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North Korea’s Concern for Self-Defense. The DPRK Missile Test

By Stephen Lendman, May 14, 2017

America wages permanent wars, destroying one nation after another, threatening all sovereign independent countries with regime change.

Its agenda is humanity’s greatest threat. The DPRK has just cause for concern about another US launched devastating war on the Korean peninsula.

North Korea Test-Fires 7th Ballistic Missile Of 2017, Projectile Flew 700Km, Landed In Sea Of Japan

By Tyler Durden, May 14, 2017

As we detailed earlier, on the eve of a summit in Beijing, and just hours after Pyongyang’s chief nuclear negotiator said North Korea is ready to hold talks with the United States “if the conditions are mature”, South Korea’s Yonhap reports that North Korea has fired a projectile believed to be a ballistic missile, from a region named Kusong located northwest of Pyongyang, where the North previously test-launched its intermediate-range missile.

Major Developments Strongly Suggest the End of Unipolar World Order

By Federico Pieraccini, May 14, 2017

Moon intends to resume dialogue with all partners in order not to limit his options in the international arena. Such an approach reflects the essence of the multipolar world order: cooperation and dialogue with all partners in order to achieve a win-win outcome.

CIA Creates Mission Center to Address Alleged “North Korean Threat”

By Telesur, May 12, 2017

Recent tensions between North Korea and the U.S. had accelerated as North Korea conducted a series of ballistic missile tests last month. It also threatened to conduct its sixth nuclear test “at any time.”