North Korea - Vision and Mission misunderstood?

[rkslperez]

The Vision and Mission statement seems to be skewed in Korea. Makes me consider if I were in charge of Korea, and had to develop a new vision for the country, wouldnt the people be the strongest weakness to any vision statement? However, America seems to have a strong vision... we all hate taxes right?!!

So what are strengths and weakness's to any mission of any country.. hmmm


"Beijing based experts talking to Chinese media said that Thursday’s deployment of B-2 bombers, which can carry up to 16 nuclear weapons, was a “shock-and-awe” symbol of U.S. escalation. On CCTV’s “Focus Today”, North Korea expert Li Li said the bombers’ deployment was a reflection of the U.S. attempt to “counter North Korea’s nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons.” Xinhua News, a Chinese state news outlet, pointed out that “it’s time for both sides to take a step back and let the cooler minds prevail”, weary of the escalation of threat.
However, North Korean media added in a later bulletin that in the event of conflict, victory would be “certain”. Pyongyang has threatened attacks almost daily since it was sanctioned for its February nuclear test. Some observers suggest the threats indicate the potential of regime instability. Few think though that North Korea will follow up and actually commence major hostilities." (see Leonid Petrov's Korea Vision)

 

[waltky]

Korean crisis not likely to end anytime soon...

No end in sight for North Korea tensions
March 29th, 2013 - While North Korea continues to elevate threats against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon has not seen anything "out of the ordinary" around key missile sites, a defense official told CNN on Friday.

But the heightened rhetoric over nuclear attacks, so far unmatched by any actual military moves, has no foreseeable endgame, a second defense official said. "This could go on for a while, and we could see variations of the rhetoric," the second official said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has approved a plan to put rockets on standby to fire at U.S. targets, including the American mainland and military bases in the Pacific and in South Korea, state media reported Thursday. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency on Friday cited South Korean military sources who said there was "brisk activity" by the North around missile sites.

But the second defense official told CNN that North Korea often carries out military exercises of its own around the same time that joint exercises are conducted by the United States and South Korean forces. U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey also suggested the activity the United States was observing was not out of the ordinary. "There have been some artillery movements, but nothing other than what's consistent with their historic patterns and training," Dempsey said at a news conference on Thursday. Still, the United States flew two stealth B-2 bombers near North Korea as part of military exercises on Thursday, viewed as demonstration of resolve to defend its allies and interests.

There were "intense discussions" inside the Pentagon and with the White House before the decision was made to fly the radar-evading planes over the Korean Peninsula, the second defense official said. The B-2 requires a high level of approval before being deployed. The official said the deliberations "went all the way up to the senior levels of the National Security Council" before Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel signed the order, the official said. There was a "full range of options considered" before deciding to fly the B-2, according to the official. "This was a well thought through decision. Everything about that flight was intentional: From the time of day, to the altitude, the planes that accompanied the B-2s and where it specifically flew."

The official said the B2 flew over Osan Air Base, about 50 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone and North Korean border. "It's a unique, quite visible signal," the official said. "A message of reinforcement to our allies that the U.S. is open to bringing all assets to support them." While clearly a message to North Korea that "we can bring force from anywhere and employ the nuclear arsenal from the U.S.," the official said the flight was weighted more toward reassuring South Korea and Japan. "When they look up and see this, they know 'the U.S. has our backs.' And that is a very big deal in that part of the world, maybe more so than it would be in the US." Without being specific, the official said the United States has a "range of options still out there, other things that we could do in the future."

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House Homeland Security chair: North Korea not bluffing
March 31st, 2013 - House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King said Sunday that the recent provocative, warmongering rhetoric out of North Korea is no "empty threat."

He qualified that by explaining he does not fear the North launching a successful attack on the U.S. mainland, but is concerned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "is trying to establish himself ... trying to be the tough guy," and may "box himself in" and need to display some level of military might. "My concern would be that he may feel to save face he has to launch some sort of attack on South Korea, or some base in the Pacific," King, R-New York, said on ABC's "This Week."

North Korea has ratcheted up its rhetoric in recent weeks, declaring the armistice keeping the peace between it and the South to be null, distributing a photo with a "plan for the strategic forces to target mainland U.S.," and on Saturday announcing it was entering a "state of war" with its neighbor. Despite that and posts on the country's state-run news agency blaring headlines such as "Nuclear War to Be Conducted on Korean Peninsula," a U.S. official said late Friday, "We have no indications at this point that it's anything more than warmongering rhetoric." "It's sort of like an organized crime family running a territory," King said. "He's brutal, his father is brutal, his grandfather was brutal."

The congressman said he doesn't "see any purpose" in President Barack Obama speaking by phone with the young leader, who assumed control of the country after his father's death in December 2011. Retired basketball star Dennis Rodman visited the country earlier this month and said afterward Kim was interested in speaking with Obama. The U.S. and North Korea do not have diplomatic ties but have negotiated in multiparty talks over the country's nuclear weapons program and occasionally exchange messages through diplomatic intermediaries. In response to the North's latest rhetoric, the Obama administration increased its military capacity on the U.S. West Coast and conducted training exercises with South Korea, where nearly 30,000 U.S. troops are stationed.

Ed Gillespie, former senior adviser to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said the administration made a "sensible reaction." "I think in addition to that, it would be good for the administration to not only bolster our own missile defense, but to support Japan and South Korea with missile defense," he said on "Fox News Sunday." "They are nervous, understandably, and I think doing anything - everything we can to reassure them would be helpful. And obviously, you know, trying to get China to engage in their own region in a way that would be helpful, I think, with Kim Jong Un would be important, too." King suggested the players are nervous because Kim may feel he has no alternative but to continue upping his threats or lash out. "He is 28, 29 years old, and he keeps going further and further out, and I don't know if he can get himself back in," King said.

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[ScienceRocks]

North Korea is only doing this for free shit. Same as a sheboon bitches and stomps its feed at a welfare office.

 

[nitroz]

 

[tjvh]

North Korea is only doing this for free shit. Same as a sheboon bitches and stomps its feed at a welfare office.

Yeah, Bill Clinton made sure they got nuclear reactors in 1994, lets sit back and see what Obama gives them for their current rabble rousing...

 

[waltky]

No. Korean hackers crashed So. Korean computers in March...

SKorea says NKorea behind computer crash in March
Apr 10,`13 -- North Korea was responsible for a cyberattack that shut down tens of thousands of computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks last month, officials in Seoul said Wednesday, noting that an initial investigation pointed to a military-run spy agency as the culprit.

The accusation comes as tensions run high on the Korean Peninsula, with North Korea delivering increasingly belligerent rhetoric as it stews over U.N. sanctions and U.S.-South Korean military drills. Investigators detected similarities between the March cyberattack and past hacking attributed to the North Korean spy agency, including the recycling of 30 previously used malware programs - out of a total of 76 used in the attack, said Chun Kil-soo, an official at South Korea's internet security agency.

Investigators believe that six computers in North Korea were used to access South Korean servers using more than 1,000 IP addresses in 40 countries overseas, Chun said. Thirteen of those IP addresses were traced back to North Korea. He said the attack appeared to have been planned for about eight months. "We saw evidence that the attack was extremely carefully prepared," Chun said at a news briefing. The March 20 cyberattack struck 48,000 computers and servers, hampering banks for two to five days, although Financial Services Commission official Lim Wang-sub said Wednesday that no bank records or personal data were compromised. Staffers at TV broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN were unable to log on to news systems for several days, although programming continued during that period. No government, military or infrastructure targets were affected.

It was not the first time Seoul has blamed Pyongyang for such online assaults. South Korea's National Intelligence Service said North Korea was behind a denial of service attack in 2009 that crippled dozens of websites, including that of the presidential office. Seoul also believes the North was responsible for cyberattacks on servers of Nonghyup bank in 2011 and Joongang Ilbo, a national daily newspaper, in 2012. North Korea blamed South Korea and the United States for cyberattacks in March that temporarily disabled Internet access and websites in North Korea, where a small number of people can go online.

Though Wednesday's findings were from an interim investigation report, the final conclusions were not likely to change much, said Lim Chae-ho, a professor of network security at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. "Future evidence will strengthen the case rather than reverse it," Lim said. "It is worrisome that the North's cyberattacks are getting increasingly severe." Experts believe North Korea trains large teams of cyber warriors and that the South and its allies should be prepared against possible attacks on key infrastructure and military systems. If the inter-Korean conflict were to move into cyberspace, South Korea's deeply wired society would have more to lose than North Korea's, which largely remains offline.

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