Above: North Korean soldiers turn and look towards their leader Kim Jong Un from a military parade vehicle as they carry packs marked with the nuclear symbol during a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 27, 2013.
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The South Korean Defense Department told CNN the plans aren’t direct preparations for North Korea and that it will also work on a mock “sudden missile attack”. South Korea and Washington say the defense mechanism is exclusively aimed at North Korea. The other flew over the base in Pyeongtaek, 70 km south of Seoul, and returned to US Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, the US Forces Korea said.
The leaders of the United States and China, which is the North’s main diplomatic ally and economic benefactor, condemned the latest nuclear test and pledged to step up cooperation at the United Nations and in law enforcement channels.
To evade global sanctions, North Korean business managers embed themselves in commercial hubs in China, their country’s largest trading partner, and work with local business middlemen. This is partly because China, fearing large refugee inflows and a unified Korea in America’s strategic orbit should North Korea collapse, will most likely continue to ensure that it gets the fuel and food it needs. Maintaining a common ground among the allies is now more important than ever to curtail North Korea’s ambitions.
As the intervals between Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests shrink from years to months, it becomes increasingly urgent to find ways of making sanctions on North Korea more effective.
Even if such a war ended in North Korea’s defeat, it would be extraordinarily costly by any measure.
It suggested that ways to win Chinese support and make it more cooperative would be include offering guarantees that Beijing’s interests would not be damaged in the case of Korean unification, such as possibly reducing the presence of the US military on the Korean peninsula. These middlemen charge their North Korean clients a fee to purchase dual-use technologies – items that can be used for either civilian or military purposes, such as industrial equipment and components.
Next, Chong Dae Hyup, a South Korean organization with alleged connections to North Korea, echoed the statements and started a crusade to stop the implementation of the agreement.
Analyzing North Korean nuclear and missile procurement as a business case study helped us to highlight the security implications of these commercial networks.
Yun said in an interview late Tuesday on the sidelines of an annual gathering of world leaders, “I think all members of the United Nations have to ask themselves whether North Korea is really qualified as a member of the U.N”. Critics, however, believe is a cover for a nuclear weapons program, the New York Times reported. The North has conducted more than 20 launches of various types of missile this year.
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Song added that China can not completely suspend overland transportation to North Korea because China needs to help sustain the basic needs of the North Korean people. Yun also voiced concern that the North was accelerating its accumulation of fissile material with a view to mass producing nuclear bombs.
