WORLD NEWS April 30, 2020 5 Satellite Images Suggest China Parliament Set to Meet in Sign of Normalization

North Korea Leader at Villa BERLIN (Reuters) -- Four people were injured in a stabbing incident in the German city of Hanau diplomatic messages. on Tuesday evening, police said, adding that offi- Kim’s seaside compound in Wonsan, cers had detained two suspects. German magazine on the country’s east coast, is dotted Focus Online cited police as saying a group of five with guest villas and serviced by a pri- to seven men had attacked passers-by with knives. The magazine also said none of those injured was vate beach, basketball court, and pri- in a life-threatening condition. Four people were vate train station, according to experts taken to a clinic in Hanau, near the financial hub and satellite imagery. An airstrip was of Frankfurt in western Germany, with injuries in- bulldozed last year to build a horse cluding stab wounds, said the police in a statement. One of the suspects who was detained was 23 years riding track, while a boathouse near- old, the other 29 years old, added police. A police by shelters Kim’s Princess 95 luxury spokesman said the motive for the attacks was still yacht, valued at around $7 million in unclear. But he added there were no signs that the 2013. incident was connected to the killing of nine people Wonsan holds symbolic power for with foreign roots in February by a gunman. Then, a 43-year old man with racist views shot dead nine the Kim dynasty: It was there Kim Il A security agent takes position as Chinese PM delivers his people in shisha bars in Hanau before killing him- Sung, who helped found North Korea speech during the opening session of the National People’s Congress self and his mother, an attack that shook Germany. at the end of Japanese colonial rule in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes the firing of suspected (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 5, 2018. *** 1945, first landed with Soviet troops to missiles in this image released by North Korea’s Korean Central News BEIJING (Reuters) -- China announced tice minister to replace Fu Zhenghua, who WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A U.S. destroyer hit by take over the country. Agency (KCNA) on March 22, 2020. on Wednesday that its parliament will has reached the retirement age of 65 for min- dozens of coronavirus cases sailed into San Diego Wonsan is believed by some experts open a key annual session on May 22, isters. for cleaning, making it the second Navy warship SEOUL (Reuters) -- Satellite imag- area. to be Kim Jong Un’s birthplace, partly signaling that Beijing sees the country re- The Chinese People’s Political Consulta- temporarily put out of action by the pandemic. With ery showing recent movements of That followed a report last week by because he spent his early years at the 63 percent of the 300-strong crew tested as of Tues- turning to normal after being reduced to tive Conference (CPPCC), an advisory body day, 64 sailors aboard the USS Kidd were found luxury boats often used by North a U.S.-based North Korea monitor- family’s palace there, although official a near-standstill for months by the CO- to parliament, has proposed starting its an- positive for COVID-19, the Navy said. Two had Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his ing project, 38 North, which reported history has never confirmed where he VID-19 epidemic. nual session a day before the parliamentary been medically evacuated to the U.S. mainland last entourage near Wonsan provide fur- satellite images showed what was be- was born. During the gathering of the National Peo- session opens. week, and 15 others were subsequently transferred ther indications he has been at the lieved to be Kim’s personal train was The Wonsan area has also become ple’s Congress in the capital, delegates will Analysts expect China to roll out additional to another vessel with better medical facilities -- the USS Makin Island -- for monitoring “due to persis- coastal resort, according to experts parked at a station reserved for his use emblematic of Kim’s strategy for ratify major legislation, and the government fiscal stimulus in order to cushion the blow will unveil economic targets, set defense from COVID-19, which has developed in to a tent symptoms,” it said. The first vessel struck by an who monitor the reclusive regime. at the villa in Wonsan. survival based on a combination of spending projections and make personnel worldwide pandemic that some fear will trig- outbreak of the disease, the nuclear aircraft carrier Speculation about Kim’s health and Officials in South Korea and the economic development, tourism, and changes. The ruling Communist Party also ger a severe global recession. USS Theodore Roosevelt, remains at dock in Guam after one month while 4,800 crew are treated and location erupted after his unprecedent- United States say it is plausible Kim nuclear weapons. He is rebuilding typically announces signature policy initia- China’s economy contracted for the first ed absence from April 15 celebrations may be staying there, possibly to avoid the massive ship is sterilized. All of the crew has the city of 360,000 people and wants tives. time on record during the January-March been tested and 969 found positive for the coronavi- to mark the birthday of his late grand- exposure to the new coronavirus, and to turn it into a billion-dollar tourist The session was initially scheduled to start period, when the government imposed severe rus. One sailor died. Overall, the U.S. Department father and North Korea’s founder, Kim have expressed skepticism of media hotspot. on March 5 but was postponed due to CO- travel and transport restriction to curb the of Defense says that more than 6,640 military and Il Sung. reports he had some kind of serious Wonsan has also been the scene VID-19, which has infected nearly 83,000 spread of the epidemic. civilian personnel and family members have tested positive for coronavirus, with 27 deaths. On Tuesday, North Korea-monitor- illness. of some of Kim’s renewed military people and killed more than 4,600 on the Parliament is also expected to discuss the ing website NK PRO reported com- The last time official media in North drills and missile tests, which he re- mainland after emerging late last year in the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, *** central city of Wuhan. amid growing speculation that Beijing take mercial satellite imagery showed boats Korea reported on Kim’s whereabouts sumed amid increasing frustration As the epidemic has subsided, economic steps to strengthen its grip on the city. LIMA (AFP) -- Nine inmates were killed and scores of guards wounded when rioting broke out often used by Kim had made move- was when he presided over a meeting with a lack of progress in denucle- and social life gradually returned to normal, It is unclear how long parliament and its ments in patterns that suggested he or on April 11, but there have been near- arization talks with the United States at a prison in Lima after two inmates died from making it possible for the congress to con- advisory body will meet for this time, and COVID-19, authorities in Peru said. The riot his entourage may be in the Wonsan daily reports of him sending letters and and South Korea. vene, the official quoted people familiar with the matter have told broke out Monday at the city’s Castro Castro pris- the standing committee of the NPC, the legis- Reuters that this year’s annual sessions could on. By nightfall, authorities said the situation had lature’s top decision-making body, as saying. be the shortest in decades due to COVID-19 been brought under control, giving an initial toll of Brazil Overtakes China With Coronavirus Cases The committee also appointed Huang concerns. Usually more than 5,000 delegates three dead before gradually revising the figure up- Runqiu as the new minister for ecology and descend on Beijing from all over China for at wards to nine. Aside from the nine killed, 60 prison ples of Brazil. guards, five police officers and two inmates were President Jair Bolsonaro regular- environment, a post vacated when predeces- least 10 days. sor became deputy Communist Beijing city plans to ease quarantine rules wounded in the unrest, the National Penitentiary ly expresses his impatience with Institute (INPE) said in a statement. The death toll restrictions imposed by the state Party chief for Shandong province earlier this as early as Thursday, two sources familiar from COVID-19 in the Peru’s overcrowded prison governors to slow the disease’s month, Xinhua reported. with the situation told Reuters, ahead of the system has risen to 15, following the deaths of two spread and has pushed hard for was also named as the new jus- key political meetings. inmates over the weekend, while more than 600 economic activity to restart. inmates are infected. The notoriously overcrowded Asked about the rising death Lurigancho was built to house 2,500 prisoners but is currently believed to have more than 10,000. count, Bolsonaro responded, “And U.S. Panel Blacklists India what? I am sorry about it. What do *** you want me to do?” TRIPOLI (AFP) -- Libya’s UN-recognized gov- “I am Messias,” he said, refer- But Gov’t Not to Follow Lead ernment accused rival military strongman Khalifa ring to his middle name, which Haftar of seeking to stage a new coup after he means Messiah, “but I don’t do claimed to have a “popular mandate” to govern miracles.” the country. Accused by critics of wanting to install Health Minister Nelson Teich, a new military dictatorship, Haftar who controls who took office earlier this month swathes of eastern and southern Libya, announced his self-styled “army” was “proud to be mandated A supporter of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrates during after the controversial firing of with the historic task” of leading Libya. Analysts an anti-shelter-in-place demonstration in Brasilia on April 26, 2020. his predecessor, said last week as said his move was a sign he wanted to consolidate the death toll hit 3,000 that it was his power after a series of setbacks earlier this BRASÍLIA (AFP) -- Brazil, the could be higher than Tuesday’s of- premature to attribute the rise in month, when GNA forces captured a string of strate- South American country worst- ficial figure of 5,107, as the cause fatalities to a surge in COVID-19 gic towns west of Tripoli. The oil-rich North African hit by the coronavirus pan- of 1,156 further deaths are under infections. nation has been gripped by chaos since the ouster demic, has registered more than investigation. He suggested it could instead be and killing of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi 5,000 deaths from COVID-19, Experts believe the overall num- the result of an increase in testing. in 2011, with rival administrations in the east and Sao Paulo, the hardest-hit state west vying for power. The Government of National the health ministry said, push- ber of COVID-19 cases could be Accord in Tripoli denounced Haftar’s announce- ing the toll above that of China. 12 to 15 times higher, due to a with a third of the country’s cases, ment as “a farce and the latest in a long series of A record 474 deaths were re- large number of undetected cases plans to gradually resume eco- coups d’etat”. corded in the last 24 hours, with given the lack of testing availabili- nomic activity -- sector by sector the number of infections rising to ty across the country’s 210 million -- from May 11. Protesters demonstrating against India’s new citizenship law at Jantar *** 71,886, the ministry said. population. Rio de Janeiro and southeastern Mantar in New Delhi on January 29, 2020. PARIS (AFP) -- Poaching of endangered species China, where the virus first Deaths among vulnerable indig- Minas Gerais states are preparing WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A U.S. govern- mostly Muslim migrants as “termites,” and could rebound as authorities divert their attention emerged before spreading across enous communities rose by 15 on similar measures, while the feder- to enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures, an ment panel called for India to be put on a to a citizenship law that has triggered nation- international wildlife watchdog said Wednesday, the world, has recorded about Monday, a jump of 50 percent in al district of Brasilia and southern religious freedom blacklist over a “dras- wide protests. Santa Catarina state have already reporting stockpiling of ivory and other animal 4,600 deaths. the past five days, according to the tic” downturn under Prime Minister Na- It also highlighted the revocation of the au- products as borders remain shut. The Wildlife Jus- The ministry said Brazil’s toll Articulation of Indigenous Peo- resumed certain activities. rendra Modi, triggering a sharp rebuttal tonomy of Kashmir, which was India’s only tice Commission (WJC) said that a ban on the sale from New Delhi. Muslim-majority state, and allegations that of wild animals in China was causing backlogs in The U.S. Commission on International Re- Delhi police turned a blind eye to mobs who smuggling networks of pangolin scales and ivory Details of Sunlight Study on Coronavirus Revealed ligious Freedom recommends but does not attacked Muslim neighborhoods in February across Southeast Asia. But it warned that crimi- set policy, and there is virtually no chance this year. nal gangs were adapting to tighter border controls WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The U.S. Department of amount in just 1.5 minutes at room temperature and 20 per- the State Department will follow its lead on The Indian government, which has long amid the pandemic. WJC operatives, often acting undercover, reported large stockpiles of ivory in Homeland Security revealed to AFP new technical de- cent humidity, he added. India, an increasingly close U.S. ally. been irritated by the commission’s com- Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos following a string of tails regarding its highly anticipated study into how ul- These eye-catching results surprised experts because most In an annual report, the bipartisan panel ments, quickly rejected the report. recent seizures. The pangolin, an endangered spe- traviolet radiation destroys the new coronavirus, saying of the UV light contained in natural sunlight belongs to a said that India should join the ranks of “Its biased and tendentious comments cies, is one of the most trafficked animals on earth, that its experiment had accurately mimicked natural subtype called UVA, which causes human skin to tan and “countries of particular concern” that would against India are not new. But on this occa- fuelling a multi-billion-dollar trade for their scales, sunlight. age but has not generally been proven harmful to viruses, be subject to sanctions if they do not im- sion, its misrepresentation has reached new prized as medicine in many Asian countries. A summary of the research was presented last week at David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Re- prove their records. levels,” foreign ministry spokesman Anurag *** the White House, with some scientists calling for caution search at Columbia University Medical Center, told AFP. “In 2019, religious freedom conditions in Srivastava said. until a more comprehensive report was made public. U.S. On the other hand, a part of the spectrum called UVC is India experienced a drastic turn downward, “We regard it as an organization of particu- MADRID (AFP) -- Spanish police said they had President Donald Trump raised eyebrows last week when particularly adept at warping the genetic material of animal with religious minorities under increasing lar concern and will treat it accordingly,” he broken up an international drug-smuggling ring, seizing four tonnes of cocaine and arresting 28 he used his daily live national press briefing to ask whether and virus cells and is widely used in sterilizing lamps, but assault,” the report said. said in a statement. people. The gang, which was made up of “experi- light could become a medical treatment. it is not present in sunlight because it is filtered out by the It called on the United States to impose pu- India’s citizenship law fast-tracks natu- enced sailors and known traffickers”, was working “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous -- whether Earth’s atmosphere. nitive measures, including visa bans, on In- ralization for minorities from neighboring with major national and international drug smug- it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” he said. “Sup- Asked for further details on the type of UV light that was dian officials believed responsible and grant countries -- but not if they are Muslim. glers to “bring in cocaine shipments by sea”, a po- posing you brought the light inside the body, which you can used, Lloyd Hough, a DHS scientist overseeing the test, funding to civil society groups that monitor Modi’s government says it is not targeting lice statement said. Police said it was the biggest do either through the skin or in some other way.” said: “The spectrum of light that was used was designed to hate speech. Muslims but rather providing refuge to per- drug-smuggling organization in the northwestern Trump continued on to suggest that people inject disinfec- approximate natural sunlight that you would expect to see The commission said that Modi’s Hindu secuted people and should be commended. region of Galicia, and had “a large number of boats tants to cure the virus, an idea that health experts quickly at noon at sea level at a mid-latitude location (e.g., mid- nationalist government, which won a con- But critics consider it a watershed move and speedboats” stowed away at different locations shot down. Atlantic, 40 degrees N) on the first day of summer. vincing election victory last year, “allowed by Modi to define the world’s largest de- between northern Portugal and the port city of Pon- tevedra. With support from the U.S. Drug Enforce- DHS official William Bryan had briefed the media that the “More specifically, it approximates the wavelengths of violence against minorities and their houses mocracy as a Hindu nation and chip away ment Agency, Britain’s National Crime Agency and amount of virus on a non-porous surface shrunk by half in light predicted by the National Center for Atmospheric of worship to continue with impunity, and at independent India’s founding principle of the Colombian police, Spanish investigators dis- just two minutes when sunlight was present, the tempera- Research’s (NCAR) Tropospheric Ultraviolet and Visible also engaged in and tolerated hate speech secularism. covered that the traffickers were poised to receive a ture was 70-75 degrees Fahrenheit (21-24 Celsius) and hu- (TUV) Radiation Model for noon at 40 degrees N latitude and incitement to violence.” Trump has hailed Modi and himself called for shipment and started looking for “the mothership” midity was 80 percent. at sea level on June 21st in range of 280 and 400 nanometer It pointed to comments by Home Minis- a ban on all Muslim immigration to the United which they intercepted some 200 nautical miles off The amount of virus suspended in air shrunk to half its wavelengths.” ter Amit Shah, who notoriously referred to States when he campaigned for president. the coast.