Síntesis informativa - 6 de diciembre 2018
THE NEW YORK TIMES
North Korea Is Expanding Missile Base With Eye Toward U.S., Experts Warn
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is expanding an important missile base that would be one of the most likely sites for deploying intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, two experts on the North’s missile programs said Thursday, citing new research based on satellite imagery.
The activities at the Yeongjeo-dong missile base near North Korea’s border with China and the expansion of a new suspected missile facility seven miles away are the latest indications that North Korea is continuing to improve its missile capabilities, said Jeffrey Lewis and David Schmerler of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California. And they come despite President Trump’s repeated claims of progress in efforts to denuclearize the North.
Dr. Lewis and Mr. Schmerler said they were still not sure whether Yeongjeo-dong and the new facility under construction in nearby Hoejung-ni, both in the mountainous area near North Korea’s central border with China, were separate bases or parts of a larger single operation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/world/asia/north-korea-missile-bases.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld
Putin Vows to ‘React Accordingly’ if U.S. Withdraws From Nuclear Treaty
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin warned on Wednesday that Russia will respond in kind if the United States decides to develop new intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
The chief of staff of Russia’s military, Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, echoed those remarks, saying that any European countries where the United States stationed intermediate-range missiles, such as Poland or Romania, would be the first targets in the event of a conflict.
The United States has long accused Russia of developing such missiles in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which limits ground-based intermediate-range missiles. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States would within 60 days start the formal process of abandoning the treaty unless Russia re-established compliance with its terms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/world/europe/putin-missiles-trump-pompeo.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld
Yemen Peace Talks Begin With Agreement to Free 5,000 Prisoners
CAIRO — Yemen’s warring sides agreed on Thursday to exchange prisoners, starting peace consultations in Sweden that aim to end a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of civilians and pushed millions to the brink of famine.
The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, opened the talks, saying they represented a “critical opportunity” for Yemen. The prisoner exchange, said to involve at least 5,000 detainees, is the first of several confidence-building measures intended to draw the Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition that supports President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi into more substantive negotiations.
Also on the table is a proposal to reopen the airport in the capital, Sana, which has been under a Saudi blockade since 2015 — one of several punishing measures that have fueled what the United Nations calls the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/world/middleeast/yemen-peace-talks.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld
Cuba Will Allow Full Internet Access on Phones Starting This Week
HAVANA — Cuba will offer its citizens full internet access for mobile phones beginning this week, becoming one of the last nations to enable such service.
Cubans can begin contracting 3G service for the first time on Thursday, Mayra Arevich, the president of the state-run telecommunications company, Etecsa, announced on national television on Tuesday night.
Until now, Cubans have had access only to state-run email accounts on their phones.
The Cuban government has been building a 3G network in cities across the island, and some tourists, Cuban government officials and foreign businesspeople have had access to it for several years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/world/americas/cuba-cellphones-internet.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld
Arrest Shakes Huawei as Global Skepticism of Its Business Grows
It is one of China’s proudest corporate success stories, a colossus in cutting-edge technology that elbowed out Western rivals to become the biggest supplier of the hardware that connects our modern world.
Now, all around the globe, the walls are going up for Huawei.
The United States, which for years has considered the Chinese telecommunications giant a security threat, aimed a straight shot at the company’s leadership when it secured the arrest, in Canada, of Huawei’s chief financial officer.
But lately, Huawei’s setbacks have come on multiple fronts, from New Zealand and Australia to Britain and Canada. China sees the company as a pivotal driver of its ambitions for global technological leadership. Increasingly, much of the rest of the world sees it as a potential conduit for espionage and sabotage.
The Canadian government said on Wednesday that it had detained Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on Saturday in Vancouver, British Columbia, while she was transferring flights. The United States is seeking Ms. Meng’s extradition but has not said what prompted the arrest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/technology/huawei-arrest-meng-wanzhou.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld
Rocket-Boosted but Going Nowhere Fast: The Navy’s Failed Munitions Programs
When the Navy retired its last aged battleship in 1992, it pledged to the Marine Corps that it would continue fulfilling one of the warships’ missions: naval gunfire support for troops ashore. More than a quarter of a century later, and after more than a billion dollars spent, the service’s intended replacements — rocket-assisted GPS-guided shells — have yet to materialize.
The effort has been marked by a string of technological disappointments. Rocket motors failed to ignite. Guidance fins wouldn’t pop out. Antennas couldn’t acquire satellite signals before shells smashed to the ground. In decades of testing, the Navy has been unable to build replacement weapons that reliably worked, much less at an affordable price. This research-and-development failure has resulted in 36 new warships with advanced deck guns, but not the specialized munitions they were designed to fire. The Navy intends to commission 13 more ships the same way and has no immediate plan or clear option for fulfilling its promise to the corps.
Officials at the Marine Corps’ Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va., where the service sets its weapons requirements, said the Navy’s current gunfire shortfalls pose a “significant risk” to amphibious attacks, which at one time required artillery that can reach an adversary’s shore from 40 nautical miles away to support invading forces. The Navy’s current deck guns can only fire as far as 13 nautical miles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/magazine/navy-gunfire-ammunition.html
AL JAZEERA
US senators introduce resolution blaming MBS for Khashoggi murder
Bipartisan group of senators introduces measure saying Saudi crown prince is 'complicit' in the killing of journalist.
The resolution also called on Saudi Arabia to end a blockade imposed by itself and three other Arab states on Qatar in June last year and seek a political solution in the worst diplomatic rift to have struck the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
The bipartisan group of senators also wants the release of blogger Raif Badawi, women's rights activists and other political prisoners held in Saudi Arabia.
EU, France announce $1.5bn aid for African SahelThe announcement comes as the UN-backed counterterrorism force, known as the G5 Sahel force, is meeting in Mauritania.
"Terrorism, cross-border crime, drug smuggling and lack of security in the Sahel region are attributed to injustice, marginalisation, underdevelopment, absence of education and unemployment among young people," he said.
OPEC members expected to agree to oil production cut
Despite calls from US President Donald Trump to keep oil flowing, major producers are expected to agree to cut output.
Hours before the meeting, US President Donald Trump called on OPEC and its allies to keep oil production high, so that prices remained low for the foreseeable future.
But OPEC and its partners, who account for more than half of the world's oil output, are planning to throttle production, which could lead to rising oil prices.
Saudi Arabia's oil minister on Thursday said the US should not try to dictate policy to group.
AL MAYADEEN
Desmienten informaciones sobre existencia de túneles entre El Líbano e (Israel)
5 DE DICIEMBRE. Según Berri, el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, está tratando de desviar la atención sobre la difícil situación que enfrenta hacia lo interno.
Con esas acusaciones, dijo el jefe de los diputados, Netanyahu intenta mantener unida a su coalición gobernante, en tanto que él mismo es objeto de críticas por malos manejos.
También expuso que durante una reunión entre las Fuerzas de Paz de la ONU en El Líbano (Fpnul) y los ejércitos libanés e israelí los funcionarios de la entidad sionista no revelaron información alguna sobre los túneles
Bloomberg confirma las denuncias del Gobierno venezolano
De acuerdo con un reporte de Resumen Latinoamericano, Bloomberg señaló que García Palomo -en las últimas semanas- ha estado haciendo llamamientos a los militares venezolanos para que se levanten, atribuyéndose la responsabilidad del golpe fallido llamado “Operación Constitución” que buscaba secuestrar a Maduro el 20 de mayo.
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