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North Korea's Kim to unveil 'new path' in New Year speech after U.S. misses deadline

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North Korea's Kim to unveil 'new path' in New Year speech after U.S. misses deadline
Hyonhee Shin

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to make a closely watched New Year address on Wednesday which is likely to offer a glimpse of a "new path" he has vowed to take if the United States fails to meet his deadline to soften its stance over denuclearization.


The New Year address is expected to touch upon a wide range of issues from foreign affairs and military development to the economy and education.


In his 2019 speech, Kim said he might have to change course if Washington sticks to its pressure campaign and demands unilateral action, while stressing a "self-reliant" economy, a drive he has launched amid tightening sanctions.

The United States was on track to ignore a year-end deadline set by Kim, which Washington has downplayed as artificial, to show more flexibility to reopen talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.


The upcoming speech is expected to be the culmination of an ongoing meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's 7th Central Committee, a key policy-making body, which Kim convened on Saturday. It was still under way on Tuesday, state media said.


Discussions at the gathering remain largely unknown, but official media KCNA said on Tuesday that Kim spent seven hours during a Monday session discussing state, economic and military building. On Sunday, he called for "positive and offensive measures" to ensure the country's security.




"The Central Committee plenary meeting is meant to legitimize the process behind the policy decisions Kim Jong-un will announce in his New Year speech," said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.


"This meeting is to provide political justification for the economic and security policies Pyongyang will pursue in 2020."


North Korea has provided few hints for what the "new path" may involve, but U.S. military commanders said Pyongyang next move could include the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which it has halted since 2017, alongside nuclear bomb tests.

U.S. national security adviser Robert O'Brien warned Washington would be "extraordinarily disappointed" if North Korea tests a long-range or nuclear missile, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped it would choose peace over confrontation.


"We still maintain our view that we can find a path forward to convince the leadership in North Korea that their best course of action is to create a better opportunity for their people by getting rid of their nuclear weapons. That's our mission set," Pompeo told Fox News on Monday.


The U.S. Air Force flew an RC-135 surveillance plane over South Korea on Monday and Tuesday, according to military flight tracker Aircraft Spots.


Despite mounting speculation over a potential military provocation, any restart of an ICBM test would risk a personal relationship with Trump, which Pyongyang has repeatedly touted while denouncing Pompeo and other aides, analysts say.


Cho Tae-yong, a former South Korean deputy national security advisor, said Kim had few options that can leave the Trump ties intact.


"In any case, North Korea would add a lot of caveats before and after testing to make sure they're not intent on destroying the negotiating table and it was the Americans who betrayed them," Cho told Reuters.


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North Korea's Kim to unveil 'new path' in New Year speech after U.S. misses deadline

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to make a closely watched New Year address on Wednesday which is likely to offer a glimpse of a "new path" he has vowed to take if the United States fails to meet his deadline to soften its stance over denuclearization.
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Recent development in the original OP attack:

A Deputy Superintendent of Police, who was supposedly a hero during the Pulwama attack, and who received a presidential medal in the aftermath, was caught in the past couple of days trying to smuggle both a Hizbul terror leader and a Lashkar-e-Taiba leader into India in his car with the apparent intent of killing both Modi and Rahul Gandhi and of committing other attacks in the country, in Punjab, Chandigarh, Delhi and other areas. Automatic rifles, grenades, and explosives were found in the DSP's house.

The DSP was instrumental in getting a man hanged for the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, who had protested his innocent to the end, and now it appears that might have been a frame job.

There are real questions about just how much involvement this DSP had in a number of terrorist attacks, including possibly being involved in the Pulwama attack himself as a false-flag of some kind. And how has he survived so long? Did he enjoy protection from the BJP or RSS that enabled him to continue to rise in the ranks, and does that mean that the current ruling administration in India was complicit in a fake terror attack on its own soldiers?

This has at least the potential to badly destabilize the Indian government, as well as damage relations with Pakistan (which was originally implicated by the Modi regime in the Pulwama attack).
 
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The Mountain said:
Recent development in the original OP attack:

A Deputy Superintendent of Police, who was supposedly a hero during the Pulwama attack, and who received a presidential medal in the aftermath, was caught in the past couple of days trying to smuggle both a Hizbul terror leader and a Lashkar-e-Taiba leader into India in his car with the apparent intent of killing both Modi and Rahul Gandhi and of committing other attacks in the country, in Punjab, Chandigarh, Delhi and other areas. Automatic rifles, grenades, and explosives were found in the DSP's house.

The DSP was instrumental in getting a man hanged for the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, who had protested his innocent to the end, and now it appears that might have been a frame job.

There are real questions about just how much involvement this DSP had in a number of terrorist attacks, including possibly being involved in the Pulwama attack himself as a false-flag of some kind. And how has he survived so long? Did he enjoy protection from the BJP or RSS that enabled him to continue to rise in the ranks, and does that mean that the current ruling administration in India was complicit in a fake terror attack on its own soldiers?

This has at least the potential to badly destabilize the Indian government, as well as damage relations with Pakistan (which was originally implicated by the Modi regime in the Pulwama attack).
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. . . sounds like an Indian-flavor of the deep state, at work . . .


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Death toll rises to 32 in religious violence in India's capital

At least 32 people have been killed in the deadliest violence to engulf India's capital New Delhi for decades as a heavy deployment of security forces brought an uneasy calm on Thursday, a police official said.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2020 / 6:58 AM / UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Death toll rises to 32 in religious violence in India's capital

Aftab Ahmed
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 32 people have been killed in the deadliest violence to engulf India’s capital New Delhi for decades as a heavy deployment of security forces brought an uneasy calm on Thursday, a police official said.

The violence began over a disputed new citizenship law on Monday but led to clashes between Muslims and Hindus in which hundreds were injured. Many suffered gunshot wounds, while arson, looting and stone-throwing has also taken place.

“The death count is now at 32,” Delhi police spokesman Anil Mittal said, adding the “entire area is peaceful now.”

At the heart of the unrest is a citizenship law which makes it easier for non-Muslims from some neighboring Muslim-dominated countries to gain Indian citizenship.

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said the new law adopted last December is of “great concern” and she was worried by reports of police inaction in the face of assaults against Muslims by other groups.

“I appeal to all political leaders to prevent violence,” Bachelet said in a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Critics say the law is biased against Muslims and undermines India’s secular constitution.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has denied having any prejudice against India’s 180 million Muslims, saying that law is required to help persecuted minorities.

New Delhi has been the epicenter for protests against the new law, with students and large sections of the Muslim community leading the protests.

As the wounded were brought to hospitals on Thursday, the focus shifted on the overnight transfer of Justice S. Muralidhar, a Delhi High Court judge who was hearing a petition into the riots and had criticized government and police inaction on Wednesday.

Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the transfer was routine and had been recommended by the Supreme Court collegium earlier this month.

Opposition Congress party leader Manish Tiwari said every lawyer and judge in India should strongly protest what he called a crude attempt to intimidate the judiciary.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said inflammatory speeches at the protests over the new citizenship law in the last few months and the tacit support of some opposition leaders was behind the violence.

“The investigation is on,” he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who romped to re-election last May, also withdrew Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy in August with the objective of tightening New Delhi’s grip on the restive region, which is also claimed by full by Pakistan.
For months the government imposed severe restrictions in Kashmir including cutting telephone and internet lines, while keeping hundreds of people, including mainstream political leaders, in custody for fear that they could whip up mass protests. Some restrictions have since been eased.
Bachelet said the Indian government continued to impose excessive restrictions on the use of social media in the region, even though some political leaders have been released, and ordinary life may be returning to normal in some respects.
Reporting by Aftab Ahmed; Editing by Mark Heinrich
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Plain Jane said:
www.reuters.com

Death toll rises to 32 in religious violence in India's capital

At least 32 people have been killed in the deadliest violence to engulf India's capital New Delhi for decades as a heavy deployment of security forces brought an uneasy calm on Thursday, a police official said.
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NEWS
FEBRUARY 27, 2020 / 6:58 AM / UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Death Toll Rises To 32 In Religious Violence In India's Capital
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Hmmm - once again, outside muslim immigration wedges being used - this time, to create mayhem within an otherwise stable Hindu-dominant society/culture.

Who are the puppeteers of this event? <rhetorical>

And here I thought Pakistan was supposed to be for muslims of Indian extraction, and their muslim brethren.


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#BREAKING: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Mankot & Mendhar Sectors of Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir. Today at 0330am Pak initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing small arms & shelling with Mortars along Poonch. Indian Army retaliated befittingly. Firing stopped 0500am.
 
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India, Pakistan troops trade heavy fire in Kashmir; 3 killed
Tensions between India and Pakistan have flared again in disputed Kashmir as the archrivals’ armies barraged each other with heavy artillery fire, killing at least three civilians
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April 12, 2020, 10:55 AM
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SRINAGAR, India -- Tensions between India and Pakistan flared again in disputed Kashmir on Sunday as the archrivals' armies barraged each other with heavy artillery fire, killing at least three civilians, Indian police said.
Each side accused the other of starting the shelling and targeting civilian areas in violation of the 2003 cease-fire accord along the so-called Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
India and Pakistan have a long history of bitter relations over Kashmir, with both claiming it in its entirety. They have fought two of their three wars since 1947 over their competing claims to the Himalayan region.

Shri Ram Ambarkar, an Indian police officer, said three civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed when shells fired from the Pakistani army hit homes at two locations along the Line of Control in the Kupwara area of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday evening.
Ambarkar said some people were also feared injured as authorities launched a rescue operation amid heavy cross-border shelling in the area.
Since Friday, Pakistan’s military has charged India with repeated violations of the cease-fire along the frontier.

A Pakistani army statement said heavy artillery fire by India “deliberately targeted civilians” on the Pakistani side of the border.
The military said Sunday that two people were seriously hurt overnight and had to be evacuated. On Saturday, the Pakistani military said six people were hurt, including a child, when Indian soldiers launched a barrage of rockets and mortars into civilian areas of Pakistan.
Last weekend, five Indian special forces and five rebels were killed in fierce fighting in the area along the frontier.

The latest fighting has seen for the first time this year use of heavy artillery targeting civilian areas.
Rebel groups in Indian-held Kashmir demand that the territory be united either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training anti-India rebels and also helping them by providing gunfire as cover for incursions into the Indian side. Pakistan denies this, saying it offers only moral and diplomatic support to the militants and to Kashmiris who oppose Indian rule.
Rebels have been fighting Indian rule since 1989. Nearly 70,000 people have been killed in the uprising and the ensuing Indian military. India, Pakistan troops trade heavy fire in Kashmir; 3 killed
 
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Doc1 said:
India and Pakistan have long been mortal enemies and are both armed with sophisticated nuclear weapons. Many observers - including myself - believe that they are the most likely adversaries to initiate a nuclear war. They have been on the edge many times. For most people in the West, India and Pakistan are off the radar screen until something like this most recent terrorist attack makes the news. The reality is that the tension between the countries is almost constant and the fireworks could start at any moment.

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A war will occur between these two powers. It will be nuclear.
 
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Would anybody notice or care if a bunch of extra nukes would be dropped on both of these countries?
 
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Clashes near LoC?

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There were all night yesterday and again all day today. It's silent at the moment.
 
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Two Indian soldiers reportedly killed, one wounded in militant attack in Sopore, Jammu Kashmir.
UPDATE: A total of 4 Indian CRPF soldiers now dead in militant attack in Sopore after one more succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. #Jammu #Kashmir
 
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