At ‘Five Fifty’ Forum on Tibet Equilibrium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama openly shared his concerns about US President Donald Trump’s reluctance to engage him in Cold War Era secret diplomacy.
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THE DALAI LAMA SPEAKS ON TRUMP AND ‘AMERICA FIRST’
The Dalai Lama during an event at American University last year. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press)
DHARAMSALA, India The Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of the Tibetan nation, is known worldwide for his advocacy of non-violence, peaceful coexistence, environmental protection and human rights. But the 82-year-old Buddhist monk is worried about the rise of nationalism and selfishness around the world and in the United States. In wide ranging remarks to a unique conference of Tibet supporters here in northern India, the Dalai Lama said he was concerned about President Trump’s “America first” policy, America’s stance on global warming and the use of military tools to solve international problems. He also praised the United States and expressed hope that the American people will continue to do the right things, including with respect to Tibet. “Your ancestors really considered the importance of liberty, freedom, democracy, these things,” the Dalai Lama said in response to my question about his current view of the United States. “The present president, in the very beginning he mentioned ‘America first.’ That sounded in my ear not very nice.” The Dalai Lama is concerned that the United States, despite being “the leader of the free world,” was becoming more “selfish, nationalist,” he said. But the American Congress and people have long supported the cause of Tibet and human rights, and he thinks that will continue, he added. The Dalai Lama also lamented that Trump doesn’t pay more attention to the issue of global warming, which, he said, knows no borders and no religion. “The present president is not much paying attention to ecology. So on that, I feel some reservation,” the Dalai Lama said. “But anyway, the American people elected him, so I must respect [that].” The event, called the Five Fifty Forum, was hosted by the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is based in this northern Indian mountain town. The Dalai Lama has been living in India since he fled Tibet in 1959 and has not been allowed to return. The forum was held under Chatham House rules, which forbid quoting participants. But the leadership of the Tibetan government-in-exile gave me permission to publish the Dalai Lama’s remarks. The Tibetan leader, who is believed by followers to be in his 14th reincarnation, criticized the use of military force around the world and called on nations to solve problems through diplomacy and negotiation rather than violence. He said the use of military power, even by the United States, never achieves its goal. “Every problem on this planet, including our problem, must be solved with respect and mutually acceptable [solutions],” he said. The Dalai Lama’s commentary on world events was not limited to the United States. He said that the Britain had erred in voting to leave the European Union, and he attributed that decision to nationalism as well. The European Union should become the model for every region and then, when the world’s countries are all working together, they can demilitarize, the Dalai Lama explained. “That’s my vision. That’s my hope.” The Dalai Lama said he wants to engage with China to find a mutually acceptable solution for Tibet. He added that the Tibetan people must also be ready to talk to China if there’s an opening. That doesn’t seem likely, considering that the Chinese government cut off dialogue with the Tibetans in 2010 and has pursued a brutal repression campaign in the region ever since. Nevertheless, “for the last several centuries, praying to Buddha more or less failed,” the Dalai Lama joked. “So I think we need to take a more practical approach.” He is arguing against current trends for a world based on common interest, global integration, defense of human rights and shared responsibility for the environment. For most of his long life, the United States has agreed with him and led that effort. Will that continue? Even the Dalai Lama doesn’t know.
Communist China’s successful colonization of Egypt and Africa is of special interest to me. I served in Establishment No. 22, Special Frontier Force to defend Freedom, Democracy, and Peace in Occupied Tibet.
During 1971-72, I served under the Command of Lieutenant Colonel B K Narayan who returned from Egypt after serving as Military Attaché in Indian Embassy in Cairo. For he was an Islamic Scholar who mastered Arabic Language as well as Quran, President Nasser, and President Sadat befriended him to seek his interpretation of Quran in the conduct of Egypt’s foreign policy. He performed Hajj pilgrimage while he served in Cairo. In 1971, long before conclusion of Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of March 26, 1979, Colonel Narayan predicted Peace between Egypt and Israel as that Peace Plan is consistent with preaching of Holy Quran.
Filmmaker: Adam Bahgat The Chinese community in Egypt has grown to over 10,000 people, thanks to a burgeoning commercial relationship between the two countries. Increasing numbers of Chinese have come to study, work and open businesses in the Arab world’s most populous country, where many have developed an affinity for its life, culture and its people. For over a quarter century, China and Egypt have steadily been learning how to make money together – through a range of economic and infrastructure projects. Egypt has awarded several contracts to Chinese companies for the construction of a $20bn administrative and residential city that will be physically linked to Cairo. And China is the lead investor in the construction of a planned multibillion-dollar industrial zone around the Suez Canal.
I love Egypt and I consider it my second home. Egyptians are generally kind and I’ve experienced a lot to confirm this … They also have a sense of humor. They’re always joking even if they’re suffering from life’s hardships … That’s why they’re happy.
Saleh Machyanj, Chinese businessman
Each new collaboration is an opportunity for the Chinese diaspora to grow their businesses. South of Cairo, the Shaqel Thoben area is one of the world’s major production centers for marble and granite. “The equipment and machines used here are from China,” says Zhaou Ping, a marble and granite factory worker who has been in Egypt for three years. “My boss in China asked me to come with the equipment and be a consultant … Before I came to Egypt, I worked in the same field in China. When an Egyptian manufacturer visited my factory, he asked me to work with him. I now have many Muslim friends in the factory where I work. They treat me like a brother and a friend, so I don’t feel like a stranger or foreigner in Egypt. I feel I’m in my country, with my family.” The Chinese have quite quickly helped diversify Egypt’s economy. In 1999, there were only a few hundred but their numbers continue to grow as the two countries build stronger economic ties. Some who started out as small traders are now successful business owners, like restaurant owner Po Wein Zhoun. Po cleverly opened a Chinese restaurant when she realized there was a growing demand for it. “I realized many Chinese in Egypt have problems finding Chinese food … So I opened a small Chinese restaurant six years ago. After two years, the restaurant started becoming successful. For a year and a half, I bought this restaurant from another Chinese,” says Po, who is married to an Egyptian. Business is the main but attraction for Chinese who come to Egypt; but some are also drawn to the country’s ancient heritage, like blogger Ali who studied Arabic and Egyptian history back in China. Fascinated, “I read an essay about Egypt and its pyramids and loved it. It’s about [the] mystery of the pyramids going back thousands of years. No one knows how they were actually built,” says Ali. For some, their love of Egypt becomes profound, forming friendships that touch them and make them want to stay permanently. WATCH: King Cobra and the Dragon: As China increases its economic ties in Africa, has the continent entered a new era of colonialism? Chinese businessman Saleh Machyanj has been in Egypt since the 1990s. “I love Egypt and I consider it my second home. Egyptians are generally kind and I’ve experienced a lot to confirm this … They also have a sense of humor. They’re always joking even if they’re suffering from life’s hardships. In China, the pressure and pace of life doesn’t allow time for joking … But in Egypt, friends meet in cafes for tea or juice. They chat until the evening. That’s why they’re happy.” The Chinese want peace and stability in Egypt and across the region, for business and personal reasons. Many investors withdrew after the 2011 Arab Spring revolution – but today, China and Egypt are redoubling efforts to strengthen their trade relationship. The Egyptian trade minister recently said he expects China to emerge as Egypt’s fastest growing investment partner in the coming years. If projects like the new administrative capital, and its rail link, worth billions of dollars, materialize, commercial ties between the two countries will continue to grow, as will the Chinese community in Egypt. Source: Al Jazeera
DEHRADUN: The Tibetan population in the city observed Wednesday as ‘Black Day’ and took out a candle light march in the heart of the city to commemorate the 1987 uprising in Lhasa, Tibet, which began on September 27, that year.
A peaceful demonstration held on the day in Lhasa was stopped by Chinese authorities and in the days to follow, riots broke out in the city in which several Tibetans were attacked, taken to prison and some were killed.
The commemoration ceremony was organized jointly by Doon Valley Regional Tibetan Women’s Association (RTWA) and regional Tibetan Youth Congress. Tibetans across the city also came together and remembered those who sacrificed their lives for free Tibet. The Tibetan market also remained shut on the day.
Tibet came into the limelight in 1987, 28 years after the Dalai Lama’s flight in 1959. The 1987 Lhasa pro-independence demonstrations were a landmark in Tibetan history. From 1987 to 1992, about 140 protests and demonstrations were held in Tibet to oppose the Chinese rule in Tibet.
What’s Up? WhatsApp down in Communist China. Disruption of Messaging Service ahead of Communist Party Meeting in October 2017 merely symbolizes the absence of Transparency and Public Accountability in Communist Governance.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
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CHINA DISRUPTS ‘WHATSAPP’ AHEAD OF COMMUNIST PARTY MEETING
The messaging service WhatsApp has been disrupted in China as the government steps up security ahead of a Communist Party meeting next month.
Users have faced problems with the app for more than a week with services dropping in and out.
At times, it has been completely blocked and only accessible via virtual private networks (VPNs) which circumvent China’s internet firewall.
WhatsApp is Facebook’s only product allowed to operate in mainland China.
Facebook’s main social media service and its Instagram image sharing app are not available on the mainland.
Services disrupted
The BBC’s China based correspondents said the WhatsApp messaging service started going offline more than a week ago.
A test of its services on Tuesday showed users in China could not send video messages or photographs to people outside China.
The disruption follows restrictions on WhatsApp video chats and photographs in July, which were later lifted.
The tightening of online censorship comes as China steps up security ahead of the Communist Party’s national congress which is held every five years.
"The run-up period to a gathering is normally a time of greater restrictions of all kinds to assure that the critical Party Congress is held under ideal social conditions and is not disrupted", Robert Lawrence Kuhn, long-time advisor to China’s leaders and multinational corporations told the BBC.
However, he said it is not yet clear whether the restrictions will be relaxed as has happened after previous party congresses, adding that many analysts do not believe they will be.
WhatsApp has declined to comment on the latest clampdown.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption WeChat is the most popular messaging service in China
Analysis – Stephen McDonell, BBC China correspondent, Beijing
Last week word started spreading around other platforms… "Is WhatsApp blocked?"
The replies would come in: "You need to use a VPN". Then the VPNs were being blocked.
Welcome to online China in the run-up to the Communist Party Congress.
Taking out WhatsApp has no impact on most Chinese people. They don’t use it. The unrivalled king of cyberspace in this country is WeChat (or, in Chinese, Weixin 微信)
You would really struggle to find somebody here not using WeChat to send messages, share photos, swap locations, flirt, read news and pay for pretty much everything. This all-encompassing app at the center of people’s lives is available for the Communist Party to spy on the entire population.
WhatsApp is not – at least not to the same extent.
So, during this sensitive time leading up to the once-in-five-years Party Congress, those with responsibility for censoring social media are nervous.
They worry that somebody may use an app beyond their complete control to, for example, organize a protest or post a funny photo of President Xi Jinping and for this to somehow go under their radar.
Tech crackdown
WhatsApp provides end-to-end encryption which ensures only the sender and recipient can view the content of messages.
It also prevents Facebook from knowing what is said in any text, voice and video conversation being communicated on WhatsApp.
"China has shown little tolerance to encryption especially on platforms that can be used to share materials or potential propaganda," Bill Taylor-Mountford, Asia Pacific vice president for LogRhythm told the BBC.
The latest disruption to WhatsApp appears to be part of a broader crackdown on the internet and online content in China.
On Monday, China’s cyber watchdog handed down maximum penalties to some of the country’s top technology firms including Tencent, Baidu and Weibo for failing to properly censor online content.
The penalties were imposed for failing to remove fake news and pornography, as well as content that authorities said "incites ethic tension" and "threatens social order".
SEPTEMBER 21, 1949 – THE COLD WAR IN ASIA – THE BIRTH OF ONE-PARTY GOVERNANCE IN PEKING
On September 21, 1949 Mao Zedong revealed plan for One-Party Governance of mainland China establishing Single-Party System or Party-State. On September 21, 2017, the Communist Party of China continues to pose threat to Democracy, Freedom, Peace, and Justice in Asia.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
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MAO ZEDONG OUTLINES THE NEW CHINESE GOVERNMENT – SEPTEMBER 21, 1949
At the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Peking, Mao Zedong announces that the new Chinese government will be “under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.”
The September 1949 conference in Peking was both a celebration of the communist victory in the long civil war against Nationalist Chinese forces and the unveiling of the communist regime that would henceforth rule over China. Mao and his communist supporters had been fighting against what they claimed was a corrupt and decadent Nationalist government in China since the 1920s. Despite massive U.S. support for the Nationalist regime, Mao’s forces were victorious in 1949 and drove the Nationalist government onto the island of Taiwan. In September, with cannons firing salutes and ceremonial flags waving, Mao announced the victory of communism in China and vowed to establish the constitutional and governmental framework to protect the “people’s revolution.”
In outlining the various committees and agencies to be established under the new regime, Mao announced that “Our state system of the People’s Democratic Dictatorship is a powerful weapon for safeguarding the fruits of victory of the people’s revolution and for opposing plots of foreign and domestic enemies to stage a comeback. We must firmly grasp this weapon.” He denounced those who opposed the communist government as “imperialistic and domestic reactionaries.” In the future, China would seek the friendship of “the Soviet Union and the new democratic countries.” Mao also claimed that communism would help end reputation as a lesser-developed country. “The era in which the Chinese were regarded as uncivilized is now over. We will emerge in the world as a highly civilized nation.” On October 1, 1949, the People’s Republic of China was formally announced, with Mao Zedong as its leader. He would remain in charge of the nation until his death in 1976.
At U.N. General Assembly, on Tuesday September 19, President Trump delivered an empty threat to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea. United States tried twice in the past to destroy Korea and Vietnam on the battlefield. US failed in 1953 and 1975 for Korea and Vietnam are not the "Real Enemy." Korea and Vietnam survived the US bombing campaigns for they have the support of Communists.
I ask President Trump to Just Say "NO" to Communism, the "Real Enemy," to Win ‘The Cold War in Asia’.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
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AT U.N., TRUMP WARNS U.S. MAY HAVE TO ‘TOTALLY DESTROY’ NORTH KOREA
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to "totally destroy" North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "rocket man" on a suicide mission.
Loud murmurs filled the green-marbled U.N. General Assembly hall when Trump issued his sternest warning yet to North Korea, whose ballistic missile launches and nuclear tests have rattled the globe. Unless North Korea backs down, he said, "We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."
"Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime," he said.
North Korea’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s remarks. A junior North Korean diplomat remained in the delegation’s front-row seat for Trump’s speech, the North Korean U.N. mission said.
In his first appearance at the annual gathering of world leaders, the president used a 41-minute speech to take aim also at Iran’s nuclear ambitions and regional influence, Venezuela’s collapsing democracy and the threat of Islamist extremists.
He also criticized the Cuban government. But his strongest words were directed at North Korea. He urged United Nations member states to work together to isolate the Kim government until it ceases its "hostile" behavior.
He said North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles "threatens the entire world with unthinkable cost of human life."
In what may have been a veiled prod at China, the North’s major trading partner, Trump said: "It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime but would arm, supply and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict."
Turning to Iran, Trump called the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, was an embarrassment and hinted that he may not recertify the agreement when it comes up for a mid-October deadline.
"I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it," he said.
He called Iran an "economically depleted rogue state" that exports violence. The speech marked his latest attempt to lay out his America First vision for a U.S. foreign policy aimed at downgrading global bureaucracies, basing alliances on shared interests, and steering Washington away from nation-building exercises abroad.
Trump, who entered the White House eight months ago, told world leaders at the 193-member global body that the United States does not seek to impose its will on other nations and will respect other countries’ sovereignty.
"I will defend America’s interests above all else," he said. "But in fulfilling our obligations to other nations we also realize it’s in everyone’s interest to seek a future where all nations can be sovereign, prosperous and secure."
Reading carefully from a script, Trump said the U.S. military would soon be the strongest it has ever been. Turning to Venezuela, Trump called the collapsing situation there "completely unacceptable" and said the United States cannot stand by and watch. He warned the United States was considering what further actions it can take. "We cannot stand by and watch," he said.
Shortly before Trump’s speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed from the General Assembly lectern for statesmanship to avoid war with North Korea. "This is the time for statesmanship," said the former prime minister of Portugal.
"We must not sleepwalk our way into war.." The U.N. Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006 and Guterres appealed for the 15-member body to maintain its unity on North Korea.
Trump has warned North Korea that military action was an option for the United States as Pyongyang has carried out a series of tests toward developing the ability to target the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile. Financial markets showed little reaction to Trump’s speech, with most major assets hovering near the unchanged mark on the day.
MR. PRESIDENT – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – STANDUP FOR AMERICAN VALUES
"VOTE ‘T’ " – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – VOTE FOR AMERICAN VALUES
President Donald Trump successfully invented several insulting nicknames to win his 2016 presidential election. To win ‘The Cold War in Asia’, to achieve victory in ‘Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War’, and to ‘Make America Great Again’, Americans have to Vote for American Values and recreate independent American Spirit. I ask Mr. ‘T’ to Standup for Freedom, Democracy, Peace, and Justice in Asia and to Stop waging his ‘Twitter Warfare’ inventing nicknames.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
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ANALYSIS : FROM ‘SLEEPY EYES’ TO ‘ROCKET MAN’ – A COMPENDIUM OF BELITTLING NICKNAMES TRUMP HAS INVENTED
Midway through his Sunday morning Twitter storm, President Trump assigned his latest in a long line of nicknames — this time to the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, Kim Jong Un, henceforth known as “Rocket Man.”
Without addressing the geopolitical wisdom of tweet-baiting an unpredictable dictator, even some of Trump’s critics had to admit that he’d come up with a pretty clever name.
In a mere nine letters, the president simultaneously mocked Jong Un, belittled his regime’s missile arsenal and alluded to the popular lyrics of Elton John.
But that really shouldn’t surprise anyone. A brief review of the long history of Trumpisms shows that, regardless of how he’s doing as leader of the free world, Trump has really stepped up his name game.
“Sleepy Eyes” and “Pocahontas”
While it’s hardly his most famous creation, one of Trump’s oldest and most enduring nicknames is reserved for Chuck Todd, or “Sleepy Eyes,” as Trump has repeatedly called the NBC host.
Trump started using the term on Twitter during the 2012 presidential election, when he decided Todd — “an absolute joke of a reporter” — was too friendly to then-president Barack Obama.
But Trump has kept “Sleepy Eyes” around into his own presidency, most recently when he complained that the soporific journalist was paying too much attention to “the Fake Trump/Russia story.”
By then, “Sleepy Eyes” shared Trump’s imaginative landscape with many other characters, like Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren (D-Mass.), whose name he explained this way:
Academics occasionally try to analyze the nicknames Trump invents, seeing in them either genius or a psychological malady.
A writer for Psychology Today once called the names “a symptom of nounism” — or, in other words, the result of Trump’s compulsion to simplify people into objects, good or bad.
Last year, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin told Business Insider that the nicknames were crafty politics, allowing Trump to reference his enemies’ scandals and embarrassments in a breath, as prefix, every time he spoke their names.
Little Marco and Lyin’ Ted
As he fought his way through the candidate-clogged Republican primaries last year, Trump experimented with various insults for his many rivals.
He briefly tried out “Robot Rubio” for Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida but found an alternative form far more successful when the two men met on stage at a debate in March 2016.
“I have a policy question for you, sir,” the moderator told Trump.
“Let’s see if he answers it!” Rubio chirped.
“I will,” Trump replied, stone-faced. “Don’t worry about it, Marco, don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it, Little Marco. I will.”
Rubio tried get in a comeback over the cheers. “Well, let’s hear it, big — big Don, big Donald!” he said.
But Trump just talked over him, not even looking at Rubio and simply repeating to wild applause, “Don’t worry about it, Little Marco.”
Less than two weeks later, “Little Marco” Rubio dropped out of the race, and Trump moved on to his next big rival, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a.k.a.:
Over on the Democratic side of the primary, Hillary Clinton was having none of this name-shaming business.
“Clinton’s campaign and her allies are planning an aggressive, sober defense of their candidate in response to businessman Donald Trump’s trademark personal attacks, which he has already aimed her way,” The Washington Post wrote in April 2016, as Trump barreled past “Lyin’ Ted” and every other Republican.
The Democrat resolved to ignore whatever insult Trump came up with, which at the time was “Incompetent Hillary,” a clunky prototype of the term he would crystallize two weeks later while speaking to reporters in New York.
“You know the story,” Trump said. “It’s Crooked Hillary. She’s as crooked as they come. We are going to beat her so badly.”
And he did beat her, though Clinton’s primary contests with Bernie Sanders took so long to resolve that Trump found opportunity to nickname both Democrats.
“Mr. Elegant,” “non-people,” and “T”
We don’t pretend this is a comprehensive list. The nicknames that Trump has come up with are probably uncountable, extending from his real estate and show-business days into his presidency.
They encompass nonhuman antagonists, like the “Failing New York Times” and “Amazon Washington Post,” collectively part of the entity he deems “fake news.”
And some monikers appear to live only in the president’s mind, or at least his private conversations. Like “Mr. Elegant,” whom Trump referenced in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month, leaving everyone confused as to whom he was talking about.
Finally, after all those people, there are the self-referential nicknames. The autotrumpisms.
Trump is hardly the first politician to refer to himself occasionally in third person. But he has done so over the years with a typically Trump-like inclination toward brevity.
His first tweet, in 2009, invited fans to “tune in and watch Donald Trump” on late-night TV. By 2013, as Trump congratulated himself for the success of his reality show, he had moved on to the more familiar “Donald:”
And as Election Day approached last year, Trump had reduced himself to a single character — “Vote ‘T.’ ”
We might chalk that up to the 140-character limit of Trump’s favorite medium. But he did it again a year later, as he complained of the FBI investigation around T’s young administration.
Which isn’t to say that Trump will always be ‘T.’ Nor that Hillary must be Crooked, or Chuck Todd Sleepy.
In fact, as Sunday’s “Rocket Man” saga demonstrated, nicknames are a little like nuclear weapons. They risk retaliation:
DEMOCRACY vs COMMUNISM – UNITED STATES NOT DOING ENOUGH
DEMOCRACY vs COMMUNISM – UNITED STATES NOT DOING ENOUGH
North Korea’s nuclear and missile test programmes are mere symptoms of ‘The Cold War in Asia’. It is strange to read that the US expects China and Russia to do enough to stop North Korea. In my analysis, the US is not doing enough to contain the spread of Communism in Asia. This problem dates back to the Communist takeover of mainland China in 1949.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
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NORTH KOREA FIRES SECOND MISSILE OVER JAPAN AS US TELLS CHINA AND RUSSIA TO TAKE ‘DIRECT ACTION’
Unnerving alert sirens ring out in Japan in response to North Korea’s missile launch
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The missile, launched from Sunan, the site of Pyongyang’s international airport, flew farther than any other missile North Korea has fired. The distance it flew is slightly greater than between the North Korean capital and the American air base in Guam.
It was "the furthest over ground any of their ballistic missiles has ever travelled", Joseph Dempsey of the International Institute for Strategic Studies said on Twitter.
Physicist David Wright, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, added: "North Korea demonstrated that it could reach Guam with this missile, although the payload the missile was carrying is not known" and its accuracy was in doubt.
Sirens sounded and alerts were issued in Japan as residents were warned to take shelter while the missile passed over Hoakkaido.
"We can never tolerate that North Korea trampled on the international community’s strong, united resolve toward peace that has been shown in UN resolutions and went ahead again with this outrageous act," Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, said.
Jim Mattis, US Defence Secretary, called the latest missile launch a reckless act and "put millions of Japanese in duck and cover".
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged China and Russia to do more to rein in North Korea.
"China and Russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless missile launches by taking direct actions of their own," Mr. Tillerson said in a statement.
China said it "opposes" the test, but reiterated its call that "all parties" should exercise restraint.
"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is complicated and sensitive,” a spokeswoman said.
In response to the launch, South Korea’s military immediately carried out a ballistic missile drill of its own, the Defence ministry said, adding it took place while the North’s rocket was still airborne.
One Hyunmu missile travelled 250 kilometers into the East Sea, Korea’s name for the Sea of Japan – a trajectory intentionally chosen to represent the distance to the launch site at Sunan, near Pyongyang’s airport, it added.
But embarrassingly, another failed soon after being fired.
President Moon Jae-In told an emergency meeting of Seoul’s national security council that dialogue with the North was "impossible in a situation like this", adding that the South had the power to destroy it.
In New York, the Security Council called an emergency meeting for later on Friday.
However, a North Korean official said Pyongyang would continue to defy sanctions.
Choe Kang-il, deputy director general for North American affairs at the North’s foreign ministry, said: “You can impose whatever sanctions you want, but no matter how long these sanctions last – whether it is for 100 or 1,000 years – we will keep stepping up efforts and continue with our planned tests.”
North Korea last month used the airport to fire a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile that flew over northern Japan.
The North then declared it a "meaningful prelude" to containing the U.S. Pacific island territory of Guam and the start of more ballistic missile launches toward the Pacific Ocean.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denounced North Korea’s latest launch, saying he was conveying "strong anger" on behalf of the Japanese people.
Mr. Suga said Japan "will not tolerate the repeated and excessive provocations."
China said it opposed North Korea’s latest missile test and warned that the situation on the Korean peninsula was “complicated and sensitive”, China Correspondent Neil Connor reports from Beijing.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said: “China opposes North Korea violating relevant UN Security Council resolutions by making use of ballistic missile technology to embark on launch activities.
“Currently, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is complicated and sensitive,” Ms Hua told a regular briefing in Beijing.
“All relevant parties should exercise restraint and should not make any moves which would escalate tensions.”
Boris Johnson urged united response to North Korea’s latest missile test
The latest missile launch by North Korea must be met with a united international response, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has urged.
Mr. Johnson condemned the test as "illegal" and the latest sign of "provocation" from Pyongyang.
"Yet another illegal missile launch by North Korea. UK and international community will stand together in the face of these provocations," he said on Twitter.
In a subsequent statement, he added: "The UK and the international community have condemned the aggressive and illegal actions of the North Korean regime, and the succession of missile and nuclear tests. We stand firmly by Japan and our other international partners.
"We are working to mobilize world opinion with the aim of achieving a diplomatic solution to the situation on the Korean peninsula.
"This week the most stringent UN sanctions regime placed on any nation in the 21st century was imposed on North Korea, after being unanimously agreed at the UN Security Council.
"These measures now need to be robustly enforced. We urge all states to play their part in changing the course North Korea is taking."
Before the latest launch, Mr. Johnson had called for China to use its influence over North Korea to ease tensions caused by Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile development programmes.
At a press conference with US counterpart Rex Tillerson on Thursday, Mr. Johnson said Pyongyang had "defied the world".
What kinds of missile was launched by North Korea?
The missile was launched from Sunan, the location of Pyongyang’s international airport and the origin of the earlier missile that flew over Japan.
Analysts have speculated the new test was of the same intermediate-range missile launched in that earlier flight, the Hwasong-12, and was meant to show Washington that the North can hit Guam if it chose to do so.
This graphic explains what we know about North Korea’s missiles:
Japan’s Defence minister said on Friday that he believed North Korea "has Guam in mind" after its most recent missile launch, noting it had sufficient range to hit the US territory.
Pyongyang has threatened to hit the US Pacific territory with "enveloping fire," sparking dire warnings from US President Donald Trump.
Itsunori Onodera told reporters that the latest missile, which overflew Japanese territory, flew 2,300 miles – "long enough to cover Guam", which is 2,100 miles from North Korea.
"We cannot assume North Korea’s intention, but given what it has said, I think it has Guam in mind," Onodera said.
He warned that "similar actions (by the North) would continue" as Pyongyang appeared to have shrugged off UN sanctions agreed earlier this week.
The US Pacific Command confirmed the launch was an intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) but said it posed no threat to Guam or to the American mainland.
But, for the second time in less than a month, it overflew Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, sparking loudspeaker alerts and warnings to citizens to take cover.
As North Korea continues to goad the world with its weapons programme, we examine in this video how much of a threat Kim Jong-Un’s regime is to Britain.
North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile that flew more than 2,300 miles before falling into the Pacific Ocean is a "clear and unequivocal" message to the United States that Pyongyang has the ability to strike Guam.
The distance from Pyongyang to Guam is a little over 2,100 miles and North Korea identified it as a target in early August, threatening to launch four Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missiles into waters close to the island.
North Korea has threatened to attack the US base in Guam Credit: Reuters
The intention, according to analysts, was to demonstrate that Pyongyang would have no compunction in the event of war from targeting the resort island in order to interrupt air attacks on the North as well as efforts to reinforce ground forces on the Korean Peninsula.
"From previous launches and the altitude and ranges of those missiles, it has been assumed that Guam is within range of the North’s missiles, but this latest test is proof", Garren Mulloy, a Defence expert and associate professor of international relations at Japan’s Daito Bunka University, told The Telegraph.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered his military to conduct a live-fire ballistic missile drill in response to the North Korean launch.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said one of the two missiles fired in the drill hit a sea target about 250 kilometers (155 miles) away, which was approximately the distance to Pyongyang’s Sunan, but the other failed in flight shortly after launch.
North Korea has launched dozens of missiles under young leader Kim Jong -un as it accelerates a weapons programme designed to give it the ability to target the United States with a powerful, nuclear-tipped missile.
Two tests in July were for long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching at least parts of the US mainland.
Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum said:
"This rocket has meaning in that North Korea is pushing towards technological completion of its missiles and that North Korea may be feeling some pressure that they need to show the international community something."
Some residents in Japan have reacted angrily to the latest test.
"Japanese people have not been subjected to this kind of threat since the end of the war more than 70 years ago", Ken Kato, a Tokyo-based human rights activist, told the Telegraph.
"People genuinely feel that unless something is done quite soon, then their families are at risk", he told The Telegraph. "This is the situation we are in now and we have to adapt to these realities, but these missile launches and nuclear tests are leading a lot of people to conclude that Japan needs its own nuclear deterrent.
A passerby walks under a TV screen reporting news about North Korea’s missile launch in Tokyo Credit: Reuters
"Personally, the launch did not come as much of a surprise because this is becoming a fact of life for us in Japan", he said. "But there is also a growing sense of anger among ordinary people.
"North Korea is a terrorist nation and I expect this situation to escalate even further,"
Residents in northern Japan appeared calm and went about their business as normal despite the sirens warning them of a missile flying overhead.
It was the second such alert in a matter of weeks, but, for some residents, there was no question of this becoming a routine event.
Yoshihiro Saito, who works in the small fishing town of Erimo on Hokkaido, told AFP:
"I cannot say that we are used to this. I mean, the missile flew right above our town. It’s not a very comforting thing to hear.
"It’s pretty scary. I heard that it went 2,000 kilometers in the Pacific and dropped in the sea" where 16 of his ships were operating under the missile’s flight path."
The New York Times reports that the Trump administration chose not to take out the missile on the launching pad, even though they saw it being fueled up a day ago.
Officials said Vice President Mike Pence was even shown images of the missile during a visit to one of the nation’s intelligence agencies.
A North Korean Hwasong 12missile is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade in Pyongyang Credit: AP
Air Koryo flight 151, which left the area of the missile launch 90 minutes after it was conducted, has now landed in Beijing – 10 minutes ahead of schedule.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in says North Korea’s latest launch of a missile over Japan will only result in further diplomatic and economic isolation for the North.
"President Moon ordered officials to closely analyze and prepare for new possible North Korean threats like EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) and biochemical attacks," Moon’s spokesman Park Su-hyun told a briefing.
North Korea said earlier this month it was developing a hydrogen bomb that can carry out an EMP attack. Experts disagree on whether the North would have the capability to mount such an attack, which would involve setting off a bomb in the atmosphere that could cause major damage to power grids and other infrastructure.
The missile was launched at 6.59am from Sunan, the site of Pyongyang’s international airport. An hour and a half later a passenger flight took off for Beijing.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says United Nations sanctions on North Korea needed to be firmly imposed.
Abe said that the international community must send a clear message to North Korea over its provocative actions.
"We can never tolerate that North Korea trampled on the international community’s strong, united resolve toward peace that has been shown in UN resolutions and went ahead again with this outrageous act."
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis says North Korea’s missile launch over Japan "put millions of Japanese into duck and cover" before it landed in the Pacific Ocean, and added that top US officials had fully coordinated after the test-launch.
"We have just got done with the calls we always make to coordinate among ourselves. Steady as she goes," Mattis told reporters traveling with him during a visit to the U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees U.S. nuclear forces.
The United Nations Security Council will meet at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) on Friday on the latest North Korea missile test, diplomats said, at the request of the United States and Japan.
The 15-member Security Council unanimously stepped up sanctions against North Korea on Monday over its Sept. 3 nuclear test, imposing a ban on the country’s textile exports and capping imports of crude oil. It was the ninth U.N. sanctions resolution adopted on North Korea since 2006.
In confronting North Korea’s latest provocation, the focus will almost certainly shift once again to Beijing, China Correspondent Neil Connor says.
Donald Trump has warned that the United States would cease trading with any country that trades with North Korea – comments which were met with concern in China. And in London only hours before Pyongyang fired its latest projectile, the US secretary of state Rex Tillerson urged China to use its supply of oil to North Korea as leverage against the regime.
"That is a very powerful tool and it has been used in the past," Tillerson said at a news conference. "We hope China will not reject that."
In 2003, China shut down its oil pipeline to North Korea for three days after a missile launch. Officials said it was due to a mechanical failure, although it was thought to be deliberate and ultimately helped force a climb-down from Pyongyang.
US believe it was an intermediate range ballistic missile
The US Pacific Command says initial assessment indicates the projectile was an intermediate range ballistic missile.
It said the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) determined this ballistic missile did not pose a threat to North America, nor Guam.
"Our commitment to the Defence of our allies, including the Republic of Korea and Japan, in the face of these threats, remains ironclad. We remain prepared to defend ourselves and our allies from any attack or provocation.
South Korean experts said the August launch was Pyongyang’s attempt to make missiles flying over Japan an accepted norm as it seeks to test new projectiles and win more military space in the region dominated by its enemies.
The Offices of Guam Homeland Security and Civil Defence said the latest launch posed no immediate threat to Guam or the Marinas.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says US President Donald Trump has been briefed on North Korea’s launch of the unidentified missile over Japan.
"The President has been briefed on the latest North Korea missile launch by General Kelly," Sanders said, referring to the president’s chief of staff.
South Korea’s Defence Ministry said the country’s military conducted a live-fire drill of a Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missile in response to the North’s launch on Friday.
It came two days after it said it conducted its first live-fire drill for an advanced air-launched cruise missile it says will strengthen its pre-emptive strike capability against North Korea in the event of crisis.
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Australia, a strong and vocal ally of the United States, quickly condemned the launch. In an interview with Sky News, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said:
"This is another dangerous, reckless, criminal act by the North Korean regime, threatening the stability of the region and the world and we condemn it, utterly.
"This is a sign, I believe, of their frustration at the increased sanctions on North Korea, recently imposed by the Security Council. It’s a sign that the sanctions are working."
The missile test has come shortly after the top commander of U.S. nuclear forces said he assumed the Sept. 3 nuclear test by North Korea was a hydrogen bomb, suggesting a heightened US concern that the North has advanced to a new level of nuclear firepower.
Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of Strategic Command, told reporters that while he was not in a position to confirm it, he assumes from the size of the underground explosion and other factors that it was a hydrogen bomb – which is a leap beyond the fission, or atomic, bombs North Korea has previously tested.
This before-and-after images courtesy of Planet, show a closer view of the Punggye-ri test site Credit: AFP
North Korea claimed they exploded a hydrogen bomb, and while U.S. officials have not contradicted them, they have not confirmed it, either.
"When I look at a thing that size, I as a military officer assume that it’s a hydrogen bomb," Hyten said. As head of Strategic Command, he would be in charge of all elements of the U.S. nuclear force in the event of nuclear war.
"I have to (assume this)," he added, "I have to make that assumption. What I saw equates to a hydrogen bomb. I saw the event. I saw the indications that came from that event. I saw the size, I saw the reports, and therefore to me I’m assuming it was a hydrogen bomb."
Seoul’s Defence ministry said it probably travelled around 3,700 kilometers and reached a maximum altitude of 770 kilometers – both higher and further than the previous device.
However, the intercontinental ballistic missile had the potential to fly further.
Details of the latest launch came within hours of reports suggesting that the North Koreans were preparing to carry out another underground atomic test.
Satellite images showed mining equipment and trucks close to the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site.
Further activity was also seen close to another underground access point.
The main concern had been whether the North Koreans have succeeded in developing a bomb small enough to fit onto an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says Japan is strongly protesting what it called Pyongyang’s latest intolerable provocation.
The missile was launched at 6:57 a.m. Japan time (2157 GMT), flew over Hokkaido and splashed down at 7:06 a.m. (2206 GMT) some 2,000 kilometers east of the northern island’s Cape Erimo, he said.
Japan protests the latest launch in the strongest terms and will take appropriate and timely action at the United Nations and elsewhere, staying in close contact with the United States and South Korea, Suga told reporters.
The Japanese government’s alert message called J-alert notifying citizens of a ballistic missile launch by North Korea is seen on a television screen in Tokyo Credit: Reuters
South Korea’s presidential Blue House has called an urgent National Security Council meeting.
The North’s launch comes a day after the North threatened to sink Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions against it for its Sept. 3 nuclear test.
The North previously launched a ballistic missile from Sunan on Aug. 29 which flew over Japan’s Hokkaido island and landed in the Pacific waters.
SEPTEMBER 12, 1972 – NIXON-KISSINGER VIETNAM TREASON – UNFINISHED KOREA-VIETNAM WAR
On September 12, 2017, the United States is facing consequences of Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War which began in 1950 to contain the spread of Communism in Asia.
On September 12, 1972, US President Richard M Nixon was briefed about the presence of large numbers of North Vietnamese troops inside South Vietnam. This crucial factor was not taken into consideration when Dr. Henry Kissinger during Paris Peace Accords signed in January 1973. Further, US President Nixon gave false promise to South Vietnam when he assured them of continued US support in the War on Communism.
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U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES REPORT 100,000 TROOPS IN THE SOUTH – SEPTEMBER 12, 1972
U.S. intelligence agencies (the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency) report to the National Security Council that the North Vietnamese have 100,000 regular troops in South Vietnam and can sustain fighting “at the present rate” for two years.
The report further stated that while U.S. bombing had caused heavy casualties and prevented North Vietnam from doubling operations, the overall effects were disappointing because troops and supplies had kept moving south. It was estimated that 20,000 fresh troops had infiltrated into the South in the previous six weeks and that communist troops in the Mekong Delta had increased as much as tenfold–up to 30,000–in the last year. This report was significant in that it showed that the North Vietnamese, who had suffered greatly since launching the Easter invasion on March 31, were steadily replacing their losses and maintaining troop levels in the south. These forces and their presence in South Vietnam were not addressed in the Paris Peace Accords that were signed in January 1973, and the North Vietnamese troops remained. Therefore, shortly after the ceasefire was initiated, new fighting erupted between the South Vietnamese forces and the North Vietnamese troops who remained in the South.
The South Vietnamese held out for two years, but when the United States failed to honor the promises of continued support made by President Nixon (who resigned on August 8, 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal), the North Vietnamese launched a major offensive and the South Vietnamese were defeated in less than 55 days. Saigon fell on April 30, 1975.
THE GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE – LIVING UNDER THE SHADOW OF AMERICAN GULAG
‘The Great American Eclipse’ of Monday August 21, 2017 symbolizes ‘The Black Day to Freedom’ for it reveals the reality of American Living Experience; the fact of Americans ‘Living Under the Shadow of American Gulag. Americans no longer find protection from values of Freedom, Democracy, and Individual Rights. These values were totally compromised by 37th US President Richard M Nixon on July 15, 1971 when he announced his plan to befriend Communist China.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? ‘GULAG’
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In my analysis, Monday August 21, 2017 represents reality of the United States Living Under the Dark Shadow of Communism that blocks perception of true values of Freedom, Democracy, and Individual Rights.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE
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