Palace intrigue from North Korea as reported by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service. It can be considered reliable. The aunt of the North Korean leader is Kim Kyong-hui. She matters in North Korea because she is the widow of Kim Jong-un’s late uncle Jang Song-thaek. He was a power in the North Korean government in the...
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MI5 Chief Downplays U.S. Intelligence-Sharing Fears Over Huawei
The United States has banned U.S. government agencies from purchasing from Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company. U.S. policymakers have viewed Huawei as a security risk and is pressuring allies to also shun the Chines tech giant as they build out 5G networks The U.S. pressure on Huawei hreatens to disrupt the traditionally close relations between...
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How China Runs Its Mass Detention Camps
From the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – ICIJ The extraordinary coercive power of China’s Ministry of State Security is Xinjiang province, where the Beijing government is seeking to control the Uighurs, a non-Chinese Muslim minority. ICIJ obtained an operations manual: A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for...
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Report: Former Intelligence Officer Secretly Held in Australia
Strange story about Australia’s national security state, which is quite powerful. But I never heard of secret detention of former intelligence officer. It is understood the man was a senior military officer involved in intelligence, but publishing information about his offending has been banned. It is not known when he was convicted. When he started...
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Despite U.S. Pressure, South Korea and Japan May End Intelligence Sharing
As the U.S. empire of influence wobbles under President Trump, South Korea is charting its own course, more independent of Japan. The U.S. wants to keep the three countries in a militarized stance against China but doesn’t have the sway to enforce it. Esper urged Japan and South Korea to save the General Sharing of...