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| Institute: Satellite Images Show N Korea Expanding Uranium Plant | |
| 2013-08-08 | |
[Ynet] A US-based institute tracking  North Korea's nuclear weapons program says recent satellite photos show the country is doubling the size of its uranium enrichment plant.The Institute for Science and International Security says the photos show construction under way to "effectively double" the size of the enrichment hall, which would allow North Korea to double the number of centrifuges now enriching uranium.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 IMO this an indirect but clear sign of Beijing's escalating control over the DPRK, as it is actually China + PLA whom controls the DPRK Army + Missle, NucProgs. * FYI see also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [AFP Seoul]NORTH KOREA SAYS JAPAN HAS CROSSED MILITARY "DANGER LINE", espec wid its launching of its new "IZUMO" class "flat-top destroyer" = aircraft carrier. * SAME > [Daily Mail Online] JAPAN'S WAR THREAT TO NORTH KOREA, iff the DPRK e-v-a-r! embarks on its own indigenous Nuke Weapons Program. * TOPIX > [WaPo] NEW JAPANESE HELICOPTER CARRIER DRAWS CHINA WARNING TO ASIA. Beijing again urges Regional + International vigilance over China-alleged Japan's militarist ambitions to return to being a major world power. ---------------- More ... * BIG NEWS NETWORK > [Global Times] JAPAN TO BUILD ANOTHER ["IZUMO"-class] CARRIER. * Also from GLOBAL TIMES > JAPAN SHOULD NEVER FORGET THE FATE OF PREVIOUS "IZUMO" IN WAR OF [East Asia] AGGRESSION, i.e. fate that befell Militarist Japan after its war-obsessed Govt. adopted policies which built the aggressive + powerful Imperial Japanese Navy only to see it destroyed during WW2, + resulted in Japan suffering two atomic bombings + incurring the long-lasting hatred + mistrust of those Asian nations it attacked or conquered. * SAME > JAPAN BECOMING TOO AMBITIOUS FOR ITS GOALS. * BIG NEWS NETWORK > SON OF CHINESE TYCOON PLACES DIAOYU AD IN NEW YORK TIMES, affirming + proclaiming Chinese history + sovereignty over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands using the same public relations method before America that his father did a couple of years before. * SAME > [Asia News Network] PHILIPPINES REJECTS ANEW CHINA'S "INDISPUTABLE" CLAIMS OVER SEAS [South China Seas = Spratlys]. RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS = PHILIPPINES IGNORES CHINA'S "THREE-WAY" PROPOSAL TO ADDRESS SEA DISPUTE. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MNLF CHAIRMAN NUR MISUARI THREATENS TO DECLARE MORO INDEPENDENCE - PHILIPPI | [PHIL Star] NUR SAYS GOVT. ACTIONS PUSHING MNLF TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE. The PHIL may lose Mindanao + other one day, which in turn may get the Commie NPA riled up as well as other types of local insurgent groups. * SAME > KIRAM: [Sulu] SULTANATE NOT PART OF [MILF-led] BANGSAMORO - MANILA STANDARD. Winky-wink - that remains to be seen??? * SAME > [PHIL Star] BIFF MORO REBELS CLASH WID PHILIPPINE TROOPS. Beijing would like to take this opportunity to once again KINDLY/POLITELY remind Japan, ROK, Taiwan, PHIL, Vietnam, ASEAN, + even Radical Islam that IT HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS, + THEY DON'T. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-08-08 01:56 |