[-] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You misinterpreted that quote. The quote is prefaced with "Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production;" and "These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable." The list that you posted is a list of conditions recommended by Marx to happen before communism. It is not a list of political aims of communism. It is a description of conditions needed to facilitate a revolution to do communism. Then afterward it says,"If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class." It says that these conditions would allow the proletariat to do a revolution to become the supreme class. It is a list of recommended prerequisites, not descriptors of political aims of communism.

The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

This is a different quote from the Manifesto. Currency is money. Marx defines money in Capital as a commodity which can be broken up to represent values of other commodities. Private property is property that you don't use, property that is used to extract profits. Commodities are objects which are created by labor for the purpose of being exchanged for as part of extracting profit. Commodities are a form of private property. Currency is a form of private property. Private property must be abolished.

The OP is correct to say that communism has a goal to abolish currency, but incorrect in the means. The capitalist class will be abolished. The exploitative wage labor mode of production will be abolished. Goods will be made based on need rather than being made for the purpose of exchange.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago

November 2 DPRK Press Statements

Have sanction, pressure and threats stopped us?

They have only made us stronger.

The DPRK will never tolerate any attempt to threaten the security environment of the state.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/4bfc87ac42a736c8983edd10d5a21554.kcmsf
https://archive.is/ndouy

This year alone, the U.S. and the ROK have further detailed a dangerous nuclear war scenario while breeding various sorts of war plots more than 20 times to use nuclear weapons against the DPRK, including the third meeting of the "Nuclear Consultative Group" and the 5th meeting of the "Extended Deterrence Strategy and Consultation Group".

According to it, various strategic assets of the U.S. including the Theodore Roosevelt nuclear carrier task force, Bermont nuclear submarine and B-52H nuclear strategic bomber were deployed on the Korean peninsula and in its vicinity more than ten times and various forms of war drills against the DPRK including "Freedom Shield", "Ulji Freedom Shield", "Freedom Edge", "Iron Mace", "Nuclear Consultative Group simulation drill" and "Freedom Flag" were staged without a break this year.
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The DPRK will perfectly defend its sovereign right, security and development interests under any circumstances and further intensify its practical efforts to ensure the permanent stability of the Korean peninsula and the region in a responsible manner and resolutely counter any threat and challenge in the present and future.

The more provocative act the hostile forces take in defiance of the DPRK's grave warning, the stronger counteraction they will face.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/b0103e55a68d487cf0f61995d8b6feb6.kcmsf
https://archive.is/w2ysM

[-] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they think it might be a satellite and not a part of the missile detaching

2계단분리

The text on the image translates to something like "2nd step of separation". On KCNA and the KCTV video, there are 3 stage separation photos which are labeled 1, 2, 3. The photo is literally labeled by DPRK as showing a part of the missile detaching. The photo is meant to show part of the rocket detaching, which it does.

Would DPRK release a photo labeled as "stage of separation" and then the sleuths of twitter discover it's a secret satellite? Why would DPRK include a secret satellite aboard an ICBM weapon?

DPRK does have a satellite which is not a secret. DPRK launched their first ever reconnaissance satellite into space in November 2023. I posted about it on hexbear when it happened. You even commented on my post at the time. The US responded by aiding ROK in launching a satellite.

https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1700611622-680414227/dprk-natas-report-on-successful-launch-of-reconnaissance-satellite/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malligyong-1

[-] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since the post doesn't mention it, DPRK said that this ICBM is intended to be a defensive nuclear weapon.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/45eb4d20df98d0d8a16cf978c37af8d8.kcmsf
https://archive.is/p9Od7

[-] dead@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The source of this video is KCTV. The full KCTV news segment on the Hwasongpho-19 ICBM was just posted to a KCTV archive. The segment starts at 01m50s and ends at 12m00s.

https://kcnawatch.org/kctv-archive/6724deafa813b/

[-] dead@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The full KCTV segment for the ICBM is now on the KCTV archive. The footage starts at 01:50 and ends at 12:00.

https://kcnawatch.org/kctv-archive/6724deafa813b/

[-] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

The images are published on KCNA, but the video is not on KCNA. The source of this footage is KCTV. You can see the edge of the KCTV logo on the top left, but it is mostly cropped out. You can see the uncropped video on the tweet link below.

https://xcancel.com/nknewsorg/status/1852167422456807495

I pulled up a KCTV live stream just now and I was able to see some different footage of the rocket as well, so there is even more footage. There is a daily archive of KCTV, but the footage is not in the archive yet.

https://kcnawatch.org/kctv-archive/

[-] dead@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

soypoint-1 They're following TrueAnon's "get nukes" rule of life.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

Here is my previous news post related to DPRK ICBM
https://hexbear.net/post/3802004

Here are 3 more images from the KCNA article. There are 22 images on the article. I won't upload them all because of rate limits.

I believe that the image that appears to be from space is taken from a camera on the ICBM rocket. The text on the image translates to like "3rd step of separation".

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Crucial Test Showing DPRK's Definite Response Will and Overwhelming Edge of Its Strategic Attack Force

Test-fire of DPRK's Latest ICBM Hwasongpho-19 Successfully Conducted under Guidance of Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un

Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The cause of the DPRK reliably defending the regional and global peace and security as a responsible nuclear weapons state and achieving the comprehensive national prosperity and promoting the well-being of its people is faced with vicious challenges and ever-escalating war crisis by the most hostile and threatening rival states.

The most hostile enemies of the DPRK have developed into a nuclear alliance and the U.S. imperialists and the ROK puppet forces have recently intensified the frantic arms buildup and provocations largest-ever in history while often letting loose threatening reckless remarks against the DPRK government. All these are posing a grave danger to the DPRK's sovereignty and security environment and sparking off the surging anger and retaliatory will of its army and people.

The present grave reality, seriously reminding of the instructive law of history that the destructed balance of forces between friend and foe means a war, more clearly emphasizes the necessity of the overwhelming force capable of containing the enemy and controlling the situation at all times and the validity of its steady improvement. It also calls for continuously developing and updating the strategic weapons as deterrent capable of actively coping with any military threat and foiling the enemy's provocative attempt and will for war in advance.

At a time when the strategic option for reliably defending the national security and regional peace from the adventurous military moves of the U.S. and its vassal forces for aggression and the urgency of its powerful implementation are being further highlighted, a new entity has emerged again to demonstrate the absolute might of the DPRK nuclear combat forces rapidly developing day by day.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, issued an order to the Missile Administration to conduct a test-fire of the latest ICBM Hwasongpho-19 and guided on the spot the crucial test, which would set an epochal milestone in perpetuating the absolute superiority of the strategic armed forces of the DPRK, in the morning of October 31.

The absolute weaponry strongest in the world, a result of the DPRK's might and spirit that have been steadily augmented for the great dignity and honor of the country and people, for the duty of defending peace and the right to existence that should never be conceded, and for a new world of justice where war, hegemony and injustice are not allowed, advanced into its launching position, giving birth to the new strength the world has not yet experienced.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, with his noblest and heavy mission to firmly defend the sovereignty of the DPRK and its absolute security and rights to development, personally went to the launching site to learn about the preparations and plan for the test-fire and took the central command post.

The venue waiting a historic moment when the DPRK's newly-updated ultra-powerful offensive means, an ICBM of ultimate version, would show its appearance, was seething with the will of all defence scientists and strategic missile soldiers to strike terror into the most ferocious rivals keen on nuclear confrontation with the DPRK by demonstrating its war deterrent which has reached the highest level in the world.

The moment has come to display the tremendous power of the world's strongest strategic missile.

When Kim Jong Un approved the test-fire, General Jang Chang Ha, director general of the Missile Administration, gave an order to the honored Second Red Flag Company.

The moment, the entity of absolute power loaded with the DPRK people's soaring enmity and strong will to punish all evils and injustice on earth was launched toward the sky.

The missile traveled up to a maximum altitude of 7,687.5 km and flew a distance of 1,001.2 km for 5,156 s before landing on the preset area in the open waters off the East Sea of Korea.

The test-fire had no negative effect on the security of neighboring countries.

The test of the latest strategic weapon system updated the recent records of the strategic missile capability of the DPRK and demonstrated the modernity and creditability of its world's most powerful strategic deterrent.

On the launching spot, Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction at the fact that the successful test-fire of the new-type ICBM proved before the world that the hegemonic position we have secured in the development and manufacture of nuclear delivery means of the same kind is absolutely irreversible.

The perfected weapon system of ICBM Hwasongpho-19, to be used by the strategic forces of the DPRK along with Hwasongpho-18, pursuant to the long-term plan for building the state nuclear forces set forth by the Party Congress, will perform the mission and duty as the primary core means in defending the DPRK, thoroughly containing the enemies' acts of aggression and reliably protecting the national security.

Kim Jong Un said that the test-fire is an appropriate military action that fully meets the purpose of informing the rivals, who have intentionally escalated the regional situation and posed a threat to the security of our Republic recently, of our counteraction will, and it also constitutes an indispensable process in the course of constantly developing our state's strategic attack forces.

He went on to say:

As recently witnessed by us, the rivals' dangerous tightening of their nuclear alliance and various adventuristic military maneuvers go to further highlight the importance of strengthening our nuclear forces. We should never allow any threat to approach the security sphere under our state's influence.

The security situation of our state and ever-aggravating prospective threats and challenges require us to continue to bolster up our modern strategic attack forces and more perfectly round off our nuclear forces' response posture.

And he clearly reaffirmed that the DPRK would never change its line of bolstering up its nuclear forces.

On behalf of the Party and the government and all the Korean people, he gave the highest thanks to the defence scientists and the workers in the field of munitions industry for their distinguished contribution to demonstrating the DPRK's matchless strategic nuclear attack capability before the whole world.

He once again stressed that only peace, to be defended by the powerful force capable of controlling and deterring the enemy, is reliable and safe and durable and herein lies a sure guarantee for the security and future of the state and people of the DPRK. And he clarified the important tasks to be constantly carried out by the field of national defence science in implementing the line of bolstering up the state nuclear forces.

Expressing expectation and belief that the national defence science and technology group, always faithful and absolute to implementing the requirements of the revolution, would achieve the better defence development successes and thus always remain faithful to its sacred responsibility and duty, he had a photo session with the masters of this great event at the historic site where the absolute prestige of the state was lifted once again.

All the defence scientists and strategic missile soldiers vowed to devote themselves with redoubled courage to the sacred struggle for further bolstering up the arsenal of the Juche revolution and strengthening the state's nuclear response posture. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.11.01.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/45eb4d20df98d0d8a16cf978c37af8d8.kcmsf
https://archive.is/p9Od7

[-] dead@hexbear.net 57 points 3 days ago

DPRK conducted ICBM test-fire on Thursday morning

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said in a statement that an ICBM test-fire was conducted on Thursday morning.

The Missile Administration of the DPRK conducted a very crucial test on Thursday. The test-fire, conducted under the order given by the head of state of the DPRK, updated the recent records of the strategic missile capability of the DPRK and demonstrated the modernity and creditability of its world's most powerful strategic deterrent.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said on the spot:

"The test-fire is an appropriate military action that fully meets the purpose of informing the rivals, who have intentionally escalated the regional situation and posed a threat to the security of our Republic recently, of our counteraction will, and it also constitutes an indispensable process in the course of constantly developing our state's strategic attack forces. As recently witnessed by us, the rivals' dangerous tightening of their nuclear alliance and various adventuristic military maneuvers go to further highlight the importance of strengthening our nuclear forces. We should never allow any threat to approach the security sphere under our state's influence. The security situation of our state and ever-aggravating prospective threats and challenges require us to continue to bolster up our modern strategic attack forces and more perfectly round off our nuclear forces' response posture. I affirm that the DPRK will never change its line of bolstering up its nuclear forces." -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.10.31.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/b3d35ab730b11b9daba5949a3c27e051.kcmsf
https://archive.is/Pk0Lc

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-conducts-longest-icbm-test-amid-storm-over-troop-deployment-russia-2024-10-31/

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graphic from reuters because there was no image on kcna

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said in a statement that an ICBM test-fire was conducted on Thursday morning.

The Missile Administration of the DPRK conducted a very crucial test on Thursday. The test-fire, conducted under the order given by the head of state of the DPRK, updated the recent records of the strategic missile capability of the DPRK and demonstrated the modernity and creditability of its world's most powerful strategic deterrent.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said on the spot:

"The test-fire is an appropriate military action that fully meets the purpose of informing the rivals, who have intentionally escalated the regional situation and posed a threat to the security of our Republic recently, of our counteraction will, and it also constitutes an indispensable process in the course of constantly developing our state's strategic attack forces. As recently witnessed by us, the rivals' dangerous tightening of their nuclear alliance and various adventuristic military maneuvers go to further highlight the importance of strengthening our nuclear forces. We should never allow any threat to approach the security sphere under our state's influence. The security situation of our state and ever-aggravating prospective threats and challenges require us to continue to bolster up our modern strategic attack forces and more perfectly round off our nuclear forces' response posture. I affirm that the DPRK will never change its line of bolstering up its nuclear forces." -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.10.31.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/b3d35ab730b11b9daba5949a3c27e051.kcmsf
https://archive.is/Pk0Lc

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-conducts-longest-icbm-test-amid-storm-over-troop-deployment-russia-2024-10-31/

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187 countries voted in favor of ending the blockade, 2 voted against (United States and Israel)

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/un-once-more-calls-us-change-course-cuba-2024-10-30/

[-] dead@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

This is not "streamer drama". Ritchie Torres is a congressman in the United States congress and funded by AIPAC and you said that you don't care when he slanders people on behalf of the state of Israel. That's not streamer drama. That's you saying it's okay when US politicians slander people to spread Zionism.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Ritchie Torres is funded by AIPAC. Ritchie Torres has received over $1 million in campaign donations from Israeli lobby groups. Ritchie Torres accused Hasan, a muslim man, of liking terrorist attacks. "One wonders if Hasan has ever seen an Anti-American or antisemitic terrorist attack he didn’t like?" That is Islamophobia. If you see a Pro-Palestinian muslim man being called a terrorist by a Zionist lobby-funded politician and your response is to downplay the slander, then you're Islamophobic.

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US plan for arms sales to Taiwan condemned

By ZHOU JIN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2024-10-28 07:43

China has urged the United States to stop arming the Taiwan region and undermining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, vowing to take resolute measures to safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.

The Foreign Ministry made the remarks late on Saturday in response to US approval on Friday of a $1.99 billion arms sale package to Taiwan, including delivery of an advanced surface-to-air missile system and radar systems.

The surface-to-air missile system has been battle-tested in Ukraine and represents an increase in the air defense capabilities that the US is exporting to Taiwan.

China strongly condemns and firmly opposes the US move and has lodged serious protests with the US, the ministry said in an online statement.

The sales seriously undermine China's sovereignty and security interests, harm China-US relations as well as peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and send a gravely wrong message to "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, a spokesperson said in the statement.

Washington's arms sales to the island seriously violate the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiques, especially the Aug 17 communique of 1982, according to the statement.

The US decision to use Taiwan to contain China and help advance a "Taiwan independence" agenda by arming the island goes against US leaders' commitment to not supporting "Taiwan independence" as well as the two sides' efforts to stabilize China-US relations, the spokesperson added.

On Sunday, Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, warned Taiwan authorities under Lai Ching-te that purchasing weapons will not bring safety to Taiwan, but will only push the region toward the danger of military conflict.

Separatist acts of "Taiwan independence" forces and external interference cannot halt the trend of China's national reunification or shake China's determination and resolve to solve the Taiwan question, she said.

Under US President Joe Biden's administration, there reportedly have been 17 arms sales to Taiwan.

Earlier this month, the People's Liberation Army carried out an interservice exercise surrounding Taiwan aiming to thwart Taiwan separatists' attempts.

In response to Taiwan leader Lai's remarks that he "would not yield an inch of ground in defense of Taiwanese territory", Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian emphasized that Taiwan is part of China's territory.

No matter what the Democratic Progressive Party authorities in Taiwan say or do, the fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China will not change, Lin said on Friday at a regular news briefing in Beijing.

The historic trend that the two sides of the Strait will and must be reunified will never be reversed, he added.

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Spokesman for DPRK Ministry of National Defence Makes Public Final Results of Investigation into Case of Grave Infringement upon Sovereignty by Drone from ROK

Pyongyang, October 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK released Sunday the final results of investigation into the case of infringement upon its sovereignty which confirmed the take-off point and route and purpose of intrusion by the drone from the ROK found in the area of the DPRK capital city.

According to the spokesman, under the instruction of the DPRK government on scientifically and thoroughly proving the truth behind the case of the grave infringement upon the country's sovereignty by a drone, a military means recognized by the world, the joint investigation group involving the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of State Security and other relevant specialized organs completely dismantled the flight control module from the remains of a crashed enemy drone and analyzed the flight plan and flight log in a comprehensive way.

The results of analysis of the flight control program of the enemy drone conducted by the joint investigation group indefensibly and clearly proved the most vulgar and shameless provocative nature of the ROK military gangsters who have persistently evaded the responsibility for the illegal intrusion by their drone into the sky above the capital city of the DPRK.

The collected evidence data include 238 flight plans and flight logs worked out between June 5, 2023 and October 8, 2024, and the remaining data except the data of October 8 are the data of flight in the territory of the ROK.

According to the analysis of the flight control program, a plan for scattering political motivational rubbish is to be worked out when the flight plan is drawn out, and when the drone reaches the position reflected in the scattering plan, the flight control module is to send an electrical signal to the scattering means.

The flight data number of the enemy drone crashed after intruding into the DPRK on October 8 was analyzed.

The plan for scattering political motivational rubbish and the scattering log were recorded correctly in the enemy drone.

It was proved that the drone of the ROK military gangsters which took off at Paekryong Island at 23:25:30 on Oct. 8 and intruded into the territorial air of the DPRK flied over Jangyon County of South Hwanghae Province and the waters around the Cho Islet till the waters around Namjoap Islet, and then over Chollima District, Nampho Municipality and intruded into the capital city of the DPRK.

The enemy drone scattered the political motivational rubbish in the sky above the area between the building of the DPRK Foreign Ministry and Sungri Station of the Pyongyang Metro at 1:32:8 on Oct. 9 and in the sky above the building of the Ministry of National Defence at 1:35:11.

The confirmed objective and scientific evidence data expose that the intrusion by the drone is aimed at scattering the anti-DPRK political motivational rubbish and that the principal of the hostile infringement upon the DPRK sovereignty is none other than the puppet ROK military gangsters.

The spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence stressed once again that the last warning to the dangerous and reckless, political and military provocation by the ROK military gangsters which went beyond the limit of patience has already been made.

In the case of infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK reoccurs due to the blind trust in the master, seizing the ROK, the most vulgar and malignant rogue state, and its extremely bad habit of challenge, the source of all misfortunes and provocations will disappear forever by the merciless offensive of the DPRK. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.10.28.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/020f000d8a64a13ad58dba4fb5c28e73.kcmsf
https://archive.is/jkp6R

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, October 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Sunday:

An unidentified drone appeared in the sky above Seoul and leaflets criticizing puppet Yoon were scattered.

The military, individual organization or any individual of the DPRK did not let fly a drone. We can not confirm it and it is worthless to give answer to it.

This is an assumed situation.

Under such situation, I'd like to see once how the dirty curs in Seoul bark.

The world may also be curious about it. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.10.28.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/51d2e2dad25d130a1b8f1a04e6619709.kcmsf
https://archive.is/WNjgu

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https://xcancel.com/RamEliBrandts/status/1849053913648967704

Israeli state owned media channel (KAN 11) did a segment yesterday claiming that Twitch is antisemitic for allowing Pro-Palestinian streamers on their website.

In the second clip of the twitter thread, the Talk Show Host says "This is Destiny which I'm a big fan of him, he is pro Israeli, and a very big star on social media." I don't speak hebrew. I saw a few different translations posted online.

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-actual/p-11602/815145/ (the video on israeli state owned website) (starts at 33:30, no subtitles)

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Only 56% of Americans said that undocumented immigrants should be given a path to citizenship.

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