In another STUNNING up yours to the Western World, North Korean leader, Kim Jong il has gone ahead and tested another nuclear weapon.
What did you say to me?
This, from Rupert Murdoch:
Secret Atomic Arms Test ‘Bigger And Better’
“Bigger and better”- that is how North Korea described the secret detonation of a 20 kiloton nuclear weapon.
The North Korean News Agency said the blast was larger and more powerful than a similar device that earned worldwide condemnation when it was detonated in October, 2006.
The size of the latest explosion was similar to the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US in 1945.
The decision to thumb its nose at world opinion will leave Kim Jong Il’s rogue regime even more isolated.
But the success of the weapons test will give the North Korean leader a much-needed boost in his popularity among the military, who effectively control the country.
It also sends a clear message to US President Barack Obama’s administration that Pyongyang is now a fully paid-up member of the world’s nuclear club and, as such, needs to be dealt with in one-to-one talks.
President Obama termed the nuclear test and subsequent launch of a short-range missile as “a matter of grave concern to all nations”.
“North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the international community. North Korea’s behaviour increases tensions and undermines stability in North East Asia,” he said.
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Well, I don’t know who to believe. There are, obviously, two sides to every story and if you cast your eyes over to his state owned and run Korean Central News Agency, you’ll see a very interesting story about the United States’ own ambitions.
North Korea - Peace loving
U.S. Invariable Ambition for World Domination Flayed
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) — The United States made public its military budget for the fiscal 2010 shortly ago. According to it, the U.S. plans to spend 534 billion U.S. dollars for military purposes in the new fiscal year.
Commenting on this, a news analyst of Rodong Sinmun Friday observes: This is a 4 percent increase over the military budget for the fiscal 2009 shaped by the former Bush administration and larger than the military budgets of the 25 countries with the biggest military spending in the world put together.
Referring to the policy orientation of the new U.S. administration, the news analyst notes:
It is the strategic goal and hegemonic ambition of the U.S. to turn the world inhabited by nearly seven billion people into one dominated and controlled by it.
To this end, the U.S. is hell-bent on the reckless arms race and aggression and war against other countries.
The new U.S. administration is keen to move the theatre of its “anti-terrorism war” for aggression fought by the former administration inside the territory of Pakistan and escalate it.
It is increasing the threat and blackmail against the anti-imperialist and independent countries including the DPRK.
The U.S. groundlessly found fault with the DPRK’s successful launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 under its space development program for peaceful purposes. It pressurized the UNSC into issuing an unreasonable “presidential statement” critical of the satellite launch.
It is also escalating its pressure upon Iran, taking issue with its peaceful nuclear development project this or that way.
The new U.S. administration is putting spurs to the moves to build an adventurous missile shield, which sparks a worldwide arms race, and working hard to realize its ambition for world domination through the expansion and reinforcement of the NATO.
This goes to eloquently prove that no matter how frequently a regime changes in the U.S. its imperialists’ ambition for world domination based on the “upperhand of military strength” and their scenario for hegemony remain unchanged.
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So, ja, there you go… I don’t know who to believe!
Kim Jong Il
Smooth..
Especially when Kim Jong Il is the son of the late Kim Il Sung, who according to the Korean Central News Agency, was recently praised by Kembo Campbell Dugishmohadi, head of the Zimbabwean government delegation who visited the DPRK, stating that President Kim Il Sung is “the greatest man in the world.”
It’s true – this, from the Korean Central News Agency:
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) — Kembo Campbell Dugishmohadi, head of the Zimbabwean government delegation who visited the DPRK, praised President Kim Il Sung as the greatest man in the world.
During his stay in the DPRK, he keenly felt the greatness of the President, he said, and went on:
Born in a house with low straw-thatched roof in Mangyongdae, the President acquired personality of a great man and an indomitable fighter while receiving the revolutionary education from his parents in his childhood.
He is the savior of national resurrection and a legendary hero as he liberated the country by leading the arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory and turned the DPRK into a socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence.
The Korean people with the history of 5,000 years could demonstrate their dignity as the great people as they had the President as founder of the country.
His revolutionary history is the brilliant history that propelled the cause of global independence.
The President, possessed of far-sighted wisdom, made great contributions to the human cause of independence by founding the immortal Juche idea.
Mankind looks up to socialist Korea where the Juche idea has been successfully applied as a beacon of hope.
The Korean people and many foreigners are ceaselessly visiting the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where the President lies in state and his native home in Mangyongdae. This clearly shows how deep all people’s reverence for him is. The exploits performed by him for the times and humankind will shine forever.
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Maybe we should take off our blinkers before we judge incredible and dynamic leaders and playboys like Kim Jong Il and his dad.
Oh, were you not aware of how incredibly cool Kim Jong Il is?
Oh Ja!
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