Pemerintah Korea Utara, Kim Jong Il amat bencikan Amerika Syarikat

Pemerintah Korea Utara, Kim Jong Il, 69 tahun yg meninggal dunia 17 Disember 2011 lalu bukan hanya tidak mempunyai akaun Facebook, namun beliau juga amat membenci Amerika Syarikat.

Tidak hairanlah, Korea Utara dipenuhi poster propaganda anti Barat dan anti Amerika seperti di atas yang mesejnya hanya satu - Hancurkan Barat dan Hancurkan Amerika...!!!






Meskipun amat membenci Amerika Syarikat, Kim Jong Il tetap menerima lawatan bekas Presiden Amerika, Bill Clinton ke Pyongyang pada Ogos 2009 bagi pembebasan 2 wartawan wanita dari Amerika yang dipenjarakan 12 tahun oleh Korea Utara atas tuduhan menjadi pengintip.

Apapun, bersemadilah dengan aman, Jong Il.

Kim Jong-Il dalam kenangan

Tanda tangan siapakah ini? Well... inilah tanda tangan Kim Jong Il. Bila dia menanda tangani dokumen untuk serang Korea Selatan atau Amerika, maka inilah tanda tangannya!!



Kematian pemerintah tertinggi Kim Jong Il atau lebih dikenali The Dear Leader, diumumkan TV Rasmi Korea Utara pada Isnin 19 Disember 2011. Pembaca beritanya menangis. Di Malaysia tak sampai ke tahap itu.



Kim Jong Il memerintah Korea Utara, negara yang mempunyai angkatan tentera antara terkuat dunia sejak 1994 hingga kematiannya pada 17 Disember 2011.

Korea Utara mempunyai senjata nuklear dan tenteranya dikatakan keempat terbesar dunia.


Tinggal kenangan > The Dear Leader Kim Jong Il (kanan) bersama bapanya yang dikenali the Great Leader Kim Il Sung (meninggal dunia pada 1994). Jika kematian Kim Jong Il hanya diumumkan 48 jam selepas meninggal dunia, kematian Kim Il Sung pula hanya diumumkan 30 jam selepas meninggal dunia.


Kim Jong Il bersama anaknya yang menggantikannya sebagai Pemerintah Korea Utara, Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Il mempunyai 4 isteri dan 4 anak.


Jutaan rakyat Korea Utara menangis hiba apabila mendengar berita kematian Kim Jong Il.


Kim Jong Un, pemerintah Korea Utara yang baru, memberi penghormatan terakhir ke atas jenazah ayahnya.




Meskipun amat membenci Amerika Syarikat, Kim Jong Il tetap menerima lawatan bekas Presiden Amerika, Bill Clinton ke Pyongyang pada Ogos 2009 bagi pembebasan 2 wartawan wanita dari Amerika yang dipenjarakan 12 tahun oleh Korea Utara atas tuduhan menjadi pengintip.

Itulah legasi Kim Jong Il yang dibenci Korea Selatan dan Amerika Syarikat.

North Korea shells South Korea in fiercest attack in decades

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (L) listens to Defence Minister Kim Tae-young (2nd R) during the urgent security conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul November 23, 2010.






















Smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea.

The surprise attack occured at a time when South Korean and North Korean athletes are competing for honour, in full sportmanships valour as a symbol of peace, at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China



After the Korean War ended in 1953, the South and North Korea are still technically at war. Naval clashes at disputed maritime borders were reported in the past, as shown in this news item reported by the world media on March 2010. (video above)

Reuters reported today on Tuesday, 23rd November 2010 that North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, killing two soldiers and setting dozens of houses ablaze.

It is one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbour since the Korean War ended in 1953.

The attack was condemned by the world including the US and the UK.

South Koreans watch the news on television showing smoke rising from Yeonpyeong Island after it was hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea, at Seoul railway station November 23, 2010.

AT LEAST 200 SHELLS

YTN news agency said at least 200 North Korean shells hit Yeonpyeong, which lies off the west coast of the divided peninsula near a disputed maritime border. Most landed on a military base there.

South Korea's military said two soldiers were killed in the attack, 17 were wounded and three civilians were also hurt. South Korean military returned the fire and sent a jet fighter to the area.

YTN showed pictures of plumes of smoke pouring from the island and quoted a witness as saying fires were burning out of control.

The attack comes as the reclusive state has been pressing regional powers to return to negotiations about its nuclear weapons programme and follows revelations at the weekend it is fast developing another source of material to make atomic bombs.

It also follows moves by iron leader Kim Jong-il to make his youngest son heir apparent to the family dynasty.

For decades, the Korean leadership has played a carefully calibrated game of provocations to win concessions from the international community and impress his own military. The risk is that the leadership transition has upset this balance and that events spin out of control.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who has pursued a hard line with the reclusive North since taking office nearly three years ago, said a response had to be firm following the attack on Yeonpyeong island, just 120 km (75 miles) west of Seoul.

The two Koreas are still technically at war -- the Korean War ended only with a truce -- and tension rose sharply early this year after Seoul accused the North of torpedoing one of its navy vessels, killing 46 sailors.

"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told YTN Television before the shelling ended after about an hour.

China, the impoverished North's only powerful ally, was careful to avoid taking sides, calling on both Koreas to "do more to contribute to peace".

"China hopes that the relevant parties will do more to contribute to peace and stability in the region ... it is imperative now to resume the six-party talks," a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Hong Lei, told reporters.

Those talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons programme -- involving the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States -- have long been on ice.

However, the reclusive North has more recently been pushing to resume the talks, which previously it has used to win massive aid in return for promises to end its weapons programme.

WON TUMBLES

News of the exchange of fire sent the won tumbling in offshore markets with the 1-month won down about four percent in NDF trading. U.S. 10-year Treasury futures rose and the Japanese yen fell.

It also rattled global markets, already unsettled by Ireland's debt problems and worries about riskier markets.

The South Korean central bank is holding an emergency meeting to assess the possible market impact of the shelling.

The attack comes just as a U.S. envoy is in Beijing on a tour of the region and is expected to ask China to use its influence to help tame North Korea.

Washington has branded the North a danger to the region and expressed concern Pyongyang would sell nuclear weapons technology to other states.

It has said it was ready to return to talks but wants to see more commitment to denuclearisation by the North beforehand.

The White House condemned the attack, telling the North to halt its "belligerent action" and saying it was committed to defend the South.

It has about 28,000 troops in South Korea, their combined forces facing an estimated one million North Korean soldiers who make up one of the world's biggest standing armies.

BRITAIN CONDEMNS NORTH KOREA'S ATTACK ON SOUTH KOREA

BRITAIN strongly condemned North Korea's attack on an island in South Korea today, 23rd November 2010.

Foreign Secretary William Hague urged Pyongyang to refrain from further attacks, which he described as “unprovoked”.

In a statement issued by the Foreign Office in London, Mr Hague said: “The UK strongly condemns North Korea’s unprovoked attack on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong Island.


“Such unprovoked attacks will only lead to further tensions on the Korean Peninsula. We strongly urge North Korea to refrain from such attacks and adhere to the Korean Armistice agreement.

“I welcome South Korean president Lee Myung-bak’s call for restraint.”

The annoucnment came minutes after North Korea threatened to continue to launch strikes against South Korea if the country violates their disputed sea border ´even 0.001 millimeter.

North Korea’s supreme military command said that it would "launch merciless military retaliatory strikes."

The warning was carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency.

Military Strength of North Korea

According to Global Fire Power, North Korea as at 2008, has 1.17 million active military personells, 4.7 million active military reserves and 189,000 paramilitary units.

North Korean ARMY

Total Land-Based Weapons: 16,400
Tanks: 3,500 [2006]
Armored Personnel Carriers: 2,500 [2006]
Towed Artillery: 3,500 [2006]
Self-Propelled Guns: 4,400 [2006]
Multiple Rocket Launch Systems: 2,500 [2006]
Mortars: 7,500 [2006]
Anti-Aircraft Weapons: 11,000 [2006]


North Korean AIR FORCE

Total Aircraft: 1,778 [2006]
Helicopters: 612 [2006]
Serviceable Airports: 77 [2007]


North Korean NAVY

Total Navy Ships: 708
Merchant Marine Strength: 167 [2008]
Major Ports and Harbors: 12
Aircraft Carriers: 0 [2008]
Destroyers: 0 [2008]
Submarines: 97 [2008]
Frigates: 3 [2006]
Patrol & Coastal Craft: 492 [2006]
Mine Warfare Craft: 23 [2006]
Amphibious Craft: 140 [2006]


And as for South Korea, Global Power reports that it has 687,000 active military personells and 4.5 million active military reserve.

South Korean ARMY

Total Land-Based Weapons: 8,325
Tanks: 1,060 [2004]
Armored Personnel Carriers: 2,480 [2004]
Towed Artillery: 4,000 [2004]
Self-Propelled Guns: 500 [2004]
Multiple Rocket Launch Systems: 185 [2004]
Mortars: 6,000 [2004]
Anti-Tank Guided Weapons: 58 [2004]
Anti-Aircraft Weapons: 1,692 [2004]


South Korean AIR FORCE

Total Aircraft: 538 [2004]
Helicopters: 502 [2004]
Serviceable Airports: 150 [2007]


South Korean NAVY

Total Navy Ships: 85
Merchant Marine Strength: 812 [2008]
Major Ports and Harbors: 4
Aircraft Carriers: 0 [2008]
Destroyers: 6 [2004]
Submarines: 20 [2004]
Frigates: 9 [2004]
Patrol & Coastal Craft: 75 [2004]
Mine Warfare Craft: 15 [2004]
Amphibious Craft: 28 [2004]

North Korea pardons US Journalists

News of the disappearance of Euna Lee and Laura Ling



Home sweet home - thanks to President Bill Clinton, no thanks to Al Gore

Former US President, Bill Clinton is back into the limelight, he is basking in glory after his successful mission of bringing back home 2 female US journalists, jailed by North Korea for allegedly straying into the reclusive territory.

Clinton even had lunch with President Kim Jong Ill before the 2 US Journalists were handed over to him.

It was a rare occassion when a recent President of the US, are allowed to enter North Korea.

I bet the mission would have failed if President George W. Bush were sent to North Korea, instead of Clinton, for Bush had once described North Korea as the Axis of Evil.

For now, Clinton's public profile is at the highest, not only the families of the 2 journalists thanking him, but also millions of Americans and also South Koreans.

When Euna and Laura was sentenced to 12 years jail with hard labour, it was devastating for their families and their employer - Current TV, founded by former US Vice President, Al Gore.

Well, Al Gore sent them to hell, but Clinton, the guardian angel, saved them.

Euna Lee and Laura Ling are now reunited with their families.

Perhaps Clinton need to do another rescue missions, this time in Iran where 3 US citizens were captured for allegedly straying into Iranian territory from Iraq.

Well Clinton has to do the talk with Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President.

Once again, former President George W. Bush, cannot be allowed to play any role in the rescue mission because he had also described Iran as the Axis of Evil when he was in office in the White House.

High profile peaceful 'rescue' missions by high ranking Americans to bring home their fellow Americans in hostile territory are not new.

In the early 1990's, Reverend Jesse Jackson managed to bring back home 5 US air force personells, captured and taken as Prisoner of War by the Serbian forces.

The 5 personells were on a bombing mission abroad a B52 bomber, during the campaign initiated by NATO to crush Serbian forces and free Kosovo.

They ejected to safety when their plane was shot down by surface to air missiles, and taken prisoner.

Some journalists were not that lucky.

They died while covering the frontline, caught in the line of fire.

One infamous incident is known as the Balibo Five incident in East Timor.

The Balibo Five refers to a group of journalists working for Australian television networks.

They were based in the town of Balibo in East Timor (then Portuguese Timor) but were killed on 16 October 1975 by Indonesian troops mounting incursions, prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor on 7 December that year.

The group was made up of two Australians, reporter Greg Shackleton, 27 and sound recordist Tony Stewart, 21; a New Zealander, cameraman Gary Cunningham, 27, for HSV-7 (Seven Network) in Melbourne; and two Britons, cameraman Brian Peters, 29 and reporter Malcolm Rennie, 28 working for TCN-9 (Nine Network) in Sydney.

BURBANK, California, USA. – Two American journalists freed by North Korea have returned home to the United States on a flight with former President Bill Clinton.

The jet carrying Euna Lee and Laura Ling landed at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport early Wednesday. The women spent more than four months detained in North Korea.

The reporters were granted a pardon by North Korea on Tuesday, following rare talks between Clinton and the reclusive leader Kim Jong Il. They had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally.

In exclusive APTN video showing their release, the women were shown dressed in short-sleeved shirts and jeans as they boarded the plane in North Korea.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and two American journalists flew back to the United States on Wednesday for what was expected to be an emotional reunion with family and friends after the reporters spent the last four months detained in North Korea.

Euna Lee and Laura Ling were granted a pardon by North Korea following rare talks between Clinton and the reclusive leader Kim Jong Il. They had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally.

The women, dressed in short-sleeved shirts and jeans, appeared healthy as they climbed the steps to the plane and shook hands with Clinton before getting into the jet, exclusive APTN footage from Pyongyang showed. Clinton waved, put his hand over his heart and then saluted.

North Korean state TV showed Clinton's departure, and North Korean officials waving to the plane, but did not show images of the two journalists.

Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna said the flight was bound for Los Angeles, where the journalists will be reunited with their families.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hailed their release.

"I spoke to my husband on the airplane and everything went well," she told reporters in Nairobi, Kenya. "They are extremely excited to be reunited soon when they touch down in California. It was just a good day to be able to see this happen."

Ling's father, Doug, told reporters outside his home in Carmichael, Calif., that his daughter's release was one of the best days of his life. He said he would travel to the Burbank airport to meet his daughter's plane early Wednesday, and planned to bring American flags, yellow ribbons and banners to welcome her home.

"I'm going to go down there and see my little girl," he said.

Ling, a 32-year-old California native, is the younger sister of Lisa Ling, a correspondent for CNN as well as "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "National Geographic Explorer." Lee, 36, a South Korean-born U.S. citizen, is the mother of a 4-year-old.

Their expected arrival was a jubilant conclusion to a more than four-month ordeal for the women, who were arrested near the North Korean-Chinese border in March while on a reporting trip for Current TV, the media venture founded by former Vice President Al Gore.

Gore was expected to be at the Burbank airport to greet the women, who were sentenced in June for illegal entry and engaging in "hostile acts."

Hillary Clinton had urged North Korea last month to grant them amnesty, saying they were remorseful and their families anguished.

The release also amounted to a successful diplomatic foray for the former president, who traveled as an unofficial envoy, with approval and coordination from the administration. He was uniquely positioned for it as the only recent president who had considered visiting North Korea while in office, and one who had sent his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright.

But the backchannel genesis of the mission was not immediately clear, whether Obama called on him, North Korea asked for him or his wife suggested him.

His landmark visit to Pyongyang to free the Americans was a coup that came at a time of heightened tensions over North Korea's nuclear program.

Hillary Clinton also rejected an official report by the North Korean news agency that said Bill Clinton had delivered an apology about the incident to the country's ailing leader.

"That is not true," she said. "That did not occur."

A senior U.S. official said the reporters' families and Gore asked the former president to travel to Pyongyang to seek their release and that Clinton's mission did not include discussions about issues beyond that. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to describe events leading up to the Clinton trip and the women's release.

The meeting also appeared aimed at dispelling persistent questions about the health of the authoritarian North Korean leader, who was said to be suffering from chronic diabetes and heart disease before the reported stroke. The meeting was Kim's first with a prominent Western figure since the reported stroke.

Kim smiled broadly for a photo standing next to a towering Clinton. He was markedly thinner than a year ago, with his graying hair cropped short. The once-pudgy 67-year-old, who for decades had a noticeable pot belly, wore a khaki jumpsuit and appeared frail and diminutive in a group shot seated next to a robust Clinton.

Pardoning Ling and Lee and having Clinton serving as their emissary served both North Korea's need to continue maintaining that the two women had committed a crime and the Obama administration's desire not to expend diplomatic capital winning their freedom, said Daniel Sneider, associate director of research at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

"Nobody wanted this to be a distraction from the more substantially difficult issues we have with North Korea," he said. "There was a desire by the administration to resolve this quietly and from the very beginning they didn't allow it to become a huge public issue."

Speaking out for the first time since their capture, Gore said in a joint statement with Current co-founder Joel Hyatt that everyone at the media outlet was overjoyed by the prospect of their safe return. "Our hearts go out to them and to their families for persevering through this horrible experience," it said.

The Lee and Ling families thanked Obama, the secretary of state and the State Department.

"We especially want to thank President Bill Clinton for taking on such an arduous mission and Vice President Al Gore for his tireless efforts to bring Laura and Euna home," it said. "We are counting the seconds to hold Laura and Euna in our arms."

In North Korea, Clinton was accorded honors typically reserved for heads of state. Senior officials met his private unmarked plane as it arrived Tuesday morning.

Video from the APTN television news agency showed Clinton exchanging warm handshakes with officials and accepting a bouquet of flowers from a schoolgirl.

Kim later hosted a banquet for Clinton at the state guesthouse, Radio Pyongyang and the Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported. The VIPs and Kim posed for a group shot in front of the same garish mural depicting a stormy seaside landscape that Albright posed for during her historic visit to Pyongyang in 2000.

However, the decision to send Clinton was kept quiet, revealed only when he turned up Tuesday in Pyongyang accompanied by John Podesta, his one-time White House chief of staff, who also is an informal adviser to Obama.

Discussions about normalizing ties with North Korea went dead when George W. Bush took office in 2001 with a hard-line policy on Pyongyang. The Obama administration has expressed a willingness to hold bilateral talks — but only within the framework of the six-nation disarmament talks in place since 2003.

North Korea announced earlier this year it was abandoning the talks involving the two Koreas, Japan, Russia, China and the U.S. The regime also launched a long-range rocket, conducted a nuclear test, test-fired a barrage of ballistic missiles and restarted its atomic program in defiance of international criticism and the U.N. Security Council.

Kim Jong Ill, the dear Leader

at first there are speculations that North Korean Dear Leader, Kim Jong Ill may be seriously ill. However it was denied by Pyong yang.

and then there's a news report about the alleged plot to assasinate the Dear Leader.

as reported by AP here :

"SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea claimed Thursday that it has arrested a South Korean-hired agent it strongly suggested was tasked with assassinating the country's absolute leader, Kim Jong Il.
The North's Ministry of State Security said in a statement it had arrested a North Korean on a "terrorist mission" ordered by a South Korean intelligence organization "to do harm to the top leader" of North Korea.
The statement, carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency, did not mention Kim Jong Il by name, but South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon said the North's state media has before used such wording to refer to him.
Kim of the Unification Ministry, which handles relations with the North, said he was in no position to confirm the report.
The National Intelligence Service — South Korea's main spy agency — said it was checking the claim."

Wow!! we need to restore order here!!! For a start, North Korea is no pushover in terms of military strength. the reclusive nation has nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and many other weapons that is beyond your wildest imagination. Infact North Korea is among the strongest nations in terms of military might!!!
Taepodong 2 missiles

North Korea's Taepodong 2 missiles also boast the capability of annihilating targets between 4,000 km to 10,000 km away..!!!!!!!!!!!