PAKISTAN: SPY VS SPY B.RAMAN
In our preoccupation with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), we have not been paying the required attention to the goings-on in Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau (IB), which comes under the Ministry of the Interior.It is the counterpart of our IB and is of the same pedigree. Even today, the IBs of the two countries maintain some of the traditions, nomenclatures for officers and subordinate units and methods of functioning which they had inherited from the British in 1947.
2. The founding fathers of independent India made the IB the first among equals in India's internal security and counter-intelligence set-up. It has retained and even strengthened that position. It continues to be an organisation largely staffed and led by police officers taken on deputation or permanent secondment from the Indian Police Service cadres of different States of the Indian Union, but the number of direct recruits has been increasing. The IB acts as the eyes and ears of the Government of India in all matters that could have a bearing on internal security. As the leading counter-intelligence agency of India, it plays the leadership role in countering the activities of the ISI in Indian territory and against Indian interests in India and abroad.
3. As against this primacy of the Indian IB and its significant role, the Pakistani IB saw over the years its role in the internal security management and in counter-intelligence gradually eroded, with the ISI assuming the responsibility for internal security tasks. The ISI assumed the leadership in internal security matters initially in the then East Pakistan because of the Army's suspicion of the loyalty of the Bengali police officers and then in Balochistan, Sindh and the North-West Frontier Province for similar reasons. Whereas the police officers from different States in the Indian IB enjoyed the total confidence and trust of the Government of India, in the Pakistani IB, only the Punjabi police officers enjoyed some trust and confidence. The remaining police officers of non-Punjabi origin were looked upon with suspicion.
4. The marginalisation of the Pakistani IB by the ISI in matters relating to internal security was followed by the beginning of a process of militarisation of the IB----with the induction of serving and retired military officers into the IB . This process started under Zia-ul-Haq. When Benazir Bhutto became the Prime Minister in 1988, she sought to reverse the process. She appointed Maj-Gen.Shamshur Rehman Kallu, a retired officer who was close to her father, as the DG of the ISI much to the discomfort and unhappiness of the serving army officers. On her orders, Kallu also prepared a scheme for the re-organisation of the intelligence community. One of the key points in this scheme was the demilitarisation of the IB and restoring its police character and its role as the premier internal security agency of the country. Before the scheme could be implemented, she was dismissed by the then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in August 1990.
5. Nawaz Sharif, who succeeded her as the Prime Minister after the ISI-rigged elections held later that year, carried out the wishes of the army and threw aside the scheme drawn up by Kallue. He once again started inducting retired and serving officers of the Army into the IB. When Benazir returned to power in 1993, she once again took up the scheme for the re-organisation of the IB and strengthening its role in internal security management. She ordered a vast expansion of the strength of the IB, emulated the Indian model of having a directly-recruited civilian cadre in addition to the police officers and ordered the direct recruitment of a large number of civilian officers.
6. When Farooq Leghari, the then President, dismissed her in 1996, he stopped the expansion ordered by her and ordered that those recruited by her should not be given appointment in the IB. Those who had already joined were sacked. Nawaz Sharif, who returned as the Prime Minister after the elections, did not reverse the orders of Leghari and went along with the wishes of the Army to let the ISI retain its primacy in internal security and counter-intelligence matters. The militarisation of the IB picked up momentum under Pervez Musharraf and reached its nadir when he appointed Brig.Ijaz Shah,a highly controversial retired officer with strongly suspected links to the jihadi terrorist organisations, as the Director-General of the IB.
7. Since the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition Government came to office in March 2008, there have been indications that Asif Ali Zardari, who succeeded Pervez Musharraf as the President in September,2008, wants to implement once again the ideas of Benazir for the re-organisation of the IB and strengthening its role in internal security. He appointed Rehman Malik, a retired police officer, who had served under Benazir in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) during her second tenure as the Prime Minister, as the Adviser for Internal Security with the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He now co-ordinates all internal security matters and the IB works under him.
8. Zardari also restored the practice of a senior police officer heading the IB and reportedly wanted that all those directly-recruited to the IB during Benazir's second tenure, but kept out by Leghari and Sharif should be re-appointed. Well-informed PPP sources say that Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani, who does not feel comfortable with Rehman Malik and who has the backing of the ISI, has been dragging his feet in the implementation of the orders of Zardari to re-appoint all the direct recruits to the IB, who were sacked or kept out by Leghari or Sharif.
9. These sources say that the differences between Zardari and Malik on the one side and Gilani and the ISI on the other regarding the relative roles of the IB and the ISI are also coming in the way of a proper investigation into the role of the five detained activists of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in the conspiracy to carry out the terrorist attack in Mumbai from November 26 to 29,2008. According to these sources, while Zardari and Malik are in favour of a more energetic investigation and prosecution to please the US, Gilani and the ISI have been opposing such an investigation.
10. Despite the difficulties faced by him in strengthening the IB and its role in internal security management, Zardari and Malik have been persisting with their efforts. Zardari gives a high-profile role to Malik in all matters relating to internal security. Malik and the Director-General of the IB accompany Zardari on his foreign tours. These sources say that Shoaib Suddle, the then Director-General of the IB, had accompanied Zardari on his recent visits to the US and West Europe and earlier to China. Zardari has also been encouraging the IB to set up its own network of liaison relationships with foreign intelligence agencies. Malik and the IB are being given a more active role in the counter-Taliban operations.
11. These sources say that the ISI, with the backing of Gilani, has not given up its efforts to oppose any leadership role for the IB in internal security matters. It is in this connection that one notes with interest the decision taken by Gilani on May 16,2009, to appoint Javed Noor, the Inspector-General of Police of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, as the DG of the IB in replacement of Suddle, who was close to Zardari. Suddle, who belonged to the Sindh cadre of the Pakistani Police Service, was the DIG of Police of Karachi in September,1996, when Murtaza Ali Bhutto, the younger brother of Benazir, who was challenging the role of Zardari in the PPP, was allegedly killed by the police following an altercation with them. Suddle is one of the accused in the case filed in this connection.
12. Despite this, Zardari had him appointed as the DG of the IB in June,2008. He was given an extension of two years after he reached the age of superannuation . In April last, a judge of the Supreme Court set aside the extension given to him and other police officers facing trial in connection with the murder of Murtaza. Despite this, he was taken to the US and West Europe by Zardari along with the DG of the ISI. Shortly after his return from the tour, Gilani had him replaced as the DGIB on the ground that his continuing to hold this office had become untenable because of the Supreme Court judgement. It is not known whether Javed Noor is a nominee of Zardari or Gilani or the ISI. The removal shows that the ISI continues to be opposed to any attempt to give the IB the primacy in internal security matters. ( 26-5-09)
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com )
Perhaps B. Raman said it best in yesterday's posting, "After Obama assumed office on January 20,2009, whatever hesitation was there in North Korea's policy-making circles regarding the likely response of the Obama Administration has disappeared and its leadership now feels it can defy the US and the international community with impunity". This analysis was not arrived at arbitrarily. It was gleaned from Obama’s own statements and infantile decisions since his election.
To be fair, we must recognize that Kim Jong-Il, has been conducting himself belligerently even during the Clinton and Bush administrations as these too were judged to be soft towards NK’s blatant extortion ploys. Raman writes further, “A series of actions taken by the Obama Administration have created an impression in Iran, the Af-Pak region, China and North Korea that Obama does not have the political will to retaliate decisively if they act in a manner detrimental to US interests and to international peace and security. Among such actions, one could cite the soft policy towards Iran, the reluctance to articulate strongly the US determination to support the security interests of Israel, the ambivalent attitude towards Pakistan despite its continued support to anti-India terrorist groups and its ineffective action against the sanctuaries of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistani territory, its silence on the question of the violation of the human rights of the Burmese people and the continued illegal detention of Aung San Suu Kyi by the military regime in Myanmar, and its silence on the Tibetan issue. Its over-keenness to court Beijing in order to seek China's support for dealing with the economic crisis and its anxiety to ensure the continued flow of Chinese money into the US for investment in the US Treasury Bonds have also added to the soft image of the US.”
I would only add that everything North Korea does, it does with China’s blessing. Jong-Il’s regime could not continue to exist without Chinese support. To ignore the fact that China is the ultimate puppet master in the region is simply delusional. How smart it would be for the U.S. to pressure China at this point – China, an important customer of U.S. Treasuries – is quite another matter.
The hyprocrisy is astounding. Israel can have nuclear warheads but not North Korea nor Iran.
North Korea’s Nukes: Paid For By The U.S. Government by Paul Joseph Watson, Prisonplanet.com
"Donald Rumsfeld was also the man who presided over a $200 million dollar contract to deliver equipment and services to build two light water reactor stations in North Korea in January 2000 when he was an executive director of ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB confirmed that Rumsfeld was at nearly all the board meetings during his involvement with the company.
Rumsfeld was merely picking up the baton from the Clinton administration, who in 1994 agreed to replace North Korea’s domestically built nuclear reactors with light water nuclear reactors. So-called government-funded ‘experts’ claimed that light water reactors couldn’t be used to make bombs. Not so according to Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, who stated, “LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs’ worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs — a depressing fact U.S. policymakers have managed to block out.”
“These reactors are like all reactors, they have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we’re trying to prevent it acquiring,” said Sokolski.
The U.S. State Department claimed that the light water reactors could not be used to produce bomb grade material and yet in 2002 urged Russia to end its nuclear co-operation with Iran for the reason that it didn’t want Iran armed with weapons of mass destruction. At the time, Russia was building light water reactors in Iran. According to the State Department, light water reactors in Iran can produce nuclear material but somehow the same rule doesn’t apply in North Korea."
Israel is still wanting war with Iran. The consequences of this action will effect everyone to sky-high gas prices, setting the Middle-East aflame and implementing martial law in the US. Dont forget this is still a distraction from the 13 trillion stolen by the International Bankers in broad daylight.
"North Korea’s Nukes: Paid For By The U.S. Government by Paul Joseph Watson, Prisonplanet.com"
Nothing else need be said
Ever heard of KEDO?
North Korea Advertises Its Nukes Syria has already been a customer. By GORDON G. CHANG
North Korea yesterday tested a second nuclear weapon at its underground site near the northeastern city of Kilju. This follows the launch of a long-range missile early last month.
What does Kim Jong Il want? First and foremost, he wants the international community to recognize his nation as a nuclear weapons state. Second, the regime seeks to destabilize the South Korean government of President Lee Myung-bak, who has taken a much tougher approach to Pyongyang than his two predecessors. Third, Kim undoubtedly wants additional assistance from international donors to alleviate the hardship caused by a downturn in the North Korean economy. And as always, Pyongyang's ruler hopes to bolster the popularity of his regime among hungry North Koreans -- and the senior generals whose backing he needs.
All these objectives have been known -- or should have been known -- for some time in American foreign policy circles. Yet both the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have put North Korea on the back burner.
Kim had one more frightening objective in mind when he set off the nuclear device yesterday. And that reason alone should be sufficient to put North Korea at the top of the foreign-policy inbox for the next several years. The official Korean Central News Agency said this immediately after the detonation: "The results of the test helped satisfactorily settle the scientific and technological problems arising in further increasing the power of nuclear weapons and steadily developing nuclear technology." This is sales talk. North Korea appears set to go into high gear and merchandise its nuclear arsenal.
North Korea's last nuclear test, in October 2006, was by all accounts a dud. The North Koreans were too ambitious in their designs, used unsuitable plutonium, or had not mastered the intricacies of the triggering device. In any event, the yield was less than a kiloton, well below the four kilotons they had predicted when they gave the Chinese a warning of the test. To get over the embarrassment of the "fizzle," Kim's technicians had to detonate another device to validate their designs and demonstrate the power of their weapon.
The Iranians who witnessed the event three years ago could not have been overly impressed with the low yield. And Tehran is an important customer to the North Koreans because the Islamic Republic has, in all probability, funded at least one acquirer of Kim's nuclear technology.
That acquirer would be Syria, which was building what looked like a reactor of North Korean design. The Israelis destroyed that secret facility in September 2007 in a daring air raid. We do not know at this moment if Damascus has abandoned its nuclear ambitions, but it is clear the Iranians have not. They are somewhere between one to three years to a working nuclear device of their own. Undoubtedly, we will hear in the next few months reports that Tehran's technicians were again witnesses to yesterday's test.
There is no greater threat to the U.S. than the proliferation of nuclear weapons to dangerous and hostile regimes. The Bush administration, however, never made North Korea pay any price for crossing the red line of selling nuclear technology. In fact, Bush policy in later years centered on providing benefits to Pyongyang for its continued participation in denuclearization talks.
The critical question is what Washington will do in the coming days. After the early-April test of a long-range missile, Stephen Bosworth, President Obama's part-time envoy for North Korea, said he was "relaxed" and even suggested direct talks with Pyongyang, which is what the North always wanted from Washington. The feckless American response was a big green light for Kim to continue his destabilizing behavior.
The North does not need to possess sophisticated weapons to make itself a real threat. It soon will be able to deliver a nuclear device to the American homeland by either a short-range missile launched from a rusting merchant ship or, as some fear, a pickup truck. Another danger is the dissemination of nuclear technology to hostile states and their terrorist allies.
This is a consequential moment. North Korea is taking on the world, and we have no choice but to respond.
Mr. Chang is the author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World" (Random House, 2006).
Anyone else thinking that the test in DPRK was done under a service contract to Iran? In other words, Iran provided the funding and the fissile material to DPRK to conduct the test. This allows the Mullahs to have plausible deniability and let Kim take the fall if the West were to suddenly give a fig about proliferation. Notice how Achmadinejad got provocative after the test - was he puffing up his chest in response to a successful outing, after the previous dud? Axis of Evil indeed. Or do we keep our heads in the sand and pretend they are independent nations pursuing independent programs. Hah!
Spencer>Obviously, you didnt read the article. Kill the messenger instead is so much easier.
It has been the US giving out nuclear secrets. The CIA gave the nuclear technology info to the Iranians.
You can buy a nuclear warhead in Bela-Russia for 200K. A French journalist was able to buy one and some Brit journalist managed to find the merchant and buy a nuclear warhead leftover from the old Cold War Days. There's a photo of a field of nuclear warheads which a customer could pick anyone they wanted.
Israel has 200 to 300 nuclear warheads and no one says anything about them signing any nuclearn non-profliration treaty or letting any UN inspectors in.
North Korea needs the cash and knows that the US wont attack if they have nuclear warheads.
According to the NKs they have all but formally pronounced war on SK. Seoul signing on (which they have done) to interdict shipping vessels suspected of carrying WMD materials was declared by NK to be "an act of war" and would warrant an aggressive response.
I wonder at this nuke test... could it have been an accident? It seems out of NK's M.O. not to publicize the threat to test as an extortionists tool and cause all interested parties to come begging them not to test and then try to bilk all interested parties out of some concessions for not testing and then throw a tantrum and test anyway because they didn't get what they wanted.
This scene seems exactly opposite, as if the NKs were getting ready to practice their standard M.O. on the world and while preparing and readying to test the thing, it accidentally went kablooey and forced them into an unplanned and hasty cycle of deliberate manipulation of the story in order to veil their ineptitude. So, that brought the immediate firing of the missile from the site that was being used as a distraction while preparing for the extortionist nuke test and since then they have had to fire some more missiles to keep the cover over the truth concerning the man made earthquake they caused.
Now, we have a failed nuclear test by a failed state owned by a failed regime headed by a failed fearless leader whose health is failing and is failing to provide the world a nuclear "failsafe" condition.
When is one of these tantrum missiles going to fail and land somewhere to cause damage and spark the regional wildfire?
"What would you do, if someone threw a shoe at you? Not one, but, two? What would you do?" (Spence excerpt from JBS)
I don't have to reiterate what I personally think should be done. Maybe the NKs and IRIs and SYRs need a bench mark to aim for and just need a little exhibition on how to do these type of things. You know, everyone needs a mentor.
Threaten me and mine with Death and Annihilation?
"I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
What would you do if someone threw a shoe at you?
"Trust and verify"
This is the test for the proliferation argument. Yes, an open societal complexity that is allowed and not denied. To state that a nation is peacefully building nuclear and then in transverse restricts an inspection regimen that can distinguish the same is subterfuge and unacceptable.
To some, one in possession of one equates that all should be able to possess one. What if one possesses 100 does that equate that everyone should possess 100? 1000?
That is the heart of the proliferation argument.
First comes the trust... then comes verification and justification for the trust. It's not just the possession.
It is called "FailSafe"
U.S. Tries to Line Up U.N. Rebuke Article Comments (13) MORE IN POLITICS » EmailPrinter FriendlyShare: Yahoo Buzz ↓ More Save This ↓ More Text By JAY SOLOMON, PETER SPIEGEL and JOE LAURIA
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration Tuesday sought to gain Russian and Chinese support for a strong United Nations rebuke of North Korea and potential new economic sanctions over its Monday test of a nuclear device.
U.N. diplomats said measures could include new asset freezes on North Korean companies believed to be involved in the country's nuclear program. Renewed efforts to inspect cargo going into North Korea could also form part of a U.N. resolution.
U.S. officials said they hoped pressure would force Kim Jong Il to return to six-party talks aimed at ending his nuclear-weapons program. But they said they're also looking to develop mechanisms to choke off the exports of North Korea's ballistic-missile and nuclear technologies to countries such as Iran, Syria and Pakistan.
The countries the U.S. consulted on a U.N. resolution were "thinking through complicated issues that require very careful consideration," the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, said late Tuesday, adding that "we are in agreement on the goals of the resolution."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed North Korea with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Tuesday, according to U.S. officials, following conversations Monday with leaders of the three other nations involved in the North Korea nuclear diplomacy: China, South Korea and Japan. President Barack Obama talked with the prime ministers of Japan and South Korea Monday night, according to the White House.
"There has to be a very, very clear and strong resolution," said Yukio Takasu, Japan's ambassador to the U.N., adding that the strength of the sanctions is more important than their extent. North Korea's nuclear program "is a direct threat to us and therefore the actions ... must be strong. If we are talking about new measures, they must be effective."
U.S. officials were circumspect Tuesday about the actions they're seeking to take against Pyongyang. But officials involved in the discussions said they're likely to build on Security Council sanctions enacted last month against three North Korean arms companies -- Korea Mining Development Trading Corp., Korea Ryonbong General Corp. and Tanchon Commercial Bank -- in the wake of a North Korean missile test.
The firms are seen as central players in Pyongyang's missile trade. Curtailing their activities could deny North Korea as much as $1.5 billion in hard currency earned annually from sales abroad, U.S. officials said.
A widening sanctions regime, U.S. officials said, would also likely target North Korean firms directly involved in Pyongyang's nuclear program, including Nomchongang Trading Co. U.S. officials believe Nomchongang cooperated with Syria in starting construction on a nuclear reactor that Israel destroyed in a 2007 bombing raid. U.S. officials also said there were indications that Nomchongang had sought to sell nuclear technologies to Myanmar.
Senior U.S. officials said it remains difficult to obtain reliable intelligence on what nuclear technologies Pyongyang might be selling. Unlike Iran's program, Pyongyang's has been almost completely sealed from outsiders.
Retired Gen. James L. Jones, the White House national security adviser, said he found it "very troubling" that nuclear tests are being conducted by a country that is "obviously willing to export" its weapons technologies. He called that willingness "as dangerous as anything that they've actually physically done."
A senior military official said the U.S. is heavily reliant on China and Russia to monitor North Korea arms shipments by air and over land. The two countries haven't always cooperated with international interdiction efforts, the official said.
U.N. ambassadors were to meet again Wednesday to respond to the U.S. proposals. North Korean proliferation also is likely to come up Saturday at an annual meeting of Pacific defense ministers in Singapore. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will hold a meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts there.
Write to Jay Solomon at jay.solomon@wsj.com, Peter Spiegel at peter.spiegel@wsj.com and Joe Lauria at newseditor@wsj.com
The KEDO had it as close to right as was possible and would have been a remarkable breakthrough for the peninsula North and South if it wasn't for one thing... a lunatic, dictatorial regime that cares not for the suffering of their own people.
The international community should awaken to the fact that NK seeks militaristic domination of the peninsula, influence with the other like minded regimes (whose numbers appear to be growing, currently being vetted for gang membership are Vene, Boli, Soma, etc) and as a gang working towards diminishing the roles of the historic powers who are seen by the gang as imperialists and as the main threats that can jeopardize the continuation of their despotic reigns.
KEDO is a prime example in recent history that tells the tale of how ever many entities engage in offering concessions, economic and humanitarian aid, and outright gifting in exchange for a lasting coherent discourse with a regime hellbent on war are simply harboring fallacious notions of hope while discounting the reality.
The gang scoffs at resolutions and directives; no fly zones and embargoes; sanctions and threats of banishment. They are able to do this because they care not for their people who suffer the most and are weakened to the degree that there can be no resistance to the cycle.
Unfortunately, there are not grand vistas of alternatives. The one that is most effective is the one of last resort which in the case of the gangbangers seems to be far into the future and of a time of their own choosing.
Spencer>Trust and verify"
It is called "FailSafe."
Then what about Israel? If you put the same argument to Israel then it has not gained trust at all. It had thrown out UN Inspectors and not allowed inspect it's nuclear facilities since they the day those 200 and 300 missiles have been put in place with the help from the British and Americans.
North Korea is doing it to help it's failing regime and to keep the Americans from invading it. Besides China wouldnt allow it.
If the human race makes it to 2010, I will be happy.
You have Israel threatening Iran; Pakistan delibrately being broken up by the CIA; finally North Korea trying to provoke South Korea and Japan. WWIII is on the horizon folks so hang onto your hats.
Besides shoe throwing is not the same as letting off a nuclear warhead. The Russians and Americans let off nuclear warheads all the time and no one complains about that. The moment another country enteres the nuclear club, it is always a world outrage. It shows that some nuclear powers are more equal than others.
In the old days, the peasants used to throw vegatables at their politicans. I see nothing wrong with shoes. The international bankers have enslaved us all conservative, liberal, black, white, you name it; we, the people should be fighting the bankers than fighting amongst ourselves. They are the real enemy.
I knew this was coming (I knew when I wrote it that someone would come along and use Israel as the reason for why everyone should be in possession of WMD even though noone can say for sure and they themselves aren't going to admit it because the whole world (except you know those guys,) are puppets of the Zionists who already own the world and , by gosh, they don't have to answer to anyone except God and isn't it funny how the conception of God always somehow works into the humanity, Ohhh, and don't forget about those bio and chem labs, either or even )- Anyway, I say, prove that Israel possesses one such or a nuclear arsenal as you say. Please do not include nominal battlefield dirties or ever growing blobs. Did you see that story? You know, the sinking blob finding its way to the center of the earth?
All of your other forays into revisionism are delusional as in "North Korea is doing it to help it's failing regime and to keep the Americans from invading it. Besides China wouldnt allow it.” Or "The Russians and Americans let off nuclear warheads all the time and no one complains about that“
I understand (except maybe that short sentence about the winds blowing off some hats.)
“Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”
“There is—though I do not know how there is or why there is—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.”
“I hope, or I could not live.”
Spencer>All of your other forays into revisionism are delusional as in "North Korea is doing it to help it's failing regime and to keep the Americans from invading it. Besides China wouldnt allow it.” Or "The Russians and Americans let off nuclear warheads all the time and no one complains about that“
American foreign policy has shown in the past few decades if you dont have nuclear weapons then you wont be invaded. You look at Grenada, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, El Salavador, Columbia, and other nations have been either undermined by the CIA or invaded.
Yes, there is usually some outcry when the Major nuclear powers let off their latest nuclear bombs. Even though Russia and the US have enough nuclear missiles to blow up the earth fifteen times over. However, you have to feed the Military-Industrial-Media Complex somehow.
If you need to get a push to achieve your ambitions, Ensure that people next to you know about your personality improvement goals so that there's a sufficient amount of public pushing on you on a consistent basis. Reporting to them would probably make you think a lot about letting go of your goal .
PAKISTAN: SPY VS SPY
B.RAMAN
In our preoccupation with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), we have not been paying the required attention to the goings-on in Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau (IB), which comes under the Ministry of the Interior.It is the counterpart of our IB and is of the same pedigree.
Even today, the IBs of the two countries maintain some of the traditions, nomenclatures for officers and subordinate units and methods of functioning which they had inherited from the British in 1947.
2. The founding fathers of independent India made the IB the first among equals in India's internal security and counter-intelligence set-up. It has retained and even strengthened that position. It continues to be an organisation largely staffed and led by police officers taken on deputation or permanent secondment from the Indian Police Service cadres of different States of the Indian Union, but the number of direct recruits has been increasing. The IB acts as the eyes and ears of the Government of India in all matters that could have a bearing on internal security. As the leading counter-intelligence agency of India, it plays the leadership role in countering the activities of the ISI in Indian territory and against Indian interests in India and abroad.
3. As against this primacy of the Indian IB and its significant role, the Pakistani IB saw over the years its role in the internal security management and in counter-intelligence gradually eroded, with the ISI assuming the responsibility for internal security tasks. The ISI assumed the leadership in internal security matters initially in the then East Pakistan because of the Army's suspicion of the loyalty of the Bengali police officers and then in Balochistan, Sindh and the North-West Frontier Province for similar reasons. Whereas the police officers from different States in the Indian IB enjoyed the total confidence and trust of the Government of India, in the Pakistani IB, only the Punjabi police officers enjoyed some trust and confidence. The remaining police officers of non-Punjabi origin were looked upon with suspicion.
4. The marginalisation of the Pakistani IB by the ISI in matters relating to internal security was followed by the beginning of a process of militarisation of the IB----with the induction of serving and retired military officers into the IB . This process started under Zia-ul-Haq. When Benazir Bhutto became the Prime Minister in 1988, she sought to reverse the process. She appointed Maj-Gen.Shamshur Rehman Kallu, a retired officer who was close to her father, as the DG of the ISI much to the discomfort and unhappiness of the serving army officers. On her orders, Kallu also prepared a scheme for the re-organisation of the intelligence community. One of the key points in this scheme was the demilitarisation of the IB and restoring its police character and its role as the premier internal security agency of the country. Before the scheme could be implemented, she was dismissed by the then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in August 1990.
5. Nawaz Sharif, who succeeded her as the Prime Minister after the ISI-rigged elections held later that year, carried out the wishes of the army and threw aside the scheme drawn up by Kallue. He once again started inducting retired and serving officers of the Army into the IB. When Benazir returned to power in 1993, she once again took up the scheme for the re-organisation of the IB and strengthening its role in internal security management. She ordered a vast expansion of the strength of the IB, emulated the Indian model of having a directly-recruited civilian cadre in addition to the police officers and ordered the direct recruitment of a large number of civilian officers.
6. When Farooq Leghari, the then President, dismissed her in 1996, he stopped the expansion ordered by her and ordered that those recruited by her should not be given appointment in the IB. Those who had already joined were sacked. Nawaz Sharif, who returned as the Prime Minister after the elections, did not reverse the orders of Leghari and went along with the wishes of the Army to let the ISI retain its primacy in internal security and counter-intelligence matters. The militarisation of the IB picked up momentum under Pervez Musharraf and reached its nadir when he appointed Brig.Ijaz Shah,a highly controversial retired officer with strongly suspected links to the jihadi terrorist organisations, as the Director-General of the IB.
7. Since the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition Government came to office in March 2008, there have been indications that Asif Ali Zardari, who succeeded Pervez Musharraf as the President in September,2008, wants to implement once again the ideas of Benazir for the re-organisation of the IB and strengthening its role in internal security. He appointed Rehman Malik, a retired police officer, who had served under Benazir in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) during her second tenure as the Prime Minister, as the Adviser for Internal Security with the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He now co-ordinates all internal security matters and the IB works under him.
8. Zardari also restored the practice of a senior police officer heading the IB and reportedly wanted that all those directly-recruited to the IB during Benazir's second tenure, but kept out by Leghari and Sharif should be re-appointed. Well-informed PPP sources say that Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani, who does not feel comfortable with Rehman Malik and who has the backing of the ISI, has been dragging his feet in the implementation of the orders of Zardari to re-appoint all the direct recruits to the IB, who were sacked or kept out by Leghari or Sharif.
9. These sources say that the differences between Zardari and Malik on the one side and Gilani and the ISI on the other regarding the relative roles of the IB and the ISI are also coming in the way of a proper investigation into the role of the five detained activists of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in the conspiracy to carry out the terrorist attack in Mumbai from November 26 to 29,2008. According to these sources, while Zardari and Malik are in favour of a more energetic investigation and prosecution to please the US, Gilani and the ISI have been opposing such an investigation.
10. Despite the difficulties faced by him in strengthening the IB and its role in internal security management, Zardari and Malik have been persisting with their efforts. Zardari gives a high-profile role to Malik in all matters relating to internal security. Malik and the Director-General of the IB accompany Zardari on his foreign tours. These sources say that Shoaib Suddle, the then Director-General of the IB, had accompanied Zardari on his recent visits to the US and West Europe and earlier to China. Zardari has also been encouraging the IB to set up its own network of liaison relationships with foreign intelligence agencies. Malik and the IB are being given a more active role in the counter-Taliban operations.
11. These sources say that the ISI, with the backing of Gilani, has not given up its efforts to oppose any leadership role for the IB in internal security matters. It is in this connection that one notes with interest the decision taken by Gilani on May 16,2009, to appoint Javed Noor, the Inspector-General of Police of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, as the DG of the IB in replacement of Suddle, who was close to Zardari. Suddle, who belonged to the Sindh cadre of the Pakistani Police Service, was the DIG of Police of Karachi in September,1996, when Murtaza Ali Bhutto, the younger brother of Benazir, who was challenging the role of Zardari in the PPP, was allegedly killed by the police following an altercation with them. Suddle is one of the accused in the case filed in this connection.
12. Despite this, Zardari had him appointed as the DG of the IB in June,2008. He was given an extension of two years after he reached the age of superannuation . In April last, a judge of the Supreme Court set aside the extension given to him and other police officers facing trial in connection with the murder of Murtaza. Despite this, he was taken to the US and West Europe by Zardari along with the DG of the ISI. Shortly after his return from the tour, Gilani had him replaced as the DGIB on the ground that his continuing to hold this office had become untenable because of the Supreme Court judgement. It is not known whether Javed Noor is a nominee of Zardari or Gilani or the ISI. The removal shows that the ISI continues to be opposed to any attempt to give the IB the primacy in internal security matters. ( 26-5-09)
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com )
Perhaps B. Raman said it best in yesterday's posting, "After Obama assumed office on January 20,2009, whatever hesitation was there in North Korea's policy-making circles regarding the likely response of the Obama Administration has disappeared and its leadership now feels it can defy the US and the international community with impunity". This analysis was not arrived at arbitrarily. It was gleaned from Obama’s own statements and infantile decisions since his election.
To be fair, we must recognize that Kim Jong-Il, has been conducting himself belligerently even during the Clinton and Bush administrations as these too were judged to be soft towards NK’s blatant extortion ploys. Raman writes further, “A series of actions taken by the Obama Administration have created an impression in Iran, the Af-Pak region, China and North Korea that Obama does not have the political will to retaliate decisively if they act in a manner detrimental to US interests and to international peace and security. Among such actions, one could cite the soft policy towards Iran, the reluctance to articulate strongly the US determination to support the security interests of Israel, the ambivalent attitude towards Pakistan despite its continued support to anti-India terrorist groups and its ineffective action against the sanctuaries of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistani territory, its silence on the question of the violation of the human rights of the Burmese people and the continued illegal detention of Aung San Suu Kyi by the military regime in Myanmar, and its silence on the Tibetan issue. Its over-keenness to court Beijing in order to seek China's support for dealing with the economic crisis and its anxiety to ensure the continued flow of Chinese money into the US for investment in the US Treasury Bonds have also added to the soft image of the US.”
I would only add that everything North Korea does, it does with China’s blessing. Jong-Il’s regime could not continue to exist without Chinese support. To ignore the fact that China is the ultimate puppet master in the region is simply delusional. How smart it would be for the U.S. to pressure China at this point – China, an important customer of U.S. Treasuries – is quite another matter.
The hyprocrisy is astounding. Israel can have nuclear warheads but not North Korea nor Iran.
North Korea’s Nukes: Paid For By The U.S. Government by Paul Joseph Watson, Prisonplanet.com
"Donald Rumsfeld was also the man who presided over a $200 million dollar contract to deliver equipment and services to build two light water reactor stations in North Korea in January 2000 when he was an executive director of ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB confirmed that Rumsfeld was at nearly all the board meetings during his involvement with the company.
Rumsfeld was merely picking up the baton from the Clinton administration, who in 1994 agreed to replace North Korea’s domestically built nuclear reactors with light water nuclear reactors. So-called government-funded ‘experts’ claimed that light water reactors couldn’t be used to make bombs. Not so according to Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, who stated, “LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs’ worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs — a depressing fact U.S. policymakers have managed to block out.”
“These reactors are like all reactors, they have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we’re trying to prevent it acquiring,” said Sokolski.
The U.S. State Department claimed that the light water reactors could not be used to produce bomb grade material and yet in 2002 urged Russia to end its nuclear co-operation with Iran for the reason that it didn’t want Iran armed with weapons of mass destruction. At the time, Russia was building light water reactors in Iran. According to the State Department, light water reactors in Iran can produce nuclear material but somehow the same rule doesn’t apply in North Korea."
Israel is still wanting war with Iran. The consequences of this action will effect everyone to sky-high gas prices, setting the Middle-East aflame and implementing martial law in the US. Dont forget this is still a distraction from the 13 trillion stolen by the International Bankers in broad daylight.
"North Korea’s Nukes: Paid For By The U.S. Government by Paul Joseph Watson, Prisonplanet.com"
Nothing else need be said
Ever heard of KEDO?
North Korea Advertises Its Nukes
Syria has already been a customer.
By GORDON G. CHANG
North Korea yesterday tested a second nuclear weapon at its underground site near the northeastern city of Kilju. This follows the launch of a long-range missile early last month.
What does Kim Jong Il want? First and foremost, he wants the international community to recognize his nation as a nuclear weapons state. Second, the regime seeks to destabilize the South Korean government of President Lee Myung-bak, who has taken a much tougher approach to Pyongyang than his two predecessors. Third, Kim undoubtedly wants additional assistance from international donors to alleviate the hardship caused by a downturn in the North Korean economy. And as always, Pyongyang's ruler hopes to bolster the popularity of his regime among hungry North Koreans -- and the senior generals whose backing he needs.
All these objectives have been known -- or should have been known -- for some time in American foreign policy circles. Yet both the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have put North Korea on the back burner.
Kim had one more frightening objective in mind when he set off the nuclear device yesterday. And that reason alone should be sufficient to put North Korea at the top of the foreign-policy inbox for the next several years. The official Korean Central News Agency said this immediately after the detonation: "The results of the test helped satisfactorily settle the scientific and technological problems arising in further increasing the power of nuclear weapons and steadily developing nuclear technology." This is sales talk. North Korea appears set to go into high gear and merchandise its nuclear arsenal.
North Korea's last nuclear test, in October 2006, was by all accounts a dud. The North Koreans were too ambitious in their designs, used unsuitable plutonium, or had not mastered the intricacies of the triggering device. In any event, the yield was less than a kiloton, well below the four kilotons they had predicted when they gave the Chinese a warning of the test. To get over the embarrassment of the "fizzle," Kim's technicians had to detonate another device to validate their designs and demonstrate the power of their weapon.
The Iranians who witnessed the event three years ago could not have been overly impressed with the low yield. And Tehran is an important customer to the North Koreans because the Islamic Republic has, in all probability, funded at least one acquirer of Kim's nuclear technology.
That acquirer would be Syria, which was building what looked like a reactor of North Korean design. The Israelis destroyed that secret facility in September 2007 in a daring air raid. We do not know at this moment if Damascus has abandoned its nuclear ambitions, but it is clear the Iranians have not. They are somewhere between one to three years to a working nuclear device of their own. Undoubtedly, we will hear in the next few months reports that Tehran's technicians were again witnesses to yesterday's test.
There is no greater threat to the U.S. than the proliferation of nuclear weapons to dangerous and hostile regimes. The Bush administration, however, never made North Korea pay any price for crossing the red line of selling nuclear technology. In fact, Bush policy in later years centered on providing benefits to Pyongyang for its continued participation in denuclearization talks.
The critical question is what Washington will do in the coming days. After the early-April test of a long-range missile, Stephen Bosworth, President Obama's part-time envoy for North Korea, said he was "relaxed" and even suggested direct talks with Pyongyang, which is what the North always wanted from Washington. The feckless American response was a big green light for Kim to continue his destabilizing behavior.
The North does not need to possess sophisticated weapons to make itself a real threat. It soon will be able to deliver a nuclear device to the American homeland by either a short-range missile launched from a rusting merchant ship or, as some fear, a pickup truck. Another danger is the dissemination of nuclear technology to hostile states and their terrorist allies.
This is a consequential moment. North Korea is taking on the world, and we have no choice but to respond.
Mr. Chang is the author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World" (Random House, 2006).
Anyone else thinking that the test in DPRK was done under a service contract to Iran? In other words, Iran provided the funding and the fissile material to DPRK to conduct the test. This allows the Mullahs to have plausible deniability and let Kim take the fall if the West were to suddenly give a fig about proliferation. Notice how Achmadinejad got provocative after the test - was he puffing up his chest in response to a successful outing, after the previous dud? Axis of Evil indeed. Or do we keep our heads in the sand and pretend they are independent nations pursuing independent programs. Hah!
Spencer>Obviously, you didnt read the article. Kill the messenger instead is so much easier.
It has been the US giving out nuclear secrets. The CIA gave the nuclear technology info to the Iranians.
You can buy a nuclear warhead in Bela-Russia for 200K. A French journalist was able to buy one and some Brit journalist managed to find the merchant and buy a nuclear warhead leftover from the old Cold War Days. There's a photo of a field of nuclear warheads which a customer could pick anyone they wanted.
Israel has 200 to 300 nuclear warheads and no one says anything about them signing any nuclearn non-profliration treaty or letting any UN inspectors in.
North Korea needs the cash and knows that the US wont attack if they have nuclear warheads.
According to the NKs they have all but formally pronounced war on SK. Seoul signing on (which they have done) to interdict shipping vessels suspected of carrying WMD materials was declared by NK to be "an act of war" and would warrant an aggressive response.
I wonder at this nuke test... could it have been an accident? It seems out of NK's M.O. not to publicize the threat to test as an extortionists tool and cause all interested parties to come begging them not to test and then try to bilk all interested parties out of some concessions for not testing and then throw a tantrum and test anyway because they didn't get what they wanted.
This scene seems exactly opposite, as if the NKs were getting ready to practice their standard M.O. on the world and while preparing and readying to test the thing, it accidentally went kablooey and forced them into an unplanned and hasty cycle of deliberate manipulation of the story in order to veil their ineptitude. So, that brought the immediate firing of the missile from the site that was being used as a distraction while preparing for the extortionist nuke test and since then they have had to fire some more missiles to keep the cover over the truth concerning the man made earthquake they caused.
Now, we have a failed nuclear test by a failed state owned by a failed regime headed by a failed fearless leader whose health is failing and is failing to provide the world a nuclear "failsafe" condition.
When is one of these tantrum missiles going to fail and land somewhere to cause damage and spark the regional wildfire?
"What would you do, if someone threw a shoe at you?
Not one, but, two?
What would you do?" (Spence excerpt from JBS)
I don't have to reiterate what I personally think should be done. Maybe the NKs and IRIs and SYRs need a bench mark to aim for and just need a little exhibition on how to do these type of things. You know, everyone needs a mentor.
Threaten me and mine with Death and Annihilation?
"I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
What would you do if someone threw a shoe at you?
"Trust and verify"
This is the test for the proliferation argument. Yes, an open societal complexity that is allowed and not denied. To state that a nation is peacefully building nuclear and then in transverse restricts an inspection regimen that can distinguish the same is subterfuge and unacceptable.
To some, one in possession of one equates that all should be able to possess one.
What if one possesses 100 does that equate that everyone should possess 100? 1000?
That is the heart of the proliferation argument.
First comes the trust... then comes verification and justification for the trust. It's not just the possession.
It is called "FailSafe"
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By JAY SOLOMON, PETER SPIEGEL and JOE LAURIA
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration Tuesday sought to gain Russian and Chinese support for a strong United Nations rebuke of North Korea and potential new economic sanctions over its Monday test of a nuclear device.
U.N. diplomats said measures could include new asset freezes on North Korean companies believed to be involved in the country's nuclear program. Renewed efforts to inspect cargo going into North Korea could also form part of a U.N. resolution.
U.S. officials said they hoped pressure would force Kim Jong Il to return to six-party talks aimed at ending his nuclear-weapons program. But they said they're also looking to develop mechanisms to choke off the exports of North Korea's ballistic-missile and nuclear technologies to countries such as Iran, Syria and Pakistan.
The countries the U.S. consulted on a U.N. resolution were "thinking through complicated issues that require very careful consideration," the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, said late Tuesday, adding that "we are in agreement on the goals of the resolution."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed North Korea with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Tuesday, according to U.S. officials, following conversations Monday with leaders of the three other nations involved in the North Korea nuclear diplomacy: China, South Korea and Japan. President Barack Obama talked with the prime ministers of Japan and South Korea Monday night, according to the White House.
"There has to be a very, very clear and strong resolution," said Yukio Takasu, Japan's ambassador to the U.N., adding that the strength of the sanctions is more important than their extent. North Korea's nuclear program "is a direct threat to us and therefore the actions ... must be strong. If we are talking about new measures, they must be effective."
U.S. officials were circumspect Tuesday about the actions they're seeking to take against Pyongyang. But officials involved in the discussions said they're likely to build on Security Council sanctions enacted last month against three North Korean arms companies -- Korea Mining Development Trading Corp., Korea Ryonbong General Corp. and Tanchon Commercial Bank -- in the wake of a North Korean missile test.
The firms are seen as central players in Pyongyang's missile trade. Curtailing their activities could deny North Korea as much as $1.5 billion in hard currency earned annually from sales abroad, U.S. officials said.
A widening sanctions regime, U.S. officials said, would also likely target North Korean firms directly involved in Pyongyang's nuclear program, including Nomchongang Trading Co. U.S. officials believe Nomchongang cooperated with Syria in starting construction on a nuclear reactor that Israel destroyed in a 2007 bombing raid. U.S. officials also said there were indications that Nomchongang had sought to sell nuclear technologies to Myanmar.
Senior U.S. officials said it remains difficult to obtain reliable intelligence on what nuclear technologies Pyongyang might be selling. Unlike Iran's program, Pyongyang's has been almost completely sealed from outsiders.
Retired Gen. James L. Jones, the White House national security adviser, said he found it "very troubling" that nuclear tests are being conducted by a country that is "obviously willing to export" its weapons technologies. He called that willingness "as dangerous as anything that they've actually physically done."
A senior military official said the U.S. is heavily reliant on China and Russia to monitor North Korea arms shipments by air and over land. The two countries haven't always cooperated with international interdiction efforts, the official said.
U.N. ambassadors were to meet again Wednesday to respond to the U.S. proposals. North Korean proliferation also is likely to come up Saturday at an annual meeting of Pacific defense ministers in Singapore. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will hold a meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts there.
Write to Jay Solomon at jay.solomon@wsj.com, Peter Spiegel at peter.spiegel@wsj.com and Joe Lauria at newseditor@wsj.com
The KEDO had it as close to right as was possible and would have been a remarkable breakthrough for the peninsula North and South if it wasn't for one thing... a lunatic, dictatorial regime that cares not for the suffering of their own people.
The international community should awaken to the fact that NK seeks militaristic domination of the peninsula, influence with the other like minded regimes (whose numbers appear to be growing, currently being vetted for gang membership are Vene, Boli, Soma, etc) and as a gang working towards diminishing the roles of the historic powers who are seen by the gang as imperialists and as the main threats that can jeopardize the continuation of their despotic reigns.
KEDO is a prime example in recent history that tells the tale of how ever many entities engage in offering concessions, economic and humanitarian aid, and outright gifting in exchange for a lasting coherent discourse with a regime hellbent on war are simply harboring fallacious notions of hope while discounting the reality.
The gang scoffs at resolutions and directives; no fly zones and embargoes; sanctions and threats of banishment. They are able to do this because they care not for their people who suffer the most and are weakened to the degree that there can be no resistance to the cycle.
Unfortunately, there are not grand vistas of alternatives. The one that is most effective is the one of last resort which in the case of the gangbangers seems to be far into the future and of a time of their own choosing.
Spencer>Trust and verify"
This is the test for the proliferation argument. Yes, an open societal complexity that is allowed and not denied. To state that a nation is peacefully building nuclear and then in transverse restricts an inspection regimen that can distinguish the same is subterfuge and unacceptable.
To some, one in possession of one equates that all should be able to possess one.
What if one possesses 100 does that equate that everyone should possess 100? 1000?
That is the heart of the proliferation argument.
First comes the trust... then comes verification and justification for the trust. It's not just the possession.
It is called "FailSafe."
Then what about Israel? If you put the same argument to Israel then it has not gained trust at all. It had thrown out UN Inspectors and not allowed inspect it's nuclear facilities since they the day those 200 and 300 missiles have been put in place with the help from the British and Americans.
North Korea is doing it to help it's failing regime and to keep the Americans from invading it. Besides China wouldnt allow it.
If the human race makes it to 2010, I will be happy.
You have Israel threatening Iran; Pakistan delibrately being broken up by the CIA; finally North Korea trying to provoke South Korea and Japan. WWIII is on the horizon folks so hang onto your hats.
Besides shoe throwing is not the same as letting off a nuclear warhead. The Russians and Americans let off nuclear warheads all the time and no one complains about that. The moment another country enteres the nuclear club, it is always a world outrage. It shows that some nuclear powers are more equal than others.
In the old days, the peasants used to throw vegatables at their politicans. I see nothing wrong with shoes. The international bankers have enslaved us all conservative, liberal, black, white, you name it; we, the people should be fighting the bankers than fighting amongst ourselves. They are the real enemy.
I knew this was coming (I knew when I wrote it that someone would come along and use Israel as the reason for why everyone should be in possession of WMD even though noone can say for sure and they themselves aren't going to admit it because the whole world (except you know those guys,) are puppets of the Zionists who already own the world and , by gosh, they don't have to answer to anyone except God and isn't it funny how the conception of God always somehow works into the humanity, Ohhh, and don't forget about those bio and chem labs, either or even )- Anyway, I say, prove that Israel possesses one such or a nuclear arsenal as you say. Please do not include nominal battlefield dirties or ever growing blobs. Did you see that story? You know, the sinking blob finding its way to the center of the earth?
All of your other forays into revisionism are delusional as in "North Korea is doing it to help it's failing regime and to keep the Americans from invading it. Besides China wouldnt allow it.” Or "The Russians and Americans let off nuclear warheads all the time and no one complains about that“
I understand (except maybe that short sentence about the winds blowing off some hats.)
“Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”
“There is—though I do not know how there is or why there is—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.”
“I hope, or I could not live.”
Spencer>All of your other forays into revisionism are delusional as in "North Korea is doing it to help it's failing regime and to keep the Americans from invading it. Besides China wouldnt allow it.” Or "The Russians and Americans let off nuclear warheads all the time and no one complains about that“
American foreign policy has shown in the past few decades if you dont have nuclear weapons then you wont be invaded. You look at Grenada, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, El Salavador, Columbia, and other nations have been either undermined by the CIA or invaded.
Yes, there is usually some outcry when the Major nuclear powers let off their latest nuclear bombs. Even though Russia and the US have enough nuclear missiles to blow up the earth fifteen times over. However, you have to feed the Military-Industrial-Media Complex somehow.
If you need to get a push to achieve your ambitions, Ensure that people next to you know about your personality improvement goals so that there's a sufficient amount of public pushing on you on a consistent basis. Reporting to them would probably make you think a lot about letting go of your goal .