Kim Jong Nuke should just dispense majority of his nuke stocks on biggest US cities and then immediately go fishing. Don't waste time.
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UN Official Begins Rare Diplomatic Mission to North Korea
Last Updated: December 05, 2017 7:30 AM
U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, center, walks upon arrival at the Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Dec. 5, 2017.
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A high-ranking United Nations official has arrived in North Korea to help lower tensions over the secretive regime's nuclear and ballistic missile testing programs.
Jeffrey Feltman, the world body's undersecretary-general for political affairs, left for Pyongyang Tuesday after a stopover in Beijing the day before. Feltman is the first U.N. official holding that rank to visit the isolated regime since his predecessor, Lynn Pascoe, in 2010.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Feltman will discuss "issues of mutual interest and concern" with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and Vice Minister Pak Myong Guk during his visit, which ends on Friday.
Feltman's visit comes less than a week after Pyongyang announced it had successfully test fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the U.S. mainland. The launch heightened tensions between the North and the United States, highlighted by months of insults between the regime and President Donald Trump.
The visit also coincides with a joint U.S.-South Korea air force exercise that began Monday.
Dujarric said Pyongyang issued an invitation for Feltman to visit back in September, during the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
Feltman will also meet with the heads of various U.N. humanitarian programs operating in North Korea, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the U.N. Population Fund. But Dujarric would not say if Feltman would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his trip.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/04/asia/un-official-north-korea-visit/index.html
Senior UN official arrives in North Korea
By Kristina Sgueglia, Richard Roth and Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 1058 GMT (1858 HKT) December 5, 2017
Story highlights
Jeffrey Feltman, the UN's undersecretary-general for Political Affairs, will meet with officials and discuss "issues of mutual interest and concern," the UN announced.
The visit comes just days after North Korea tested an advanced, long-range ballistic missile.
The last senior UN official to visit North Korea was Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos in October 2011, according to the UN. The last time an undersecretary-general for Political Affairs visited the country was in February 2010.
UN Undersecretary- General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman arrives at Beijing's international airport on Tuesday, on his way to North Korea.
A former American diplomat, Feltman is now a key adviser to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on global peace and security issues. He spent nearly 30 years at the US State Department prior to joining the UN in 2012.
The visit is a response to a "long standing invitation" from Pyongyang authorities for policy dialogue with the UN, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a press conference Monday. Meetings have been confirmed with the country's foreign minister, the vice minister and diplomatic colleagues, Dujarric said.
Feltman is also expected to visit the organization's project sites and meet with members of the diplomatic corps. Six UN agencies are represented in North Korea, staffed by a team of about 50 people from across the globe, according to a UN news release.
South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Noh Kyu-duk said Seoul has been in close contact with the United Nations and hopes Feltman will be able to relay the "international community's united will that North Korea's provocation and threat must end."
Missile tests and military drills
Feltman's trip coincides with annual Vigilante 18 military drill held by the US and South Korea, which the US Air Force says is designed to boost the "combat effectiveness" of the alliance.
A senior South Korean Air Force official told CNN on Monday that the war games will include attacks against a mock North Korean missile launch site with mock North Korean radars.
Some 230 US and South Korean aircraft and 12,000 service members will participate in the drill, including advanced stealth fighters and bombers. They'll also include F-22s and F-35s in the largest concentration of fifth-generation fighter jets ever in South Korea.
A US Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth jet takes off at a South Korean air base in Gwangju on December 4, 2017.
Experts say the concentration of stealthy F-22s and F-35s near North Korea worries Pyongyang because North Korea's radars can't detect them.
The country's state media called the drills "joint air war exercises targeting the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)."
"Owing to the US imperialist warmongers' extremely reckless war hysteria, a grave situation is prevailing in the Korean peninsula that a nuclear war may break out any moment," the piece in state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) read.
The drills come shortly after North Korea carried out its first ballistic missile test since September.
Pyongyang test-fired a Hwasong-15 missile Wednesday, which is believed to be its most dangerous and technologically advanced long-range ballistic missile.
It demonstrated a range of around 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles), which puts most of the planet in range. North Korean state media purports it can carry a "super-large heavy warhead."
CNN's Karen Smith and Brad Lendon contributed to this report.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42232852
North Korea crisis: UN political chief in rare visit to Pyongyang
The United Nations political affairs chief begins a rare four-day visit to Pyongyang on Tuesday.
The trip by Jeffrey Feltman is the first by a senior UN official in six years.
North Korea had extended an invitation to the UN in September to visit for a "policy dialogue".
It comes after last week's launch of what North Korea called its "most powerful" intercontinental ballistic missile, claiming it could hit the US.
Mr Feltman, a former US diplomat and the highest ranking American in the UN, will be in Pyongyang until Friday. His visit comes as South Korea and the US conduct their largest ever round of aerial drills.
He is not scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
An invitation with significant timing
Paul Adams, BBC News, Seoul
It wasn't until last week - the day after North Korea's latest missile test - that Pyongyang confirmed the invitation it issued in September.
The timing seems significant: Kim Jong-un had just announced his country's success in creating a nuclear force.
In the absence of any other meaningful diplomatic channels, the UN clearly believes it's important to pursue whatever opportunities exist for dialogue.
On his way to Pyongyang, Mr Feltman held talks in Beijing - no doubt interested to hear what, if anything, came out of China's latest talks with the North Korean regime.
China, a historic ally of North Korea and its main trading partner, had sent a top-ranking diplomat to Pyongyang last month for discussions with officials there.
The UN has said there are no plans at present for UN chief Antonio Guterres, who has offered to mediate in the North Korean crisis, to visit Pyongyang.
The last visit by a senior UN official was when Valerie Amos, then the UN's aid chief, travelled there in October 2011. Mr Feltman's predecessor Lynn Pascoe also visited in 2010.
The UN operates six agencies with 50 international staff in North Korea which provide food, agricultural and health aid. Malnutrition is a significant problem in the country.
Mr Feltman's trip comes during a period of high tensions following North Korea's test launch of a missile which drew another round of international condemnation.
The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley had said last week that if war broke out, the North Korean regime would be "utterly destroyed".
On Monday, South Korea and the US began a five-day air combat exercise, their largest ever involving more than 200 aeroplanes and thousands of troops.
North Korea, which routinely condemns such drills, has called it a "provocation".
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UN Official Begins Rare Diplomatic Mission to North Korea
Last Updated: December 05, 2017 7:30 AM
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U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, center, walks upon arrival at the Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Dec. 5, 2017.
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A high-ranking United Nations official has arrived in North Korea to help lower tensions over the secretive regime's nuclear and ballistic missile testing programs.
Jeffrey Feltman, the world body's undersecretary-general for political affairs, left for Pyongyang Tuesday after a stopover in Beijing the day before. Feltman is the first U.N. official holding that rank to visit the isolated regime since his predecessor, Lynn Pascoe, in 2010.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Feltman will discuss "issues of mutual interest and concern" with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and Vice Minister Pak Myong Guk during his visit, which ends on Friday.
Feltman's visit comes less than a week after Pyongyang announced it had successfully test fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the U.S. mainland. The launch heightened tensions between the North and the United States, highlighted by months of insults between the regime and President Donald Trump.
The visit also coincides with a joint U.S.-South Korea air force exercise that began Monday.
Dujarric said Pyongyang issued an invitation for Feltman to visit back in September, during the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
Feltman will also meet with the heads of various U.N. humanitarian programs operating in North Korea, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the U.N. Population Fund. But Dujarric would not say if Feltman would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his trip.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/04/asia/un-official-north-korea-visit/index.html
Senior UN official arrives in North Korea
By Kristina Sgueglia, Richard Roth and Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 1058 GMT (1858 HKT) December 5, 2017
Story highlights
- Feltman is visiting as the US and South Korea conduct military exercises
- North Korea test-fired a long-range missile last week
Jeffrey Feltman, the UN's undersecretary-general for Political Affairs, will meet with officials and discuss "issues of mutual interest and concern," the UN announced.
The visit comes just days after North Korea tested an advanced, long-range ballistic missile.
The last senior UN official to visit North Korea was Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos in October 2011, according to the UN. The last time an undersecretary-general for Political Affairs visited the country was in February 2010.
UN Undersecretary- General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman arrives at Beijing's international airport on Tuesday, on his way to North Korea.
A former American diplomat, Feltman is now a key adviser to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on global peace and security issues. He spent nearly 30 years at the US State Department prior to joining the UN in 2012.
The visit is a response to a "long standing invitation" from Pyongyang authorities for policy dialogue with the UN, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a press conference Monday. Meetings have been confirmed with the country's foreign minister, the vice minister and diplomatic colleagues, Dujarric said.
Feltman is also expected to visit the organization's project sites and meet with members of the diplomatic corps. Six UN agencies are represented in North Korea, staffed by a team of about 50 people from across the globe, according to a UN news release.
South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Noh Kyu-duk said Seoul has been in close contact with the United Nations and hopes Feltman will be able to relay the "international community's united will that North Korea's provocation and threat must end."
Missile tests and military drills
Feltman's trip coincides with annual Vigilante 18 military drill held by the US and South Korea, which the US Air Force says is designed to boost the "combat effectiveness" of the alliance.
A senior South Korean Air Force official told CNN on Monday that the war games will include attacks against a mock North Korean missile launch site with mock North Korean radars.
Some 230 US and South Korean aircraft and 12,000 service members will participate in the drill, including advanced stealth fighters and bombers. They'll also include F-22s and F-35s in the largest concentration of fifth-generation fighter jets ever in South Korea.
A US Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth jet takes off at a South Korean air base in Gwangju on December 4, 2017.
Experts say the concentration of stealthy F-22s and F-35s near North Korea worries Pyongyang because North Korea's radars can't detect them.
The country's state media called the drills "joint air war exercises targeting the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)."
"Owing to the US imperialist warmongers' extremely reckless war hysteria, a grave situation is prevailing in the Korean peninsula that a nuclear war may break out any moment," the piece in state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) read.
The drills come shortly after North Korea carried out its first ballistic missile test since September.
Pyongyang test-fired a Hwasong-15 missile Wednesday, which is believed to be its most dangerous and technologically advanced long-range ballistic missile.
It demonstrated a range of around 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles), which puts most of the planet in range. North Korean state media purports it can carry a "super-large heavy warhead."
CNN's Karen Smith and Brad Lendon contributed to this report.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42232852
North Korea crisis: UN political chief in rare visit to Pyongyang
- 5 December 2017
- From the section Asia
The United Nations political affairs chief begins a rare four-day visit to Pyongyang on Tuesday.
The trip by Jeffrey Feltman is the first by a senior UN official in six years.
North Korea had extended an invitation to the UN in September to visit for a "policy dialogue".
It comes after last week's launch of what North Korea called its "most powerful" intercontinental ballistic missile, claiming it could hit the US.
Mr Feltman, a former US diplomat and the highest ranking American in the UN, will be in Pyongyang until Friday. His visit comes as South Korea and the US conduct their largest ever round of aerial drills.
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He is not scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
An invitation with significant timing
Paul Adams, BBC News, Seoul
It wasn't until last week - the day after North Korea's latest missile test - that Pyongyang confirmed the invitation it issued in September.
The timing seems significant: Kim Jong-un had just announced his country's success in creating a nuclear force.
In the absence of any other meaningful diplomatic channels, the UN clearly believes it's important to pursue whatever opportunities exist for dialogue.
On his way to Pyongyang, Mr Feltman held talks in Beijing - no doubt interested to hear what, if anything, came out of China's latest talks with the North Korean regime.
China, a historic ally of North Korea and its main trading partner, had sent a top-ranking diplomat to Pyongyang last month for discussions with officials there.
The UN has said there are no plans at present for UN chief Antonio Guterres, who has offered to mediate in the North Korean crisis, to visit Pyongyang.
The last visit by a senior UN official was when Valerie Amos, then the UN's aid chief, travelled there in October 2011. Mr Feltman's predecessor Lynn Pascoe also visited in 2010.
The UN operates six agencies with 50 international staff in North Korea which provide food, agricultural and health aid. Malnutrition is a significant problem in the country.
Mr Feltman's trip comes during a period of high tensions following North Korea's test launch of a missile which drew another round of international condemnation.
The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley had said last week that if war broke out, the North Korean regime would be "utterly destroyed".
On Monday, South Korea and the US began a five-day air combat exercise, their largest ever involving more than 200 aeroplanes and thousands of troops.
North Korea, which routinely condemns such drills, has called it a "provocation".
