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  • North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Into Sea

    North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Into Sea

    On the day before the 61st anniversary of the Korean War armistice, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast.

    The missile was fired from the country’s southwest Hwanghae province on Saturday evening, and traveled roughly 310 miles over land before touching down in the Sea of Japan. North Korea routinely test-fires missiles as a means to display its military prowess, though Great Successor Kim Jong-un has been firing an uncharacteristically high amount of smaller, short-range ammunition this year. His father, Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, had preferred to sporadically launch longer-range warheads and conduct nuclear tests, in attempts to force concessions from the rest of the world.

    North Korea demands that South Korea tone down their joint military drills with the U.S. troops stationed in the region, because the exercises look similar to a rehearsal for invasion, from the vantage of Pyongyang. The DPNK would also like Seoul to stop with all of the slander, and the South Koreans would like a more serious stance on nuclear disarmament from Kim Jong-un’s regime.

    What was transpiring when this photo was taken actually happened, in real life:

    Kim Jong-un’s style is different from that of his late father, perhaps due to his age, as well as possible hard feelings over being a sort of walking internet meme. Recently, Pyongyang had asked China to attempt to control the viral spread of a YouTube clip featuring the Great Successor dancing through a series of absurd situations.

    Also, video game developer Moneyhorse is set to release Glorious Leader!, an old-school shoot-’em-up which features scenarios that describe Kim’s life-facts generated by the propaganda machine of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

    Here is the trailer for Glorious Leader!:

    Image via YouTube

  • Iron Dome Defense System Intercepts Sinai Rocket

    Israel’s “Iron Dome” air defense system shot down a rocket headed for the southern Israeli port of Eilat. The rocket was fired from the Sinai peninsula, and a Sinai-based jihadist group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has claimed responsibility.

    Residents reported hearing two strong blasts after air raid sirens sounded. There were no reports of injuries or property damage.

    A similar attack had happened eleven days earlier, as a pair of rockets originating from the Sinai fell harmlessly into unpopulated open areas of Eilat. While these attacks have proved harmless, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said Wednesday that “the difference between a missile hitting the sea or hitting the Meridien Hotel [in Eilat] is merely a statistical matter”—meaning that so far the city had benefited from the haphazard targeting of the rockets. In the earlier attack, Eilat’s air alarm system did not sound. The city also suffered two rocket attacks in 2013, one in April and one in August.

    The attack comes during a widespread operation by the Egyptian army against terrorist groups in the Sinai region. Some reports have claimed a serious intensification of the fighting between the army and militants in the peninsula in the past few days. Some of the militant groups are known to be identified with Al-Qaeda, though it is not clear whether this includes Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the group that’s taken credit for this attack.

    The Iron Dome is a mobile all-weather air defense system designed to shoot down rockets and artillery shells fired from between 4 and 70 kilometers (2.5 to 43 miles). It was first deployed in 2011 and has had a strong record of effectiveness, shooting down an estimated 90% of rockets destined for populated areas in its first year of deployment. This statistic has prompted defense reporter Mark Thompson to declare that “lack of Israeli casualties suggests Iron Dome is the most-effective, most-tested missile shield the world has ever seen.”

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • U.S. Cruise Missile Syria Attack Looms

    Are the days of Hitler’s poisonous gas brutality behind us? Several hundred lost their lives in Syria last Wednesday to what many are estimating was a chemical attack. However, the Syrian government has strongly denied any connection to the disastrous event even though photos of the atrocities victims endured have been leaked.

    The Syrian government is officially not assuming responsibility for the situation. The chemical attack has not only threatened those directly attacked, but many more have fled the country as refugees. In fact, estimates claim 30,000 people are now refugees as a result of the attack.

    U.N. representatives arrived in Syria to investigate; however, the Syrian government would not allow these representatives access to the Damascus area where the supposed chemical attack occurred. Now, as a result of the looming threat, officials for the United States are considering involvement in order to prevent potentially global devastation.

    The White House National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, took to Twitter to condemn those responsible for the attacks.

    Barrack Obama said in a CNN exclusive, “Some core issues that the United States has both in terms of us making sure that methods of mass destruction are not proliferating as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region. I think that it is fair to say that as difficult as the problem is, this is something that is going to require America’s attention and hopefully the entire international community’s attention.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP13L-7Jes0

    President Barrack Obama shared his concerns with CNN. “If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country, without a U.N. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it, ‘Do we have the coalition to make it work?’ Those are considerations that we have to take into account,” President Obama said.

    [Image via Wikimedia Commons is not indicative of potential considerations by U.S. government]