Tag Archives: China

International

World War 3: United Kingdom say North Korea can strike Europe!

05 April 2013 (04:40 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

In an announcement that is initially surprising to many analysts, The U.K.’s Prime Minister David Cameron said the DPRK can hit Britain with nukes: “North Korea does now have missile technology that is able to reach, as they put it, the whole of the United States and if they are able to reach the whole of the United States they can reach Europe too. They can reach us too, so that is a real concern.”

Cameron is coming under criticism for the statement, but he’s correct.

I looked at flight distance, the routes airliners use to fly from Korea to England.  Estimate flight duration is 8891 kilometers (5527 miles).  This is within the range of the DRPK’s new KN-08 ICBM, which North Korea claims can reach 10000km (6213.7 miles).  This means most of Europe is within range.

U.S. analysts doubt the DPRK’s claims about their new KN-08 ICBM.

International

H7N9 update: Japan scrambles to create new vaccine!

05 April 2013 (04:23 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases is now focusing on making a vaccine to fight the new H7N9 flu.

A sixth person has been confirmed to die from H7N9.  And a teenager has died from unexplained pneumonia, but tests have failed to find H7N9 virus.

China will send the latest virus samples to Japan.  Japanese researchers will also investigate the defectiveness of anti-virals on the new strain.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Australia backs South Korea! U.S. lies to Aussie media about North Korean missile range!

05 April 2013 (03:02 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

“We’re not aware of any capability by North Korea, even with weapons they’ve identified…being able to conduct a strike in Australia.”-Jeffry Bleich, U.S. Ambassador to Australia

The U.S. is lying to Aussies, because Australia is closer to Korea than North America, and the DPRK’s KN-08 ICBM can reach the west coast of North America!

Sydney, Australia is approximately 8304 kilometers (5160 miles) from Korea.  The KN-08 has an estimated range of 10000 kilometers (6213.7 miles).

The KN-08 is a new ICBM, unveiled in 2012.  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea claims the ICBM has a 10000km range.  U.S. officials, and even the U.S. media have claimed the missile is a fake.  Some U.S. sources say if the missile is real the range is about 6000 to 8000km, which means the ICBM could still hit the northern end of Auz Down Under.

Here’s the rub; North Korea has been successfully developing their own missiles systems for the past two decades, so why can’t the KN-08 be for real?

Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, called the new dictator of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, and expressed support for the Republic of Korea.   Gillard promised to continue political pressure on North Korea.

Business/Economics, International

World War 3: 53000 North Koreans refuse to show up for work at KIR! South Korea refuses to evacuate KIR workers! North Korea prepares two ballistic missiles for launch!

05 April 2013 (02:28 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

An estimated 53000 DPRK workers have not shown up for work at the Kaesŏng Industrial Region (KIR).  Some analysts say it might be because of a North Korean holiday, however, they also said it was common for the capitalist ROK corporations to ask DPRK workers to work on holidays.

To show how important the cheap North Korean labor is to South Korean capitalists, South Korean media got this reaction from an unnamed manager of one of those companies: “Without the arrival of new parts and materials, and the need to make full use of trucks that cannot return if they cross over the DMZ [De-Militarized Zone], companies must pace their production schedules….At most, the food will probably run out in a week, which would make it hard for South Korean workers to stay at Kaesong.”

Even with the threat of starvation officials in Republic of Korea say they do not see any reason to evacuate ROK workers from KIR as demanded by the DPRK: “When the situation requires, the withdrawal should be carried out for the safety of workers there, therefore (the government) is not considering withdrawal.”-Ryoo Kihl-jae, ROK Unification Minister

Also, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reporting that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is preparing two medium range ballistic missiles for launch.

Yonhap cites South Korean and U.S. military sources.  They say that two BM25 Musudan have been loaded on their mobile launchers (aka TEL, transporter-erector-launcher), after being shipped to the east coast, along the coast with the Sea of Japan (facing the Pacific).   Earlier reports had said that one BM25 Musdan was being moved to the east coast.

The U.S. and ROK sources say the TELs have now been hidden.

 

International

H7N9 update: 6th person dies! And a new Unexplained pneumonia death!

05 April 2013 (01:55 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

A Chinese farmer has died only one day after being brought to hospital.  He’s the sixth person in China to die since the end of March.

The farmer lived in Zhejiang Province, which borders Shanghai.  Four of the six deaths were in Shanghai.

A 14 year old tourist from Thailand also died, from unexplained pneumonia.  However, Chinese health officials say the H7N9 test was negative.  The teenager was part of a group of 119 tourists who arrived in Yunnan Province.

All provincial health officials have been ordered to investigate unexplained pneumonia cases, as it seems to be the only sign of H7N9 infection.

Business/Economics, International

World War 3: POVs to be confiscated in event of Second Korean War!

04 April 2013 (13:56 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

“We can’t tell you for sure the models or the number of the cars to be mobilized. That’s confidential.”-unnamed government official

POV, Privately Owned Vehicle (aka car, truck, SUV, mini-van), could become property of the government if full blown Second Korean War were declared.

The revaluation has South Koreans pissed: “The car dealer never told me about this. If the government takes away cars of a specific model, I think it’s unfair.”

Another man pointed out “I would need my car to move away with my family. The government taking away civilian cars is too much of a burden on people.”

Oh, but if you don’t comply you’ll pay a $18000 USD fine and/or go to prison for seven years!

As I’ve reported, the U.S. backed Republic of Korea is not a true democracy, it is a authoritarian regime that’s been under martial law since 1972.

If you study the history of the (First) Korean War you should find evidence that the capitalist South Korea government treated Koreans far worse than communist North Korea, and the United States just looked the other way.

Under the Emergency Resource Management Law in South Korea, computers will pick at random which POVs will be pressed into military service.

However, the age of the car owner and the car, and the location of the car, will be prime factors: “Gyeonggi and Gangwon Province residents may be high on the list, since those are the places bordering North Korea. And the younger the car owner is, the more likely they have to give up their car.”-unnamed government official

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3: China admits military build up along Korean border, since 2009! Final War between eastern workers and western capitalists!

04 April 2013 (13:35 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

After days of reports that China was building up forces near the Korean border, and after a Chinese official denied such reports, we now get a better explanation; China has been building up forces since 2009: “Whenever the crisis deepened on the Korean Peninsula, since the North’s second nuclear test in 2009, China has reinforced its troops along the border. Amid escalating threats from North Korea, it’s highly likely that Army has moved troops from the Shenyang Military Region.”-unnamed Chinese official

So the official that said there was no ‘new’ troop build up was correct. The build up has been taking place since 2009.

2009 is the year that tensions began escalating.  Western media won’t tell you this, it started because North Korea wanted better pay and treatment of DPRK workers at the capitalist run Kaesŏng Industrial Region (KIR).

The DPRK responded to western capitalists with its second nuke test.  Then, in 2012, the DPRK wanted the capitalist corporations to pay their fare share in taxes.  The negative response from the capitalists resulted in North Korea’s third nuke test.  Keep in mind that the western capitalist main streamer media always reported these nuke test as if they made no sense, that they were not justified nor provocated.

This is a final war between the workers and the capitalists!

International

H7N9 update: Japan says this H7N9 is not your typical Bird Flu, demands new vaccine be created fast! Wear a mask! Poultry culling won’t work!

04 April 2013 (12:43 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases has released a statement after their quick research on the new H7N9 virus.  It’s not your typical bird flu.

H7N9 infect cells inside your nose, throat and upper part of your respiratory tract. H7N9 can rapidly multiply in your nose.  Bird flus normally don’t infect/multiply until they hit your lungs.

The Japanese researchers say because of the gene sequence it means that this new ‘bird flu’ actually has a low probability of infecting birds (which implies that the poultry culling & poultry bans taking place now are useless).

They still don’t know how the new H7N9 causes deadly pneumonia.

Yesterday the UN World Health Organization said they were testing existing vaccines in hopes of finding one that would work.  The Japanese researchers say they are wasting time, because of the unique gene sequence, they insist efforts must be focuses on a new vaccine, as the U.S. CDC announced a couple of days ago.

 

Influenza

H7N9 update: China says it will spread! Now a Class 5 Disease, influenza Command Center established! Proof that it spreads human to human!

04 April 2013 (12:29 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1392/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

Officials in China’s capital, Beijing, say the new H7N9 will spread, because China is an international crossroads for migratory birds.

The massive city of Shanghai has begun killing off poultry. This after pigeons tested positive for the new virus.

Also, Shanghai’s Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission reporting that one of the new human cases is a person who was in contact with another person who died from H7N9.  The new patient now quarantined.

Taiwan’s Department of Health has classified H7N9 as Category 5 Notifiable Infectious Disease.  Taiwan is the first country to do so.  This means if someone dies in Taiwan, of H7N9, they must be cremated, and this includes tourists from other countries.   The island nation is also the first country to establish a Central Epidemic Command Center for H7N9 influenza.

 

International

H7N9 update: More cases, more deaths! Attacking all age groups! Blame pigeons?

04 April 2013 (12:12 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

China reporting five new cases, two more people dead!  A total of 14 cases of a new deadly H7N9 since the end of March, five deaths.

The latest cases are in Zhejiang Province and Shanghai.  One man who died worked with poultry.  Four of the five deaths took place in Shanghai.

The new flu is not picky about your age.  Most sick people are in their 20s to 40s, but one man who died was in his 80s.  One of the new cases is a four years old girl.

China’s Ministry of Agriculture say they’ve found the new strain of H7N9 in pigeons in Songjiang District of Shanghai.