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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

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Monday, March 31, 2014

South and North Korea exchange fire as tensions rise with US Marines exercise

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South and North Korea exchange fire as tensions rise with US Marines exercise

North and South Korea firing huge amounts of artillery across maritime border

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U.S. artillerymen with Battery I prepare to demonstrate the fire sequence of an M777A2 155 mm lightweight howitzer for Republic of Korea (ROK) Marines at the Rodriguez Live-Fire Complex during Korean Marine Exchange Program (KMEP) 13-8 on August 17, 2013 (Image credit: Lance Cpl. Kasey Peacock/U.S. Pacific Command/Flickr)

North and South Korea have exchanged artillery fire into each other’s waters a day after North Korea raised the possibility of more nuclear tests, according to reports.

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The exchange of fire came after North Korea carried out what CNN called “provocative live-fire exercises near the South Korean maritime border.”

North Korea began the drill just after noon Monday, semiofficial South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that some ordnance fired by North Korea landed in the waters of South Korea and that they responded with fire.

The two countries fired almost 1,000 artillery shells total, with North Korea firing some 500 over more than three hours.

Some 100 of the North Korean artillery shells fell south of the water border, according to South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok.

South Korea responded by firing 300 artillery shells into the waters of North Korea, he said, according to the Associated Press.

While the firing of artillery shells can be seen as an escalation of tensions between the two countries, no shells by either side were fired at land or military installations.

Still, the spokesman said that North Korea’s actions are a provocation aimed at testing the security posture of South Korea.

In addition to firing the some 300 shells back into North Korean waters, South Korea dispatched fighter jets near the Northern Limit Line, the disputed maritime border between North Korea and South Korea.

When the defense spokesman was asked what South Korea was firing back at, he said, “We are not shooting at North Korea, just shooting into the sea.”

The North Korean exercise “appeared to be more saber-rattling from Pyongyang rather than the start of a military standoff,” according to Reuters.

This comes after North Korea said South Korea was guilty of “gangster-like” behavior for “abducting” a North Korean fishing boat.

South Korea, however, maintained tat they sent the boat back after drifting into its waters.

The actions by North Korea were criticized by the White House, who called them “dangerous and provocative.”

The White House said that North Korea’s threats and provocations are only acting to isolate it further.

“We remain steadfast in our commitment (to) the defense of our allies and remain in close coordination with both the Republic of Korea and Japan,” said White House National Security Council spokesman Jonathan Lalley, according to Reuters.

Residents of five of the front-line South Korean islands were sent to shelters during the North Korean artillery fire and the ferry service that links the islands to the mainland was stopped temporarily, according to an official with Ongjin county, which governs the islands.

No immediate comment was issued by North Korea, the AP reports.

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Workers End Strikes in Kenya, Continue Actions in Tunisia, Egypt and South Africa

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Breaking the Basketball Bracket: A Guide to the South Region

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

South Carolina Democrats and Republicans push legislation to “nullify” NSA

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Friday, March 7, 2014

South Sudan intercepts ‘mislabelled’ U.N. weapons shipment

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Monday, March 3, 2014

North Korea fires short-range missiles, which South calls "reckless provocation"

North Korea fired short-range missiles into the sea off its eastern coast for the second time in a week Monday, prompting a warning from South Korea of “reckless provocation.”

The missile tests have clearly been timed to coincide with annual South Korea-US military exercises which kicked off a week ago and run until mid-April.

Two missiles were fired Monday and both flew around 500 kilometers (310 miles) into the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea’s Defense Ministry.

Four short-range Scud missiles were fired in similar fashion on Thursday.

Both tests were condemned by Seoul, which urged the North to cease all testing immediately and said it would consider calling for sanctions.

“The North is taking a double-faced stance by making conciliatory gestures on one hand and pushing ahead with reckless provocation on the other,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok.

The Scuds are at the longer edge of the short-range spectrum, with an estimated reach of 300-800 kilometres (185-500 miles) — capable of striking any target in the South.

It is not unusual for North Korea to carry out such tests, which often go unreported by South Korea.

But Kim said the Scud firings were of particular concern.

“We believe that the North is testing various ballistic missiles with various ranges as a show of force to threaten us,” he said.

Washington initially played down Thursday’s firings, but later suggested they violated UN sanctions imposed on the North’s missile program.

UN Security Council resolutions prohibit North Korea “from launching any ballistic missile, and this includes any Scud missile,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren said Friday.

Pyongyang routinely condemns the South-US joint exercises as rehearsals for invasion.

Last year they coincided with a sharp and unusually protracted surge in military tensions, that saw North Korea issuing apocalyptic threats of pre-emptive nuclear strikes.

By contrast, this year’s drills began as relations between Seoul and Pyongyang were enjoying something of a thaw.

They overlapped with the end of the first reunion for more than three years of families divided by the Korean War — an event that raised hopes of greater cross-border cooperation.

Pyongyang had initially insisted that the joint exercises be postponed until after the reunions finished. But Seoul refused and — in a rare concession — the North allowed the family gatherings on its territory to go ahead as scheduled.

Most analysts believe the missile tests reflect Pyongyang’s need to flex its muscles in the wake of the reunion compromise.

Last week also saw an incursion by a North Korean patrol boat across the disputed Yellow Sea border that has been the scene of brief but bloody naval clashes in the past.

No shots were fired and the vessel retreated to its side of the boundary after repeated warnings from the South Korean navy.

North Korea has hundreds of short-range missiles and has developed and tested — with limited success — several intermediate-range models.

Its claims to have a working inter-continental ballistic missile have been treated with scepticism by most experts, but there is no doubt that it is pushing ahead with an active, ambitious missile development program.

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Monday, February 24, 2014

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Saturday, February 22, 2014

WHO begins campaign against cholera in South Sudan

GENEVA – The World Health Organisation began a campaign on Saturday to prevent outbreaks of cholera in temporary camps in South Sudan housing thousands of people who have fled the country’s brutal two-month-old conflict.

The first phase will see around 94,000 people vaccinated against the disease in Minkaman camp in Awerial county, followed by 43,000 in camps around the capital Juba.

“Although currently there is not a cholera outbreak, people displaced by the recent conflict and living in the camps are at risk due to poor sanitary conditions and overcrowding,” the WHO said in a statement.

The programme is being carried out in coordination with the South Sudanese government, with the help of the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and UNICEF.

“Minkaman camp and Juba camp have been selected because of the relative stability of the situation and easier access in those places,” said Dr Abdinasir Abubakar of the WHO’s disease surveillance and response team.

“We are also looking at other camps, and once the accessibility and security improves, we will expand the cholera vaccination campaigns into these areas.”

South Sudan has been embroiled in a bloody conflict since December 15, 2013 pitting troops loyal to President Salva Kiir against rebels linked to his sacked vice president Riek Machar.

The unrest in the world’s newest nation has killed thousands of people and displaced close to 900,000, including tens of thousands who have crammed into UN bases in fear of ethnic attacks by either Kiir’s Dinka tribe or Machar’s Nuer.

Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by eating contaminated food or water, with children facing a particularly high risk of infection. It can kill in a matter of hours due to rapid dehydration.

The disease, which often breaks out around natural disasters or conflicts, affects between three million and five million people per year, with up to 120,000 dying from the disease.

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Friday, February 21, 2014

North and South Dakota Top List Of Happiest U.S. States, West Virginia At The Bottom

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North Dakota was able to push out reigning “happiest state” Hawaii in an annual survey that measures Americans’ sense of well-being. West Virginia was revealed as the unhappiest state for the fifth year in a row.

North Dakota made the huge leap to first after coming in at number19 in the previous poll conducted by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. South Dakota came in a close second, moving up from 12th place, while Hawaii came in eighth after coming in first the previous five years.

West Virginia and Kentucky came in last and second to last, respectively.

The poll is based on more than 178,000 interviews of American adults in all 50 states between January and December 2013. The poll is an average score from six sub-indexes, which examine a person’s life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors and basic access to necessities such as healthcare.

According to the poll, North Dakota ranked top in two sub-indexes: work environment and physical health.

A reason for this may because the state has experienced a job boom, according to Gallup.

Midwestern and Western states took up nine of the top ten highest well-being scores. Other states that join the Dakotas in the top ten happiest states are Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, Vermont, Colorado, Hawaii, Washington and Iowa.

The South is highly represented in the bottom ten, which is made up of Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and finally, West Virginia.

These regional patterns of well-being are aligned with previous years.

Residents in Kentucky and West Virginia reported poor physical health and low incomes.

The poll shows well-being has steadily increased in 11 states since 2010.

Sources: Healthways, Gallup

North and South Dakota Top List Of Happiest U.S. States, West Virginia At The Bottom

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Ice storm encases parts of the South

Ice hangs from foliage on a residential street on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Atlanta. Across the South, winter-weary residents woke up Wednesday to a region encased in ice, snow and freezing rain, with forecasters warning that the worst of the potentially “catastrophic” storm is yet to come. From Texas to the Carolinas and the South’s business hub in Atlanta, roads were slick with ice, tens of thousands were without power, and a wintry mix fell in many areas. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

Ice and snow cover Interstate 26, early Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Columbia, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley again declared a state of emergency as emergency officials worried that as much as an inch of ice accumulating on trees and power lines Wednesday into Thursday could knock out powers to thousands, especially in the Midlands. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

Shmetrice Moore, a nurse at an Emory hospital, scrapes snow and ice off her windshield as she and others are released early from their shift before a winter storm on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Johns Creek, Ga. From Texas to the Carolinas and the South’s business hub in Atlanta, roads were slick with ice, tens of thousands were without power, and a wintry mix fell in many areas. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Rosemary Bennett walks home Tuesday evening February 11, 2014 after a visit to a local store in Greenville MS. Bennett says she was enjoying the rare snow and planned on making a snow angle once she arrived home. (AP Photo/The Delta Democrat-Times, Bill Johnson)

Motorists drive on a road covered in snow and ice on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Johns Creek, Ga. Across the South, winter-weary residents woke up Wednesday to a region encased in ice, snow and freezing rain, with forecasters warning that the worst of the potentially “catastrophic” storm is yet to come. From Texas to the Carolinas and the South’s business hub in Atlanta, roads were slick with ice, tens of thousands were without power, and a wintry mix fell in many areas. (AP Photo/John Amis)

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ATLANTA (AP) â€” An ice storm gripped the winter-weary South on Wednesday, knocking out power to a wide swath of the region as the outages nearly doubled by the hour, and forecasters warned the worst of the potentially “catastrophic” storm was yet to come.

From Texas to the Carolinas and the South’s business hub in Atlanta, roads were slick, businesses and schools were closed and people hunkered down. Just hours into it, sleet, snow and freezing rain had encased trees, sending them crashing into power lines. More than 200,000 homes and businesses across the region were without power and the number steadily increased. The storm came in waves of snow, sleet and freezing rain and forecasters warned relief with warmer temperatures wasn’t expected until Thursday at the earliest.

Officials and forecasters in several states used unusually dire language in warnings, and they agreed that the biggest concern was ice, which could knock out power for days. Winds, with gusts up to 30 mph in parts of Georgia, exacerbated problems.

In Atlanta, where a storm took the metro region by surprise and stranded thousands in vehicles just two weeks ago, tens of thousands of customers were reported without power. City roads and interstates were largely desolate.

The few that ventured out walked to the pharmacy, rode the train or walked their dogs.

“Even in the snow, you still have to do your business,” said Matt Altmix, who took out his Great Dane, Stella. “After the first snow, we kind of got our snow excitement out of the way. But now it’s more the drudgery of pushing on.”

Stinging drops of sleet fell and a layer of ice crusted car windshields. Slushy sidewalks made even short walking trips treacherous. One emergency crew had to pull over to wait out the falling snow before slowly making its way back to the Georgia Emergency Management Agency’s special operations center.

The combination of sleet, snow and freezing rain was expected to coat power lines and tree branches with more than an inch of ice between Atlanta and Augusta. Other areas would see less than an inch.

In normally busy downtown areas, almost every business was closed, except for a CVS pharmacy.

Amy Cuzzort, who spent six hours in her car during the traffic standstill of January’s storm, said she’d spend this one at home, “doing chores, watching movies â€” creepy movies, ‘The Shining,’” referring to the film about a writer who goes mad while trapped in a hotel during a snowstorm.

In Decatur, just outside Atlanta, Georgia State University student Matt Stanhope, 23, ventured outside to go to a pharmacy but then planned to stay home.

“Everything is just on pause,” he said, gazing at vacant streets.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, sounding a far more upbeat tone than two weeks ago, warned people not to become complacent as the storm came in waves.

“Thanks to the people of Georgia. You have shown your character,” he said. During the last storm, Deal was widely criticized for being unprepared and the state became the butt of late-night jokes.

In an early Wednesday warning, the National Weather Service called the storm “catastrophic … crippling … paralyzing … choose your adjective.”

The forecast drew comparisons to an ice storm in the Atlanta area in 2000 that left more than 500,000 homes and businesses without power and an epic storm in 1973 that caused an estimated 200,000 outages for several days. In 2000, damage estimates topped $ 35 million.

Eli Jacks, a meteorologist with National Weather Service, said forecasters use words such as “catastrophic” sparingly.

“Sometimes we want to tell them, ‘Hey, listen, this warning is different. This is really extremely dangerous, and it doesn’t happen very often,’” Jacks said.

He noted that three-quarters of an inch of ice would be catastrophic anywhere. But the Atlanta area and other parts of the South are particularly vulnerable: Many trees and limbs hang over power lines.

Around the Deep South, slick roads were causing problems. Three people were killed and one injured after an ambulance careened off a slick West Texas roadway and caught fire. Icy conditions caused the ambulance to lose control, veer off the road near Carlsbad, then flip upside down before catching fire, the Texas Public Safety Department said.

On Tuesday, four people died in North Texas, including a Dallas firefighter who was knocked from an Interstate 20 ramp and fell 50 feet. In Mississippi, two weather-related traffic deaths were reported.

Delta canceled nearly 2,200 flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, most of them in Atlanta.

For Bob Peattie of Bayshore, N.Y., and Lee Harbin of San Antonio, Texas, it was the second time in two weeks that their business meetings in Atlanta were canceled because of bad weather. Both work for a software consulting company were staying put at downtown hotel.

“In two weeks, we’ll do it again,” Harbin said, laughing.

They planned to work as long as the power remained on and they had Internet access.

“We can be sitting anywhere as long as we have connectivity,” Peattie said. “You make the best out of everything.”

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Associated Press writers Ray Henry and Jeff Martin in Atlanta; Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala.; and Russ Bynum in Savannah, Ga., contributed to this report.

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Medical Marijuana Gains Traction in the Deep South

Medical marijuana has been a non-starter in recent years in the Deep South, where many Republican lawmakers feared it could lead to widespread drug use and social ills. That now appears to be changing, with proposals to allow a form of medical marijuana gaining momentum in a handful of Southern states.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and this year powerful GOP lawmakers in Georgia and Alabama are putting their weight behind bills that would allow for the limited use of cannabis oil by those with specific medical conditions. Other Southern states are also weighing the issue with varying levels of support.

The key to swaying the hearts of conservative lawmakers has been the stories of children suffering up to 100 seizures a day whose parents say they could benefit from access to cannabidiol, which would be administered orally in a liquid form. And proponents argue the cannabis oil is low in tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana that makes users feel high.

“I’m an unlikely champion for this cause,” said Georgia Rep. Allen Peake, a businessman from Macon who attended the evangelical Dallas Theological Seminary. “Once people realize it’s not a 6-year-old smoking a joint, most folks realize this is the compassionate thing to do.”

Peake’s bill has already earned the backing of more than 80 state lawmakers, including several members of the House Republican leadership, who signed on as co-sponsors and the state’s largest professional association of doctors. The bill would revive a long-dormant research program allowing academic institutions to distribute the medical cannabis and would be “limited in scope, tightly restricted, well regulated and managed by doctors,” Peake said.

Alabama Rep. Mike Ball, a retired hostage negotiator for the State Patrol, is behind a bill that would allow people to possess the cannabis oil if they have certain medical conditions. It passed a key committee vote on Wednesday.

“The public is starting to understand what this is,” said Ball, who chairs a powerful House committee and is a prominent voice on law enforcement issues. “The political fear is shifting from what will happen if we pass it, to might what happen if we don’t,” Ball said.

The bills in Georgia and Alabama still have more vetting, and their ultimate prospects are not certain. But what is happening offers a strong signal of what’s to come in other states.

In Louisiana, although a bill has yet to be introduced, a recent committee hearing at the Capitol on legalizing medical marijuana drew a standing-room-only crowd, and Gov. Bobby Jindal made comments last month indicating he was willing to consider it.

“When it comes to medical marijuana … if there is a legitimate medical need, I’d certainly be open to making it available under very strict supervision for patients that would benefit from that,” Jindal said, according to a report in The Advocate.

Technically, both Georgia and Louisiana have laws on the books from the 1980s and 1990s that allow for the use of medical marijuana, but those programs essentially ended before they could start. Georgia’s law established the academic research program for those diagnosed with glaucoma and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, but the program stalled when the federal government stopped delivery of legal cannabis.

Louisiana’s law allowed for glaucoma and cancer patients and those suffering from spastic quadriplegia to receive marijuana for therapeutic use but regulations to govern the program were never developed.

In Mississippi, Republican state Sen. Josh Harkins of Brandon is sponsoring a cannabis oil bill similar to the ones in Alabama and Georgia. Harkins said one of his constituents has a 20-month-old daughter with Dravet syndrome, a form of pediatric epilepsy, and the oil can help reduce the number of seizures.

Elsewhere, both Kentucky and Tennessee have medical marijuana bills under consideration although they have yet to gain traction. Kentucky Senate President Rover Stivers, R-Manchester, has said he’s not convinced marijuana has legitimate medical purposes and called it an area ripe for abuse.

In Florida, it’s likely to become a campaign issue in the fall given that Gov. Rick Scott is up for re-election and a proposed constitutional amendment will be on the ballot that would allow for the medical use of marijuana as determined by a licensed physician. Former Republican Gov. Charlie Christ, now a Democrat seeking to challenge Scott, has called it “an issue of compassion, trusting doctors and trusting the people of Florida.”

Meanwhile, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has signaled a willingness to discuss medicine that might be derived from marijuana with appropriate federal regulation.

“If someone wants to use the medicine that is in marijuana, go through the same testing that you have to go through when you do that through the (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), you go through all of that, do the testing, the drug testing, that’s fine,” Bentley said last month. “I have no problem with that. I am not just for prescribing marijuana.”

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has declined to take a position, but noted the “strong case being presented by some of the families with very serious situations involving their children.”

Dustin Chandler, a police officer in Pelham, Ala., has been a major part of the effort there. His daughter, 2-year-old Carly, has three to five seizures each day from a severe neurological condition she has had since infancy. Chandler believes cannabidiol could help control his daughter’s seizures and improve her cognitive functioning based on anecdotal evidence seen elsewhere.

“We’ve been battling the stigma from the m-word,” Chandler said. “I’d love to hear my daughter talk. I’d love to hear her say one word. You know that is something most parents take for granted.”

Overall, public opinion in support of legalization has shifted in less than a decade, according to William Galston and E.J. Dionne, who co-wrote a paper last year on the topic for The Brookings Institution. The authors noted proponents were shrewd in focusing the earliest campaigns on efforts to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, citing a 2013 Pew Research Center survey that three-quarters of Americans, including 72 percent of Republicans, believe marijuana has legitimate medical uses.

Among critics’ biggest concerns is that allowing medical marijuana even under a narrow list of circumstance would eventually open the door to widespread use. Peake, the Georgia lawmaker, has been adamant that will not be the case.

“I am concerned as anyone that we would get to a slippery slope of a broader scope of marijuana use in the state,” Peake said. “I promise you I will fight that with every bit of energy in me.”

Georgia Rep. Terry England, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and a deacon at his Baptist church in Auburn, is a prime example of a state lawmaker who never thought of legalizing medical marijuana but is now open to it, even signing on as a co-sponsor to Peake’s bill.

“I’ve not made a complete 180-degree turn, but I’m probably at 178 degrees,” England said.

Newsmax – America

Medical Marijuana Gains Traction in the Deep South

Sunday, January 26, 2014

South Korean Media: Kim Jong-un Ordered The Execution Of His Uncle"s Entire Family

Reuters/KCNA KCNA

South Korea’s state news agency is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the execution of his uncle’s entire family, including children.

“Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song-thaek,” one source told Yonhap. “All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children.”

On December 12, Kim Jong-un executed his uncleand his close allies for “acts of treachery,” which may have related to a business dispute.

Yonhap is known for its anti-North Korean bias. And other stories about the purge are probably fake.

Nevertheless, Kim’s ruthlessness cannot be discounted.

From Yonhap:

The executed relatives include Jang’s sister Jang Kye-sun, her husband and Ambassador to Cuba Jon Yong-jin, and Ambassador to Malaysia Jang Yong-chol, who is a nephew of Jang, as well as his two sons, the sources said.

All of them were recalled to Pyongyang in early December and executed, they said. The sons, daughters and even grandchildren of Jang’s two brothers were all executed, they said.

It is unclear if Jang’s wife, who is the younger sister of Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, is among those ordered executed.

Politics

South Korean Media: Kim Jong-un Ordered The Execution Of His Uncle"s Entire Family

Reuters/KCNA KCNA

South Korea’s state news agency is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the execution of his uncle’s entire family, including children.

“Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song-thaek,” one source told Yonhap. “All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children.”

On December 12, Kim Jong-un executed his uncleand his close allies for “acts of treachery,” which may have related to a business dispute.

Yonhap is known for its anti-North Korean bias. And other stories about the purge are probably fake.

Nevertheless, Kim’s ruthlessness cannot be discounted.

From Yonhap:

All of them were recalled to Pyongyang in early December and executed, they said. The sons, daughters and even grandchildren of Jang’s two brothers were all executed, they said.

It is unclear if Jang’s wife, who is the younger sister of Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, is among those ordered executed.

Politics

South Korean Media: Kim Jong-un Ordered The Execution Of His Uncle"s Entire Family

Reuters/KCNA KCNA

South Korea’s state news agency is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the execution of his uncle’s entire family, including children.

“Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song-thaek,” one source told Yonhap. “All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children.”

On December 12, Kim Jong-un executed his uncleand his close allies for “acts of treachery,” which may have related to a business dispute.

Yonhap is known for its anti-North Korean bias. And other stories about the purge are probably fake.

Nevertheless, Kim’s ruthlessness cannot be discounted.

From Yonhap:

All of them were recalled to Pyongyang in early December and executed, they said. The sons, daughters and even grandchildren of Jang’s two brothers were all executed, they said.

It is unclear if Jang’s wife, who is the younger sister of Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, is among those ordered executed.

Politics

South Korean Media: Kim Jong-un Ordered The Execution Of His Uncle"s Entire Family

Saturday, January 25, 2014

New book claims Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker and died in South America in 1984 aged 95

posted on Jan, 25 2014 @ 08:50 AM

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read and the sort of tripe I expect from the Daily Fail.

So man in the photo is Hitler…even though the man in the photo has no face. Plus he’s allegedly with his “girlfriend”, a black woman. Considering Hitler’s racial beliefs and theories do you think he’d be inclined to have a black woman as a girlfriend?

AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In General Conspiracies

New book claims Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker and died in South America in 1984 aged 95

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Libyan air force attacks targets in south after gunmen storm airbase – ministry

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