North Korea's deputy ambassador in London has defected to the South, according to officials in Seoul.
Thae Yong Ho has apparently arrived with his family in Seoul, making him the highest-ranking diplomat ever to defect to the South.
He defected due to discontent with the regime and for the future of his child, the South's Unification Ministry said.
Jeong Joon-Hee, spokesman at the ministry, told a news conference: "They are currently under government protection and relevant institutions are going ahead with necessary procedures as usual
A thread with plenty more to come.
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Super Nova
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Always remember what you post, send or do on the internet is not private and you are responsible.
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Super Nova
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Time to kick this little fat pig in the nuts. The US may have the Trump card to play here.
If he thinks the US will let him have a nuke that can hit the US he is looking to get himself killed.
N. Korea has plutonium for 10 nuclear bombs: S. Korea
North Korea now has enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear bombs, South Korea said today, a week after leader Kim Jong-Un said it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The isolated communist state, which has carried out five nuclear tests and numerous missile launches, is thought to be planning a nuclear push in 2017 as it seeks to develop a weapons system capable of hitting the US mainland.
Analysts are divided over how close Pyongyang is to realising its full nuclear ambitions, but all agree it has made enormous strides since Kim took over as leader from his father Kim Jong-Il who died in December 2011.
Seoul's defence ministry said the North is believed to have some 50kg of weapons-grade plutonium as of the end of 2016 - enough to make about 10 weapons - up from 40kg eight years earlier.
The North also has a "considerable" ability to produce weapons based on highly-enriched uranium, it said in a two-yearly white paper, but did not estimate weapons-grade uranium stocks, citing impenetrable secrecy in the state's uranium program.
US think tank the Institute for Science and International Security estimated in June that the North's total nuclear arsenal was more than 21 bombs, up from 10-16 weapons in 2014, based on estimates of plutonium and uranium.
The North has boosted plutonium supplies by reactivating its once-mothballed nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, the defence ministry said.
North Korea deactivated the Yongbyon reactor in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament accord, but began renovating it after Pyongyang's third nuclear test in 2013.
The type of plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb typically needs to be extracted from spent nuclear reactor fuel.
Kim Jong-Un said in a New Year's speech that Pyongyang was in the "final stages" of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile of the kind that could threaten US territory.
The address drew a swift response from US president-elect Donald Trump, who took to Twitter vowing to halt Pyongyang in its tracks.
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If he thinks the US will let him have a nuke that can hit the US he is looking to get himself killed.
N. Korea has plutonium for 10 nuclear bombs: S. Korea
North Korea now has enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear bombs, South Korea said today, a week after leader Kim Jong-Un said it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The isolated communist state, which has carried out five nuclear tests and numerous missile launches, is thought to be planning a nuclear push in 2017 as it seeks to develop a weapons system capable of hitting the US mainland.
Analysts are divided over how close Pyongyang is to realising its full nuclear ambitions, but all agree it has made enormous strides since Kim took over as leader from his father Kim Jong-Il who died in December 2011.
Seoul's defence ministry said the North is believed to have some 50kg of weapons-grade plutonium as of the end of 2016 - enough to make about 10 weapons - up from 40kg eight years earlier.
The North also has a "considerable" ability to produce weapons based on highly-enriched uranium, it said in a two-yearly white paper, but did not estimate weapons-grade uranium stocks, citing impenetrable secrecy in the state's uranium program.
US think tank the Institute for Science and International Security estimated in June that the North's total nuclear arsenal was more than 21 bombs, up from 10-16 weapons in 2014, based on estimates of plutonium and uranium.
The North has boosted plutonium supplies by reactivating its once-mothballed nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, the defence ministry said.
North Korea deactivated the Yongbyon reactor in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament accord, but began renovating it after Pyongyang's third nuclear test in 2013.
The type of plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb typically needs to be extracted from spent nuclear reactor fuel.
Kim Jong-Un said in a New Year's speech that Pyongyang was in the "final stages" of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile of the kind that could threaten US territory.
The address drew a swift response from US president-elect Donald Trump, who took to Twitter vowing to halt Pyongyang in its tracks.
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And yet Trump himself has called for an arms race.
North Korea has actually done well for itself, as far as being tollerated as an oppressive regime.
They survive on aid. The party has to appear threatening enough to the South to continue their way of life but not so threatening as to jeopardise their aid. It's a difficult balancing act.
The country is in shambles but they do have over a million active personnel in their army, with a suspected half million in reserve and close to 5 million paramilitary.
With China and Russia considered allies the Americans are not going to want a conflict with them.
Raven suspects that "additional aid" will be slipped their way to ensure any potential nukes are not an actual threat to the US
Kim Jong Un is a nutcase and he will threaten the US with any nukes he has but he won't use them. It would be a death sentence not only to himself but his family legacy.
He will also threaten South Korea but for the same reasons, Raven can not see him using them against his sworn enemies.
North Korea has actually done well for itself, as far as being tollerated as an oppressive regime.
They survive on aid. The party has to appear threatening enough to the South to continue their way of life but not so threatening as to jeopardise their aid. It's a difficult balancing act.
The country is in shambles but they do have over a million active personnel in their army, with a suspected half million in reserve and close to 5 million paramilitary.
With China and Russia considered allies the Americans are not going to want a conflict with them.
Raven suspects that "additional aid" will be slipped their way to ensure any potential nukes are not an actual threat to the US
Kim Jong Un is a nutcase and he will threaten the US with any nukes he has but he won't use them. It would be a death sentence not only to himself but his family legacy.
He will also threaten South Korea but for the same reasons, Raven can not see him using them against his sworn enemies.
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore"
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Rorschach
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No one said Trump wasn't an idiot.
DOLT - A person who is stupid and entirely tedious at the same time, like bwian. Oblivious to their own mental incapacity. On IGNORE - Warrior, mellie, Nom De Plume, FLEKTARD
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n ... 09757811b6A CONTROVERSIAL Sydney University lecturer who backed Syria’s murderous al-Assad regime has travelled to Pyongyang and pledged “solidarity” with the North Korean dictatorship against “aggression” from the West.
Amid increasing threats by despot Kim Jong-un, Sydney University international politics lecturer Tim Anderson organised a “learning and solidarity visit” to the regime’s capital.
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said the one-week trip was an “embarrassment” to “academia”.
“It’s one thing to foster debate at university but you cross the line when you back an evil dictatorship that murders its citizens and is posing an increasing threat to global security,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
“Mr Anderson has shown time and time again his extreme views should not be given a platform to shape the minds of students.”
Yet the university is refusing to take action against Dr Anderson, who is paid up to $130,000 to teach international politics. because “staff can spend their leave however they wish”. In April, Dr Anderson alleged the US had “covertly financed and armed ALL the terrorist groups in Syria”, blaming the West for a sarin gas attack which killed 87 people.
Dr Anderson visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone during his late August North Korea trip, and said it was the US which “refuses a peace treaty”.
Totally agree with Birmingham. It is criminal what our kids are being subjected to from Primary to University and we are paying these idiots $130,000 per annum?
Can Australia fall any lower?
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AnaTom
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Yes, Australia is being homosexualised, even its children.Rorschach wrote:Can Australia fall any lower?
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Why doesn't Korea have a reunification program? -
have democratic elections monitored by international inspectors
& even allow Kim Jong-Un to be a candidate.
If he loses he could be given diplomatic immunity for all the murders & other crimes he's committed
& be given a safe country to live in + a large amount of money.
That way - everyone would be happy -
not a bullet fired and the majority decides.
We would all be spared a nuclear war.
have democratic elections monitored by international inspectors
& even allow Kim Jong-Un to be a candidate.
If he loses he could be given diplomatic immunity for all the murders & other crimes he's committed
& be given a safe country to live in + a large amount of money.
That way - everyone would be happy -
not a bullet fired and the majority decides.
We would all be spared a nuclear war.
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Black Orchid
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They consider him and his family to be Gods and are totally brainwashed. He would win no matter how 'democratic' it would be feigned to be.
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Bobby
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Black Orchid wrote:They consider him and his family to be Gods and are totally brainwashed. He would win no matter how 'democratic' it would be feigned to be.
No - I mean for all the people of South & North Korea to vote for one leader in a democratic system with a parliament.
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is someone forcing you to become gay?AnaTom wrote:.Yes, Australia is being homosexualised, even its children.Black Orchid wrote:Can Australia fall any lower?
Incorrect quoting corrected - Black Orchid
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