https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/06/map-the-countries-believed-to-have-tested-hydrogen-bombs/?utm_term=.5e85313504a3
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swallows returning to nests in Shasta area:
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9-4-2017
-Photos released just hours ahead of last weekend’s nuclear test showed Ri Hong Sop and Hong Sung Mu flanking despot Kim Jong-un as he inspected a new peanut-shaped warhead.
Kim Jong-un pictured with scientists Ri Hong Sop (left) and Hong Sung Mu (right)
Ri is the head of the hermit state’s Nuclear Weapons Institute while Hong is deputy director of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's munitions industry department.
According to the United Nations, Ri is known to be “engaged in or providing support for, including through other illicit means, DPRK’s nuclear-related, other weapons of mass destruction-related and ballistic missile-related programmes”.
They said the 77-year-old is the “former director of Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center and oversaw three core facilities that assist in the production of weapons-grade plutonium: the Fuel Fabrication Facility, the Nuclear Reactor and the Reprocessing Plant”.
Several North Korea leadership experts say they are part of a cadre of weapons experts at the frontline of the young leader's stated ambition: developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry a nuclear weapon to the United States or Europe.
Compared to his father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung who both preferred small working groups and middle managers to deal with weapons programmes, the current 33-year-old despot has been more personally involved with his team of nuclear scientists.
Expert Yang Moo-jin, professor at the University of North Korean studies in Seoul, said: “It appears that Hong is spearheading the nuclear development programme as a senior party official and Ri is in charge of nuclear tests such as hydrogen bombs on a working level.”
The two scientists have become increasingly high profile as Pyongyang's weapons programmes have advanced at a rapid pace under Kim's leadership.
In January 2016, Hong and Ri were the first and second in line to receive medals personally awarded by Kim at a ceremony to mark the country's fourth nuclear test, state TV footage showed.
Two months later, they accompanied a smiling Kim inspecting a silver-coloured sphere, which the North said was a miniaturised warhead capable of being fitted to an ICBM.
And last weekend a huge nuclear test was carried out in North Korea, with rumours growing of another provocative launch set to take place in the near future. https://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-missiles-scientists/north-koreas-nuclear-scientists-take-centre-stage-with-h-bomb-test-idUSL2N1LL026
and http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/850004/north-korea-news-nuclear-was-attack-missiles-bomb-photos
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9-4-17 http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2109725/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-risk-imploding-chinese
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North Korean presence in Russia has also been an ongoing source of concern, in particular as the majority of DPRK military equipment is based on former Soviet technology. Engagement with Russia is secondary to that of Pyongyang’s contact with China. https://projectalpha.eu/issue-briefs-2/north-korean-students-in-russia/
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Ri Pyong Chol, a former top air force general; Kim Jong Sik, a veteran rocket scientist; and Jang Chang Ha, the head of a weapons development and procurement center.
and http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/850004/north-korea-news-nuclear-was-attack-missiles-bomb-photos
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9-4-17 http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2109725/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-risk-imploding-chinese
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North Korean presence in Russia has also been an ongoing source of concern, in particular as the majority of DPRK military equipment is based on former Soviet technology. Engagement with Russia is secondary to that of Pyongyang’s contact with China. https://projectalpha.eu/issue-briefs-2/north-korean-students-in-russia/
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5-26-17
The photographs and TV footage show that the three are clearly Kim's favorites. Their behavior with him is sharply at variance with the obsequiousness of other senior aides, most of whom bow and hold their hands over their mouths when speaking to the young leader.
Unlike most other officials, two of them have flown with Kim in his private plane Goshawk-1, named after North Korea's national bird, state TV has shown.
With their ruling Workers Party, military and scientific credentials, the trio is indispensable to North Korea's rapidly developing weapons programs - the isolated nation has conducted two nuclear tests and dozens of missile launches since the beginning of last year, all in violation of U.N. resolutions.
"Rather than going through bureaucrats, Kim Jong Un is keeping these technocrats right by his side, so that he can contact them directly and urge them to move fast. It reflects his urgency about missile development," said An Chan-il, a former North Korean military officer who has defected to the South and runs a think tank in Seoul.
Kim Jong Sik and Jang are not from elite families, unlike many other senior figures in North Korea's ruling class, North Korean leadership experts say. They said Ri, the former air force commander, has been to one of the better-regarded schools in North Korea, but he and the other two were hand-picked by Kim Jong Un. They include Ri Pyong Chol, a former top air force general; Kim Jong Sik, a veteran rocket scientist; and Jang Chang Ha, the head of a weapons development and procurement center.
The photographs and TV footage show that the three are clearly Kim's favorites. Their behavior with him is sharply at variance with the obsequiousness of other senior aides, most of whom bow and hold their hands over their mouths when speaking to the young leader.
Unlike most other officials, two of them have flown with Kim in his private plane Goshawk-1, named after North Korea's national bird, state TV has shown.
With their ruling Workers Party, military and scientific credentials, the trio is indispensable to North Korea's rapidly developing weapons programs - the isolated nation has conducted two nuclear tests and dozens of missile launches since the beginning of last year, all in violation of U.N. resolutions.
"Rather than going through bureaucrats, Kim Jong Un is keeping these technocrats right by his side, so that he can contact them directly and urge them to move fast. It reflects his urgency about missile development," said An Chan-il, a former North Korean military officer who has defected to the South and runs a think tank in Seoul.
Kim Jong Sik and Jang are not from elite families, unlike many other senior figures in North Korea's ruling class, North Korean leadership experts say. They said Ri, the former air force commander, has been to one of the better-regarded schools in North Korea, but he and the other two were hand-picked by Kim Jong Un. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/25/kims-rocket-stars--the-trio-behind-north-koreas-missile-program.html
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/09/pakistan-could-become-chinas-south-asian-north-korea/
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-Saint Germain: 11-27-1986 at L.A. International Airport via Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet
But, beloved, I tell you frankly from our hearts, the hour is long past when there is opportunity for the many to respond.
When spirals of malcontent begin to cycle into the physical let the keepers of the flame (of Life) watch and unite. The time comes when the avalanche cannot be turned back. Seeds of unrest and betrayal, seeds of the profligate ones, seeds of those who are unalterably tied to a pleasure cult of materialism who sleep already and know it not--these shall not be turned.back [to the light]….Seek the lightbearers and let them be galvanized to the very power of the archangels who know very well how to achieve the victory….Think of what I have said and simply observe life.
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