US Calls UN Security Council Over New North Korea Sanctions | Joe Biden Issues Stricter Rules In US

No more tobacco trade, make oil imports more difficult: the government in Washington wants to tighten the punitive measures against North Korea. China and Russia are likely to veto.

After North Korea tested a suspected ICBM, the United States called a UN Security Council vote on tougher sanctions against the communist country. The goal is to weaken the regime in Pyongyang to such an extent that it can no longer continue "its illegal programs for weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles."

USA: Where Guns Count More Than Children's Lives

19 elementary school students shot dead by a youth: another killing spree horrifies the United States. Nothing will change how much this country loves its right to guns.

How do you put into words what is hard to put into words? 19 elementary school students are dead, shot by a gunman at their school in Uvalde, Texas . They were seven, eight, nine years old. Went to second, third, and fourth grade. Summer vacation started for them on Thursday. The teacher Eva Mireles, who is said to have tried to save the children, died with them.

For the second time in a few days, a double-digit number of people have been killed by gun violence in the USA; the victims of the racist attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, are not all buried yet. Both perpetrators were only 18 years old. Both allegedly used firearms, some of which they had illegally converted and thus made even more deadly, but legally acquired and owned.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Russia Starts Military Maneuvers

In the south and east of the country, the Kremlin has tested the use of nuclear-capable missiles. Ukraine does not want to be provoked by this.

In the midst of the Ukraine conflict, Russia has started a large-scale military exercise with nuclear-capable missiles, according to Russian news agencies. According to the Kremlin, the aim of the maneuver is to test the reliability of strategic nuclear weapons. 

One exercise was held at a test site in the Astrakhan region in the south of the country, another on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east. In addition, warships of the Black Sea Fleet and the Northern Fleet were involved.

Ukraine Demands German Anti-Tank Missiles

The Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin has requested 12,000 anti-tank missiles. Secret services assume a Russian attack could be imminent.

Before Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to Kiev, the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin renewed the demand for heavy weapons from Germany. At Bild-TV, Andrij Melnyk demanded the immediate delivery of 12,000 anti-tank missiles in order to be able to fend off a possible Russian ground offensive against Ukraine. "The situation is dramatic," he said. "What we have to be prepared for today is the worst possible scenario."

The German's refuses to supply deadly weapons to Ukraine. However, it is considering making armaments available below this threshold.

Ukraine Conflict: Talk And Arm...The Cat's Table

Putin and Biden are negotiating over the heads of the Europeans. That doesn't have to be any harm for the EU.

If it were in his power, Vladimir Putin would turn the clock back in history to 1991. He saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union thirty years ago as a humiliation. For him it was the fall of an empire in which Russia found greatness and security. He never got over this shame.

That is why he intervened in 2008 in Georgia, which had turned to the west. That is why he annexed Crimea in 2014 and has been supporting the separatists in eastern Ukraine since they broke away from the government in Kiev.

Now Putin is again deploying troops. At no cost should Ukraine switch to the western camp. Ukrainians and Russians, for Putin they are "one people".

Ukraine Fears Putin Will Put Nuclear Weapons In Belarus

Lithuania and Poland once again back Kiev's aspirations to join the European Union and NATO, something Russia opposes.

Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland, three of the EU countries closest to Russia, joined their voices yesterday to ask for more support in the face of pressure from Moscow and its satellites. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky recalled that "we have many times perceived intimidation [from Russia] to move its nuclear weapons to different parts of the world: about the deployment of nuclear weapons in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, and now we hear information about Belarus. I think you can not play with those things."

Australia And South Korea Sign Arms Agreements

It is the largest arms agreement between Australia and an Asian country: South Korea is supposed to supply Australia with artillery weapons and radar equipment.

Australia and South Korea have agreed an arms deal worth one billion Australian dollars (around 635 million euros). The deal wassealedduring a visit by South Korean President Moon Jae In to Australia, the first visit by a foreign head of state to Australia since the pandemic began.

Worldwide Arms Sales Continued To Rise Despite Pandemic

The arms deals are not in crisis even during the Corona crisis: In 2020, heavy weapons and military services worth 531 billion US dollars were sold.

The 100 largest arms manufacturers in the world increased their sales in 2020 despite the pandemic: They achieved a total of 531 billion US dollars (470 billion euros) - a currency-adjusted increase of 1.3 percent compared to the previous year, as the Stockholm peace research institute Sipri combined Report announced on Monday. US companies are by far in the lead, followed by companies from China.