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A ‘happy death’ A happy death is an oxymoron; it is a figure of speech combining contradictory terms. “Happy death” is one since a death cannot be happy, but a figure of speech may point to one in specific conditions. After all, the replacement of Kim Jong-il with his youngest son Kim Jong-un may possibly lead to peace in eastern Asia. Kim Jong-Il, the self-declared legendary leader of North Korea, was declared dead of a heart attack yesterday, actually two days after he died, prompting millions of North Koreans to cry uncontrollably, flailing their arms in grief. Now thousands of analysts and pundits around the world are seeking to grasp whether North Korea will act more reasonably in the wake of its dead leader. Nearly 18 months ago, I visited South Korea at the invitation of the government for about a dozen reporters from United Nations countries who sided with this country at the start of the Korean War in the 1950s. During the trip, we were taken to Panmunjom, a border post in the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea. South Korean soldiers manning just the south of the demarcation line were facing the north, following the movements of the North Korean guards with great care. But most North Korean troops were not facing the south but the north, as if the real danger would come from that direction. “Over the past several decades, there have been many defection attempts from the north. It is for this reason many people think North Korean guards are looking north, prepared to stop any such potential defection effort,” explained a U.N. official at the time. So Kim Jong-un, qualified by the North Korean state media as the “Great Successor,” will be taking over the rule of this strangely isolated nation. Meanwhile, a vigilant world watches for signs during a turbulent transition to the untested leader in an unpredictable nation known to be pursuing nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, a senior North Korean delegate visited Ankara secretly in September seeking humanitarian relief aid on an extremely rare visit marking the second of such meetings in 10 years. The team was led by North Korea’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kung Seok-woong. One Turkish nongovernmental organization agreed to send baby food to North Korea, with North Korean officials leaving Turkey one day earlier than planned. Turkey refuses, in addition to several other Western nations, to send more general-purpose food, like rice, fearing the military will appropriate it in accordance with the “military first” campaign in the country. Turkey joined the Korean War in 1950 and suffered the highest casualty rate. After this, Ankara was admitted to NATO membership for its staunch fighting on the part of the United Nations. Despite being one of the world’s most isolated countries, North Korea has a strong nuclear weapons program supported by ballistic missiles. Turkish Foreign Ministry officials said the talks do not represent in any way a softening in Turkey’s position toward North Korea’s nuclear approach. Most analysts do not expect to see a more aggressive North Korean position in the wake of Kim Jong-il’s death. It is the winter and North Korea is facing a famine and seeking foreign food aid. Kim Jong-un’s regime is in the making and it will take time before the Pyongyang regime will try another approach. Last year North Korea attacked the South Korean military ship Cheonan and bombed the southern island of Yeungpyeung, but is not likely to do so again in the near future. Since the Korean War, Turkey and South Korea have been very strong allies despite the physical distance between the two countries. They are involved in close defense industry cooperation but failed to finalize a nuclear power pact for a plant in southern Turkey last year. But as Japan’s efforts in the field falter after an extremely strong and deadly earthquake this year, Russia’s initiatives are not welcome because of Turkey’s already high energy dependency there, while France’s efforts will go nowhere because of an “Armenian genocide” law in the country; South Korea is seen to be in a fortunate position on the nuclear matter.
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काठमाण्डाै – उत्तर कोरियाली नेता किम जोङ उनले अमेरिकाको शत्रुतापूर्ण नीतिविरुद्ध कसैले पनि पराजित गर्न नसक्ने 'अजेय सेना' बनाउने प्रण गर्नुभएको छ । किम जोङ उनले हतियारको विकास युद्ध सुरु गर्न नभइ आत्म सुरक्षाका लागि भएको बताउनुभएको उत्तर कोरियाली सरकारी मिडियाहरूले बताएका छन् । विभिन्न ठूलाठूला क्षेप्यास्त्रहरू राखेर आयोजना गरिएको एक दुर्लभ प्रकारको सुरक्षा प्रदर्शनीका बेला किम जोङ उनको यस्तो टिप्पणी आएको हो । उत्तर कोरियाले भर्खरै मात्रै 'हाइपरसोनिक' र विमानभेदी क्षेप्यास्त्र भएको दाबी गरिएका हतियारको परीक्षण गरेको थियो । उत्तर कोरियाको राजधानी प्योङयाङमा भएको सेल्फ डिफेन्स आत्म सुरक्षसम्बन्धी २०२१ को प्रदर्शनीमा सम्बोधन गर्दै किम जोङले छिमेकी देश दक्षिण कोरियासँग लडाइँ गर्न नचाहेको बताउनुभएको छ । ‘हामी कसैसँग युद्धको चर्चा गरिरहेका छैनौँ, खासमा युद्ध रोक्नका लागि यस्तो गरिरहेका छौँ । आफ्नो देशको सम्प्रभुताको रक्षाका लागि हामी यस्तो गरिरहेका छौँ’, उहाँले भन्नुभयो । सम्बोधनका क्रममा किम जोङ उनले उत्तर र दक्षिण कोरियाबीचको तनाव बढाउन भूमिका खेलेको भन्दै अमेरिकाको आलोचना गर्नुभयो । उहाँले उत्तर कोरियाप्रति अमेरिकाको व्यवहार 'शत्रुतापूर्ण' रहेको बताउनुभयो । जो बाइडेन नेतृत्वको अमेरिकाले उत्तर कोरियासँग वार्ता गर्न चाहेको पटक पटक भन्दै आएको छ तर प्रतिबन्ध खुकुलो गरिनुअघि उत्तर कोरियाले आणविक हतियार त्याग्नुपर्ने बताएको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले यो सर्तको अस्वीकार गर्दै आएको छ । संयुक्त राष्ट्र सङ्घले उत्तर कोरियामाथि ब्यालिस्टिक क्षेप्यास्त्र परीक्षण गर्न प्रतिबन्ध लगाएको छ । तर उत्तर कोरियाले प्रतिबन्ध उल्लङ्घन गर्दै आएका कारण उविरुद्ध विभिन्न किसिमका नाकाबन्दी लगाइएको छ । यसबारेमा राष्ट्र सङ्घीय एटोमिक एजेन्सीले चिन्ता व्यक्त गरेको थियो । उत्तर कोरियाले आफ्नो सुरक्षाका लागि हतियार विकास गर्न आवश्यक रहेको बताउँदै आएको छ ।