Korean parliament convenes to follow up on party congress

The USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) successfully conducts a series of tests of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense missiles using Standard Missile (SM)-6 Dual I and SM-2 Block IV missiles off Kauai, Hawaii.

“The capabilities that the DPRK continues to pursue are doing nothing obviously to get us to that goal”, he said.

North Korea is suspected of restarting its counterfeit currency business after an agent from the secretive nation was arrested over the discovery of fake $100 bills paid in to Chinese banks.

The Constitution stipulates Kim Jong-un is the supreme commander of the country’s armed forces and has the authority to declare a state of emergency and of war.

North Korea’s foreign ministry condemned it as “another military provocation perpetrated by the US” and reiterated strategic willingness to carry out a “pre-emptive nuclear attack” if threatened. “How can my country stand by and do nothing?”

Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the WPK, said at the reception that North Korea will make positive efforts to develop the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation with the Cuban party and people. North Korea says that test was its first of an H-bomb.

Yang is due to face North Korea’s Kim Hyong Jin tomorrow, while Ri meets China’s Zhao Zhaoyan and Kim goes up against countryman Choe Il.

For their part, South Korea and the United States do not officially acknowledge the North as a de facto nuclear weapons state.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry commented that this action was a “much stronger” response compared to the previous response, and was a reaction to a complaint from Seoul to the ICAO.

None of those proposals is new.

North Korea’s latest move was nothing more than the “typical propaganda” it had been repeating year after year, according to Seoul.

The new agency replaces the National Defense Commission as the country’s highest branch of government and supreme policymaking organization.

The Russian Federation, however, wants to preserve the North Korean regime, which prevents the important Korean peninsula from falling under the USA influence. However, the effectiveness of those sanctions to check North Korea’s nuclear ambitions is still in question, and there is now no sign of Pyongyang abandoning its nuclear aspirations. More from Neal Conan in the Pacific News Minute.

“Since the founding of our country the United States has refused to accept our country as a sovereign state”, he said.