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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Kim Jong-Un plans to send a message to Donald Trump by launching a missile


Kim Jong-Un of North Korea plans to send a message to Donald Trump by testing another missile. It would be a high-profile launch and it would coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump as US President on Friday. As per a news report, two new missiles had been loaded onto mobile launchers.
These missiles are believed to be equipped with new engines that North Korea had tested last April, when Pyongyang said they would 'guarantee' an eventual nuclear strike on the US mainland.
Incidentally, Donald Trump has said that he would be willing to invite Kim to the United States to discuss the nuclear issue and hoped that he could talk Kim out of his nuclear missile affairs.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 January 2017.
The existence of the missiles has apparently been leaked by Pyongyang in order to send a 'strategic message' to incoming US president Donald Trump who is to be sworn in on Friday. Kim Jong-Un has recently stated that his country was in the final stages of developing inter-continental ballistic missiles.
The satellite images of the Yongbyon nuclear facility has revealed that preparations had been taking place which would suggest that North Koreans were about to resume production of plutonium.
The Pentagon has already deployed a high-tech sea-based X-band radar system which will maintain a watch for a possible launch of a North Korean long-range missile.


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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

War waged on ISIS by the US and UK has destroyed 26000 targets


When the US-led coalition began its airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, it had been predicted that it would be a long drawn-out one. And, from existing statistics, it is evident that even though the combined efforts of the US and UK have destroyed 26000 ISIS targets, much more needs to be done.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 9 August 2016.
Till now, more than 14,000 strikes have been launched at a cost of $8.4bn to the United States and $365m to the UK and nearly 26,000 targets have been either destroyed or damaged. The campaign has stepped in its second year an additional 2,336 airstrikes and there have been twice as many civilian deaths. Figures indicate 1,080 according to data furnished by a London-based monitor called Airwars.
However, the Pentagon says that only 55 civilians have been killed by US aircraft while the UK Ministry of Defence says British strikes have not resulted in death of any innocents. The fact is that nearly 3.2 million Iraqis have been displaced and the number of Syrians is much more. The mass exodus has had a devastating all round effect because it has not only changed borders, but has swelled towns, and emptied cities.
Incidentally, in 2014, President Barack Obama had said that he did not want the United States to be dragged into another war in Iraq - but, events have proved otherwise - right now, there are some 3,800 US soldiers in Iraq. And, the US plans to send another 400 American troops to an airbase south of Mosul which is a strategic city.


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