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Anonymous ID: 948ce3 Oct. 27, 2024, 7:46 p.m. No.21845678   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5872 >>5998 >>6104 >>6131

South Korea is threatening to arm Ukraine in response to North Korea's support for Russia

 

South Korea threatened to send weapons and resources to Ukraine in response to its longtime foe, North Korea, escalating support for Russia's invasion.

If it goes ahead, it could prove a powerful ally.

After an emergency National Security Council meeting this week, top South Korean officials condemned North Korea for sending troops to Russia.

Their mission has not been made explicit, but Ukraine has said they are there to join Russia's invasion.

Officials also briefed news outlets that Seoul could send weapons to Ukraine as part of a series of phased countermeasures.

South Korean news agency Yonhap on Tuesday cited security officials who said Seoul could even send military personnel to Ukraine to monitor North Korea's presence in the conflict.

Russia's foreign ministry threatened South Korea with "security consequences" should it get involved, Yonhap reported.

A fearsome arsenal

Analysts say Russia has a good reason to be concerned.

"South Korean weapons could potentially make a significant difference on both Ukraine's defensive capabilities and offensive capabilities," Jeremy Chan, a China and northeast Asia analyst at the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider.

South Korea, a US ally, has built a formidable arsenal of weapons in its decadeslong stand-off with North Korea.

 

It includes antiaircraft and anti-missile systems which could help Ukraine defend its towns and infrastructure from Russian attacks, Chan said.

There are also "world-class" K9 Howitzer guns, K2 tanks, and multiple-rocket-launcher systems, Chan said.

Seoul has already aided the supply of much-needed 155 mm shells to Ukraine, albeit at one remove.

South Korea sent ammo to Western allies like the US and Poland, which freed them up to send their own to Ukraine.

Ellen Kim, a Korea expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, told BI that South Korean support for Kyiv could include giving intelligence on North Korean weapons and tactics.

"South Korea could assist in a psychological warfare campaign against North Korean soldiers who may not want to fight in the war" as well, said Kim.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday "there is evidence" that North Korean troops were already training in Russia, and warned against them joining the fight.

Experts on the country's military told BI that soldiers sent there would be put under harsh measures to discourage them from deserting.

 

South Korea hesitates

Significant obstacles stand in the way of South Korea arming Ukraine, though. Not least is South Korea's long-standing ban on sending military assistance to foreign countries at war.

Chan said South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol was domestically unpopular and would encounter difficulties repealing the law via South Korea's center-left-dominated National Assembly.

"North Korea's actions would have to present a clearer and more immediate threat to South Korea's national security before we would expect the National Assembly to authorize export of weapons to Ukraine," he said.

Another factor is South Korea's desire to not entirely destroy its relationship with Russia, despite its growing fears about the Kremlin empowering North Korea and emboldening its leader Kim Jong Un, said Chain and Kim, the analysts.

In return for North Korean shells and military support in Ukraine, the Kremlin has sought to stymie UN inspections of North Korea's nuclear program and could be prepared to hand it sophisticated military technology.

 

Entrapment dilemma

Chan said Yoon was figuring out the best way to deter Russia.

"Seoul believes that the threat to provide weapons gives it more leverage over Moscow than it would have if South Korea were to begin providing weapons directly," he said.

Future diplomatic and trade ties are another reason South Korea is hesitating to act — as well as the prospect of being pulled further into the Ukraine war than it intends.

"There is a possibility South Korea could be shooting at Russians and/or North Koreans, and it would internationalize and widen the war further," Sean McFate, a strategy professor at Georgetown University, told BI.

"Worst case is it sparks a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula that drags the US and China into armed conflict."

But the escalating alliance between Russia and North Korea may soon reach a point where South Korea feels it needs to act.

Because of Russia's increasing reliance on North Korea, Kim finds himself in a powerful position to negotiate sophisticated technology in return.

Such an exchange, said Chan, could be the red line that compels South Korea to get involved in the Ukraine war and send weapons.

Although it has the military power to enable Ukraine to hurt Russia, it's an escalation that comes with real risks.

As Ellen Kim put it: "North Korea's involvement dramatically raises the risk of entrapment for South Korea in the war."

 

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Swiss tourist in Algeria killed in knife attack at cafe in front of her children

 

A Swiss tourist was murdered in Algeria this month when a knife-wielding man attacked her at a cafe in front of her children, slitting her throat while shouting “Allahu akbar”, media reported.

The attack took place in Djanet in southeastern Algeria on October 11, but was first reported this week by the French newspaper Liberation.

 

Switzerland’s foreign ministry told AFP that it was aware of “the violent death of a Swiss citizen on October 11 in southeastern Algeria”.

 

It said she had been part of a group of five travellers, all of them Swiss, but provided no further details.

 

Algerian authorities have meanwhile remained silent about the attack, and Swiss broadcaster RTS reported that the authorities had even asked residents in the area to refrain from sharing information on social media about what had happened.

 

At the time of the attack, the woman, whose name and age were not given, was reportedly seated outside a popular Djanet cafe with her children and a friend.

 

The attacker, reportedly a young man from northern Algeria, slit the woman’s throat, and she later died in hospital, according to RTS.

 

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3283722/swiss-tourist-algeria-killed-knife-attack-cafe-front-her-children-report

Anonymous ID: 948ce3 Oct. 27, 2024, 8:33 p.m. No.21845928   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: 948ce3 Oct. 27, 2024, 9:16 p.m. No.21846075   🗄️.is 🔗kun

He is the Chosen One

 

JD Vance plays ‘Magic: ‘The Gathering’ — and his favorite card could reveal GOP candidate’s dark political ambitions

 

JD Vance may have revealed his cards too early in the race.

 

Fans of the fantasy card game “Magic: The Gathering” have discovered Vance’s favorite card, which they believe reveals everything voters need to know about the vice presidential candidate’s values.

 

In a recent interview with Semafor, the Ohio revealed his adolescent obsession with the game.

 

“The big problem with transitioning from being a 13-year-old who likes ‘Magic: The Gathering’ to being a 15-year-old who likes ‘Magic: The Gathering’ is that 15-year-old girls do not like ‘Magic: The Gathering’,” he confessed. “So I dropped it like a bad habit.”

 

Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate then named his “embarrassing” favorite card to play, called Yawgmoth’s Bargain.

 

The illustrious card depicts a monstrous, clawed machine’s interaction with a robed skeletal entity whose, bearing a warning in the caption: “He craves only one commodity.”

 

The card was introduced in 1999 but has since been banned in most competitive “Magic” tournaments due to its reputation as the ultimate trump card — which simply wasn’t as much fun.

 

The Independent spoke to avid players.

 

“At the time, it was probably the most powerful deck you could play,” one player from San Francisco told the outlet. “I infer from that that he’s ruthless and wants to win at all costs.”

 

Pitting wizard against wizard, the game is played in a series of spells, where Yawgmoth’s Bargain renders one player defenseless to the other’s onslaught of magic defenses.

 

“Essentially, you’re not playing an interactive game anymore. You’re just sort of playing Solitaire… while the other person sits there and waits for the game to end,” said lifelong Missour-based player Lucas Kunce, 42 — a Democratic politician running to unseat Republican senator Josh Hawley.

 

“If JD Vance was playing that at the kitchen table against his buddies, then people probably thought he was kind of a jerk,” Kunce continued, describing its “reputation for being a ‘broken’ card.”

 

“Magic” fans online are known for comparing their favorite decks, which are said to reveal key characteristics about a player’s personality, according to the Independent’s report.

 

On Reddit, a subgroup for “Magic” players concluded that any deck built around Yawgmoth’s Bargain would be associated with “greed, ambition, dominance, wickedness, the dead and undead, vampires, demons, blood magic.”

 

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