🇺🇸🇦🇺🇧🇭🇧🇪🇨🇦🇩🇰🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇳🇱🇳🇿🇬🇧 A Joint Statement from the Governments of the United States, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Recognizing the broad consensus as expressed by 44 countries around the world on December 19, 2023, as well as the statement by the UN Security Council on December 1, 2023, condemning Houthi attacks against commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea, and in light of ongoing attacks, including a significant escalation over the past week targeting commercial vessels, with missiles, small boats, and attempted hijackings,

We hereby reiterate the following and warn the Houthis against further attacks:

Ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilizing. There is no lawful justification for intentionally targeting civilian shipping and naval vessels. Attacks on vessels, including commercial vessels, using unmanned aerial vehicles, small boats, and missiles, including the first use of anti-ship ballistic missiles against such vessels, are a direct threat to the freedom of navigation that serves as the bedrock of global trade in one of the world’s most critical waterways.

These attacks threaten innocent lives from all over the world and constitute a significant international problem that demands collective action. Nearly 15 percent of global seaborne trade passes through the Red Sea, including 8 percent of global grain trade, 12 percent of seaborne-traded oil and 8 percent of the world’s liquefied natural gas trade. International shipping companies continue to reroute their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding significant cost and weeks of delay to the delivery of goods, and ultimately jeopardizing the movement of critical food, fuel, and humanitarian assistance throughout the world.

Let our message now be clear: we call for the immediate end of these illegal attacks and release of unlawfully detained vessels and crews. The Houthis will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and free flow of commerce in the region’s critical waterways. We remain committed to the international rules-based order and are determined to hold malign actors accountable for unlawful seizures and attacks.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/03/a-joint-statement-from-the-governments-of-the-united-states-australia-bahrain-belgium-canada-denmark-germany-italy-japan-netherlands-new-zealand-and-the-united-kingdom/

🇨🇳📞🇲🇲 — 📰 Al-Jazeera (Dec 28, 2023): China asks citizens to evacuate Myanmar border area over security risks

➡️ China’s embassy in Myanmar has asked its citizens to leave a border district in Myanmar as soon as possible, citing security risks.

➡️ The call on Thursday to evacuate the Laukkai area in the Kokang region, along the countries’ shared border, came as Myanmar’s military battles an alliance of ethnic armed groups fighting to overturn its 2021 coup.

➡️ Clashes have raged since October across Myanmar’s northern Shan State after the Arakan Army (AA), the Mandarin-speaking Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) launched Operation 1027, an offensive against the military.

Link
https://archive.is/8TWNG

#URGENT

🇰🇷🆘❗️ — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: South Korean Government issued a mass evacuation order for ALL 2,000 People living on Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea due to a possible North Korean Attack in the next hours!

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230718004200325?input=tw

🇰🇵❌🇰🇷 — Yonhap Korean Version confirms, quoting an official from the Yeonpyeong Island office, that a "North Korean Maritime attack" took place at the island and after it mass evacuation orders were ordered for all civilians inside the island as the South Korean Army is expecting a major provocation:

— “We made an evacuation broadcast after receiving a call from the military unit saying that there was a situation related to North Korean provocations and a maritime strike was being carried out on Yeonpyeong Island.”

Link
https://archive.is/wip/4yA4L

#BREAKING
🇰🇵❌🇰🇷❗️ — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: North Korean People's Army fired 200 artillery shells towards the Yeonpyeong Island and the Western coast of Korean Peninsula

#BREAKING

🇰🇷❌🇰🇵 — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says there is no damage or casualties to civilians or to the ROK military, and the military will be implementing corresponding measures in response in the coming hours!

https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20240105073000504?input=tw