Monthly Archives: August 2023

2023-08-26: News Headlines

news.un (2023-08-25). DPR Korea: Dialogue 'only way forward', UN official says in wake of latest launch. news.un.org The recent launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of a satellite posed a major risk to international civil aviation and maritime traffic, a senior UN political affairs official said on Friday, underscoring the need for practical measures to reduce tensions in the Korean Peninsula and create space for dialogue.

TASS (2023-08-25). US using its UNSC presidency in selfish interests when calling meeting on DPRK — diplomat. tass.com "Evidently, today's meeting is nothing but a cynical and hypocritical attempt by the United States and its allies to augment pressure on Pyongyang and distract attention from Washington and its allies' reckless and escalatory actions in the region, which are a real source of threats to international peace and security," Vasily Nebenzya said…

TASS (2023-08-26). Policy of tough sanctions against North Korea exhausted itself — Russian diplomat. tass.com It runs counter to the tasks of restoring trust the Security Council should focus on, Vasily Nebenzya said…

sputnikglobe (2023-08-25). North Korea's Satellite Launch is Exercise of Right to Self Defense – Envoy. sputnikglobe.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – North Korea is exercising its right to self-defense with its latest satellite launch attempt earlier this week, North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song said on Friday.


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2023-08-18: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-08-18). Chinese envoy: UN DPRK rights debate may intensify conflict. ecns.cn China opposes the United Nations Security Council meeting on the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) because it "will only intensify the conflict", a Chinese envoy said on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-08-18). China opposes UN Security Coucil's consideration of the human rights situation in the DPRK: envoy. ecns.cn China opposes the UN Security Council's consideration of the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), said Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, at a session of the UN Security Council on Thursday.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-08-18). US Soldier Sought Asylum in North Korea To Flee Racism, Injustice in Army: Pyongyang. orinocotribune.com The African American soldier that crossed the border from South Korea last month to seek asylum in the North did so to escape "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination" in the US military, Pyongyang has declared. | The statement, released Wednesday by North Korea's official KCNA news agency, are the country's first public assertions on the defection of the South Korea-based US soldier Travis King, who crossed into North Korea on July 18 while on a tourist tour of the Joint Security Area (JSA) that separates the two rival countries. | The statement further noted that King had confessed to crossing the border…

Military Watch Magazine (2023-08-17). North Korean MoD Warns of Nuclear War Threat: New American Missile Brigades to be Sent to East Asia. globalresearch.ca

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-08-17). Russia's Putin, North Korea's Kim Vow Closer Ties. orinocotribune.com Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have pledged closer cooperation between the two countries as they exchanged letters marking North Korea's National Liberation Day. | "I am sure that we will continue to build up bilateral cooperation in all areas for the benefit of our peoples, in the interests of strengthening stability and security on the Korean Peninsula and in the Northeast Asian region as a whole," Putin declared in a congratulatory message to Kim released by the Kremlin on Tuesday. | Putin further noted that groundwork was laid for close cooperation between Moscow and Pyon…

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2023-08-15: News Headlines

thecommunists (2023-08-15). It is not north Korean but US nuclear weapons which threaten the world. thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from the Korean Central News Agency with thanks. ***** At the first session of the preparatory committee for the 11th Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, the USA and its vassal forces unreasonably criticised the DPRK's nuclear deterrent for self-defence as a "threat" to international peace and security and to the …


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2023-08-12: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-08-11). World sliding toward WW3 as more warhawks grab power in Washington DC. infobrics.org In recent years, the warhawks have become so overconfident that they don't even consider the possibility of engaging in actual diplomacy with countries that have the means of bringing all the "freedom and democracy" the US "exports" back to it. This includes not only "pocket superpowers" such as North Korea, but also geopolitical giants such as Russia and China, the two only near-peer adversaries to the United States.

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2023-08-11: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-08-11). World sliding toward WW3 as more warhawks grab power in Washington DC. infobrics.org In recent years, the warhawks have become so overconfident that they don't even consider the possibility of engaging in actual diplomacy with countries that have the means of bringing all the "freedom and democracy" the US "exports" back to it. This includes not only "pocket superpowers" such as North Korea, but also geopolitical giants such as Russia and China, the two only near-peer adversaries to the United States.

Anonymous103 (2023-08-10). U.S. War Crimes and the Political Economy of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Who Is Responsible? Why? southfront.org Written by Prof. Joseph H. Chung. Originally published by GlobalResearch Introduction For the last 40 years, the media and the academics of…


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