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NATO-krav til bry for Island

Av Lowana Veal

Photo: U.S. Navy Poseidon P-8A at Keflavik. 8 November 2017. Credit: b737.org.uk

REYKJAVIK (IDN) – I februar 2016, satt USAs regjering i gang en diskusjon med sin Islandske motpart om oppgradering av NATOS hangar på Keflavik lufthavn for å romme større, nyere ubåt-rekognoseringsfly. Saken ble omsider avgjort i desember 2017 når USA bekreftet at de ville finansiere prosjektet.

Hangaren ligger i sikkerhetssonen for USAs gamle militærbase, “Naval Air Station Keflavik”, hvor de vil stue ‘Poseidon P-8A’-rekogniseringsfly som er utviklet for å holde øye med en høyere tilstedeværelse av russiske atomdrevne og konvensjonelle undervannsbåter i havet omkring Island – det såkalte GIUK-gapet.

Successful Test Firing of India’s Agni-5 Evokes No Fury – Malay

Ujian Menembak Agni-5 India Berjaya Tanpa Membangkitkan Kemarahan

Photo: India's longest range nuclear capable missile Agni-5 was successfully test fired from the Kalam Island off Odisha coast on January 18 by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Source: NDTV

Oleh Kalinga Seneviratne

BANGKOK (IDN) – Pelancaran misil balistik antara benua berkeupayaan nuklear (ICBM) Agni-5 pada 18 Januari hampir tidak disedari di Asia. Bagaimanapun, media barat telah memberi liputan kepadanya yang menumpukan kepada keupayaan India sekarang untuk menyerang bandar utama di China termasuk Beijing dan Shanghai.

Liputan yang terlalu memuji-muji ini sangat berbeza dengan histeria dalam media barat terutamanya apabila Korea Utara menguji misil yang sama pada 28 November 2017. Sementara ujian Korea Utara diunjurkan sebagai ancaman kepada usaha pelucutan senjata nuklear global, ujian India tidak dianggap begitu.

Successful Test Firing of India’s Agni-5 Evokes No Fury – Thai

การทดสอบการยิง Agni-5 ที่ประสบความสำเร็จของอินเดียไม่ได้ก่อให้เกิดความโกรธา

Photo: India's longest range nuclear capable missile Agni-5 was successfully test fired from the Kalam Island off Odisha coast on January 18 by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Source: NDTV

โดย Kalinga Seneviratne

กรุงเทพมหานคร (IDN) – การยิงขีปนาวุธข้ามทวีปด้วยพลังนิวเคลียร์ (ICBM) Agni-5 ที่ประสบความสำเร็จในวันที่ 18 มกราคมนั้นแทบไม่เป็นที่สังเกตในเอเชีย อย่างไรก็ตาม สื่อตะวันตกได้ทำการรายงานเกี่ยวกับเรื่องนี้ โดยมุ่งเน้นไปที่ความสามารถของอินเดียในการโจมตีเมืองหลัก ๆ ของประเทศจีนได้ในตอนนี้ ซึ่งประกอบไปด้วยปักกิ่งและเซี่ยงไฮ้

การรายงานข่าวซึ่งทำการชื่นชมเป็นบางส่วนนี้แตกต่างอย่างสิ้นเชิงจากความหวาดผวาเป็นพิเศษในสื่อตะวันตกเมื่อเกาหลีเหนือทดสอบขีปนาวุธเดียวกันในวันที่ 28 พฤศจิกายน 2017 ในขณะที่การทดสอบของเกาหลีเหนือได้รับการมองว่าเป็นภัยคุกคามต่อความพยายามในการลดนิวเคลียร์ทั่วโลก การทดสอบของอินเดียกลับไม่ได้รับการมองเช่นนั้น

ICAN Chief Shows Japan the Way From a Blind Alley

By Katsuhiro Asagiri

Photo: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) close to the main building of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which ICAN Chief Beatrice Fihn visited, and wrote in the Museum's guestbook:

TOKYO (IDN) – “I wish for all states, in particular Japan, to join the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. No more hibakusha,” wrote Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on a message board at the opening of an exhibition on January 12 at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.

The exhibition marked the award of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN on December 10 in Oslo, “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” [P 33] GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSON PDF | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF

ICAN Chief Shows Japan the Way From a Blind Alley

By Katsuhio Asagiri

Photo: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) close to the main building of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which ICAN Chief Beatrice Fihn visited, and wrote in the Museum's guestbook:

TOKYO (IDN) – “I wish for all states, in particular Japan, to join the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. No more hibakusha,” wrote Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on a message board at the opening of an exhibition on January 12 at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.

The exhibition marked the award of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN on December 10 in Oslo, “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” [P 33] GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSON PDF  | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF

Successful Test Firing of India’s Agni-5 Evokes No Fury

By Kalinga Seneviratne

Photo: India's longest range nuclear capable missile Agni-5 was successfully test fired from the Kalam Island off Odisha coast on January 18 by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Source: NDTV

BANGKOK (IDN) – The successful launch of the nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni-5 on January 18 has hardly been noticed in Asia. The western media however have given it coverage focusing on India’s ability now to strike major Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai.

This partly adulatory coverage is in sharp contrast to hysteria in the western media in particular when North Korea tested a similar missile on November 28, 2017. While North Korea’s tests are projected as threats to global denuclearization efforts, India’s are not. [P 32]  BAHASA | JAPANESE TEXT VERSON PDF | MALAY | THAI  

Successful Test Firing of India’s Agni-5 Evokes No Fury

By Kalinga Seneviratne

Photo: India's longest range nuclear capable missile Agni-5 was successfully test fired from the Kalam Island off Odisha coast on January 18 by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Source: NDTV

BANGKOK (IDN) – The successful launch of the nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni-5 on January 18 has hardly been noticed in Asia. The western media however have given it coverage focusing on India’s ability now to strike major Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai.

This partly adulatory coverage is in sharp contrast to hysteria in the western media in particular when North Korea tested a similar missile on November 28, 2017. While North Korea’s tests are projected as threats to global denuclearization efforts, India’s are not. [P 32] BAHASA | JAPANESE TEXT VERSON PDF | MALAY | THAI  

NATO Demands Cause Headaches in Iceland

|アイスランド|頭の痛いNATOからの要求

【レイキャビクIDN=ロワナ・ヴィール】

Photo: U.S. Navy Poseidon P-8A at Keflavik. 8 November 2017. Credit: b737.org.uk2016年2月、米国政府は、ケフラヴィーク国際空港にある北大西洋条約機構(NATO)軍の格納庫の扉に必要な変更を加える可能性について、アイスランド側と協議を開始した。新型でより大型の対潜哨戒機を格納できるようにするためである。この問題は、米国が資金提供に合意した2017年12月に決着を見た。

格納庫は空港敷地内にある旧米軍基地(旧ケフラヴィーク海軍航空基地:2006年の米軍撤退後に閉鎖したが、米軍はアイスランドの安全保障を引き続き継続することを約束している:INPS)の警戒区域に設置されており、問題となっている哨戒機は「ポセイドンP-8A」である。この型の哨戒機は、「グリーンランド=アイスランド=イギリス(GIUK)ギャップ」と呼ばれている、アイスランド周辺の海域で活動を活発化しているロシアの核搭載型・通常型潜水艦を追跡することを目的としている。

Exigências da NATO Provocam Dores de Cabeça na Islândia

Por Lowana Veal

Foto: Poseidon P-8A Marinha dos EUA em Keflavík. 8 de novembro de 2017. Crédito: b737.org.uk

REYKJAVÍK (IDN) – Em fevereiro de 2016, o governo dos EUA iniciou discussões com o seu homólogo islandês sobre a possibilidade de levar a cabo as mudanças necessárias para as portas do hangar da NATO no aeroporto de Keflavík para que os mais recentes e maiores aviões de reconhecimento de submarinos pudessem ser alojados lá. O assunto foi eventualmente concluído em dezembro de 2017, quando o governo dos EUA concordou no financiamento.

Israelsk nedrustningsbevegelse guider gjennom kjernefysisk tvetydighet

Av Bernhard Schell

Photo: Demonstration in Tel-Aviv against nuclear weapons. Credit: The Israeli Disarmament Movement.

AMMAN (IDN) – Mediene i Israel ignorerte Nobels fredsprisseremonien til ære for Den internasjonale kampanjen for forbud mot atomvåpen (ICAN) den 10. desember 2017 i Oslo. Den israelske ambassadøren i Norge deltok imidlertid på arrangementet.

Stillheten fra israelsk media kom ikke overraskende, ifølge observatører, selv om ICANs fremtredende partner i Midtøsten, Israeli Disarmament Movement (IDM), grunnlagt og ledet av Sharon Dolev, har hatt innvirkning på den offentlige debatten i Israel de siste seks årene.

ICAN har også partnere i Egypt, Iran, Libanon, Palestina, Syria og Jemen.

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