#Pyongyang military

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In a recent military development, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the mass production of attack drones, a strategic move that experts say may reflect deepening ties with Russia. This decision aligns with North Korea's expanding military cooperation with Moscow and raises concerns about technology transfer and regional stability. These drones, designed to strike both land and sea targets, have sparked warnings from South Korea about escalating military risks. Watch the full analysis on how North Korea's growing drone capabilities could reshape regional security dynamics and influence ongoing conflicts.

[creativemedianews]

Kim Jong Un oversees suicide drone experiments

Kim Jong Un oversees suicide drone experiments #attackdrones #dronetesting #KCNA #KimJongUn #militarymodernization

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North Korea's Military Support for Russia: A New Alliance

North Korea and Russia: A Growing Alliance In a surprising turn of events, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has opted to dispatch troops to support Russia in its ongoing conflict with Ukraine. This move raises questions among analysts about what Vladimir V. Putin, the President of Russia, might provide in exchange for North Korea’s military backing. The regime in Pyongyang, under tight…

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North Korea sends 250 new missile launchers towards South Korean border

North Korean border guards have received 250 launchers for new ballistic missiles. Kim Jong Un called the new equipment the army’s “key offensive weapon,” Korean media reported.

The olive green mobile launchers were displayed during a special “handover” ceremony in the capital Pyongyang on Sunday, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

Before the ceremony, Kim Jong Un inspected the launchers, which are being “put into service as a new key offensive weapon of the North Korean armed forces,” and then ordered them to be handed over to the border guards.

Kim Jong Un called the new equipment “another stepping stone to add great vitality to the North Korea’s name and national flag and sharply enhance the North Korea’s national prestige, which will display might as a powerful sword to defend national sovereignty and safeguard peace.”

The missile launchers are “advanced tactical attack weapons,” Kim said in his speech.

Tactical and technical specifications of the launchers and missiles were not given. However, Bloomberg, citing military experts, reported that the launchers in question are probably those capable of launching Hwasong 11D short-range ballistic missiles. The missile was tested at a distance of 100 to 300 kilometres. It is noted that they are capable of hitting targets in most of South Korea.

According to Han Kwon-hee, a spokesman for the Korea Defence Research Association, this was the first time North Korea has made public the scale of arms deliveries to its border units, AFP reported.

North Korea has conducted a number of ballistic missile tests since the beginning of the year. In early July, North Korea’s General Administration of Rocket Science conducted a successful test of the new Hwasong-11 tactical ballistic missile. The new missile has an ultra-large warhead weighing 4.5 tonnes. The missile has a maximum range of 500 kilometres.

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Russia's Putin to visit Pyongyang at Kim Jong Un's invitation

Russian President Vladimir Putin is readying to go to North Korea on Tuesday for his first trip to the country in 24 years. The Russian leader is set to visit the isolated nation for two days at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, state-run Korean Central News Agency said. The talks are expected to focus on expanding military cooperation between the countries as both remain in the…

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North Korea tests another ‘underwater nuclear attack drone’ - SUCH TV

North Korea claimed on Saturday it had tested another underwater nuclear attack drone, in its latest response to South Korean and United States military drills, though analysts have questioned whether Pyongyang has such a weapon. In recent weeks, North Korea has tested what state media have described as an underwater nuclear-capable drone, and also carried out the launch of an intercontinental…

[commajade]

finally watched watched my brothers and sisters in the north when it's been in my to-watch list for years and it was so touching and so beautiful.

the people interviewed were of course handpicked and have better conditions than other people because of the impact of U.S. sanctions and such, but it genuinely inspired me how hard-earned their good living conditions are. the farmers had to work really hard to re-establish agriculture after the war and now they get so much food a year they donate most of it to the state because they simply don't need it. the girl at the sewing factory loves her job and gets paid with 14 kilos of food a month on top of her wages. the water park worker is proud of his job because 20,000 of his people can come and enjoy themselves every day, and Kim Jong-un himself took part in designing it and came by at 2am during construction to make sure everything was going smoothly. his grandmother's father was a revolutionary who was executed and buried in a mass grave in seoul but in the dprk he has a memorial bust in a place of honor and his family gets a nice apartment in pyongyang for free.

imperialist propaganda always points to the kim family as a dictatorship and a cult of personality but from this docu it's so obvious that it's genuine gratitude for real work for the people, and simple korean respect. if my president came to my work and tried his best to make my working conditions better and to make my life better, i would call him a dear leader too. if my president invented machines and designed amusement parks and went to farms all over the country to improve conditions for the people, i would respect him.

the spirit of juche is in self-reliance, unity of the people, and creative adaptations to circumstances. the docu rly exemplified the ideology in things like the human and animal waste methane systems powering farmers' houses along with solar panels, how they figured out how to build tractors instead of accepting unstable foreign import relationships, and how the water park uses a geothermal heating system.

it rly made me cry at the end when the grandma and her grandson were talking about reunification. the people of the dprk live every day of their lives dreaming of reunification and working for reunification, and it's an intergenerational goal that they inherited from their parents and grandparents. the man said he was so happy to see someone from the south, and that even though reunification would have its own obstacles that we have the same blood the same language the same interests so no matter what if we have the same heart it would be okay.

and the grandma said "when reunification happens, come see me." and it's so upsetting that not even 10 years later, the state has been pushed into somewhat giving up on this hope. the dprk closed down the reunification department of the government last year and it broke my heart.

a really good pairing with the 2016 film is this 2013 interview with ambassador Thae Youngho to clarify political realities in the dprk and the ongoing U.S. hostility that has shaped the country's global image. the interviewer Carlos Martinez asks a lot of excellent questions and the interview goes into their military policy, nuclear weapons, U.S. violence and sanctions, and the dprk's historical solidarity with middle eastern countries like syria and palestine and central/south american countries like nicaragua, bolivia, and cuba.

[sethshead]

North Korea is now poised to invade Ukraine.

In this war, Russia has used the territory of other countries by which to attack Ukraine, acquired weapons from other countries, recruited from other countries, and will now field a unit wearing the uniform of a foreign power. Russia threatens nuclear war against countries that do less than that to aid Ukraine.

If anything, this justifies more direct NATO intervention on behalf of Ukraine. Not troops on the ground, as Ukraine has made it clear this is its fight, but closer collaboration in intelligence and targeting, not to mention full permission to use Western ordinance to strike within Russia. It is time for the gloves to come off and to stop forcing Ukraine to fight with an arm tied behind its back.

[follow-up-news]

South Korea on Monday demanded the immediate pullout of North Korean troops allegedly deployed in Russia as it summoned the Russian ambassador to protest deepening military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. South Korea’s spy agency said Friday it had confirmed that North Korea sent 1,500 special operation forces to Russia this month to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier said his government had intelligence that 10,000 North Korea soldiers were being prepared to join invading Russian forces. During a meeting with Russian Ambassador Georgy Zinoviev, Vice South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Hong Kyun “condemned in the strongest terms” North Korea’s troop dispatch that he said poses “a grave security threat” to South Korea and the international community, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

[leninisms]

I’m not very well versed in international diplomacy, can you explain why her policy is evil aside from her stance on Israel and Gaza? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I figured you’d be kind enough to actually answer.

hi! thank you for asking so nicely! this is not a dumb question at all, and i’m happy to answer:)

i want to start by quickly shouting out a couple of my favorite independent media outlets that i go to for news, because i believe these people and organizations are doing really crucial work:

geopolitical economy report

breakthrough news, the socialist program, liberation news, and liberation school

people’s dispatch

the real news network

venezuela analysis

i’m gonna break kamala’s foreign policy down section by section, but i do want to first point out that there is no mention of strengthening international partnerships, except through military power. there’s no talk about ending any sanctions or blockades. no talk of strengthening old, or establishing new trade agreements. it’s all military, war, threats, security, attacks, etc..

this is long so it’s all below the cut:)

immediately “american interests” is bad. this does not mean the interests of the american working class (though it would still be bad if it did)— it means the interests of the american capitalist ruling class. the biggest “threat” china poses to the U.S. is the rise of china and the BRICS as global economic superpowers. from liberation news:

“…China’s economic rise poses a threat to this U.S.-dominated unipolar international arrangement, and this fear of the U.S. losing its status as the dominant global power forms the basis of Washington’s foreign policy vis-a-vis Beijing. Presenting this competition as an existential one of “democracy” versus “authoritarianism,” the U.S. applies a strategy of containment toward China to blunt its rise: by seeking to isolate it through military encirclement, foreclosing its access to key markets, and cutting it off economically from the rest of the world. This policy is intended to cripple China’s development, ensuring Western capitalism’s control over the entire globe.”

for more information on china, check out dongsheng news, friends of socialist china, and breakthrough news’ new segment “the china report.” here’s a cool podcast mini-series about china’s revolution. and, just for good measure, here’s all of liberation school’s china analyses. i also recommend this post debunking the “uyghur genocide.”

north korea (the democratic people’s republic of korea/dprk) is not a fascistic military dictatorship or whatever they’re calling it these days. there’s a lot of fear-mongering in the U.S. about the “threat of nuclear war with north korea.” the primary reason dprk has been so adamant about having nuclear weapons is that the united states carpet bombed all of korea from 1950-1953, dropping 635,000 tons of bombs, destroying an estimated 85% of buildings, and killing hundreds of thousands of people. the desire for nuclear weapons comes from the security that mutually assured destruction (MAD) offers.

for more information on korea: this article is a condensed version of stephen gowen’s book (patriots, traitors, and empire: the story of korea’s struggle for freedom). i also recommend the dprk’s government website and the pyongyang times. if you’re a podcast enjoyer, blowback season three was all about korea (and they have a bibliography)!!! and this post has more sources as well:)

i’ll start by saying NATO needs to be abolished. it’s not about peace— it’s about unipolar U.S. hegemony and it’s about aggression and endless war. i’m going to let these sources speak for themselves because they’re just that good.

this episode of the socialist program (2022) is a really good introduction to NATO, specifically in relation to the russia-ukraine conflict. this statement on russia’s intervention in ukraine from liberation news is a very solid analysis. geopolitical economy report shared this article (also available on youtube) just days ago which nicely analyzes some of the reasons the U.S. has been so unconditionally supportive of ukraine. this essay about the convergence of ukrainian liberals and fascists was recommended by one of my comrades, and for good reason. from the article:

… dwelling on Ukraine’s neo-nazis can be an optical illusion. Not that I am one to underplay their murderous actions or political power. But that ultimately, they are junior partners to Ukraine’s liberals. And Ukraine’s liberals at time may be even more militaristic than the nationalists, who more often have their lives under risk at the frontline. Even if liberal slogans may not seem quite so openly bloodthirsty as whatever rightwinger yelling about the Jewish conspiracy.

The political convergence between extreme ethno-nationalism and neo-liberalism... In Ukraine, it’s quite simple: the nationalists care more about cultural policy and the right to shoot those they dislike than economic policy. And the liberals need someone to shoot those they dislike.

i hope this was helpful, but please feel free to ask for clarification or further reading or whatever. i love talking about politics and i love getting to make posts like this because they allow me to expand my knowledge too!! again, thank you for asking!

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[seoul-bros]

What lies ahead

Magnate posted photos of Jimin's basic training graduation on Instagram in which Jimin received the Division Commander Commendation. He and Jungkook worked hard and made a positive impression on their trainers and fellow trainees in the last five weeks.

"Hello, I'm ZM-illennial (メグナット) Did everyone bring an umbrella? Like it's going to rain soon It's cloudy, so for those who have been waiting for news of rain, we hope you have a moist day with our condolences to those who are worried.

If it's long, it's long, and if it's short, it's short. It's over, thanks to your support and constant interest and love, 1 year and 5 months is a long time, but it can also be a short time. ARMY was a great help Thank you from the bottom of my heart"

It's an inflection point in their military life and now the hard slog of soldier's duties begins. They will reportedly be assigned to one of the units of the artillery brigade.

It makes me nervous knowing that they and their fellow graduates are serving in the military at such a dangerous moment. It was chilling to read this news posted on the BBC website yesterday.

In a report published last week for 38 North, a US-based organisation with a focus on North Korea, former State Department official Robert Carlin and nuclear scientist Siegfried S Hecker said they saw the situation on the Korean Peninsula as "more dangerous than it has ever been" since the start of the Korean War in 1950.

"That may sound overly dramatic, but we believe that, like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war," it said.

"We do not know when or how Kim plans to pull the trigger, but the danger is already far beyond the routine warnings in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo about Pyongyang's 'provocations'."

No one will benefit from a fresh outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula and BTS members are now on the front line of any aggression. Although it is difficult to see at the moment, I hope there is a way back from the brinkmanship that currently characterizes North-South relations.

Post Date: 18/01/2024

[strideofpride]

wait you think North Korea is good?

I don't think North Korea is a perfect socialist utopia, no. But it's also not a dystopian hellscape either. It is a third world country, but it's a third world country because the United States ensures that it stays a third world country with incredibly cruel sanctions. Because they're closed off, US reporting on North Korea primarily comes from South Korean sources...and surely you can understand why that's problematic. Basically 90% of what you've heard about North Korea as an American is total and complete bullshit.

Their military aggression can also be explained by the fact that the United States invaded them, killed a quarter of their population, ruined a third of their farmland, and destroyed EIGHTY percent of all buildings in Pyongyang. Then we divided their country in half, established a puppet state immediately to their south (South Korea only has control over their own military in peacetime - guess who takes over in the event of combat), and run annual military exercises on their border to intimidate them. Wouldn't you be military aggressive if you had to go up against the world's superpower like that?

Anyway, if you want to start unlearning the lies you've been taught, here are some good places to start:

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Seoul to suspend inter-Korean military pact

South Korea may suspend a military pact signed with North Korea in 2018 aimed at easing tensions, the presidential office said on Monday, after Seoul warned of a harsh response to Pyongyang’s launch of balloons carrying debris into the South, Younhap News reports.

North Korea has launched hundreds of balloons carried by wind across the border and dropped debris on South Korea, which called it a provocation. The National Security Council said it would submit a plan to suspend the military agreement in its entirety to the Cabinet for approval at a meeting on Tuesday.

Suspending the agreement would allow the South to train near the military border and take “sufficient and immediate action” in response to North Korea’s provocation, the council said in a statement.

The pact, which was the most significant agreement reached in months of historic summits between the two Koreas in 2018, was all but written off when Pyongyang said last year it was no longer bound by it. Since then, the North has stationed soldiers and weapons at guard posts near the military border.

While continuing to honour the pact, “there have been significant problems with the combat readiness of our armed forces”, the council said.

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[mariacallous]

Russia plans to involve North Korea directly in the full-scale war against Ukraine this fall and winter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 14, citing intelligence data.

The announcement comes a day after Zelensky warned of an "increasing alliance" between Moscow and Pyongyang.

According to Ukraine's military intelligence, Russia's plans for the fall and winter include "the actual involvement of North Korea in the war," Zelensky said.

The briefing also included updates on "Russia's relations with some other countries, that, unfortunately, are investing in prolonging the war," the president added.

Zelensky warned on Oct. 13 that Russia and North Korea were deepening their alliance, saying that the partnership had escalated to the point where North Korea was sending personnel to Ukraine's front lines along with weapons.

"This is no longer just about transferring weapons. It is actually about transferring people from North Korea to the occupying military forces," he said.

The warning followed reports from South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-Hyun that North Korea is likely to deploy regular troops to Ukraine to aid Russia at the front.

Reports have also emerged in recent days that North Korean officers were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike in Russian-occupied territory. The Kyiv Independent has not been able to verify these reports, which have not been confirmed beyond a single intelligence source.

North Korea has been supplying Russia with ballistic missilesand vast quantities of artillery shellssince fall of 2023. Earlier this year, two countries signed a mutual defense pact during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Pyongyang.

Putin submitted the treaty, which stipulates that either nation must render military assistance to the other in the event of an attack, to the Russian State Duma for ratification on Oct. 14.

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North Korea fires ballistic missile ahead of US-South Korea drills - SUCH TV

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Thursday, Seoul’s military said, Pyongyang’s latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises. Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their worst points in decades, with the nuclear-armed North conducting ever more provocative banned weapons tests as Seoul moved to ramp up…