https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-27/north-korea-nuclear-test-election-15318452.html

https://srnnews.com/a-major-gathering-of-christians-in-south-korea/

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/biden-harris-admin-lets-off-soldier-who-defected-to-north-korea-with-time-served/

https://srnnews.com/north-korea-vows-response-to-us-submarines-visit-to-south-korea/

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-18/north-korea-upgraded-missiles-15226633.html

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-09-17/army-general-korea-russia-pact-senate-15210507.html

Threat of WWIII is NOT Fear Porn – Steve Quayle https://rumble.com/v5evt5x-threat-of-wwiii-is-not-fear-porn-steve-quayle.html Renowned radio host, filmmaker, book author and archeological dig expert Steve Quayle is sounding the alarm on the increasing possibility of nuclear war between NATO and Russia. Quayle says, “The threat of nuclear war is not fear porn–it’s real.” Quayle is not alone because for the second year in a row, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says, “A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight. 2024 Doomsday Clock Statement.” Today’s escalation is caused by the fact that NATO is contemplating allowing Ukraine to fire long range missiles deep into Russia. Now, breaking news that the Biden Administration did give the go ahead to fire long range missiles into Russia from Ukraine. There is also this breaking headline from the Asian Times: “Biden, NATO effectively declaring war on Russia.” Quayle warns, “This is not a trial run, the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban missile crisis. This is World War III. . . .We are seeing people crazy or people demonically possessed, in my opinion, talking about launching western missiles, German, British or US missiles into Russia. The Russian Ambassador to the UN said on Friday (9/13/24), ‘If you do that, we will consider it an act of war against Russia, and all options are open to us, and none of your countries are safe.’ That’s the bottom line. All these years you warn ahead of time, and they mock you saying fear monger and fear porn. . . . Well, we are at the inception point for World War III. This will not be getting any better.” There have been nearly zero talks of peace in Ukraine, only requests for more weapons and more escalation with Russia. So, NATO is clearly wanting to start a world war. It’s not just Russia we will be fighting, but China, North Korea and Iran, too. Quayle says, “This is what is so pertinent about this show because, this weekend, everybody (NATO) is talking about giving President Zelensky (Ukraine) the okay to launch against Moscow, which will result in the thermal nuclear detonation of over 100 targets in the United States and another 100 targets plus in Europe. NATO Headquarters will be toast. D.C. will be toast. . . . The Bible has made this clear if God did not shorten the days for the elect, that’s the people who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior, there would be no flesh left alive. So, as we sit here podcasting, 250 million Americans are at risk.” Even if nuclear war does not break out and the world gets a reprieve for a while, the financial system will not be fixed. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is warning of something coming that is “worse than recession.” In simple terms, Quayle says, “Dimon is warning because the banks are in deep doo-doo. Last week, you may remember billionaire Warren Buffett started dumping Bank of America stock. . . . I am told that Buffett dumped, all told, up around $50 billion in BofA stock. . . . When Buffett does some like this, people notice and they followed suit. The banking stocks are in deadly peril. I have been in the precious metals business for 35 years, and we are now watching clients being blocked for sending wire transfers. I am talking about the biggest 5 or 6 banks because they are running short on cash. . . . At some point, they will cut off all credit cards. I don’t know when that will be, but eventually, they will be stopped. This is what my sources tell me is going to happen. The ‘when’ is up to God.”

Long story short... I had to fly back to the UK to transfer funds to my new (business) bank account here in Korea and then certify it. When you make a transfer of funds between countries, it generates a record called an MT103, and the Koreans want this (among other bits of paper) notarised and then apostilled. Of course, this was the height of the holiday season and only some of the most expensive hotels were available in Cambridge (where my bank is), so just staying there for ten days cost me ₤1,000.00+... and everything there had to go on my VISA... and although legalised docs have now started arriving out here, it's going to take weeks to get them all out here. Meanwhile, yesterday was the expiry date on my job seeker visa (I got back from England just three days previously after a ten-hour flight from Munich, had to wait there, like fifteen hours, too...), so I had to get all of the docs for that together post-haste and scramble in for a non-reserved slot. Thankfully we were able to get that all done in about twenty minutes, but I really hate going even to the friendly Korean Immigration Offices. Anyway, that's another six months of residency. You might be interested in what is apparently allowed by the (D-8, investment) visa. According to my lawyer (!) here, it covers: * voice actor * publishing business * education * educational video production Not quite what I had envisaged, but we all have to work within limits. All of this took place in the lead-up to the annual Chuseok (Harvest) Festival, in which most things are essentially dead from tomorrow (Saturday) until Wednesday next week. These last two weeks have been so tiresome and stressful, I think I'll just stay home this weekend...

https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-jailed-in-north-korea-says-prison-guards-changed-by-sermons.html

UK: Starmer's Dictatorship? https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/ Britain's new leader, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the tried-and-true way of Communist dictators, has begun his first term by initiating a great purge of British dissidents. British protesters, denounced as "far right thugs," are being put behind bars faster than the prison services can absorb.... The youngest child arrested and charged is just 11 years old. Because the prisons, already overflowing, cannot handle the sudden influx of mass-sentenced wrongthinkers, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced that to make room for the dissidents, it will be freeing early roughly 5,500 criminals... who "will include criminals convicted of violence..." The mass arrests and trials are occurring at the same time as "Police are increasingly letting knife and sex offenders escape prosecution if they say sorry," according to an August 26 report by The Telegraph. Peter Lynch, 61, a grandfather in Rotherham, a place where children have for decades been experiencing rape, other sexual abuse, and torture at the hands of mainly Muslim grooming gangs while police and the city council looked the other way, shouted at police, "you are protecting people who are killing our kids and raping them" and "scum". Judge Richardson told Lynch: "You did not yourself attack any police officer, as far as can be detected, but what you did was encourage by your conduct others to behave violently and you were part of this mob. What a disgraceful example you are as a grandfather"... [and] sentenced him to two years and eight months. Lynch was simply telling the truth: In cities such as Rotherham, Telford, Rochdale, Oxford, Peterborough, Keighley, Newcastle and Birmingham local police and councils knowingly allowed mostly Muslim grooming gangs to rape, abuse, torture and even murder thousands of little children and teenagers for decades because they said that if they stopped the crimes, they might appear "racist". Does the Starmer government really have so much contempt for the British? They are not even allowed to protest the rape of their children. "At least one murder, sex assault or crime of violence is committed every two days by convicted criminals under supervision of the probation service after being released from jail, research has revealed." — The Telegraph, July 1, 2024. "Ideas are more powerful even than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas," said Josef Stalin. Those words appear to have become Starmer's motto... Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle recently made it clear that he thinks everything with which the government disagrees should be banned on social media. There seems to be no awareness of the essential problem: who chooses what is misinformation? Starmer's methods were once exclusively reserved for dictatorships such as China, Russia and North Korea; Western democracies did not used to sentence people to long prison sentences for speech crimes. by Robert Williams  •  September 9, 2024 at 5:00 am