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tokenanalyst said:

That is the problem with these "Diaspora" politics, and listening to anyone who hate itself and his own people, they are always going to be bias, make misleading arguments and most cases outright lie. You have to take what they said with a truck load of salt.

Look the Iranians. Their diaspora along with the Israelis mislead the US into their most disastrous war since Korea. Instead of regime change they will get a stronger Islamic Republic, probably with nuclear weapons and at best a global economic crisis, at worse a global economic depression.

This people could lead the EU in a energy depression, high inflation, scarcity of manufacturing supplies <a lot of them comes from China> and a TWO FRONT trade war against China and the Trump US who is going to use a EU-China trade to gain leverage in his trade war against Europe.

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North Korea's Kim calls for 'exponential' nuclear expansion after inspecting new plant, KCNA says​

SEOUL, June 4 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim ‌Jong Un called for an "exponential" expansion of the country's atomic arsenal during a visit to a newly operational nuclear material production factory, state media agency KCNA said on Thursday.

Kim said production capacity for weapons-grade nuclear material had reached more than double its previous level over the past five years and instructed officials to further increase output to meet long-term strategic goals.

During the visit, he was briefed on new production processes incorporating more advanced technology and reviewed current output targets and future plans, KCNA reported.

Photographs published by state media showed Kim walking between ⁠rows of cylinder-shaped equipment inside the facility, which some analysts said could indicate the location is at the country’s main nuclear complex in Yongbyon.

Kim said the expansion was necessary given what he called worsening security threats and long-term confrontation with "the most ferocious enemies" and reaffirmed the country’s policy of increasing its nuclear deterrence.

KCNA said a key consultative meeting on bolstering nuclear forces was held the same day, at which Kim outlined guidelines for accelerating both the qualitative and quantitative expansion of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.

The country has set out the sequence and safeguards for executing an "ambitious future plan designed to beef up our state’s nuclear forces at an exponential rate," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.

This is a "historic event that has set up an epochal milestone in rapidly upgrading our nuclear capabilities," he added.

The nuclear facility North Korea unveiled on Thursday ‌was a ⁠uranium-enrichment site, an official at South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said at a briefing in Seoul.

Analysts said Kim's visit appeared aimed at reinforcing North Korea’s negotiating position ahead of potential diplomatic engagement while justifying an acceleration of its nuclear build-up.

Chad O’Carroll, founder of North Korea-focused website NK News, said the site visit could be linked to a potential trip by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Pyongyang, noting that before travelling to Beijing in September 2025, Kim ⁠inspected plans for a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the "Hwasong-20."

"The logic would be to demonstrate absolutely that denuclearisation is not possible, right on the eve of contact with the PRC," O’Carroll said, using China's formal name, the People's Republic of China.

Lim Eul-chul, a professor at South Korea’s Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern ⁠Studies, also linked Kim’s latest visit to Seoul’s pursuit of a nuclear-powered submarine and its talks with Washington over uranium enrichment rights, which he said Pyongyang may be using to justify accelerating its weapons programme.

"Even if South Korea does not proceed, the North will follow its ⁠own path, but such developments provide a convenient pretext to push its nuclear build-up faster and on a larger scale," Lim said.

North Korea is estimated to possess around 50 nuclear warheads, according to international assessments, though it has never disclosed the size of its arsenal.

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_killuminati_ said:

Persian diaspora is a strange phenomenon because they tend to be highly educated but cannot seem to see through the Israeli and American propaganda. I still cannot believe they actually openly associated their movement with Israel while the latter was involved in genocide, and then complained why the rest of the world does not sympathize with them.

Compare these folk with, for example, the Shia or Assyrian (Christian) Iraqi diaspora, who hated Saddam but resent the US invasion.

Very strange people.

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John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling of sensitive national security information​

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, has reached a plea deal over mishandling sensitive national security information, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

He intends to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security information, according to one of the sources. He has also agreed to pay a more than $2 million fine, according to one of the sources.

A conviction on one count of illegal retention comes with a sentence between 0 and 60 months in prison.

The Justice Department declined to comment and referred CNN to the court docket, which indicates a hearing was set for June 26.

The plea deal comes months after the top Trump foe was charged by prosecutors in Maryland for allegedly keeping diary entries from the first Trump White House in his home.

Prosecutors accused Bolton of sharing “more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities” through his personal email account with two unauthorized individuals, who CNN has reported are his wife and daughter. The alleged transmission of classified information isn’t part of the charges he expects to plead guilty to.

His guilty plea won’t include charges related to the allegation that Bolton took home or shared classified documents — only that he wrote down sensitive national security information as part of his personal papers.

Bolton, who served for one year in the first Trump administration, was originally charged with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.

Trump had long been calling for Bolton to be arrested over his 2020 memoir that was highly critical of the president, claiming Bolton should have gone to jail because classified information was contained in the book.

But unlike cases against Trump’s other perceived enemies, like FBI Director James Comey and the now-dismissed case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, Bolton’s case has maintained the support of career prosecutors and investigators, people briefed on the matter previously told CNN.

Trump’s first Justice Department opened criminal and civil investigations into the book in 2020, but it was closed within a year.

But the FBI opened a new inquiry into Bolton the next year, still during the Biden presidency, after his email was breached by suspected Iranian hackers, as investigators discovered “diary-like entries” containing top secret information from his time as national security advisor.

An FBI search of his home in Maryland last summer found documents marked as classified, according to court records previously released.

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He intends to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security information

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He has also agreed to pay a more than $2 million fine, according to one of the sources.

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conviction on one count of illegal retention comes with a sentence between 0 and 60 months in prison.

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So I guess MIGA is eager to start trade war 3.0 with China again. Amidst the kicking the Iran can down the road and the inevitable slow moving train wreck in Ukraine

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FriedRiceNSpice said:

Very hypocritical that the nation that leads the world in use of prison labor is rolling out a "forced labor" tariff. I guess its a protective tariff protecting the domestic forced labor industry?

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GZDRefugee said:

"Accuse the enemy of what you are doing."

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_killuminati_ said:

Persian diaspora is a strange phenomenon because they tend to be highly educated but cannot seem to see through the Israeli and American propaganda. I still cannot believe they actually openly associated their movement with Israel while the latter was involved in genocide, and then complained why the rest of the world does not sympathize with them.

Compare these folk with, for example, the Shia or Assyrian (Christian) Iraqi diaspora, who hated Saddam but resent the US invasion.

Very strange people.

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