Is North Korea making up second Cuban Missile Crisis?

 Panamanian authorities caught a North Korean ship and uncovered the illicit cargo last week—hidden in a shipment of brown sugar. When the Panamanian investigators boarded the ship to conduct a search. The North Korean crew resisted roughly, including an attempt by the captain to commit suicide. And On that ship they found missile parts and some sophiscated weapons. Of Course, the Cuban foreign ministry claimed the obsolete, Soviet-made weapons, which included two fighter jets and the parts for anti-aircraft missiles, were being sent to Pyongyang for repair. But we can easily guess that there is a serious violation and a kind of conspiricy.




United Nations sanctions prohibit the sales of arms to North Korea. Whether it violates UN's resoultions or not. There is some more important point in this uncovering. It’s not 1962 anymore, and the players are not Kennedy and Khrushchev, but for some reason a North Korean ship left Cuba recently with sophisticated missile parts on board. It doesn’t seem too likely that Cuba is providing North Korea with missile parts, so it’s not entirely clear what kind of transaction was going on. However, we can smells a very suspicious scant.

Now, if North Korea is actually selling missiles to Cuba, which remains communist and hostile to the U.S., and also remains a mere 90 miles from the United States shores - that is a very big problem. We simply cannot have a hostile nation pointing missiles at USA from such close range. Kennedy understood this in 1962, which is why he ordered a Naval blockade of Cuba and forced a standoff with the Soviet Union that ultimately forced Nikita Khrushchev to back down and get Soviet missiles off the island.

Today, Cuba is no longer a Soviet client state because there is no longer a Soviet Union. Apparently the Castro brothers haven’t given up the ghost on the communism thing, which is why they’re still maintaining friendships with the likes of Kim Jong Un. But they no longer have Moscow to protect them if they get out of hand. Vladimir Putin may not be their friend. Maybe Fidel and Raul realize no one is there to save them anymore and they figure they need to arm themselves against a potential U.S. invasion. If so, it's very natural that they seeks an allied nation like North Korea, which has been threatening USA by Nuke, to provide some WMD weapons including long-lange missiles. Thereis another evidence showing that there is under-connection between North Korea and Cuba.

Another North Korean ship stopped in Cuba last year after taking a sea route similar to that of the North Korean cargo ship caught carrying weapons from Cuba in Panama earlier this week. Last year's port call in by the O Un Chong Nyon Ho hints at a more extensive arms connection between the two Stalinist countries. The Chongchongang rumbled by Panamanian authorities this week made the same port calls. What cargo the O Un Chong Nyon Ho carried last year is not known, but it is likely that it also carried weapons parts concealed in a shipment of sugar.


Additionally Gen. Kim Kyok Sik, Chief of the Korean People’s Army visited Cuba three weeks ago and met with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Havana. And they made a tour of military bases.



Actually we do not know the truth. But we can feel there is very strange and dangerous moves around us. If Cuba really is acquiring missiles from North Korea, the U.S. has to take action to stop the Cubans from acquiring the capability to launch one at us. We don't want to have the terrible experience of the second Cuban Missile Crisis again.

Japanese politicans may forget their past war crimes

In those days Vandalism is very rampart in the Japanese political stage. Som right-wing politicans may close their eyes and turn deaf ears to the their shame past while they are very busy in assaulting  its neighoring countries history. A Japanese prominent politican said "military prostitution of Asian women before and during the Second Word War was necessary to maintain discipline". Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto, who is also co-leader of an emerging conservative political party, added,  "there was no clear evidence that the Japanese military coerced women to become what are euphemistically called “comfort women”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qctxOMfNhxw

So South Korean people got angry at his absurd remarks.  The Seoul Central District Court yesterday convicted a Japanese right-wing activist of defaming Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II, the so-called comfort women.

In a related matter, the court awarded a family member of independence activist Yoon Bong-gil 10 million won ($8,780) for damages. Nobuyuki Suzuki, 47, a member of a Japanese extreme right-wing party, was sued after having tied a wooden stake with the message “Takeshima [Japan’s name for the Dokdo islets] is Japan’s territory” to a symbolic statue dedicated to the women last year.

The statue is located in front of the Japanese embassy in central Seoul.

Yoon’s family member also filed a defamation lawsuit against the Japanese man for placing a similarly controversial stake at a monument in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, commemorating the Korean independence activist.

Suzuki has described Yoon as a terrorist and has rationalized forced sexual slavery as “voluntary prostitution” on his blog, saying there is no record backing up forced sexual services to Japanese military personnel.

“Suzuki hurt the reputation of the [Korean independence] activist by spreading false information and insulted him by placing the stake at the memorial,” Judge Lee Jae-eun said.

Truly Japanese Politicans may forget their shame past atrocities during World War II. If they have a touch of consciece, at least they should stop defaming the victimes of the war. At a glance of Japanese political arena, they are becoming crazy, I think. Anyone has to make this frantic drive stopped.    


 

President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to block the North Korea's possession of neuclear weapons.

Reportedly President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to cooperate on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at the summit talks on June 27. “The two of us shared a common understanding that Pyongyang’s possession of nuclear weapons is unacceptable under any circumstances”, President Park said after the summit meeting. Additionally the two presidents agreed that the Korean Peninsula trust-building process will help ease tensions and bring about sustainable peace.

Chinese premier Li Keqiang also made clear that China's standard position is to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Of course, China added, “in regard to this, both sides agree that the development of nuclear weapons by related parties is a serious threat to the peace and stability of Northeast Asia, including the Korean peninsula.





Although China seemed to avoide to directly specify North Korea, the tone of voices from the two country's leasders is higher and clearer than any other times for anti-North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons. I am not sure that the Chinese leader and President Park shared the same view that North Korean possession of nuclear weapons cannot be tolerated in any situation.



However, the atmosphere of this talks was much more progressed. Thank to the China'a special affinity for President Park, I think China opened its mind more widely to Korea. I hope it will help them solve the matter of North Korean nuclear weapon. In this context, New era for the next 20 years for two countries is expected.