North Korea launches ballistic missile

Launched missile was from Sunan, an area of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, and was estimated to have flown at a maximum altitude of about 800 kilometers  (500 miles) over a distance of about 500 kilometers (290 miles) before falling into the sea outside of Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.

The launch is North Korea's first since a military parade late on April 25, at which leader Kim Jong Un vowed to ramp up his development of nuclear arms. From that time, launch becomes 13th of the year, including one presumed to have failed.
By comparison, it conducted only four tests in 2020, and eight in 2021.

Among this year's tests was the launch of an ICBM on March 24, North Korea's first test of that weapon in more than four years. North Korea has previously unleased harsh rhetoric threatening to attack its rivals with its nuclear weapons. These unusually fast pace in weapons testing this year underscores its dual goal of advancing its missile programs and applying pressure on international community.

North Korea’s series of actions that threatens the peace, safety and stability of the international community are impermissible. This is a developing story, and the crisis is just around the corner.

Present Danger

The risk of a global nuclear war is getting very real. This ominous warning came from  the top diplomat of the Russian Federation.

Russian vaunted offensive in Donbas is stalling, the war is lost, and Russia has nothing to counter Western weapons pouring in Ukraine. Politically and militarily, Russia is backed into a corner.

Since Putin can’t accept defeat, the Kremlin is indicating that nuclear weapons are on the table as its last resort in this war. This is nothing less than a threat to unleash an atomic war on the world. The international community should respond to these threats in a way that runs contrary to Putin’s expectations.

The continued existence of human civilization is at stake. It’s not just some European cities those are at stake, it’s all of humanity.

The Next 'Great Dying' Is Coming for Seafood

A new report in the journal Science finds that if climate change isn’t curbed, we stand to lose so much biodiversity in the world’s oceans that it will rival a massive marine die-off  more than two-thirds of the species in the oceans at the time. The sea dies due to diminished diversity.

We have emitted 2,400 billion tons of carbon dioxide. To stay below 1.5 degrees, we must emit less than 300 billion tons more.
If we continue to emit 40 billion tons each year, our budget will run out within seven years. Of course, we cannot shut down all energy utilities in the world overnight, so the only orderly way to do this is to bend the global curve of emissions now, because that's what all science shows.

Now is the last chance we have to bend the global curve. What is the most rapid pace of emission reduction that we can accomplish? Well, there's no study that suggests that we can go faster than 6, 7% per year, because 6, 7% per year, that is cutting by half in a decade. Cutting our emissions in half every decade is an exponential rate of change.

Anyone can adopt this pace. We can do it as individuals. We can be fossil fuel-free in one generation, in 30 years' time. And a company can do it, or a country can do it, or the world can/must do it.

Russia cuts off gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria

Russia's state-owned natural gas company announced it has stopped supplying natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria. 
It will not be supplied until the price is settled in the ruble denominated by Russia. 
While the EU relies on Russian energy, it has argued that it is a "threat" to Europe that has imposed sanctions against Russia, and the conflict is inevitable.

On the other hand, Poland and Bulgaria announced that they had received notifications of supply suspension, but explained that there would be no problem with supply for the time being by securing alternative suppliers.

Russia's next target is Poland or Bulgaria or Japan? Surely, Russia is Injustice and unacceptable.

The bridge on the river kwai

"Without law, commander, there is no civilization."
This line appears at the beginning of this movie. "The bridge on the river kwai".

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma. The camp is presided over by Colonel Saito, a man ruled by a mixture of Japanese cultural tradition and the need to win the war at any cost, even if it includes torture and other measures against the Geneva Convention. The samurai code goes to war.

During World War II, the Japanese Armed Forces captured nearly 140,000 Allied military personnel (from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States) in the Southeast Asia and Pacific areas. They were forced to engage in the hard labour of constructing railways, roads, airfields, etc. to be used by the Japanese Armed Forces in the occupied areas.

By the time the war was over, a total of more than 30,000 POWs had died from starvation, diseases, and mistreatment both within and outside of the Japanese Mainland.

Timewatch: Kwai