Self proclaimed as North Korea’s Nuclear State, “Chairman of the National Defence Commission makes our country as an invincible country, a nuclear-armed nation with a strong military force in order to prepare the way for the establishment of a strong and prosperous nation,” the opening sentence of the new constitution of North Korea, as quoted Naenara, the official website of the government of the Democratic Republic of North Korea.

In the old constitution was revised on 9 April 2010, the terminology of nuclear states, were not examined.

Since the death of Kin Jong-Il in December 2011, North Korea has changed its constitution to carry on the ideals of the late Kim Jong-Il, whose leadership continued his son, Kim Jong-Un.

North Korea had decades to develop nuclear weapons. The goal is to defend against nuclear threats the United States.

On September 2005, an agreement was reached between North Korea and the six-nation negotiators of North Korea’s nuclear program.

Pyongyang agreed to freeze its nuclear program in return for economic aid and diplomatic benefits and security guarantees.

This statement further complicate international efforts to urge Pyongyang to stop its nuclear weapons program.

“This statement is very clear that North Korea has no intention to halt its nuclear program under any circumstances,” said Cheon-Whun Sung of the Korea Institute for National Unification.

“If an insistence on the negotiating table to end its nuclear program, then North Korea would argue that against the constitution,” said Cheon.

While professor of Kyungnam University Professor Kim Keun-Sik said the new constitution is a bad news.

“The new constitution will make it increasingly difficult to urge North Korea to stop its nuclear program through diplomacy,” said Professor Keun-Sik.

English: North Korea (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

However, Professor Keun-Sik reminded that the constitution was created as part of respect for Kim Jong-Il.

“North Korea’s nuclear countries to treat status as one of the key achievements of the late leader and the new constitution is one factor,” he added.

“This statement is difficult to interpret as a message that North Korea would maintain nuclear weapons no matter what happens,” he said

In addition, advanced Keun-Sik, North Korea is very easy to constitution be amended if the leader wants.

At the moment people are busy elsewhere in the world to mutually mobile phones, running trying to align themselves with the development of increasingly sophisticated technology, the majority of the new North Korea could have a cell phone in 2009, three years ago.

In December 2008, a 3G-based mobile phone service launched in Pyongyang, operated by the Egyptian company, Orascom. Firms that the company took North Korea Posts and Telecommunications (KPTC) form Koryolink.

A month later, the government in the most closed countries in the world it also opens up internet access for users of mobile phones. Special to access the news media from government offices, Korean Central News Agency and news about the city of Pyongyang. This was conveyed by North Korean state-run news website, Uriminzokkiri, which was published in USA Today.

There was no chance at all for cell phone users to make calls abroad, or peering information from the neighboring country, China or South Korea.

Actually, cell phone service has been introduced in North Korea in November 2002, the year 20 000 people already have cell phones. However, all of a sudden, without any known reason, the government banned the use of mobile phones on May 24, 2004.

Meanwhile, as published by Reuters, is now about 60 percent of the total population of Pyongyang 3 million – are aged 20 to 50 years have become mobile phone users. “In fact, for young people, aged 20-30 years the technology becomes a necessity,” said Alexandre Mansourov, of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability.

In the midst of famine that struck the people of North Korea, the country’s dictatorial regime to develop nuclear technology remains costly. In fact, if the funds are used for welfare, it would be useful.

It is delivered by the Director General of the Korean Peninsula Peace affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, Kim Soo-Gwon, after a discussion titled “2012 Forum on Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula: Challenges and Ways Forward” in Jakarta, Monday, May 28, 2012 .

He said that during 20 years of development of nuclear weapons, including uranium enrichment research effort and warhead, North Korea has spent about U.S. $ 3.6 billion, equivalent to Rp34 trillion.

“The funding of as much as it can be used to feed the people for eight years,” said Kim.

Hunger is a scourge for the people of North Korea’s mid-90s. According to one of nine North Korean vice foreign minister, Choe Su-hon, the UNICEF conference in Beijing in May 2001, between the years 1995 to 1998, approximately 220,000 people died of starvation in the country. Under-five mortality rate also increased from 27 to 48 children per 1,000 people.

But the data show that different death toll from famine between the years 1994-1998 between 800,000 to 1.5 million people. However, the suffering of North Koreans do not make these countries to stop their nuclear program. Noted, in recent years North Korea tested a long-range missile that could carry nuclear warheads.

In April, North Korea launched what it calls a rocket carrying a satellite, but failed to reach orbit. According to South Korea and its allies in the West, it is a cover rocket test long-range missile warheads readers.

International political observers from Indonesia, Dewi Fortuna Anwar considers legitimate North Korea develop its nuclear technology. In the absence of adequate natural resources, nuclear, Dewi said, would be an alternative for North Korea to compete with other countries.

David also revealed that nuclear will be the most valuable asset if the program successfully realized unification of two Koreas.

“For Pyongyang, make nuclear very rational, because they can not compete in other areas. Technology is used to prevent North Korea threatened. Nuclear North Korea can also be used as a threat and blackmail, to exchange and negotiation materials to get fuel and food,” said Dewi .

Mount Paektu, at 9003 feet the highest peak of the Korean peninsula, has great cultural and historical significance for Koreans.  According to legend, Hwanung, the son of the Lord of Heaven, descended to earth on the mountain.  He had a son, Dangun Wanggeom, with a woman who was formerly a bear.  Dangun Wanggeom grew up to found the first Korean kingdom.  Later Korean dynasties considered the mountain sacred.  

A major eruption about 1000 CE gave Mount Paektu its current shape.  According to Wikipedia, ash from that eruption reached the northern Japanese island Hokkaido.  The volcano last erupted in 1903.  The pressure of magma beneath Mount Paektu raises the volcano 3 mm per year.  

A crater lake at Tianchi (Heaven Lake, 天池) at Mount Paektu (Chinese Changbai Shan) at the border of China and North Korea (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

China has developed its side of the mountain commercially.  Tourists go there to see beautiful Heaven Lake in the caldera (crater) of the volcano.  

Taniguchi’s web page describes him as a Professor in the Division of Geochemistry at Japan’s Tohuku University.  Tohuku Unversity is located in Sendai, the city closest to the epicenter of Japan’s great 2011 temblor.  According to the web page, the dynamics of the explosive volcanism is a theme of his research.

Further Reading and Sources

AFP. “S. Korea and North agree volcano research talks.” Retrieved 26 May 2012.

Baekdu Mountain.  Wikipedia. Retrieved 26 May 2012.

Dangun.  Wikipedia. Retrieved 26 May 2012.

Yonhap.  “Japanese expert forecasts major volcanic eruptions in N. Korea.” Retrieved 26 May 2012.

Hiromitsu Taniguchi.  Staff, Center for Northeast Asian Studies.  Retrieved 26 May 2012.

U.S. bans North Korea nuclear test, “I think it’s (nuclear test) would be a serious miscalculation if North Korea did,” said the senior U.S. official.

Glyn Davies was speaking after a meeting in Seoul along with colleagues from South Korea and Japan, Lim Sung-Nam and Shinsuke Sugiyama, about the act of post-launch rocket korut distance on 13 April and on other issues.

A number of trial-related expectations of a third atom by Pyongyang escalated when the Security Council (UNSC) United Nations condemned North Korea’s rocket launch failed and the tightening of sanctions against North Korea.

North Korea claimed that the rocket launch was aimed at putting a satellite into orbit, but the UN confirmed that it violated regulations on testing ballistic missile technology.

Demilitarized Zone, North Korea (Photo credit: yeowatzup)

North Korea responded to the ban by conducting nuclear tests after the UN imposed sanctions on rocket launch in 2006 and 2009.

Satellite photos show the condition in April at an atomic test site, but the image is not meberitahu more information about the nuclear tests were conducted.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (Photo: voanews)

President Lee’s visit is the first visit by the leader of South Koreain the period of nearly 30 years.

According to the plan, President Lee will meet with the President of Burma Thein Sein to discuss the enhancement of economic relations and cooperation in the fields of energy and natural resources.

South Korea’s leaders are also expected to meet Tuesday with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Burma tightened security at the arrival of Lee.

President of South Korea who visited Burma last one is Chun Doo-hwan, who survived an assassination attempt in 1983.

In the attack, the North Korean agents detonated a bomb at a memorial for he father Aung San Suu Kyi and the hero of independence, killing 21 people, including 17 South Koreans.

Exercise of the South Korean Air Force, the United States implemented, The annual exercise called Max Thunder will be held until May 18. This time involving some 60 aircraft, fighter aircraft, refueling aircraft KC-135 and AWACS surveillance planes.

Ally, according to AFP, will show the readiness and air firepower together in a war situation, he said.

He added that the United States and South Korea will train pilots to be able to act with precision against the attacks on the origin of provocation from the enemy.

“The exercise this year was the largest of its kind since Max Thunder began in 2008,” said a spokesman for South Korea Air Force.

Pyongyang launched a harsh criticism against the usual practice with the annual United States and South Korea, but has not physically respond to them. Seoul and Washington say they are only defensive.

North Korea has threatened a “holy war” against South Korea in retaliation for perceived insults during the warning Pyongyang in April to one hundred years of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung, who was the grandfather of Kim Jong-Un, the leader now.

Max Thunder (Photo credit: UNC – CFC – USFK)

Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un check the air force unit, the latest in a series of military visit since he took over after his father Kim Jong-Il died last December.

The South Korean and U.S. officials have promised to respond to any provocation by North Korea.

Approximately 28,500 U.S. troops currently stationed in South Korea base.

North Korea accuses Seoul torpedoed warship, Cheonan, near the disputed Yellow Sea border in March 2010, which led to the loss of lives of 46 South Korean sailors.

North Korea denied the attack, but instead opened fire at a South Korean border island, Yeonpyeong, padaNovember year, which killed four people including civilians.

North Korean provocation, US-South Korea’s Largest Air Training Degree, The annual exercise called “Max Thunder” will be held until May 18 this year and involves about 60 aircraft, including fighter aircraft, refueling aircraft KC-135 and AWACS surveillance aircraft, the South Korean Air Force said in a statement.

Allies will show the readiness and air firepower together in a war situation, he said. He added the United States and South Korea will train pilots for “precision attacks on the origin of provocation from the enemy”.

Autogenerated locator map for bilateral relations. Countries as indicated by filename. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“The exercise this year was the largest of its kind since Max Thunder began in 2008,” said an air force spokesman told AFP.

Pyongyang launched a harsh criticism against the usual practice with the annual United States and South Korea, but has not physically respond to them.

Seoul and Washington say they are only defensive. North Korea has threatened a “holy war” against South Korea in retaliation for perceived insults during the warning Pyongyang in April to one hundred years of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung, who was the grandfather of Kim Jong-Un, the leader now.

The media are giving regular updates about developments in North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs, but the gross human rights abuses it commits are seldom the focus of reporting. Ever since Kim Il Sung took over as president of the Northern part of Korea following the defeat of the Japanese invaders in World War II, the country has been living in virtual isolation. With the demise of the Soviet Union and the embrace of market reforms by China, North Korea’s segregation from the outside world became even more pronounced.

While the totalitarian one-party state pretends to be shielding the country from capitalist enemies, it is in fact subdueing its own people by requiring the worhip of its leaders as gods and persecuting the slightest discontent with the regime to the utmost.

In North Korea dissatisfaction with ones job or even low work output may be enough to receive a ’special training’ in one of its labour camps. Further ‘crimes’ include listening to foreign broadcasts or possessing a Bible. Rumours by neighbours that insinuate an offence to the Great Leader suffice “to be sent up to the mountains”, a common saying about those sent to the camps. There’s no trial. No defence. No appeal. The condemnation is usually for a lifetime, unless a prisoner manages to escape.

At least 5 huge labour camps are now confirmed to exist with an estimated total of 150,000 to 200,000 prisoners. Once inside, inmates are kept in complete isolation: they are neither allowed to receive visits, nor parcels, nor letters. None. Never. About half of prisoners are thought of having nothing to do with an alleged crime, but are simply family members of perceived wrongoers. Violation of camp rules are routinely punished by torture and even death. To make sure inmates comply they are regularly forced to watch executions.

What is known from inside these camps is due largely to the testimony of about 60 people, both prisoners and guards, that over the years managed to escape this murderous systems.

One of the recent biographies, ‘Escape from Camp 14′ by Blaine Harden stands out as its main character, Shin Dong Hyuk, is the only known person that was born inside a camp and later escaped. While family life is not allowed inside the camps, Shin Dong Hyuk was born of a so called ‘reward marriage’ that was granted to exemplery prisoners. The role of parenting was played by the guards, his mother being allowed only to nurture and beat her son. Later at age fourteen Shin was tortured for alleged escape plans by his family. He had to watch the hanging of his mother and the execution by firing squad of his older brother. He was already in his early adult life when he first heard about the outside world from a fellow prisoner. Shin eventually decided to give his escape plans a try, mainly because of hunger and to avoid the constant beatings. While his fellow escaper died at the barbed fire fence, Shin indeed escaped and miracoulously survived in the woods, later entering China and then escaping to South Korea.

Unsurprisingly Shin is still traumatized by the earlier experiences in his life. But astonishingly he says his happiest memories belong to the one-hour play time he was granted as a child in the camp. Freedom he experienced when seeing life in Pyonyang right after having fled the camp. By contrast, entering Seoul the main difference he noticed was the huge number of cars.

As regards life in the camps, recently the Committe for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) has issued the second edition of Hidden Gulag, detailing the horrors of life inside. Even by the cruel standard of labour camps, North Korea’s gulags are particularly atrocious.

North Korea is also at the top Open Doors’ World Watch List, detailing the countries in which the persecution of christians is most severe.

It is a shame the world is not talking more about the gross human rights abuses of the regime in North Korea. Even with the death of Kim Jong Il in December 2011 and the ascension of his son Kim Yong Un, it seems nothing has changed on human rights issues.

The Western world should not only focus on the dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear energy program, but on the dismantling of its forced labour camps as well. China must end the forceful repatriating of North Koreans knowing they face execution. It is time the UN launches a commission of inquiry into the atrocities committed by the Kim dynasty.

are still being adored or promoted and in many circumstances imposed upon nations to be forcefully adored all over the world.

In the fashionable and advanced world adoration is normally related to tremendous stars of movies or sports activities, but within the third world the story turns into extra vicious for it becomes an imposed policy on nations manifesting a demigod like figure inhibiting the minds of mostly impoverished folks imprisoned within a sphere of deprivation that pertains to the dark ages of humanity…

Regimes of third world international locations across the globe still instrumentally play a sensitive function in preservation of this inhumane act to serve their ordinance of clinching to power.

Take North Korea for a present and residing instance of how the ruling army regime managed to orchestrate the funeral and further exploit the dying of Kim Jong Il to serve their interest solely to retain their grip on energy, and I’m certain that one will discover many other international locations to suit into ones imagination that practices the same reverence of imposed dictators  who in return turn into addicted to power and would go as far as committing all sorts of crimes towards humanity in the title of legislation and order and national safety  starting from imprisonment to the killing of who ever terrorist dares to name for equality and freedom and some food on his table or in the mouth of his children for the sake of cementing their rule as if they will dwell without end…

Those unlucky protesters have become the notorious terrorists of our twenty first century humanity, yes this sick humanity that we belong to.

Indeed, we have to improvise higher and more practical strategies to uproot this resident evil if we are to free our specie from this ancient evil that lingered inherited memory ever since we took step one on this earth…

I for one believe that we reached this degree of degradation on account of our dissociation from spirituality and the only answer to treatment humanity from this historic virus is by selling spirituality yet one more time.

Yet one more time! That is because of the apparent proven fact that our sick humanity is having a right away unfavourable impression on our earth and the setting that affects our sustainability of healthy existence and therefore crucial survival for what’s coming upon us.

Is it an exaggeration to be alarmed and express such serious concern, or is it as befitting to name for a new awakening to rid our humanity from what may develop into an inevitable dissolution of our human legacy…

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