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North Korea says it will no longer seek reunification with South Korea, will launch new spy satellites in 2024​

North Korea will no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with South Korea, Kim Jong Un has declared, as his nation vowed to put three new military spy satellites into orbit in 2024.

Kim said inter-Korean relations had become “a relationship between two hostile countries and two belligerents at war,” the state-run news agency KCNA reported.

“It’s time for us to acknowledge the reality and clarify our relationship with the South,” Kim said, adding that if Washington and Seoul were to attempt a military confrontation with Pyongyang, its “nuclear war deterrent will not hesitate to take serious action.”

“I believe that it is a mistake that we must no longer make to deal with the people who declare us as ‘the main enemy’ and seek only opportunities for ‘[our] regime collapse’ and ‘unification by absorption’ by collaborating for reconciliation and unification,” Kim added.

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North and South Korea have been cut off from each other since the end of the Korean War in 1953 which ended with an armistice. The two sides are still technically at war but both governments have long sought the goal of one day reunifying.

Relations have ebbed and flowed over the decades but tensions have remained particularly high in more recent years after Kim Jong Un ramped up the country’s nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions.

Last week, KCNA reported that Kim had instructed the country’s army, munitions industry, nuclear weapons and civil defense sectors to accelerate war preparations in response to “confrontation moves” by the US.

At the time, KCNA described the political and military situation on the Korean peninsula as “grave,” saying it had reached an “extreme” point because of Washington.

Kim’s latest comments on reunification were significant, according to Hoo Chiew-Ping, a senior fellow at the East Asian International Relations CAUCUS (EAIR) and member of the Asia Pacific Nuclear Advisory Panel (APNAP), who said the North Korean leader has been increasingly walking away from “inter-Korean relations” in recent years.

“This will mark a critical milestone on the Korean Peninsula where extending the olive branch by future South Korean administrations will be vehemently rejected by North Korea,” Hoo told CNN.

Pyongyang was keener to further relations instead with current allies like “China and Russia, and a selected network of countries around the world which will continue to enable its proliferation and financial outreach,” she added.

“The US, South Korea and Japan are excluded from Kim’s strategic outreach for now.”

Ja Ian Chong, an associate professor of political science and nonresident scholar at Carnegie China, said Kim’s speech “reflects the reality that unification is not a short or even medium-term possibility (for the Koreas).”

“Given this situation, the question is whether non-unification means continuation of the status quo or if North Korea believes it needs to act to protect itself more actively, or even preempt what it sees as possible aggression from South Korea,” Chong added.

“The former is tolerable even as North Korea seeks to increase its defensive capability, since it keeps the status quo and is better than some belief in armed unification. If the latter, then friction and even tensions with South Korea and northeast Asia will likely rise,” he warned.

After repeated failures, North Korea in November said it had put its first spy satellite into orbit.

After repeated failures, North Korea in November said it had put its first spy satellite into orbit.

Analysts said if the spacecraft works, it could provide significantly improve North Korea’s military capabilities, including enabling it to more accurately target opponents’ forces.

Kim hailed the feat, celebrating with workers at the launch site according to images put out by state media. South Korea called the launch a “clear violation” of a UN Security Council resolution that prohibits North Korea from using ballistic missile technology.

On Sunday KCNA said North Korea plans to bolster that program with three additional spy satellites in the new year.

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“Based on the experience of successfully launching and operating the first reconnaissance satellite in 2023, the task of launching three additional reconnaissance satellites in 2024 was declared to vigorously promote the development of space science and technology,” the statement read.

Throughout the course of 2023, Pyongyang also launched a series of intercontinental ballistic missiles tests, including a long-range liquid-fueled missile called the Hwasong-17 ICBM on December 17, which defence experts and regional watchers says showed a “maturing” North Korean missile program.

“While North Korea, like every country, has missile tests fail, it’s clear that the overall reliability of North Korea’s missiles is quite respectable,” Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, previously told CNN.

North Korea’s testing and strong rhetoric may be playing into Washington’s hands, said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.

“The North Korean threat is motivating greater trilateral cooperation among the US, Japan, and South Korea, including real-time sharing of missile tracking data. Officials in Seoul knew this ICBM test was coming, and had coordinated in advance with partners in Washington and Tokyo,” he said.
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Something to do with all those shells sent to Ukraine I take it. I mean sending half a million shells with no compensation is going to leave quite a dent in its security, especially when they went out of their way to make an enemy out of no only Nth Korea but Russia and China as well would show that well, any moron would normally be hung from the gallows for giving away so much for so little in return. The only conclusion I have is that all these US foreign agents and NGOs should be marooned on an island and then carpet bomb to kingdom come, if only because of how utterly devoid of care they have for their so called allies that they will with out fail steal from their allies with nothing in return and they afterwards force you to smile at the same time, kinda makes a normal person want to only kick these parasites out of your house but also break their legs so that they do no dare to crawl back in afterwards but they sth Korea has turn into USA lite so I guess no dice
 
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Western news intentionally twisting/cherry picking to spin news like they want.

The more full, original meaning is that the DRPK is no longer gonna seek reunification like they used to (1 country 2 systems to start with), but rather the DRPK recognize that such a thing really isn't possible with the current state of South Korea.

It doesn't mean the DRPK will no longer seek reunification, but simply not on the basis of what they sought before (more like, they don't want the current SK regime/system, even in a 1 country 2 system)
 
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The time has indeed changed.

Bad guys good guys, according to the Western media:rolleyes:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1741022867939287191

Cry ab it!
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1740895027931525549
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I wont rely on those twitter posts for data.
At this rate UAE non Oil trade will reach $700b a year. its the trade they mix together products of different countries for import and export. few percentage change can have big impact. I bet other Gulf countries or even Israel involved in this kind of trade. and that huge aviation connections to CIS is on top of it. There is very sophisticated disinformation regarding this foreign trade of Russia and ukraine conflict thats why i tried avoid these analysis.

4% of $339b (1239b dirhams) should be $13.5b for Turkey in first half of 2023. Turkey will barely reach Irans 2022 numbers and they put Turkey as Top 5.
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UAE non-oil foreign trade hits all-time high of AED1.239 trillion in H1 2023​

Thu 31/8/2023

The UAE’s non-oil foreign trade reached a record AED1.239 trillion in H1 2023, representing a growth of 14.4 percent compared to the same period in 2022 – and 3 percent more than H2 2022.
China has retained its position as the UAE’s leading global trading partner, followed by India, the US and Saudi Arabia. Türkiye, with whom the UAE signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in March, came in fifth place, with Iraq, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, and Russia completing the top 10.
Among the UAE’s top ten trading partners, Türkiye recorded one of the highest growth rates in the first half of 2023, with 87.4 percent growth compared to the same period in 2022 – and with its share of the UAE's total non-oil foreign trade increasing to 4 percent
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UAE does not consider Iran among its top 10 partners and still get so much trade.
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Iran-UAE trade hits $34 bn in 2022: Roads minister​

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There is another narrative in twitter that India buys cheap oil and sell it to West. India is not buying some thing extra than normal business trends and Arabs have alot of investments globally in refining business.
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Aramco completes three transactions with PKN ORLEN in Poland​

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