North Korean propaganda video

North Korean propaganda video

Unknown   Thursday, March 14, 2013

Just when you thought propaganda videos of North Korea had peaked batty, drop it in us. "How Americans live today" is a Korean-language video that purports to show what life is really sad States, impoverished States where no birds, because they have all been eaten by starving Americans.

It is a land of homelessness, hunger and rampant gun violence.Ironically, the video portrays American life as something like the darkest days of the 1990s famine in North Korea, albeit with far more violence and drug abuse. Spencer Ackerman Wired says: "As with much great trolling, North Korea is taking some of his greatest weaknesses - extreme poverty, food shortages and the official bellicosity - and projecting toward his opponent."Americans, in this story, there are still eating snow. 
Their houses collapse despite the best efforts of the Red Cross to provide shelter. (In another irony, the video says that the Red Cross has its North Korean materials.) Describe the "former Republican candidate for Oregon" (not specified office, maybe a little to betray ignorance of the political system United States) as drinking "coffee made of snow.

"The video shows homeless shelters as the defining characteristic of American life, saying they are full of "the poor, cold, loneliness and homosexual." Yes, gay rights are poor in North Korea.Some images may be in the United States, but many of them clearly is not. Public telephones are not very American, and a screenshot that shows a message from Dell in what could be Spanish or Italian.It is difficult to know the source of the video.  

The previous version, dubbed into English, was posted on YouTube by a user based in India. Take a watermark in Ifeng or Phoenix TV, which is based in Hong Kong and China emissions. A version without watermark, which is three minutes and includes a reference to the shooting of Sandy Hook, was uploaded to a German YouTube account has many videos of the state media in North Korea.

This version says that the video is titled "The dark reality of capitalist societies."There are some clues suggesting that the original video, but not necessarily the English dub, it may be true. The narrator is speaking in theaters emotional, singing Korean often used in the media state emissions. And the message is consistent with North Korean propaganda that tries to convince its citizens that are not really trapped in extreme poverty and hunger after all, but we are living in the richest nation on earth! That means dissuade defectors and keep people loyal to present to the outside world - including South Korea and the United States - and even poorer and hungrier than North Korea. 

This message has been getting more and more hard for North Korea to sell their people. Since the famine, the country has tolerated greater black market trade across the border with China to provide enough food, which means that the video CDs and TV shows foreign films also found.

North Korean security forces have been so concerned about the potential impact of these video CDs, which clearly show South Koreans and Americans living in prosperity beyond the rule of North Korea, who have the same is a felony . Blaine Harden, in his excellent book "Escape from Camp 14," reports that security officials sometimes close to the whole apartment blocks, then assaulting individual houses to see if they have any contraband video CD stuck in his players. 

However, propaganda is largely successful, although in part this probably has to do with the sale of the first ideology and facts seconds. Otherwise rational people and skeptics might be more willing to believe the propaganda and buying extravagant if ultranationalist ideology behind it. Journalist Barbara Demick once met with a North Korean defector who had just crossed the border, who had risked everything to escape their country but still cried with fear when he met Demick. "Evil Americans are our enemies," he said.

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Intelligence Chief Calls Cyber attacks Top Threat to the U.S.

Intelligence Chief Calls Cyber attacks Top Threat to the U.S.

Unknown   Wednesday, March 13, 2013

WASHINGTON - The intelligence officer of the nation warned Congress on Tuesday that a cyber attack could cripple the infrastructure and economy of the United States and suggested that these attacks pose the immediate threat to the United States more dangerous, more pressing than the attack of the global terrorist networks. 

James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said in testimony prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee that U.S. intelligence agencies was only a "remote possibility" in the next two years of a major cyber attack - which defined as an operation that "would result in long-term, large-scale disruption of services, as a regional power outage."However, it was the first time that Mr. Clapper has included cyber attacks first in his annual presentation to Congress about the various threats facing the United States, and the rare occasion since 2001 that intelligence officials did not list the international terrorism for the first time in the catalog of dangers facing America.  

In 2009, the director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair said the global financial crisis, the "main concern short-term security of the United States."In a prepared statement Mr. Clapper, said: "In some cases, the world is the application of digital technologies faster than our ability to understand the security implications and mitigate potential risks."In his State of the Union address, President Obama highlighted the dangers of cyber espionage, and U.S. officials have recently stepped up rhetoric aimed at China. On Monday, Tom Donilon, national security adviser, called on China to agree to "acceptable standards of behavior in cyberspace.


"Mr. Clapper testimony began Tuesday with the heads of various intelligence agencies, including Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, of the Defense Intelligence Agency and John O. Brennan, who took over as director of the Central Intelligence Agency last week after a lengthy confirmation fight.

The threat is the only hearing scheduled time each year that spy chiefs open testify to Congress about the dangers facing America.Mr. Clapper also gave new emphasis on the dangers of nuclear weapons by North Korea and missile programs, said for the first time that "pose a serious threat to the United States" and to its neighbors in Asia Eastern. North Korea, which has recently made a series of belligerent statements after its third nuclear test, has shown an intercontinental missile that can be moved by road and a satellite launched in December over a launch vehicle Taepodong-2, according to the report. 

Intelligence agencies to see evidence of North Korea "committed to developing long-term missile technology" that could threaten the United States, Mr. Clapper said, but their willingness to use their weapons remains uncertain ."Although we assess that North untrustworthy just try to use nuclear weapons against U.S. forces or their allies to preserve the Kim regime, we do not know what would be, from the perspective of North Korea, crossing that threshold "Clapper said.Mr. Clapper said it was unlikely that Russia and China will launch "devastating" cyber attacks against the United States in the next two years, but he said that foreign intelligence services had been hacked and computer networks of government agencies, businesses and private companies.  

Two specific attacks listed Mr. Clapper, August 1, 2012 attack on the oil company Saudi Aramco and cyber attacks last year to U.S. banks and stock exchanges, is believed by U.S. intelligence officials to be the work of Iran.In his discussion of terrorism, Mr. Clapper noted that while the core of Al Qaeda in Pakistan "is probably unable to carry out complex, large-scale attacks in the West", a series of spin-offs that continues to pose a threat. Listed first is the affiliate in Yemen, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, that Mr. Clapper said he had maintained its target of attacks on U.S. soil, but also said the militant groups in six countries still threaten local violence .

Testimony of Mr. Clapper has noted the negative consequences of the Arab Spring, saying that while "some countries have moved towards democracy, most are experiencing uncertainty, violence and political setback" in particular and ethnic violence terrorist attacks. Islamist leaders and parties are the main beneficiaries of the recent elections and are prone to "solidify its influence" in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, its statement.In the aftermath of the revolutions in the Arab countries, Mr. Clapper said the United States needs to keep an eye on three issues: the possibility that political chaos will produce "ungoverned spaces" that extremists might Plot Against America, economic difficulties and high unemployment that could destabilize some countries, and anti-Americanism by the new populist governments. 

As in previous years, Mr. Clapper said Iran continued to develop nuclear capabilities, but Tehran's leaders had not decided whether to build a nuclear weapon.He said Iran's nuclear decision-making was based on a "cost-benefit approach" that gives other nations the opportunity to influence the behavior of Tehran."Iranian leaders undoubtedly consider Iran's security, prestige and influence, as well as the international political and security, to make decisions about its nuclear program," the statement said.

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