A dozen officials from Iran’s controversial ballistic missiles programme were present in North Korea last week to witness the failed rocket launch, according to reports.
The last North Koran launch of a ballistic missile was not a grand success for the nuclear dictatorship.
The high-profile rocket launch, which took place to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder, was reportedly attended by 12 officials from the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHID).
The organization, which is the subject of a number of international sanctions, attended in order to witness the launch at first hand, according to Yonhap news agency reports.
“The Iranians undoubtedly were there to observe the missile launch and receive test data from North Korea,” a diplomatic source as quoted as telling the news agency.
News of North Korea’s guests from Iran is likely to cast the spotlight onto the suspected relationship between the two nations in terms of the exchange of ballistic missile technology.
There are people who believe in Santa Claus. And there are others believing that Iran is not building a nuclear bomb.
The Iranian delegation was off course not in North Korea to learn how the North Korean were developing their own nuclear bomb. Nor were they there to study how to deliver the bomb on a ballistic missiles.
The Iranian delegation was in North Korea to study the weather, and to play a game off chess with the North Korean totalitarian dictator.
The Message to Israel is:
Since the US never stopped North Korea to develop a nuclear bomb, nor will Washington do anything substantial to block Iran from doing a copy-cat.
The world is full of political rhetoric and deceptions.
Jewish brothers and sisters: Put your trust in Jesus the Messiah. When all other options are over, it might be to late. Jesus is alive, and He loves Israel. Amen.
Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, arrived in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, on Jan. 4, calling for “serious negotiations” to ease tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear program and deadly attack on a South Korean island.
“We believe that serious negotiations must be at the heart of any strategy for dealing with North Korea and we look forward to being able to launch those at a reasonably early time,” he told reporters at the airport.
Cross-border tensions have been high since the North shelled a South Korean island on November 23, killing four people including two civilians. The North also raised security fears that month by disclosing a uranium enrichment plant to visiting U.S. experts.
South Korean marines and naval forces will hold joint war games this week to simulate an infiltration by North Korean troops.
Uneasy truce between the two emerging Asian giants
The soaring “Indian Tiger” facing the rising “Chinese Dragon” will eventually grow into two regional giants, both competing with rapidly dwindling strategic assets, vital for their survival, transforming the geopolitical landscape in the Asia-Pacific region – and challenging American hegemony as a global superpower.
The Chinese Navy’s recent seafaring activities and maneuvers have revealed Beijing’s intention to increase its control of the maritime sea lanes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The latter is an obvious cause of concern for India.
India’s quest to enhance its military potential, with active aid from Washington, could reignite a new Indo-China Himalayan border war – with acute danger from its escalating into a terrifying regional nuclear-weapons conflict.
“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end.”
North Korea is ruled by a dictator who is utterly insane and his generals and counselors are afraid to oppose him. Because China and Russia have an interest in using North Korea for their own purposes, the US and its allies in East Asia can only flex their military muscles and hope that some of North Korea’s senior officials continue to exercise a restraining influence on the lunatic who has his finger on the trigger.
China, India and Pakistan are right next to each other, armed with nuclear weapons (they are soon to be joined by another highly unstable near neighbor, Iran) and they represent three political, cultural and religious systems that are mutually anathema to each other (Iran, which is a Shi’ite Muslim theocracy, represents a fourth system.) Conflict between them, which will draw in their neighbors, is almost a certainty.
As we move closer to the end of this age, “wars and rumors of wars” will increase in frequency and violence. We must all be vigilant to pray for the protection of ourselves and our loved ones, and also to pray for our leaders to have the wisdom to deal with all of these crises.
Jesus promised us that this is all going somewhere, and we are to put our faith and hope in Him.
South Korea cannot expect the US to rein in North Korean aggression, any more than Israel can rely on the US regarding Iran.
The South Korean navy ship sunk by North Korea is lifed up from the sea.
On Thursday, the South Korean government did something important. It told the truth about North Korean aggression. On March 26, a North Korean submarine attacked a South Korean naval corvette with a torpedo. Forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in the unprovoked attack. And on May 20, the South Koreans ended all ambiguity about the nature of the attack and placed the blame where it belongs.
It is true that on Thursday, Obama released a statement saying that the «act of aggression is one more instance of North Korea’s unacceptable behavior and defiance of international law». And it is true that the international media is pointing to the White House announcement as an indication that the US will stand with South Korea.
But the Obama administration’s relations with China on the one hand, and its emasculation of the US Navy on the other, demonstrate that the US will not defend South Korea against North Korean aggression. The administration’s actions in the days leading up to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak announcement make this clear.
Depressingly, just as the Iranian threat is greater than the North Korean threat, so the Obama administration’s denial of the nature of the Iranian threat is greater than its denial of the North Korean threat. Quite simply, the Obama administration refuses to believe the ideology that informs the actions of Iran’s rulers is what they say it is.
In its latest demonstration of its deep denial of the nature of the threat it faces, this week John Brennan, Obama’s chief adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, said that the US must court what he referred to as «moderate elements» in Hizbullah.
Brennan argued that since in addition to its Iranian-commanded and -supplied military organization and its Iranian-commanded and -trained international terror network, Hizbullah also has members in the Lebanese government and parliament, it is a group that theObama administration can do business with.
Two mad Presidents that is willing to use nuclear arms to promote terrorism.
To the extent that Brennan’s statement echoes the Obama administration’s analysis of Hizbullah, it is simply terrifying.
Hizbullah was established by Iran in 1981. It has a dual mission of serving as the advance guard of Iran’s global Islamic revolution and of spreading the Iranian revolution to Lebanon. Hizbullah’s participation in Lebanese politics is consonant with this mission. It does not in any way indicate a moderation of the organization. Had Brennan looked, he would not have found a single statement by Hizbullah parliamentarians or government ministers that in any way contradicts Hizbullah’s Iranian-dictated missions.
But then, Brennan’s asinine position on Hizbullah is part and parcel of his overall denial of the threat radical Islam poses to the US and to the rest of the world. In a speech at New York University last August, Brennan gave a stirring defense of Islam as a religion of peace. He eschewed any connection between the likes of al-Qaida and the Iranian mullahs and Islam, and claimed that jihad is a great and good thing.
In his words, «Using the legitimate term jihad, which means to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal [to describe the cause for which Islamic terrorists fight risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve».
What Brennan’s statements show is that Obama, who picked Brennan to serve as his chief counterterrorism adviser, is ideologically committed to the notion that Iran and its fellow jihadists are not an inherent threat to the US and its allies. That is, Obama is ideologically committed to the notion that there is no reason to take any action against Iran that could actually prevent the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Nasrallah from developing and deploying nuclear weapons.
Source: Jerusalem Post, Column One.
My comment:
George W. Bush told the World that the US would not permit North Korea to get nuclear weapons. What happend?
When North Koran sunk a South Koran war ship, what did the US do?
What will the US do what Iran get a nuclear bomb?
Will the US protect Israel, or will they do what they have done in regards to North Korea?
Israel must not trust Obama. He is a deadly trap for the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
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