🇰🇵☢️📃 — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: North Korea says its status as nuclear weapons state 'final, irreversible'
— "North Korea's foreign minister said Friday that the United States and the West have no right to argue about its status as a global nuclear weapons power, slamming a recent joint statement by the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) as an interference.

In a statement, Choe Son-hui took issue with a joint statement recently released by the G7 Foreign Ministers condemning the North's unlawful ballistic missile launches and saying that Pyongyang "cannot and will never" have the status of a nuclear-weapon state under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

— "The G7 has no authority or qualification for the exercise of sovereignty and national status of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," she said, referring to the North by its official name. "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's status as a global nuclear power is final and irreversible.""

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https://archive.is/7T62e

🇺🇸🤝🇰🇷 — 📰 Reuters: Biden to pledge steps to deter nuclear attack on South Korea -officials
— "At a summit next week with South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol U.S. President Joe Biden will pledge "substantial" steps to underscore the U.S. commitment to deter a North Korean nuclear attack on South Korea, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

"We are working extraordinarily and intensively with the South Koreans to take the necessary steps to buttress both public perception and the reality of our commitments," the official told Reuters ahead of Yoon's summit with Biden next Wednesday."

Link
https://archive.is/tIyup

🇰🇵👨‍💻📃 — 📰 CNN News: North Korean hackers breach software firm in significant cyberattack

— "Suspected North Korean hackers infiltrated a software firm that claims hundreds of thousands of customers around the world in a cyberattack that shows Pyongyang’s advanced hacking capabilities, private investigators said Thursday.

The breach of the software firm 3CX, discovered last month, provided a potential foothold for the North Koreans into a huge swath of multinational firms – from hotel chains to health care providers – that use the firm’s software for voice and video calls.

The number of companies affected by the hack and what the hackers ultimately did with access to victim networks remain unclear. But it’s the latest evidence that North Korean hackers are pulling out all the stops to break into organizations to steal or spy on them in support of dictator Kim Jong Un’s strategic interests."

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https://archive.is/KuRP7

🇯🇵❌🇰🇵 — 📰 TVP World: Japan to shoot down N.Korea satellite if it falls on its territory

— "Japan's military will shoot down a North Korean spy satellite should it fall within its territory, as Kim Jong Un has announced that his country is ready to launch its first military reconnaissance satellite.

Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada on Saturday ordered the country's military to prepare to shoot down a North Korean spy satellite should it fall within Japan's territory.

Hamada ordered the Self-Defense Forces to make necessary preparations as he could potentially "order the destruction of ballistic missiles", the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Preparations included making arrangements to deploy troops to the southern prefecture of Okinawa to "minimize damage should a ballistic missile fall.""

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https://archive.is/g76fY

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷 — 📰 Hurriyet News: Six PKK terrorists ‘neutralized’ in Northern Iraq
— "“We continue to destroy their hideouts on their heads tirelessly,” the ministry said in a social media post, elaborating that the terrorists were neutralized in the Gara region.

“Our heroic Turkish Armed Forces will continue to tear down the terror hideouts with determination.”

Türkiye has launched the Claw operations as a series of offensives since 2019 against terrorist organizations in northern Iraq, particularly the PKK."

Link
https://archive.is/fVxwp

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷 — 🇹🇷 PKK's ANF News: HPG reports 86 Turkish attacks on guerrilla areas

— "In its daily statement about the war in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), the press centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) reported 86 attacks by the Turkish invading forces in two days with fighter jets, howitzers and heavy weapons.

HPG denied the Turkish media reports that six guerrillas lost their lives as a result of a recent attack by the Turkish army in the Gare region.

— "The Turkish occupation army carried out an extensive air operation in Gare on 18 April and bombed different areas and the surroundings of villages 28 times with fighter jets. The Special War Ministry [Ministry of Defence] claims that we had six casualties in these attacks. However, we have not suffered any casualties at all as a result of these air strikes. Our patriotic people and the public must not give any value to the special war lies of the fascist AKP/MHP regime.""

Link
https://archive.is/3Uq5I

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷 — 🇹🇷📰 Turkish State Media, TRT World on April 18, 2023 on Twitter:
— "Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar says a new series of operations against PKK/YPG terrorist group in Syria and Iraq is under way"

🔗 TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow)

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷 — 🇹🇷 PKK's ANF News: KCK warns against new provocations by the Turkish state
— "The Foreign Relations Committee of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) released a statement warning against “new provocations of the fascist Turkish Republic and its mafia-terrorist government left before the May 14 elections, which constitutes an important turning point in the future of the country and the region.”

Link
https://archive.is/uAqvL

🇹🇷🕊🇹🇷 — 📰 VoA: Kurdish Politician Promises to Work on Disarming PKK if Erdogan Loses

— "A prominent Kurdish leader has added a new wrinkle to Turkey’s tense election campaign from his prison cell, suggesting the defeat of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could open the door to a resolution of the nation’s decades-old struggle against a Kurdish militant group.

Selahattin Demirtas, the former co-leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), is pledging to use his influence to get the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to give up its armed resistance to Turkish rule if a new administration takes office in Ankara after parliamentary and presidential elections on May 14.

“As a promise to our people, we will do everything we can to ensure that the PKK will lay down arms in Turkey after the Erdogan regime that feeds on conflict,” Demirtas said in a tweet thread posted via his lawyers last week."

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https://archive.is/3x5bI

🇹🇷🗳📃 — 🇹🇷📰 Daily Sabah: PKK terrorists bank on Kılıçdaroğlu for Turkish elections
— "Having been driven to near extinction both within and across Türkiye’s borders thanks to counterterrorism operations, the PKK terrorist group is now pinning hopes of survival on Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the head of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the main opposition’s presidential runner for the May 14 elections.

Since early March, when the CHP-led six-party opposition bloc Nation Alliance named Kılıçdaroğlu as its candidate, eight PKK ringleaders in Qandil have voiced express support for Kılıçdaroğlu and the alliance.

The Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq are the PKK’s stronghold from where it devises and launches attacks on Türkiye, as well as nearby cities and towns.

After the “table for six,” a common nickname for the Nation Alliance, confirmed his candidacy against incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu rushed to pay a visit to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a party known for its affiliation with the PKK and currently fighting a ban lawsuit because of it. The party is often shunned for “acting as the political extension of the PKK.”

In remarks following his one-on-one meeting with HDP co-Chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar, Kılıçdaroğlu dropped a strong indication that should he win, HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş and PKK ringleader Abdullah Öcalan, both jailed on terrorism charges of various degrees, would be released."

Link
https://archive.is/2vqa1

🇫🇷❌🇹🇷 — 📰 France24: France tries alleged PKK figures accused of extortion, terror financing

— "France was on Tuesday set to try 11 alleged senior members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), accused of extortion, terrorist financing and propaganda for the organisation.

Labelled a terrorist organisation by the United States, European Union and Turkey, the PKK has been waging a decades-long armed struggle against Ankara for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority in the Turkish southeast.

None of the 11 suspects who will appear before the Paris criminal court – all Turkish citizens – acknowledges membership in the group, which they say has no presence in France.

But investigators believe that France, alongside EU neighbours, offers a staging ground for PKK activities."

Link
https://archive.is/wS5iL

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷 — If you want specific coverage of topics related to the Kurdish conflict from a Kurdish perspective, we recommend both:

— https://t.me/KurdishFrontNews

— https://t.me/nuce_ciwan_ENG

Each are great at covering topics related to the Kurdish conflict and are honestly more immersive than traditional media in the region itself.

🇪🇸❌🇪🇸 — The Spanish Regime announces a new violation and desecration of the Valley of the Fallen, this time to exhumate the remains of Martyr Primo de Rivera

— On this April 20, 2023, the Spanish Regime authorities, led by the social-democrat Prime-Minister Pedro Sánchez, announced via its social medias that it will carry out a new violation of the Valleys of the Fallen, this time aimed against the Tomb where the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spanish Falangist Party, are buried since his murder by Republican Militants during the early weeks of Spanish Civil War.

The chosen date by the Spanish Regime authorities, in a clear provocation, coincides with the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Falangist leader, on April 24, 1903.

Since 2010, the ruling Left-wing PSOE party has been trying to remove the remains of the Fallen Falangist leader from the Valley of the Fallen, as they did in 2019 with the remains of the Generalísimo Francisco Franco — which ruled over Spain during and after the Spanish Civil War —, and move it to a place that would then be designated by the family.

It is notorious that since the PSOE party, which actively participated on the side of republican militants during the then Spanish Civil War, has been actively and repeatedly pushing for a "Secular Crusade" against any symbol and memory of the post-war period, even if these are merely tombs or even Christian monuments, no matter how cowardly it may be.

https://archive.is/kJKIQ

🇺🇸🇸🇩📃 — US embassy in Sudan Security alert: There is incomplete information about significant convoys departing Khartoum traveling towards Port Sudan. The embassy is unable to assist convoys. Traveling in any convoy is at your own risk.

🇸🇩🔥📹 — 📰 British Media, Sky News on Twitter:
— "The Sudanese army says the UK, US, France and China are to evacuate their diplomats and nationals from Sudan"

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)

🇸🇩🔥📹 — 🇮🇹 Italian Channel, ' @columbusinformazione ' on Telegram:
— The first evacuation ship carrying 50 Saudi nationals, as well as a number of nationals from other countries, has arrived in Jeddah from Sudan.

https://t.me/columbusinformazione/18413