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ALERT 🚨 North Korea’s leader Kim dismisses military chief, calls for war preparations


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NORTH KOREA 🇰🇵 "Kim Jong Un has dismissed his top general and called for stepping up war preparations "in an offensive way", including boosting weapons production and conducting more drills, state media reported Thursday.

The developments came at a meeting of the Central Military Commission on Wednesday, the Korean Central News Agency reported, just days after Kim inspected several major arms factories." (Barron’s)

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Bidens EO Today “DECLARING A NATION EMERGENCY”

I therefore find that advancement by countries of concern in sensitive technologies and products critical for the military, intelligence, surveillance, or cyber-enabled capabilities of such countries constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, and that certain United States investments risk exacerbating this threat.  I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with this threat.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/08/09/executive-order-on-addressing-united-states-investments-in-certain-national-security-technologies-and-products-in-countries-of-concern/

AUGUST 09, 2023

Letters to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern

Dear Mr. Speaker:   (Dear Madam President:)
Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of noscript 3, United States Code, I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order declaring a national emergency to deal with the threat of advancement by countries of concern in sensitive technologies and products critical to the military, intelligence, surveillance, or cyber-enabled capabilities of such countries.  I find that this threat constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, and that certain United States investments risk exacerbating this threat. 

I find that countries of concern are engaged in comprehensive, long-term strategies that direct, facilitate, or otherwise support advancements in sensitive technologies and products that are critical to such countries’ military, intelligence, surveillance, or cyber-enabled capabilities.  Moreover, these countries eliminate barriers between civilian and commercial sectors and military and defense industrial sectors, not just through research and development, but also by acquiring and diverting the world’s cutting-edge technologies, for the purposes of achieving military dominance.  Rapid advancement in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence capabilities by these countries significantly enhances their ability to conduct activities that threaten the national security of the United States.  I have identified in an Annex to this Executive Order one country, the People’s Republic of China, along with the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong and the Special Administrative Region of Macau, as a country of concern for purposes of this Executive Order. 

As part of this strategy of advancing the development of these sensitive technologies and products, countries of concern are exploiting or have the ability to exploit certain United States outbound investments, including certain intangible benefits that often accompany United States investments and that help companies succeed.  The commitment of the United States to open investment is a cornerstone of our economic policy and provides the United States with substantial benefits.  However, certain United States investments may accelerate and increase the success of the development of sensitive technologies and products in countries that develop them to counter United States and allied capabilities.

Through this Executive Order, I am directing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations that require United States persons to provide notification to the Department of the Treasury of information relative to certain transactions involving covered foreign persons and that prohibit United States persons from engaging in certain other transactions involving covered foreign persons.

I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
                                                                                                                   Sincerely,
                               JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/08/09/letters-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-and-the-president-of-the-senate-on-addressing-united-states-investments-in-certain-national-security-technologies-and-products-in-countries-of-concern/

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