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Anonymous ID: 3c69f5 Oct. 7, 2022, 9:53 p.m. No.17672054   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukraine-denies-north-korean-missile-components-state-owned/story?id=49206153

Ukraine denies North Korean missile components came from state-owned factory

The head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council rejected the claim.

Ukraine’s government has denied a report that one of its state-owned factories may have supplied the rocket engines North Korea is using in its quest to create a missile capable of hitting the continental United States.

The successful test launches North Korea has carried out in recent months that have prompted fiery rhetoric from President Donald Trump have also surprised experts. The country has been making rapid progress in developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Now, a new analysis by an American missile expert, first reported by The New York Times on Monday, says it has identified the engines that are powering these recent missile tests as a type produced by a factory in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Michael Elleman, a senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told The New York Times he believed that the engines had likely been acquired illegally from workers from Yuzhmash, a Ukrainian factory that has been suffering severe financial difficulties recently. Elleman said he did not believe Yuzhmash's executives or the Ukrainian government were involved in the deal, but that Ukraine was the most likely source of engines. Elleman told the Times he feared that Yuzhmash technicians might be aiding the North Koreans.

“It’s likely that these engines came from Ukraine —- probably illicitly,” Elleman told the Times. “The big question is how many they have and whether the Ukrainians are helping them now. I’m very worried.”

Anonymous ID: 3c69f5 Oct. 7, 2022, 9:56 p.m. No.17672342   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3390 >>3392

2 Jul, 2022 14:39

China may be plotting moon takeover – NASA

(This headline is the best)

Chinese astronauts are busy learning how to destroy other nations’ satellites, agency chief Bill Nelson claimed

 

China might be contemplating a “takeover” of the Moon as part of its military space program, NASA’s administrator Bill Nelson has told newspaper Bild.

 

In an interview published on Saturday, Nelson claimed that the United States is now involved in a new race to space, with China this time. He emphasized that in 2035 Beijing might finish construction of its own Moon station and start experiments a year later.

 

79-year-old Nelson claimed that we must be very concerned about China landing on the Moon and saying that it now belongs to the Peoples’ Republic and everyone else should stay out.

 

Claiming that China’s space program is a “military” space program, Nelson explained that the competition for the south pole of the moon is especially intense: potential water deposits there could be used in the future for rocket-fuel production.

 

When asked by Bild what military purposes could China be pursuing in space, Nelson claimed that Chinese astronauts are busy learning how to destroy other countries’ satellites.

 

Despite Beijing’s assurances that its ambitious space program has purely peaceful purposes, Nelson has long been a tough critic of China’s policy in space.

 

In April he accused Chinese officials of refusing to work with the US on its operations and of concealing important data. Earlier, however, he acknowledged that NASA abides by a 2011 law that prohibits the agency from engaging in direct collaboration with the Chinese government or any China-affiliated organizations without explicit approval from Congress and federal law enforcement authorities. Chinese officials have pointed to that ban, called the Wolf Amendment, as “unfortunate” and an impediment to direct cooperation with NASA.

 

Recent sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow over its military offensive in Ukraine prompted Russia to seek even deeper cooperation with China in space. In the end of February, just two days after the launch of Moscow’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine, the head of the Russian space agency Dmitry Rogozin announced that Roscosmos would cease work on joint space projects with Europe and the United States and would start negotiations with China on coordination and mutual technical support of all deep-space missions.

 

Meanwhile, in January this year, NASA’s Office ofInspector General warned that the size of the agency’s astronaut corps might be too small to meet its future needs. The corps, which listed 44 astronauts, was named “one of the smallest cadres of astronauts in the past 20 years,” and that’s while NASA is preparing for its Artemis moon exploration missions.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/558264-space-china-us-nasa/

Anonymous ID: 3c69f5 Oct. 7, 2022, 10:10 p.m. No.17673430   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nato-members-have-declined-kievs-aspirations:-zelenskys-offi

 

NATO members have declined Kiev's aspirations: Zelensky's office

 

Ukraine is not planning to do anything in terms of its NATO membership in the near future, Ihor Zhovka, the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, told the Financial Times.

 

"Nato members have declined our aspirations. We will not do anything else in this regard," Zhovkva said.

 

Despite the impasse on Kiev's cooperation with the West within the framework of NATO, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's diplomatic advisor said Kiev wanted Brussels to remove any mentions of Russia as a partner from the military alliance's strategic concept.

 

Zhovkva said Kiev expected there to be more strict and severe warnings to Moscow within NATO's strategic concept. "Don't be shy - that's my appeal to NATO members - in formulating the provisions vis-a-vis Russia."

 

He further underlined that if the NATO member states do not "reveal" what is going on in Europe and Ukraine, then Brussels' outline of its policies and priorities for the next decade would be a mere document, "absolutely irrelevant".

 

NATO is set to hold a summit in Madrid, Spain, next week (June 28-30) where it is expected to adopt a new strategic concept outlining its policies and priorities for the next decade.

 

Kiev has been voicing its desire to join NATO for months now, and these calls for accession raised security concerns in Russia and prompted Moscow to launch what it called a special military operation in Ukraine.

 

The operation came with several objectives, such as curbing the spread of neo-Nazism within Ukraine, protecting the people of the Donbass republics from Ukrainian aggression, and preventing Kiev's accession to NATO.

 

Ukraine, however, has been backtracking on its calls for accession, with Zelensky saying in March that he did not want to be the president of a "country which is begging something on its knees".

 

Russia sees NATO expansion as a threat, especially since over the years, the Cold War-era alliance expanded eastward, jeopardizing Russian interests.

Anonymous ID: 3c69f5 Oct. 7, 2022, 10:15 p.m. No.17673830   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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