Defense-Technology News: 12/01/2011

Saturday, December 31, 2011

DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: 2012 Hong Kong ~ Predicted To Be For The People Year - Photo Courtsey Robie Seth

DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: 2012 Hong Kong ~ Predicted To Be For The People Year - Photo Courtsey Robie Seth

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 31, 2011: Revellers around the world are celebrating the end of 2011 and starting to see in 2012. Hong Kong property prices and rents expected to fall in 2012

In Hong Kong the countdown to 2012 was made in giant illuminated numbers on the side of a skyscraper facing the harbour. Toronto, Canada is 12 hours behind Hong Kong. Photo Courtsey Robie Seth

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DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: New Zealand Mark The Start Of 2012

DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: New Zealand Mark The Start Of 2012

Bad weather prompted some New Zealand planners to cancel outdoor events, but a fireworks display off Auckland's Sky Tower started at midnight (1100 GMT). Toronto, Canada is 18 hours behind Auckkand, New Zealand.

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DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: DTN TIGER - New Symbol / Logo For 2012

DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: DTN TIGER - New Symbol / Logo For 2012

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 30, 2011: To Our Readers and Viewers of DTN News Plus Everyone in the Global Village, A Very Happy Prosperous New Year 2012 from DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News. Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. They live in Asia and belong to the same genus as the lion, leopard, and jaguar.

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DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: To Our Readers & Viewers Of DTN News

DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: To Our Readers & Viewers Of DTN News

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DTN News - KAZAKHSTAN VIOLENCE: Kazakhstan Probes Police Use Of Weapons After Deaths

DTN News - KAZAKHSTAN VIOLENCE: Kazakhstan Probes Police Use Of Weapons After Deaths

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 29, 2011: Prosecutors in Kazakhstan have opened a criminal inquiry into the use of weapons by police after 16 protesters were killed earlier this month.

The deaths occurred in clashes between police and oil protesting workers in Zhanaozen on 16 and 17 December.

A "criminal enquiry into the use of weapons by the security forces" had been opened, the prosecutor-general's office said on Thursday.

The violence was the worst since Kazakhstan's independence 20 years ago.

The investigation comes after video footage emerged on the internet appearing to show security forces beating and shooting people.

Eyewitnesses said police fired on unarmed oil workers, who had been protesting for months, in the town of 90,000.

But police say they were forced to defend themselves. A 20-day curfew is in effect until 5 January.

"General prosecutors opened a criminal enquiry into the use of weapons by the security forces which were aimed at hitting (their targets) and caused death," the prosecutors' spokesman Nurdaulet Suindikov said in a statement.

"An investigation group headed by a special prosecutor will carry out the investigation to ensure impartiality," the statement added.

The move marks the first time since the incident that Kazakh prosecutors have accused the police of firing on the protesters. Last week Kazakhstan asked the UN to help investigate the violence.

Separately, the privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reports that 18 people accused of taking part in the disturbances and looting have been arrested.

The governor of the Mangistau region, where the clashes occurred, has reportedly been sacked, along with the local boss of the state oil firm.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has fired his son-in-law, Timur Kulibayev, from his position as head of Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund, which holds stakes in the companies whose workers were striking.

Correspondents say Mr Nazarbayev is keen to maintain his country's reputation as a bastion of stability in central Asia.

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DTN News: North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 27, 2011

DTN News: North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 27, 2011

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 27, 2011: Comprehensive daily news related to North Korea for the world of TODAY.

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DTN News - December 27, 2011: North Korea Prepares Huge Send-Off For Late Leader

North Korea was Tuesday preparing a massive ceremonial farewell to late leader Kim Jong-il as it strove to strengthen a new personality cult around his youthful son and successor Jong-un.
The secretive state has so far given no details whatever of Wednesday's funeral for its "Dear Leader" of the past 17 years.

But analysts say the regime, as it did in 1994 when Kim Jong-il's own father died, will use the event to shore up loyalty to the new leader and will likely mobilize hundreds of thousands of people.
The untested Jong-un, aged only in his late 20s, has been thrust into the world spotlight since his father died suddenly on December 17 aged 69.
Official media has added several titles to his flimsy CV, declaring him "great successor", supreme commander of the world's fourth-largest military and head of the ruling party's powerful Central Committee.
The son, who has not yet been formally appointed to the party and military posts, has been the central figure in scenes of mourning at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where his father lies in state in a glass coffin.
On Monday he met the leaders of two South Korean delegations at the palace, expressing "deep gratitude" for their presence, according to official media.
South Korea, which has remained technically at war with the North for six decades, has responded cautiously to the shake-up in its nuclear-armed neighbour.
Unlike in 1994, the Seoul government expressed sympathy to the North's people and made other conciliatory gestures.
But it authorized mourning visits to Pyongyang by just the two South Korean delegations, a restriction that the North termed "inhuman".
Lee Hee-ho, widow of late South Korean president Kim Dae-jung, and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-eun paid respects Monday to the late leader and expressed condolences to Jong-un.

Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-il held the first-ever inter-Korean summit in 2000 and Hyundai pioneered cross-border business projects.
While Kim Jong-il had 20 years to prepare for the communist world's only dynastic succession, Jong-un has had barely three. Analysts will closely watch the funeral for possible clues about who will have most influence with him.
Jong-un, "great successor to the Juche (self-reliance) revolutionary cause and sagacious leader of our party, state, army and people, is at the helm of the Korean revolution", the North's news agency reported early Tuesday.
South Korean media, basing their predictions on arrangements for the 1994 funeral, said the obsequies would likely begin at 10:00 am Wednesday, with Jong-un and senior officials paying final respects at the memorial palace.
They said the military was expected to fire a 24-gun salute and troops would march through central Pyongyang, accompanying a limousine carrying Kim's coffin and another car with a giant photo.
Military marching bands would play funeral music while convoys of motorcycles and cars carrying flowers and senior officials would follow the coffin as hundreds of thousands looked on, the media forecast.
Mourning will officially end Thursday with a nationwide memorial service including a three-minute silence, the North's media has reported.
On Tuesday the South Korean delegations, who were to return later Wednesday across the heavily fortified border, met the North's de facto head of state and parliament chief Kim Yong-nam, state media reported.
Lee and Hyun expressed hope that declarations agreed at summits in 2000 and 2007 would be implemented, it said.
On their way home they stopped off at the Kaesong industrial estate just north of the border — the last major joint venture still functioning, the South's Yonhap news agency reported.
The complex, utilising the North's labour in Seoul-owned light industries, has survived high cross-border tensions of recent years.

North Korea crafts new cult figure

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Herald Sun - 8 hours ago

Kim Jong-un, North Korea's heir apparent following the death of his father, pictured in September this year. Picture: AFP Source: AFP Kim Jong-un, ...

North Korea burnishes new ruler's credentials‎ AFP
S. Korea, China hold talks after Kim's death‎ The Express Tribune
N. Korea set to mobilize masses for funeral‎ Inquirer.net
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Inquirer.net

Foreigner in North Korea a witness to surreal scenes

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AFP - 4 days ago

The aid worker who lives in the North Korean capital, and spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the city is largely operating as normal but lies ...

Young mourner a key to North Korean dynasty's future?‎ The Australian
Kim Jong-il 'blocked the howling wind of history': North Korean ...‎ National Post (blog)
North Korea To Welcome South Korean Condolence Delegations ...‎ Wall Street Journal
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AFP

Japan PM, China in talks on Korea

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Sydney Morning Herald - 13 hours ago

Photo: AFP But Mr Kim's death has shifted the agenda to worries about nuclear-armed North Korea, where his untested son Kim Jong-un appears to be taking the ...

Focus on N. Korea as Japan PM meets China's leaders‎ Sin Chew Jit Poh
Japan Asks China For Help on North Korea‎ Voice of America
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Sydney Morning Herald

China urges North Koreans to stand behind Kim's son

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AFP - 20 Dec 2011

Police told an AFP reporter at the scene that the embassy would remain off limits to non-North Koreans for at least one day. "You can't have a visa today," ...

Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un, to rule North Korea‎ Herald Sun
Mourning in North Korea, worries in South after Kim Jong Il's death‎ msnbc.com
Death of North Korea's Kim Jong Il Might Present Nuclear Crisis ...‎ Bloomberg
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AFP

Website offers rare glimpse of North Korean TV

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AFP - 10 Dec 2011

"I started live streaming three years ago mainly to let people here witness what North Korea is really like," Lim, 47, told AFP. North Korean television is ...

N. Korea warns against Xmas lights‎ NEWS.com.au
US envoy says North Korea 'must change behaviour'‎ Straits Times
South Korea allows 2 more Christmas trees‎ News24
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AFP

S. Korea tightens monitoring of social media

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AFP - 8 Dec 2011

"Postings and sites that praise North Korea or glorify its leaders are also ... as they increased rapidly this year," team leader Han Myeong-Ho told AFP. ...

South Korea tightens social media monitoring‎ ZDNet Asia
South Korea to buy cruise missiles‎ Pakistan Observer
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AFP

N. Korea raps S. Korean response to Kim's death

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AFP - 18 Dec 2011

Jeung Young-Tae of the South's Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP theNorth was "trying to foster division" with its offer and would exploit ...

AFP

General Dellosa on his first AFP Day

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Inquirer.net - 1 day ago

With the Army and Navy being established in 1897 and 1898, how could AFP Day be ... unit as its contribution to a United Nations effort against North Korea. ...

The Day's Best | 12.26.11

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News & Observer - 7 hours ago

ASSOCIATED PRESS Anti North Korea activists attend a rally to protest the South Korean ... AFP/Getty Images Elyssabeth Fuller, 12, one of over 40 people who ...

News & Observer

US Republican candidates refocus on foreign policy

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AFP - 6 days ago

"I do want to take a minute, because of the North Korean situation, ... upsetting factor" in the party's nomination process, Goldford told AFP by telephone. ...

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