Far East to Middle East and Back to Far EAST: Around the World-- Bedlam , Attacks

 Nadene Goldfoot   

Far East (North and South Korea--

Country	South Korea
Latitude	37.532600
Longitude	127.024612

            )  and onto Middle East                                                                                

         Middle East:                      Israel doesn't show up on the above map under #1. ---Israel lies to the north of the equator around 31°30' north latitude and 34°45' east longitude.  

     Middle to Far East, but hard to see Israel or Syria (dark green) ;  Far East with China but where is Korea?  It's a peninsula off of China, facing Japan;  divided between North and South.   We've gone all the way around the world and back again from Korea to the Middle East, with Bedlam.                                                                                    

From South Korea to Syria, all sorts of bedlam is raining down on their population!  South Korea tried and failed to impeach their president.  Bianna Golodryga speaks with Kathleen Stephens, the former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, about what may happen after President Yoon (Yeol)  decided to back down from his decision to declare martial law.  Washington was blindsided  by the martial law announcement, said the former ambassador.  The opposing party, backed by North Korea,  had impeached much of his fellow party members.  Yoon calls his opposition, The Communists (North Koreans) .  

In Syria, the Assed regime that has been ruling for over 50 years just experienced rebel Syrians attacking the State's army and winning.  They've entered Damascus and Assad has fled to Moscow for refuge.  The rebels seem to be the good guys, stating they will be peaceful with Israel. • The leader of the main rebel group, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, called the toppling of Assad a “victory for the entire Islamic nation” in his first public remarks in Damascus. The rebels — led by Jolani’s HTS group, which was formed out of an al Qaeda affiliate — have said minorities will be protected.  Al Qaeda is a terrorist group.  The group rose to global prominence after perpetrating the September 11, 2001, attacks (9/11) in the United States.

 In the meantime, the USA has bombed ISIS centers existing in Syria. The U.S. carried out a major round of airstrikes on Islamic State targets on Sunday, and warned the terror group against trying to regain strength in the country after rebels took over the government.  The operation included “dozens” of airstrikes on over 75 targets involving ISIS operatives and camps using B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets and A-10 close-air support attack aircraft “to ensure that ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria,” according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.

Israel has bombed and entered Syria as far in as they accomplished in the 1973 war when they were attacked by Syria. The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.  In February 1973, Isma‘il met with Kissinger and informed him that Egypt would be willing to sign a separate peace agreement with Israel that could involve demilitarized zones on both sides of the international border and peacekeepers in sensitive locations like Sharm al-Shaykh. However, Egyptian-Israeli normalization would have to wait until Israel withdrew from all the territories it had conquered in 1967.   Reuters reported that Israel had conducted three airstrikes in the Syrian capital on Sunday, citing two regional security sources. Israel’s military declined to comment when asked by CNN if it had conducted strikes on Damascus.

 Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon is holding despite ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah targets, which Israeli officials say are responses to ceasefire violations by the Iranian-backed militant group. All over Lebanon, business owners are reeling after an intense conflict between Israel and Hezbollah saw Israeli bombs rain down on residential, commercial and industrial parts of the country, destroying shops, warehouses and stocks of goods.  They can thank Hezbollah for this, as they used the buildings for storage and hiding places.  

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza.  Avichay Adraee, the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesman, issued new evacuation notices for the capital’s southern suburbs, warning that Israeli forces intended to strike buildings in the area that he said were being used by Hezbollah. 

Hezbollah fired missile at Tel Aviv after heavy Israeli strikes on Lebanon Hezbollah centers

Hezbollah continues to threaten civilians in northern Israel with relatively long-range weapons, however. Unspecified senior IDF officers acknowledged this enduring threat in remarks to Israeli Army Radio.The IDF officers said that, while Hezbollah can no longer conduct a ground attack in Israel, Israeli forces along the Israel-Lebanon border must be prepared to intercept Hezbollah fire into northern Israel. Some of the anti-tank missiles that Hezbollah has, such as Kornet missiles, have ranges up to five kilometers. Under CTP-ISW's layer of current assessed Israeli advances, the IDF would need to clear areas of southern Lebanon that it has not yet cleared in order to push Hezbollah more than five kilometers from northern Israel.

Longer-range Hezbollah munitions, made in Iran,  such as drones, missiles, and rockets, similarly continue to threaten residents of northern Israel, even though Israeli operations have likely diminished Hezbollah stockpiles considerably. 

Hezbollah rocket attacks injured at least six Israeli civilians in northern Israel on November 10, for example.  IDF officers have estimated that Israeli air operations have degraded Hezbollah missile and rocket capabilities to the point that Hezbollah has to be ”economical” in its use of munitions.

The IDF also recently estimated it has destroyed 70 percent of Hezbollah’s pre-October 7, 2023 drone stockpile. Although Hezbollah has launched a daily average of 44 rockets into Israel in November 2024, the volume of rocket fire is short of pre-war estimates of Hezbollah’s capabilities, which had indicated that Hezbollah may launch up to 1,500 missiles and rockets daily in the event of war.

Tensions also remain high between Israel and Iran after tit-for-tat long-range strikes in recent months and threats of further military action from both sides.

The Ukrainians should also be included in this bedlam time period.  They were a country where many many Jews had lived, and then the Nazis of Germany attacked all countries in WWII and were intent on killing Jews.  The Ukrainians, neighbors at times, and part of Russia at times, helped the Nazis more than necessary.  Other countries like Denmark and Sweden didn't aid Nazis in rounding up Jews, but Ukraine sure did.  Now, the tables are turned on Ukraine, and here Russia is attacking them for once again claiming their own government apart from Russia, and bombing is going on, destroying parts of each.  The irony, of course, is that they are led by a Jewish President who so far is doing quite well !!!!!

Resource:

Edit: 12/10/24, 9:00am

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/world/video/yoon-suk-yeol-south-korean-president-martial-law-digvid

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/syria-civil-war-12-08-2024/index.html

https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/syria-live-updates-israel-bombed-syrian-chemical-weapons?id=116591168

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11854

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/14/israel-war-news-hamas-gaza-palestine/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd64v77491o

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-november-10-2024

North Korea's Hydrogen Bomb and How People Came To Have Such Weapons

Kim Jong-un of North Korea tested a Hydrogen bomb on September 1, 2017.
He's surrounded by a female unit of soldiers so happy about its success.  

Nadene Goldfoot                                       

Atom Bomb dropped on Japan 1945 by USA that finally ended World War II
This was a war entered by USA on December 7, 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor
in Hawaii.  
Europe had already been at war with Nazi Germany and US was helping but not entering the war.  Germany had invaded Poland September 1, 1939.  My Uncle Werner had left
Germany in May 1939.  Things were very bad for Jews in Germany by then.  He had already been taken to prison on the pretext of beating a cow with a stick on the way to the slaughter house.  His father was a sausage-maker.  
The U.S. economic sanctions on Japan, as part of the effort to deter Japanese military aggression in Asia and the Pacific, was a major cause of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In 1948, Korea was split between the North and South sections as a result of the Cold War involving the USA and the Soviet Union.  North Korea was supported by the Soviet Union and China.  The USA supported South Korea.
                                                                         

"The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces—supported by the Soviet Union and China—moved into the south on 25 June 1950 On 27 June, the United Nations Security Council authorized the formation and dispatch of UN forces to Korea to repel what was recognized as a North Korean invasion. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force, with the United States providing 88% of the UN's military personnel."

This is when boys in my high school classes disappeared.  We found out that they had joined the army to fight in Korea.  That's how many didn't get to graduate our Washington High.

"The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when an armistice was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners. However, no peace treaty has been signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war."
                                                                           

"During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.   The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history."  Germany had been working on its development first.  The USA was able to gather the scientists after the war and work on it.  
               
After fighting Germany and then Japan, two fronts at the same time, President Truman had to make the decision to do so.  It was like a last stand, a do or die condition.  Our government felt they had to take this step or lose the war.  I don't think they realized how horrible an atom bomb was.  There were survivors.  "The Japanese government has recognized about 650,000 people .   As of March 31, 2017, 164,621 are still alive, mostly in Japan.  There were even Koreans working in Japan who were also injured and survived.  
                                                              

I remember being in the 8th grade and our librarian read a book about this bombing to our class.  It was vivid and horrible.  I remember listening to this day.  It could have been HIROSHIMA by John Hershey.  I can't remember the title.  I think people need to read this today.  
                                                                    

The USA, Russia, France, UK and China have this Hydrogen bomb. 

A Hydrogen bomb is : an immensely powerful bomb whose destructive power comes from the rapid release of energy during the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium), using an atom bomb as a trigger.
                                               

2 months after the A bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 

"North Korea has long sought the means to deliver an atomic warhead to the United States, its sworn enemy, and Sunday's nuclear test followed reports it could load a hydrogen bomb onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)."  It can be 1,000 times more powerful than an Atom Bomb.  

"Radiation in the city was so intense that everybody would have died soon afterwards."

"North Korea's first three nuclear tests from 2006 to 2013 were atomic bombs on roughly the same scale as the ones used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which together killed more than 200,000 people.

However, Sunday's test is estimated to have a yield of about 100 kilotons, 10 times stronger than last year's test that caused a 5.3 magnitude quake. "  This test caused a 6.3 earthquake. "                     

Kim Jong-un's North Koreans are elated at the success of their
Hydrogen bomb.  South Koreans can't believe it was a Hydrogen bomb.  

Enough is enough.  North Korea is just itching to go to war, commented Nicki Haley, our UN Ambassador.  "Both President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have called for sanctioning countries that do not cut business ties with the defiant Hermit Kingdom. "The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea," Trump tweeted Sunday. Jessica Hullinger."  China is the biggest trader with North Korea.  

Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/hydrogen-bomb-atomic-bomb-difference-170903104649473.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/hydrogen-bomb-atomic-bomb-difference-170903104649473.html
http://theweek.com/speedreads/722681/after-north-korea-tests-apparent-hydrogen-bomb-nikki-haley-says-kim-jong-un-begging-war
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/north-korea-nuclear-test-wasnt-7131354
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II