The DPRK Foreign Ministry said that North Korea is increasing its readiness for nuclear deterrence in connection with nuclear tests in the United States.

The US National Nuclear Security Administration recently announced that it had conducted its third subcritical nuclear test since the current US administration took office.

A subcritical US nuclear test is a highly dangerous action that will further destabilize the increasingly deteriorating global security environment and have a serious negative impact on the strategic parity between the major nuclear powers.

So, the United States itself discovered: Using absolute nuclear superiority to restrain other countries militarily is its own strategic goal. The current administration's promise to reduce the risk of strategic miscalculation and ease military tensions by reducing dependence on nuclear weapons is simply fiction.

The United States, the world's largest nuclear state, which has conducted the most nuclear tests and the only one used nuclear weapons, has no right to talk about someone else's nuclear threat.

The United States, which sent a strategic nuclear submarine to the Korean Peninsula region for the first time in decades, has often deployed a “nuclear advisory group” that conspires to useShow more nuclear weapons against the DPRK, and in August of this year is trying to conduct practical exercises on nuclear operations together with Republic of Korea.

This subcritical US nuclear test is creating new tensions in the military standoff between nuclear-armed states and accelerating the global nuclear arms race. Under no circumstances should this nuclear test be allowed to influence the military security situation in the region of the Korean Peninsula.

To prepare for the strategic instability created in the region and globally by U.S. unilateral action, we are forced to take the necessary steps to enhance overall nuclear deterrence readiness within the bounds of our sovereign rights and options.

The DPRK will not allow the creation of a strategic imbalance and a security vacuum in the Korean Peninsula region, and in response to the developing nuclear threat from the United States, it will consistently protect the security, rights and interests of the state with a powerful deterrent.

(c) KCNA

President Marcos Senior thought South China Sea islands are terra nullius or no one owned it.

He probably was unaware that China and Vietnam already see it as its historical territory.

So if I hate China, I prefer to acknowledge Vietnam as the owner of South China Sea even those parts of SCS claimed by Philippines thru Presidential Decree 1596 signed on June 11, 1978.

So Senator Zubiri is delusional and historically ignorant that Philippines claims in SCS dated back before Magellan landed in Philippines.

There is no Philippines until Spain created it as colony first in 1565 onwards.

The problem of Vietnam on the other hand, it was once a Chinese Province so its South China Sea claim is similar to China also.

Reposting here:

Medvedev admitted that if long-range missiles are sent to Ukraine, the borders of the sanitary zone may end up on Polish territory:

Still, the idiotic NATO strategists sincerely want almost all of Ukraine to come under Russian control. That is why they are giving the Bandera government ever longer-range weapons.

But this is not the first time President Putin has said that for a peaceful life, our country will have to create a sanitary zone, within which the neo-Nazi regime will not have the opportunity to hit targets on Russian territory (including, of course, all the lands that have returned to our state). It is not difficult to calculate that if the Kiev regime uses Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG type missiles with a range of at least 550 km and with a distance between Belgorod and Kiev of 429 km, almost the entire central and significant part of the western territories would be destroyed. Ukraine falls into such a sanitary zone. In other words, Russia should be everywhere there (550 km plus another 70-100 km to be sure).

Otherwise, the security of our cities and villages cannot be ensured. Even if we imagine that some kind of document has been signed with Kiev (or rather, with Washington), any new Bandera idiot with missiles is quite capable of violating it. The consequences are obvious.
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If this continues, the guaranteed sanitary zone will be somewhere on the border with Poland. Or already in Poland itself. And this is completely dangerous. Moreover, non-strategic nuclear weapons, which our country announced about conducting exercises with, are a very loose concept. Such weapons (tactical or non-strategic), as everyone knows, include nuclear charges that significantly exceed the power of Little Boy and Fat Man.

So you should carefully calculate the range of what you allocate to the Nazis, gentlemen.

中国大陆人和华侨在我的vk：

总记住：我很爱中国因为它是祖地和目前经济超级大国。

我讨厌任何憎恨中国及其人民。

Any Filipino who says that studying in China especially in military aspect is treachery is indeed an idiot and ignorant of history. Remember that Dr.Jose Rizal who is the national hero of the country and other ilustrados (European educated rich or middle class Filipinos) studied in Spain.

Also General Antonio Luna, 1st General of Philippine Military of 1st Philippine Republic studied under a Spanish Major:

From Wikipedia:

"Meanwhile, his background in swordsmanship, fencing, and military tactics came from his studies under Don Martin Cartagena, a major in the Spanish Army."

So any Filipino who harbors this thinking is not only historically ignorant but also a good for nothing and racist untermensch in my eyes.

Authored by Former Philippine Airforce General Romeo V. Poquiz:

Thirty-eight military officers who took up studies in China as exchange students, including Admiral Carlos, are being pilloried and now suspected as traitors. This is a shame.
Such a very low and repugnant regard of our soldiers - colonels and generals/admirals at that.

Just because they studied in China, they are now suspected as traitors to their country? Does that mean that a few months in China suddenly made them lose their love for their own country? Does that mean that I, who took up a Masters Degree for 18 months in the US Naval Postgraduate School, and many other AFP officers in various US military schools, sold their countries and became agents of the US?

Okay, let me be clear. We are friends with the US, firmed up by our Mutual Defense Treaty. I also advocate Philippine friendship with China despite our dispute, because this is to our country’s long-term, enduring, and best national interest.

Am I a traitor to my country? Do I love my country less?

Some of you may not believe me but this I tell you. I love my country more than all of you combined.

The 5 Reasons why Philippines is not truly independent : (Reposting from someone's article)

In Economy

The Philippine economy remains shackled to the whim of foreign monopoly capital, evident in its dependence on imports from the US and other countries and oriented to export its resources & labor to other nations.

The Mining Act of 1995 continues to this day, allowing for 100% foreign ownership of mining projects – resulting in destruction of natural resources, pillaging of peasant and Indigenous lands and communities, and pollution of the environment for the benefit of a small handful of foreign corporations which make Php51.6 billion in profits, while mining communities remain among the poorest in the country.

In Agriculture

The agriculture industry is also export-oriented and import-dependent. In Mindanao, agricultural plantations cover more than 500,000 hectares and their crops are grown primarily for export. Meanwhile, free trade agreements and the rice tariffication laws promote import dependence, destroying the livelihoods of farmers. For rice farmers, their income per hectare has dropped by 40.3% as the market gets flooded with imported rice. Show more

Throughout all farming, foreign produced GMOs and synthetic fertilizers wreak havoc on the land itself. Systematically promoted by the Philippine govt, the use has led to low soil fertility in most farmlands.

In Military

Throughout its history, the Philippines has been the top recipient of US military and security aid in Southeast Asia, yet there has been no genuine support to help the Philippines become self reliant or to protect the Filipino people.. Instead the US sells old equipment to the Philippines and expands its physical military presence in the archipelago as it postures towards China. Most recently the US expanded to a total of 9 US military bases in the Philippines through the Visiting Forces Agreement and EDCA.

The US supplies arms to the Armed Forces of the Philippines which has been used to attack peasants, workers, and human rights defenders.

Despite the Philippines no longer allowing permanent US military bases in the Philippines, through the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), the US is still able to maintain its military control over the Philippines, recently expanding to nine total “visiting” bases, a signal of its posture towards Asia and China.

In Culture

In the 1900s, the US expanded the public education system in the Philippines, modeling it after its own system. As colonizers of the archipelago, the education system was devoid of any critique of the US nor did it inform students of the brutal takeover.

The Philippine education system mainly produces cheap, semi skilled labor for the global market. Students learn skills and fill jobs that serve foreign corporations, such as call centers or contractual work at special processing zones. Students are also pushed to seek jobs abroad through the labor export policy.

In Politics

Former leaders of the Philippines have a history of pushing for policy and changes to the constitution that benefit foreign corporations primarily.

In March 2022, former president Rodrigo Duterte signed the law amending the 1936 Public Service Act which allows for 100% foreign ownership in industries like telecoms, airlines, shipping, toll roads, transport network vehicles, and railways.

To this day, there is a fight to enact charter change under the Marcos Jr Regime which would drop the constitutional provisions which state that Filipinos should own at least 60% of certain industries.

Proponents of charter change say that the increase in direct foreign investments will be a boost to the Philippine economy. But increased direct foreign investments so far have resulted in low job growth and expanded trade deficits which hurt workers and peasants the most.