.



China accounted for 60% of research papers by North Koreans in foreign journals from 2011 through 2016, mostly in physics, engineering, math, metallurgy and materials science, a study of academic databases by researchers from South Korea's Hallym University found.

Papers published by North Koreans in China since the 2016 U.N. sanctions span civilian fields such as medicine and mining but also include several in fields now prohibited, including metallic foams that protect against radiation. Sending more scientists abroad, and giving them perks at home, has been central to Kim Jong Un's policy of byungjin, or parallel progress, to develop nuclear weapons and the economy--a policy he introduced publicly after taking power on his father's 2011 death.

North Korea has said it needs nuclear weapons to prevent an attack by the U.S. It began its nuclear-arms program with Soviet backing in the 1950s and for years had small exchanges of scientists with the Eastern Bloc. After the Cold War's end, Pyongyang traded for nuclear and missile expertise, mainly with Iran and Pakistan, according to historians, while continuing to send a few scientists abroad.

Since North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006, U.S. and U.N. sanctions have focused on curbing the flow of money and dual-use materials to Pyongyang's weapons programs. The regime has compensated by trying to develop more indigenous weapons know-how, experts on North Korea said. Kim Jong Un's byungjin policy has helped Pyongyang develop a wide spectrum of technical expertise--including metallurgists to make strong, lightweight alloys for rockets, mathematicians to help guide missiles and satellite engineers to improve targeting and reconnaissance, said experts and Western government officials.

Mr. Kim's studies
It isn't clear how the mechatronics scientist, Mr. Kim, planned to use his expertise in MR damping. "Could it be turned into military applications? Possibly," said Mehdi Ahmadian, a Virginia Tech professor who said he had done similar research on MR damping in space structures, which could include satellites, antennas or mirrors. Footnotes in the paper Mr. Kim published show funding came from a project led by his Chinese supervisor, Chen Zhaobo, on hypersonic vehicles, which can fly at more than 3,800 mph and are being developed by China, Russia and the U.S. to deliver nuclear or conventional weapons.

As tensions rise around the Korean Peninsula, American leaders have been openly discussing what was once unthinkable: A military intervention in North Korea. If this were to happen, here's how specialists on North Korean security see things playing out. Prof. Chen said that, after four years in Harbin on a Chinese government scholarship, Mr. Kim returned home because of the sanctions shortly before defending his Ph.D. thesis. "I tried to comfort him a little," Prof. Chen said. "He knew that after going back, he'd feel disappointed. He didn't express it, but you could still tell."

He said Mr. Kim didn't have access to secret Chinese defense technology but said his former student's work, with further development, had potential civilian and military uses, including in space. He and two other professors who worked with Mr. Kim said they learned of the U.N. sanctions from students and colleagues only around May or June of this year. Mr. Kim arrived as part of a cooperative agreement of the type several Chinese universities have signed since 2010 with North Korean universities, including two that U.N. experts have reported provide personnel and technology for Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. They are Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology, Mr. Kim's alma mater.

David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector and expert in nuclear proliferation, said it is common among nations seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction to seek knowledge abroad, including by sending scientists to take courses and attend conferences. China's engineering schools and training programs, he said, offer "opportunities to mingle with people who may have sensitive information, such as Chinese who have been in military programs."

The Harbin university, known as HIT, is one of China's top engineering schools and conducts classified defense and space-related research, as well as regular civilian studies. The school has cooperation agreements with Kim Chaek and Kim Il Sung universities, which in 2013 sent the first group of 12 doctoral and postdoctoral students to enroll there, according to the HIT website. That number increased to 28 by 2015.

Mr. Kim was in the first group. Born in 1975, he studied mechanical engineering in North Korea before enrolling in HIT's School of Mechatronic Engineering, according to his research papers. The school boasts on its website it has trained personnel for China's manned space program and has facilities for defense research, including on ultraprecision machining.

Mr. Kim and the other North Koreans at HIT kept low profiles, sharing two-bedroom apartments and rarely socializing, university staff said. The North Koreans all had Chinese government scholarships, they said, which provided free housing and tuition and monthly stipends of about 3,000 yuan ($450). "They were easy to recognize from their clothes and their looks," said one Chinese postgraduate student at HIT. They appeared to be supervised by one individual among them, other students said.

Upon arrival, Mr. Kim "looked at the direction of my research and thought it was quite interesting," said Prof. Chen, a vibration-control expert who has worked on defense projects. He said he now focuses on civilian research because "military project management is very strict and not conducive to academic exchanges." In 2007, Prof. Chen co-wrote a paper on designing composite laminates to control vibration in spacecraft. From 2012-2015, he ran a project on vibration control for hypersonic vehicles, according to his profile and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

That project sponsored Mr. Kim's paper in March, whose co-authors included Wang Xiaoyu from the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, which has worked on Chinese satellites and China's manned spacecraft and lunar rover. Ms. Wang declined to comment. Prof. Chen said Mr. Kim's work was more directly related to helicopters but could be used in multiple fields. He and Mr. Kim applied for a patent in February, saying their technology has applications in areas including aerospace, according to China's patent registry.

Norman Wereley, a University of Maryland aerospace-engineering professor and MR-damping expert, said Mr. Kim's research was fairly basic but would allow him to do more sophisticated work at home. "He could think about, 'well, hey if I want to do vibration control in a missile system, I have a much better understanding of how to do that,' " he said. "I don't think he's getting this education for scholarly reasons." At least 11 other North Korean Ph.D. students left HIT in June, while others switched to subjects such as management studies that aren't banned by the U.N., university staff said.

Some may have taken home a little extra know-how. North Koreans are suspected of violating library regulations by downloading tens of thousands of papers from subscription-based databases in recent months at at least two Chinese schools, including HIT, according to university staff and students. On May 16, 57,000 papers were downloaded by nine foreign students from the mechatronics and other faculties at HIT, according to a notice from its library. Staff and students said the culprits were North Korean.

--Daniel Stacey and Kersten Zhang contributed to this article.

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Op zondag 24 september 2017 16:51 schreef Infection het volgende:

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Negeren? Net zoals de vorige presidenten deden? Waardoor Noord-Korea nu meer kernwapens dan ooit tevoren heeft?

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Op zondag 24 september 2017 16:51 schreef Infection het volgende:

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Negeren? Net zoals de vorige presidenten deden? Waardoor Noord-Korea nu meer kernwapens dan ooit tevoren heeft?

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Op zondag 24 september 2017 16:51 schreef Infection het volgende:

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Negeren? Net zoals de vorige presidenten deden? Waardoor Noord-Korea nu meer kernwapens dan ooit tevoren heeft?

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Op maandag 25 september 2017 10:49 schreef Brybry het volgende:
Is de optie dat Iran en NK gaan samemwerken om Trump op zijn knietjes te krijgen al genoemd?

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Op maandag 25 september 2017 11:00 schreef Vlassie1980 het volgende:

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En dat de kernwapens verkocht kunnen gaan worden aan terroristische organisaties? Dat is een worst nightmare scenario namelijk...

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Op maandag 25 september 2017 11:11 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:


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Op maandag 25 september 2017 11:11 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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De Amerikanen beschuldigen Iran er nu al van meegeholpen te hebben aan het N Koreaanse programma. Die kunnen beter afzijdig blijven.

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Op zondag 24 september 2017 22:25 schreef Dellemarren het volgende:

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http://www.foxnews.com/po(...)ic-missile-test.html

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Op maandag 25 september 2017 11:11 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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De Amerikanen beschuldigen Iran er nu al van meegeholpen te hebben aan het N Koreaanse programma. Die kunnen beter afzijdig blijven.

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Op maandag 25 september 2017 14:35 schreef Brybry het volgende:

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Worst scenaria zou zijn als de "vijanden" zich gaan verenigen...Dan zou de Westerste wereld toch een best probleem hebben

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Op maandag 25 september 2017 14:35 schreef Brybry het volgende:

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Worst scenaria zou zijn als de "vijanden" zich gaan verenigen...Dan zou de Westerste wereld toch een best probleem hebben