More than a decade after North Korea was struck by a famine that killed up to a million people, the country's poorest are once again facing starvation, reports Peter Foster in Yanji
... during the great famine of the 1990s, between 600,000 and 2.5 million people died of hunger. According to the commission’s report, the North Korean regime, then headed by Kim Jong-il, obstructed the delivery of aid to the hungriest regions until 1997, and punished those who tried to earn, buy, steal or smuggle in enough food to survive. The regime was “well aware of the country’s deteriorating food situation” as it stocked airfields, reactors and palaces, rather than food stores.
According to one expert witness testimonial before the commission, the North Korean regime, at the height of the famine, could have closed its food gap by importing between $100 and $200 million worth of food each year, which is just 1 to 2 percent of its national income. Yet rather than using foreign food aid to supplement its own commercial food imports, the commission found that Kim Jong-il used aid “as a substitute for” them, cutting back on commercial food imports when more aid arrived. By contrast, the State Department estimates that in 1997, at the peak of the famine, North Korea’s annual military budget was $6 billion.
You act as if the common North Korean citizen has internet access.
Indeed. The typical North Korean subject likely doesn't have enough calories per day to thrive, and lets skip the question of nutrition. Even the North Korean armed forces have been on lean rations the last several years.
I know what you mean. Just why the hell can't we bring chainsaws onto the 747!? Have they gone mental? When is the last time that a terrorist with a chainsaw took over an aircraft? Please! Anyone with half a brain knows there is no way you could really run with it either, the isles are too narrow. Besides, who would notice it in operation over the crying babies? What on earth happened to our freedom!?
This just shows that gchq have lost track of some of the criminals it knew about but had not gained enough intelligence to form a case (or the crimes were not considered serious enough). It has not lost track of the criminals that weren't using the communications channels it had a viewport on because it didn't have them tracked in the first place.
Seems like they became complacent and sat waiting for the evidence to appear in front of them. Rather than following up the leads in the old school methods.
Essentially: c+ must try harder.
Seems like they became complacent and sat waiting for the evidence to appear in front of them. Rather than following up the leads in the old school methods.
GCHQ are signals intelligence, not human intelligence. If MI5 and National Crime Agency aren't following up it isn't on them.
Truck bomb. It's been done before. Examples include the suicide bomb attack against the US Marines in Beirut, and the attack against the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Given the fact that security at airports is not very good and nothing really bad has happened in the last decade, what does this tell us about the real terrorist threat level in Europe?
That much of Europe has probably been almost lulled into the level of complacency that will make a truly horrifying attack possible?
In other words: This shows that there isn't a real danger that this security theater is protecting us from.
No, that just shows that the Intent, Capability, and Opportunity haven't yet aligned to result in an incident or attack... that you know of. Absence of an attack isn't the same as absence of a threat. And you're kidding yourself if you think there aren't terrorists in Germany, or flying through it, that wouldn't attack the airport, planes, or other places in Germany specifically or Europe in general.
What is the form of the bias that you think exists, and how do you think that it alters things? Does that mean Iraq didn't invade Iran or Kuwait? Or did anything else not happen?
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So black people need to kill another 115 cops to cover the difference.
No filter between the brain and the fingers, eh?
Satellite image shows Kim Jong Il's dark legacy
North Korea is covered in darkness, both metaphorically and literally.
Plausible deniability.
Actually this is what he wrote initially:
The multi-layered laminated windows on aircraft don't "shoot out".
Not quite what you wrote either in words or meaning.
Maybe your clues are wrong.
North Korea faces famine: 'Tell the world we are starving'
More than a decade after North Korea was struck by a famine that killed up to a million people, the country's poorest are once again facing starvation, reports Peter Foster in Yanji
Pyongyang’s Hunger Games
... during the great famine of the 1990s, between 600,000 and 2.5 million people died of hunger. According to the commission’s report, the North Korean regime, then headed by Kim Jong-il, obstructed the delivery of aid to the hungriest regions until 1997, and punished those who tried to earn, buy, steal or smuggle in enough food to survive. The regime was “well aware of the country’s deteriorating food situation” as it stocked airfields, reactors and palaces, rather than food stores.
According to one expert witness testimonial before the commission, the North Korean regime, at the height of the famine, could have closed its food gap by importing between $100 and $200 million worth of food each year, which is just 1 to 2 percent of its national income. Yet rather than using foreign food aid to supplement its own commercial food imports, the commission found that Kim Jong-il used aid “as a substitute for” them, cutting back on commercial food imports when more aid arrived. By contrast, the State Department estimates that in 1997, at the peak of the famine, North Korea’s annual military budget was $6 billion.
You act as if the common North Korean citizen has internet access.
Indeed. The typical North Korean subject likely doesn't have enough calories per day to thrive, and lets skip the question of nutrition. Even the North Korean armed forces have been on lean rations the last several years.
Because his facts are evolving.
Cockpit, maybe. But all the windows being bullet proof on a large aircraft? I doubt it.
The pressurisation pumps are more than capable of keeping up with the amount of air leaking through a thumb-sized hole.
"A thumb-sized hole?" And if there are 10-20 of them, with some being shot out windows? (With maybe some equipment damage?)
Great! You've got that one covered!
Shopping malls don't tend to depressurize when punctured.
I know what you mean. Just why the hell can't we bring chainsaws onto the 747!? Have they gone mental? When is the last time that a terrorist with a chainsaw took over an aircraft? Please! Anyone with half a brain knows there is no way you could really run with it either, the isles are too narrow. Besides, who would notice it in operation over the crying babies? What on earth happened to our freedom!?
Civil Rights Theatre about to start .... cue complaints that no terrorists are caught and balls are touched .... cue Fourth Amendment jeremiads ...
This just shows that gchq have lost track of some of the criminals it knew about but had not gained enough intelligence to form a case (or the crimes were not considered serious enough). It has not lost track of the criminals that weren't using the communications channels it had a viewport on because it didn't have them tracked in the first place.
Seems like they became complacent and sat waiting for the evidence to appear in front of them. Rather than following up the leads in the old school methods.
Essentially: c+ must try harder.
Seems like they became complacent and sat waiting for the evidence to appear in front of them. Rather than following up the leads in the old school methods.
GCHQ are signals intelligence, not human intelligence. If MI5 and National Crime Agency aren't following up it isn't on them.
I expect that eventually you'll get more than you think you bargained for. However it's too late, somebody else made an irrevocable decision for you.
Knowing something and proving it in a court of law are two different things.
Get a life.
Truck bomb. It's been done before. Examples include the suicide bomb attack against the US Marines in Beirut, and the attack against the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
There seems to be an option that you missed: seeing if there are indicators that terrorists have an interest in striking.
Major terrorist attack is ‘inevitable’ as Isis fighters return, say EU officials
EU’s 28 governments are said to be struggling to respond to threat of Islamist fighters coming back from Iraq and Syria
Europe faces 'greatest terror threat ever' from jihadists in Iraq and Syria
ETA, IRA, Baader-Meinhof, Red Brigades, all were small potatoes compared to the potential of the Islamists.
But how much damage can one person do? If he's successful he'll maybe kill ten people.
An individual terrorist could easily kill hundreds of people, and wound thousands.
The 9/11 hijackers didn't pass through airport security, they had someone on the inside who let them through a door.
That isn't true. Now go away, troll.
It tells us that any level of airport security is enough to make an attack using an aeroplane not the most attractive option for terrorists.
That obviously is not true since the 9/11 hijackers had to pass through airport security.
Given the fact that security at airports is not very good and nothing really bad has happened in the last decade, what does this tell us about the real terrorist threat level in Europe?
That much of Europe has probably been almost lulled into the level of complacency that will make a truly horrifying attack possible?
In other words: This shows that there isn't a real danger that this security theater is protecting us from.
No, that just shows that the Intent, Capability, and Opportunity haven't yet aligned to result in an incident or attack... that you know of. Absence of an attack isn't the same as absence of a threat. And you're kidding yourself if you think there aren't terrorists in Germany, or flying through it, that wouldn't attack the airport, planes, or other places in Germany specifically or Europe in general.
Attacks on Frankfurt Airport, Ramstein Planned: Three Islamist Terror Suspects Arrested in Germany - September 05, 2007
Germany Sends 240 Cops to Arrest Nine ISIS Suspects in Cologne - November 12th 2014
What is the form of the bias that you think exists, and how do you think that it alters things? Does that mean Iraq didn't invade Iran or Kuwait? Or did anything else not happen?