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[absolutebl]

This Week in BL - Bunch of Stuff Coming in August

July 2023 Wk 5

Being a highly subjective assessment of one tiny corner of the interwebs. Organized by which ones (in each category) I’m enjoying most.

Ongoing Series - Thai

Laws of Attraction (Sat iQIYI) 2-3 of 8 - Oh good, we now know that Thailand has the same statutory rape laws as the US. Dub con is as dub con does. MEANWHILE Oh my God I love evil lawyer cutie so much. Him and his beautiful weaponized smile, maybe my new favorite character. I like the way this director is playing with noir mystery tropes, settings, and archetypes too - it’s feeling very 60s pulp, I’m getting gay Travis McGee vibes. Grandma knowing that her grandson likes boys is so sweet. I have to be completely frank here, this is what I wanted from both Manner of Death and KP. I truly love this show

Hidden Agenda that isn’t hidden (Sun GMMTV YouTube) ep 3 of 10 - It’s a very Cyrano de Bergerac kind of narrative... If Cyrano fell in love with Christian instead of Roxanne. Mock date was fun. 

Low Frequency (Sat iQIYI) ep 4 of 8 - Into the lion’s den. Investigation begins. Why isn’t the ghost acting lookout? Who are these random side characters? I’m confused. Half way through kiss is right on schedule tho. 

Wedding Plan (Weds YT & iQIYI) ep 2 of 7 - The kiss was nice, but it’d be nicer if Nuea had punched Lom. Manipulative arse. A trash watch is happening!

Be Mine Super Star (Mon Viki) ep 4 of 12 - Meh. 

Dinosaur Love (Sun iQIYI) ep 5 of 8 eps - The hazing has begun + secret relationship and it’s kinda like a v soft SOTUS. Dino is getting a bit too controlling and obsessive for me so it slid down the ranks. I much prefer La Cusine’s version of this dynamic. The friends protecting Dino’s interests were funny tho - boy is so obsessed he outsources his stalking. 

Be My Favorite (Fri YouTube) ep 10 of 12 - Max is BEST BOY. I hate Kawi. Tra la la. Trash watch here.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Jun & Jun (Korea Thurs Viki) 2 of 8 - Our ex idol is a total FLIRT. Nice to see an uke with agency. I mean baby girl is a newbie worker bee… but still flirty, good for you, sweetie. I see your little lip bite and so does your soon to be husband. Speaking of, I love Choi Jun’s style of seme aggression: a little sleezy + a bit too handsy + ultra clever with his words. Plus tie tug!!! Also threatening to take off your TAILORED suit so baby wears your shirt and smells like you? HOT. Boy you sped right past American style and into Italian - that’s real Corinthian leather, that is. 

Stay By My Side (Taiwan Fri Gaga) 5 of 10 eps - Mid series kiss right on schedule. Thank you for never upsetting me, Taiwan. Omg. Such boyfriends. Only Taiwan gets this sappy. I have to say, I watch this show after Tokyo on purpose. (I need the pallet cleanser.) Still, I’m scared that the perception will be that Bu Xia is using Jiang Chi, not in love with him, when the truth about ghosts comes out. Why doesn’t BX’s useless sister do something for her disaster brother? I guess JC likes a needy boy? Oh no, the kiss confusion. Lip touch but rejection (?). Nooooo. I suppose they have to draw this out for 10 eps. Gah, they’re so cute. But BX is a bit dim, isn’t he? Poor thing. 

Minato's Laundromat Season 2 AKA Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2 (Japan Thu Gaga) 4 of 12 eps - Shin is such a worrywart, over protective, over the top boyfriend. I guess we saw a little bit of give from Minato? More than usual, baby steps. This is Japan after all.

Tokyo in April is... AKA Shigatsu no Tokyo wa (Japan Fri Gaga) ep 7 of 8 - Japan’s favorite trope = the running of the gays. Kazama knows everything now. Ep ends on one of my few triggers. SKIP! Japan you better NOT go there.

Vian the series (Vietnam YouTube ) ep 11-12fin - terrible ending, he turned back into a cat and the whole thing was pointless. I am very annoyed. 4/10 FATALLY FLAWED 

It’s airing but ...

Stay With Me ... NO I WILL NOT! And you can’t make me.

In case you missed it

Stay (Pinoy YouTube) finished its run at 7 eps. It’s mostly English & set in LA (shudder) so I did not bother. I say little to no chatter about this (that’s normal with the Pinoy stuff tho). Did anyone watch and enjoy? 

Next Week Looks Like This:

Coming August 2023

8/1 Stay Still (Hong Kong Tues YouTube) 5 eps - Yes we have had BL from Hong Kong before, but that was... before... who knows what it’ll be like now. Hayden, moves into a new apartment and starts a complicated relationship with his neighbor’s grandson, Damien, after an unexpected kiss. Meanwhile: Archie rekindles a romance with his high school sweetheart, Kelvin, who is now married.

8/11 Love Class Season 2 (Korea Fri Viki) 10 eps - Hyun, Minwoo and Joo-Hyuk are looking forward to their freshman year at college. But trials and tribulations of love that await them outside the classroom: from learning about maturity to being unable to forget the scars of past lovers. (All new cast from season 1.) 

8/12 My Personal Weatherman AKA Taikan Yoho (Japan Sat ????) 8 eps - hum. 

8/19 Love in Translation (Thai Sat One31) ? eps - Two strangers start working in a cafe together.

8/20 My Universe series begins (Thai Sun iQIYI) 24 episodes - This is sampler pack BL, 12 pairs, each pair gets 2 episodes, not entirely sure on the order they’ll drop in. Known couples include EarthBank from Destiny Seeker and KaownahTurbo from Love Stage!!!, mostly fresh faces otherwise. Jane to direct several. 

8/22 Kisseki: Dear to Me formerly known as Miracle (Taiwan Tues ????) 13 eps - From screenwriter Lin Pei Yu (We Best Love, H3: Trapped) features a student doctor forced to take care of a gangster. I love the premise and like the writer, I’m thinking Viki or Gaga will get this one.  

8/24 Man Suang (Thailand movie domestic cinemas) - historical drama about Thai burlesque with KP’s MileApo. Tong is in this one too? 

8/? Sing My Crush previously Follow The Wind (Korea ????) 8 eps - supposed to have released in the first half of 2022 this is a adaption of Myung’s webtoon, from the director of My Sweet Dear, and the Love Tractor production house, looks like Korea does About Youth.

8/? Why R U? (Korean remake)  is supposed to be out this month, filming started in sept 22. I find everything about this hilarious. I mean if Korea remakes it, we lose all the sexy and then... would we have a story at all? No we would not. Not even for six short eps. It’d be like one of those mesh shopping bags. 

We can probably expect a new BL from GMMTV too, to slot into BMF’s spot mid month. 

2023 forthcoming BL master post (see comments, some are inaccurate, NOT KEPT UPDATED)

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

I do love a hyung romance, and this aggressive ghost-ish thing is working for me. (Low Frequency) 

Hidden Agenda + My Ride. 

So coy

I agree with @heretherebedork​ that these two make a great side couple but I am utterly in love with...

HER. (All Laws of Attraction.) 

(Last week)

[vague-humanoid]

The British government has already begun to suspend arms export licences to Israel while ministers carry out a policy review, evidence seen by the JC confirms.

While Foreign Secretary David Lammy is yet to make a final decision on whether to halt weapons sales to the Jewish state, civil servants have already stopped granting permits.

One individual involved in arms exports to Israel, who was seeking permission, received a notice in response that stated: “suspended pending policy review”.

Such a move would put Jerusalem alongside North Korea and Iran.

Asked to confirm whether the government had suspended all arms export licences for Israel, a Department for Business and Trade spokesperson said: "It is vital that we uphold both our domestic and international legal obligations when it comes to arms exports.

"We are reviewing the advice available and will come to a considered decision."

Between October 7 and the end of May of this year, over 100 arms export licences to Israel were issued, according to government figures.

The data, released in June before the general election, revealed that 37 of those were for military purposes, while 63 were not.

At that point, no arms export licences had been rejected or revoked during Israel’s war in Gaza.

In June, however, Reuters reported that the value of permits for the sale of arms to Israel had dropped by 95 per cent to a 13-year low.

Following a recent International Court of Justice ruling that found Israel’s settlement programme to be illegal under international law, the British government is facing increasing pressure to halt arms licences.

If government lawyers conclude that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, export licences would have to be suspended to avoid the risk of the UK aiding and abetting breaches of international law.

In December, then Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch decided not to halt export licences to Israel on the grounds that there was not at present a clear risk that items exported to the IDF “might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law”.

The government is expected to make a final announcement later this summer on whether they will officially halt sales.

[todaysdocument]

Naval Speedletter from Charles Iarrabino to the Chief of Naval Personnel Regarding Recommendation to Award John K. Koelsch with the Navy Cross

Record Group 24: Records of the Bureau of Naval PersonnelSeries: Official Military Personnel FilesFile Unit: Official Military Personnel File for John K. Koelsch

USE FOR URGENT LETTERS ONLY NAVAL SPEED LETTER DO NOT CLEAR THROUGH COMMUNICATION OFFICE (One box must be checked) X REGULAR MAIL AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY REGISTERED MAIL CLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIED IN REPLY REFER TO TO: Chief of Naval Personnel Attn: Pers-B4b Navy Department Washington 25, D.C. DATE 3 June 1954 NAVAL SPEEDLETTER- Permits dispatch or informal language. May be sent (1) with enclosures, 2) in a window envelope (size 8 7/8” x 3 7/8”), if contents are not classified as confidential or higher, (3) to both naval and nonnaval activities. Is packaged 500 sheets of white or of one color: yellow, pink, or green. (Fold) Subj: LT John Kelvin Koelsch, U.S.N., 424476 (Dec); recommendation for award of Navy Cross Ref: (a) BuPers spdltr Pers-B4b-MCG/jc of 20 May 1954 (b) Professor of Naval Science, Univ. of Nebraska spdltr P15 ser 328-54 of 12 May 1954 1. As requested by references (a) and (b), specific data substantiating the recommendation of the award of a Navy Cross to LT John Kelvin Koelsch, U.S.N. (Dec) is submitted herein. 2. LT John Kelvin Koelsch was very well known by me, personally, both before and during his entire period of service in the USS PRINCETON (CV-37). I was his commanding officer, when he was on duty in Attack Squadron 75 and I was Air Officer in the PRINCETON during his period of service in that vessel. I agree wholeheartedly with the comments of Captain W.O. Gallery, U.S.N. with request to LT Koelsch contained in reference (b). I, too, firmly believe that LT Koelsch was a real naval hero. I believe that LT Koelsch merits the award of the Navy Cross (posthumously) for repeated acts of exceptional heroism as a helicopter pilot attached to the USS PRINCETON during the period from late October, 1950 to June, 1951 and, subsequently, as a pilot of a helicopter, while attached to a helicopter unit (designation unknown) operating in Korea. 3. LT Koelsch reported to the PRINCETON as officer-in-charge of the helicopter detachment of Helicopter Squadron ONE about three weeks prior to the PRINCETON’s departure from the United States, on 9 November 1950, for the Korean Theater. The PRINCETON operated five days in the Hawaiian area for operational training COPY TO CAPT W. O. Gallery, U.S.N. Professor of Naval Science University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska ADDRESS: CDR Charles A. Iarrobino, USN, 814807 Department of Aviation U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland SENDER’S MAILING ADDRESS Address reply as shown at left; or reply hereon and return in window envelope (size 8 7/8” x 3 7/8”), if not classified as confidential or higher. CLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIED [see link for complete transcription]

[beardedmrbean]

SEOUL, July 19 (UPI) -- South Korea blasted loudspeakers near border areas with North Korea in response to Pyongyang's latest launch of trash-carrying balloons, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday.

"As our military has issued several stern warnings against North Korea's continued distribution of waste balloons, we have conducted loudspeaker broadcasts against North Korea in areas where waste balloons have been released," the JCS said in a statement sent to reporters. The anti-Pyongyang broadcasts took place over several hours from Thursday evening into early Friday.

The South Korean military detected around 200 balloons sent by the North overnight Thursday, with some 40 balloons landing in northern Gyeonggi Province. Most were carrying paper and contained no safety hazards, the JCS said.

"Our military's future response will depend entirely on North Korea's actions," the JCS added.

The contents of the latest broadcasts were undisclosed, but previous sessions have included K-pop music and South Korean news reports.

Over the past several weeks, Pyongyang has sent more than 2,000 balloons carrying trash, manure and discarded clothes into the South. South Korean officials said that parasites such as roundworms and threadworms, believed to have originated in human excrement, were detected in the balloons' payloads.

Seoul briefly resumed propaganda broadcasts at the DMZ last month in response to the launches, as back-and-forth provocations have raised tensions across the inter-Korean border.

The North claims it is responding in kind to the longstanding practice of defector groups floating balloons with anti-Pyongyang leaflets and USB drives containing South Korean media over the border.

North Korea has reacted with fury in the past to the balloons. In June 2020, Pyongyang severed all communications with Seoul and blew up an inter-Korean liaison office over what it called South Korea's failure to rein in the defectors.

Earlier this week, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, threatened "gruesome" consequences if the launches did not end.

Seoul's military on Wednesday said that North Korea has been ramping up activity in frontline areas of the DMZ in recent months, with soldiers clearing land, erecting barriers and planting tens of thousands of landmines. Defense officials warned of the possibility of mines being swept into the South due to heavy rainfalls or dam releases by the North.

[polarcoconut]

For FS game! My intials are JC and I think my fs is loud and funny!

south korea, detroit, canada

[savodayalhospital]

Dr. Pankaj Walecha - Robotic Joint Replacement Surgeon in Faridabad, Delhi NCR India

Information

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Speciality

High-Performance Hip Replacement

Robotic & MIS Total Knee Replacement Surgery

Unicondylar Knee Replacement (UKR)

Hip Arthroscopy & Keyhole Knee Surgeries

Knee Ligament Repair & Reconstruction (ACL, PCL)

Sports Injury Surgery

Knee Joint Preservation Surgeries — High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO), Distal Femoral Osteotomy (DFO), etc.

Meniscus Repair and Cartilage Restoration

Education

MS (Orthopaedics)

MBBS

Fellowships:

Fellowship in Hip Arthroscopy, Hip & Knee Replacement and Reconstruction, at Wrightington Hospital, UK

Johnson & Johnson Fellowship in Joint replacement surgery, Puettlingen, Germany,

Fellowship in Minimally invasive (MIS) and computer-assisted joint replacement, Seoul, South Korea

Fellowship in joint reconstruction, Mumbai, India

International AO fellow, Homburg, Germany

Experience

Lead Surgeon, Hip & Knee Replacement Surgery, Apollo Spectra Hospitals, New Delhi

Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nova Specialty Hospital, New Delhi

Consultant, Orthopaedics, Primus hospital, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

Awards & Recognition

Honored at both national & international levels for his remarkable contribution to orthopaedic surgery.

Founder member of Society of Knee Surgeons of India (SKI)

Reviewer for Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma (JC OT)

Membership

Indian society of Hip Knee Surgeons ISHKS

Society of Knee Surgeons of India SKI

Indian Orthopaedic association IOA

Indian Arthroscopy Society IAS

Indian Cartilage society ICS

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[blackdeathfan5]

Rashatas shopping district.

Rainbow high. Color coded everything. By the class system of the shopping district being elder scrolls or ganijn impacg. Teaching necromancy. Herbology. Charity q01. Latin alive. Homescooler catelog tape sessions. Atheism in arguments and practice. Fairy lore an grimwedl wallace. Roswell and abductions of it. The kistune and its a tails. Anatomy of a fox. It's vs indecision. Newt and its eyes. The hsitory of Tomas ford. Michael Ford 101 antagonists in mythology. Acrians locket 104 the hisotry of an occultist. Jesus in literature. Prayr ceremonies fo the budha (not religious mythology), nad laslty gamin 1p1. And man handling animals. Bartbos the gift of tongues. And animals of magi and how to care for them. To establish a fox villegde. And lastly feeders and caravans. Acting and theature taught on earworm forever by lyn dove Stallings. And finally the movement its not a conspiracy.

The rainbow high system is a color coated fictionaka school that exists to paint students as toys. Ans teach the handling of a fox to humanity. And the stars and establish the greys fox villegdes weird. As alien towns for Uganda.

Then its ponyos.

Everbright.

Doki doki corner store.

Tobias ink.

Emo hot stuff.

Properly stolen jc penny.

Properly stolen tj max.

Heart of doll.

Whimsy witch core.

Which which.

The snowflake in and hot spring.

Hot spring and Satan's of sweat lodgers.

Red wings shoes.

Carvants granny's.

Cervantes underwear's. (Renamed)

Suburbia 1 16ths and native registrations.

Dmv for fake id's and hustle.

The merlin office and law.

Apartments 1 through sex.

The town houses. On a strip of land by Paul bunyion and adams snowflakes cohen family vacation holmes next to each other.

Portal to saint Simon's beach.

Vending machines ilsw.

Pretty pavilion.

Mkdsumwr cult pavilion.

Uglies pavilion to weird groups of Korea as to the rules on that.

Marks neighborhood.

Preston glenn villedge.

Tardis stop shoelgoskies.

Gunthers.

Mcdonalds.

Burg fil ay.

Hoppers. Edith apltro aj. And pbj.

Boating port. Out of mall center.

Kim jong uns Koreatown building to support the monarchy and dictatorship.

Fox burrows and Glenn's in the wild fungus around the district.

Linkon park..

Abel lincon land

Theme parks to egensha.

Starwars city park.

The runes. To acrians locket.

Cookie monster temple.

Suburbia Camden place.

Ashley's escalator land. All indoor unsual for it.

Adolf Hitler jrs.

Holocuast memorial to an frnak.

Build a bear workshop.

Little babies workshop.

My little demon.

Church of birlbi the fox.

Church of satan.

Latter days cult temple.

Scientology blue oceans portal out of shopping mall by a witness and ford.

Guitar center.

David busters.

Mermaid underwater park. Aquarium. Au port.

City of Chicago and forks road. Otherwise through saint Ashley's.

Saint Ashley's church

Temple Beth el.

Brandon hall. [Hogwarts]

Which whcih.

Jersy mics.

Smoothie king.

Food court.

Tea shop.

Soda alley. Just an alley of vending machines.

Leg mart.

Tomato.

H mart.

Stolen Ingles.

Properly Ingles renamed Bethenies.

Rapunzel.

Hot topic.

Spencer's.

Junk man's daughter.

Stolen thrifts.

Good will.

Plates closet (unstolen)

Kmart

Wal-Mart (unstolen emo logo and everything) but doomed tiemline only.

Temu clear market by 5 tents and a dealers dragon haul alley and ren fair. On the skirts of it. Hitting Atlanta.

Sunglasses hut. (Doomed timeline only)

Dollar theature.

Jk Rowling theature.

Blue ghost Cafe.

Makeup bar Ariels Litle Mermaids.

LE SANCHES MEHICSN RESTRAUNT.

Food mart.

Bjs.

Tiny dragon alley.

Jordan is a pony club.

Fox village and portal to the island of foxes.

Feeders and poop bags and rent a leashes.

Umbrella stands and bicycles. Rent.

Trucker stopm

Apartments of suberbia. (To chatolism) and the cohens vacation home. With an ann franks bedroom.

A few beach houses. And jaces current family vacation home and the Stallings main home.

Awp in that shopping district.

Run through of preston gelnn and ashwits.

Subway

The sub system in 2025.

Yearbook comitee.

Ashley is a fox demon fanclub.

Adam emmas fanclub.

Syfy Hutt

Fox glenn community center with basketball court. Pool. And a library.

Anderson berg county's library.

Barns and noble.

The book nook.

Almas cofee.

Starbucks.

Allpine bakery.

The capacitor.

The clover feild.

Flower beds.

Park benches and sanderson turtles.

Indoor hit with cotton candy vending machines.

Doorbells the hotel.

The Hilton twlicard.

Free love hotel.

Fre motel junkie Mercedes snowflake games. Theirs a wii every room. Or a Playstation 2. Decked out in adam snowflake wall art and posters and comforters to queen size only beds. Even for kids rooms. And a cheap concrete pool. With a water bucket. And only braincake networks Waverly sets. Designed for it. Of nickolidan old. Braincake tv. Braincake kids. And the catelog and a theature installed in it with a Merlots.

Parking lot teeth.

Underground parking.

Painted sidewalks to villedge of the leaf.

Painted sidewalks to gillegd of the sand.

The maichel Jackson experience sidewalks.

Purgatory. Heaven. He'll Venus by rent a plza for small theature shows.

Devil wears Prada.

Devil wears candy.

Acormbe and finch.

Torrid. Half stolen mostly not.

Bloomchic.

Tenesens.

Tybolts.

Church of mronmsm.

Cult pavilion scieontology.

Live in malls. Mercutia.

Fairy jars road connecting the whole building. As the neirhboohds are buried and secret within it.

Disney museum.

Starwars msueum: a starwars edition of Disney museum removing Disney as walts other works. As both of them. With a key interest of what Disney has made staple on there weirdly overly fond of Allah weird just as punishment and pahlic but ivert in some places. With many btoohs over rides and some justice league old school.

Runescspe old school villedge. Where you can accidently find this whole map on it. And same withnfucisn fsll by chameleon circuit on the Meta.

One of those benches.

Normal benches.

Temple to zues.

Singog siang berlins.

Church of the aficoman and Hebrew school.

Yidaunkas. A Yiddish store in middle eastern and gemrna flavorings to the chrsitian and catholic overly wocomdiating the jew eveyr 2 seconds.

Tuesday Morgan's.

Suburban tap.

Strider.

Elmer candies.

Retirement home 709.

The old folks megadeath thst tskes in young crippled.

Arcade for thr disabled and blind.

Racetrack.

Qt.

Wawas.

Byte shark.

Japanese store.

Korea boost.

That type of man.

Portal to the dygon alley.

Kreugers benches around it.

Sewer nutsnt town out of molehill.

Portal to the budhas island.

Slender men forest of fairy jars.

Fairy forest around it with star wars statues based off gerome Lucas in attempt but only for genehsa.

Hary potter trail. Of statues to hary potter.

And lake city ruins. Of one moment angel statues perceiving and underwater invisible city only deathly to the humans who go snorkeling or taping without cosnwnt

Jeff doho.

Tournament the jedi Jedism Waverly wave wave.

Laslty.

The secret order of sith council holodove.

And syrenity barns and stables.

Dousim hospital and wellness. Without institutions for the criminals insane.

Sheriffs office.

And botix

And its an alternate reality port to the school campus. Of a fox villegde to the kistune. As what is left of villedge of the hiden leaf. Remade and imagines for korea. And Rome. And Italy. As a town in Greece. With many old lead village buildings and cities still there. But redone as half way smo. Mom and pop stores that later grew to be emo. Only salvaged as what it is here. Asn an emo pavillion. Normal people and goth adults can live in freely or alternative in general. Even though you never outgrow it living here. In fallout new Vegas and mainstream reality 2.5 c. The one timeline all other tiemlinws are derivative of. And theirs also a conficuoous palace and a hockey tournament arena. Wands and sport. What is left over from the gilledge of the hidden leaf. And a Naruto thesture. It has statues themed after naruto articles in bronze and black unless adam or a god in gold and white. As ninjas throughout it. As a land under and in gasken walk as a town. And it in general. Is new old world Greece to never be taken down. And feels fuking Greek around. I kid you not cricr and Apollo the ninja sis here. And the stone faces to the homage was never taken down. It's like mount Rushmore to many japanese tourists as Japan has many trains snad boats that visit the fox Island. And theirs weird hidden shriens and temples I did not list. About 190 shop I did not list left over from villedg of the hidden leaf. And its not hiden. Mount fuji of Japan is within walking distance. Despite this the fountains. The street signs despite accommodating some Asian languages. And Cary vendors in toruskm areas alone. Is Greece. And it's in America half way. As overlaped.overlapped. as its meant to hold by a snake river the afterlife of the vilege of the hiden leaf which is actually underground pine stones. Not that. And yes tourism locations have French Japanese and Irish signs. Then it would be. A few street vendors even when not in the sing. Ending with a temple to Apollo as naruto. And a native American reservation behind it connected to a temple to pochtnus. And then open fields and a corn meadkw..not maze. With bird baths throughout it. And fun posters and a cocasionaly a few rides outside theme parks misplaced. And an onion rings stand for adsm.

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[news786hz]

North Korea conducts first ballistic missile test in 2 months: JCS

North Korea conducts first ballistic missile test in 2 months: JCS

[josh0555]

This is the Summer Station ID of TV5 in 2017. The Summer Station ID was themed “Shine, Pilipinas!”.

The theme song was sung by the Filipino OPM couple singers Sarah Geronimo and Billy Crawford featuring DJ Willie Revillame who produced the theme song.

The Summer Station ID features Edu Manzano, Jericho Rosales, Enrico Cuenca, Carl Cervantes, Neil Coleta, Ivan Mayrina, Mark Salazar, Raffy Tima, Lourd de Veyra, Shawn Yao, Atom Araullo, Seph Ubalde, Martin Andanar, Gilbert Remulla, Alex Santos, Emil Sumangil, John Consulta, Mario Dumaual, Vice Ganda, Empoy Marquez, Coco Martin, Zoren Legaspi, Sarah Geronimo, Adrian Alandy, Derrick Monasterio, Ryan Agoncillo, Vhong Navarro, Teddy Corpuz, Billy Crawford, Derek Ramsay, Rafael Rosell, Onemig Bondoc, Mark Herras, Enzo Pineda, Marco Gumabao, Dion Ignacio, Jason Abalos, Emman Abelda, Joshua Dionisio, Nash Aguas, Valeen Montenegro, Vince Gamad, Lianne Valentin, AJ Dee, Christian Bables, Jameson Blake, Dominic Roco, Felix Roco, Diether Ocampo, Aga Muhlach, Jun Sabayton, Baron Geisler, Betong Sumaya, Dominic Roque, Carmina Villaroel, Eugene Domingo, Nora Aunor, Louise de los Reyes, Pauleen Luna, Maja Salvador, Kristine Hermosa, Angel Locsin, Ellen Adarna, Shaina Magdayao, Sanya Lopez, Heaven Peralejo, Jessie Mendiola, Ivana Alawi, Coleen Garcia, Dianne Medina, Kylie Versoza, RR Enriquez, Rose Van Ginkel, Cindy Miranda, Angelika dela Cruz, Andrea del Rosario, Sunshine Cruz, Princess Ryan, Manny Pacquiao, Ken Chan, Pen Medina, Ping Medina, Alex Vincent Medina, Sam Milby, Lester Llansang, Lance Serrano, Daniel Fernando, Antonio Aquitania, Allen Dizon, Isko Moreno, Troy Montero, Jomari Yllana, Geoff Eigenmann, Gabby Eigenmann, Ronwaldo Martin, Kristoffer Martin, Sandino Martin, Pekto, Simon Ibarra, Paolo Serrano, EJ Falcon, Wowie de Guzman, Tirso Cruz III, Mark Anthony Fernandez, Chuckie Dreyfus, Diego Castro III, Kim Chiu, Bea Alonzo, Ruru Madrid, Juancho Triviño, Korina Sanchez, Pia Arcangel, Connie Sison, JC de Vera, Martin Escudero, Gerald Anderson, Paulo Avelino, German Moreno, Shalala, Dagul, Jake Cuenca, Pancho Magno, Dennis Trillo, Kit Thompson, Arnell Ignacio, Tuesday Vargas, Rocco Nacino, Sef Cadayona, Edgar Allan Guzman, Enchong Dee, Renz Fernandez, Kokoy de Santos, Ramon Bautista, Michael V., Allan K., Enrique Gil, Carlo Aquino, Liza Soberano, Jiro Manio, Addy Raj, Sid Lucero, Xian Lim, CJ Muere, Arcee Muñoz, Ritz Azul, Alice Dixson, Yves Flores, David Licauco, Luis Manzano, Matteo Guidicelli, Ivan Dorschner, Donny Pangilinan, Belle Mariano, Eula Caballero, Luchi Cruz-Valdez, Pinky Webb, Rhea Santos, Zen Hernandez, Mai Rodriguez, Kathleen Hermosa, Candy Pangilinan, Ina Raymundo, Dina Bonnevie, John Lloyd Cruz, Benjamin Alves, IC Mendoza, Jerald Napoles, Ogie Alcasid, Mo Twister, Boy Abunda, Kris Aquino and Willie Revillame featuring twin brothers Rodjun and Rayver Cruz, soccer player Chris Tiu, president Rodrigo Duterte after Noynoy Aquino’s retirement as a president in June 30, 2015, Japanese actor Joe Odagiri and the new Goin’ Bulilit cast members in 2015. The 2017 Summer Station ID features South Korean Boy Band Momoland as a 9-member group when 4 members Ong Seong-woo, Bae Jin-young, Park Woo-jin and Lee Dae-hwi left the group in 2017. But the group is similar to the 2015 Station ID of TV5 but in minor changes during their pre-debut. But eventually, Stray Kids, a future boy band from South Korea that debuted in 2016 also appeared as well.

The Summer Station ID features the return of Flint Lockwood after his 4 year absence. But luckily, His actor that portrayed him in 2006 during the deleted opening was still seen instead of Tom Holland. Due to this, It was archived. But his Hot Wheels cars also appeared as well in the opening as he gets ready to go to school.

The Summer Station ID also features the return of the TV5 crew members as well after their 2 year absence. But other TV5 crew members in the past like Regine Velasquez, Royce Cabrera, John Wayne Sace, Johan Santos, DingDong Dantes, Marian Rivera, Randy Santiago, Iya Villania, Sheryl Cruz, Klea Pineda, Grace Lee, Chiqui Roa-Puno, Julius Babao and his wife Christine Bersola-Babao and ex-president Noynoy Aquino weren’t seen at this point as they left TV5 for good in 2015. Somehow, The TV5 crew members in the past like Dominic Roco, Felix Roco and Rocco Nacino made their return to TV5 in 2017 after they moved to ABS-CBN. But the Summer Station ID also features special guests like Ryan Agoncillo, Vhong Navarro, Teddy Corpuz, Billy Crawford and Arnell Ignacio as they are the ABS-CBN crew members. But they also appeared as guests in 2013. Somehow, Blue the Puppy, The Mascot of TV5 and the character from Disney’s Blues Clues does not appear at this point just like in the 2015 Station ID of TV5 which is “Happy Ka Dito!”

The Summer Station ID re-uses the clips of the 2011 Summer Station ID which is “Kapatid, Summer Na, Sama Ka!” where Flint Lockwood sets up a chain reaction of Hot Wheels cars and gets ready to go to school.

Eventually, This is the only Summer Station ID theme song where Willie Revillame raps just like Ogie Alcasid in the 2013 Summer Station ID of TV5 which is "Bida Best sa Tag-Araw" but this is also the only Summer Station ID Theme Song of TV5 to be sung by Sarah Geronimo and Billy Crawford since they got married in 2014.

This is also the last Summer Station ID to be produced by Filipino singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, DJ, conductor, television host, actor, comedian and businessman Willie Revillame. But this is also the third Summer Station ID to contain vocals after “Pinoy Summer Da Best 4 Eva!” in 2014.

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The artificial intelligence revolution is deeply linked with geopolitics. It’s well known that a small handful of countries and companies control the manufacturing of the highest-end semiconductors. But when you add in the scramble for the critical minerals that are needed to manufacture those chips; the data centers that house them; the land, energy, and cooling required to run those data centers; and the subsea cables that channel data and power, one realizes how the infrastructure that powers the AI economy crisscrosses the entire globe.

On this week’s episode of FP Live, I spoke with Jared Cohen about the shifting geopolitics of AI. Cohen has written about the topic extensively in FP. He’s a co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute and previously worked at Jigsaw, Google, and as a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. We spoke on the morning of Tuesday, April 8: Certain references to tariffs at the time may be overtaken by events. The full discussion is available on the video box atop this page or on the FP Live podcast. What follows here is a lightly edited and condensed transcript.

Note: This discussion is part of a series of episodes brought to you by the Goldman Sachs Global Institute.

Ravi Agrawal: You’ve thought a lot about the concept of chokepoints. What are they exactly? Why does AI have so many potential chokepoints?

Jared Cohen: Well, AI software needs to run on AI hardware. And that means data centers. Data centers have tens of thousands of component parts representing a complex web of supply chains that rely on bilateral and multilateral commercial relationships across jurisdictions and different companies around the world.

Data centers serve as AI factories. Let’s use the analogy of the human body. The brain in a data center context can be the advanced chips and the high-end technology. You should think of the power that drives and makes data centers work as the blood flowing through the body. And think about the component parts, the tens of thousands of parts which you’ve mostly never heard of, as the skeleton.

So when we think about chokepoints, are any of those component parts highly concentrated, or even entirely concentrated, on a single supplier such that if you took that supplier out of the supply chain you’d have cascading bottlenecks? Are any of those component parts concentrated in a single country or set of countries, which would make them subject to disruptions from geopolitics trade barriers? Are any of the critical component parts impossible to reorient to a different location because of that complex set of relationships and contracts and web of commercial touchpoints around the world?

There are many instances where a single shock to the system creates a supply chain shortage. It’s rare that a supply chain shortage begins directly at the component part or the end product. It’s usually the subcomponent parts that are constrained. And then those cascading bottlenecks ultimately manifest in a part of the supply chain that everybody’s heard of and is reportable on the news.

RA: I like the human body analogy. How much of the AI value chain is suffering from the shock of [U.S. President Donald] Trump’s tariffs? Semiconductors were not part of the April 2 round of tariffs, but is the overall pie still affected?

JC: We’re bracing ourselves for more information about future sector-specific tariffs. And everybody tends to focus on semiconductors. But semiconductors only represent one piece of the larger semiconductor story.

The United States has about $82 billion of semiconductor imports. Those largely come from Taiwan, which is facing a 32 percent tariff; South Korea, which is facing a 25 percent tariff; and China, which is facing a 54 percent tariff. But that’s the direct import of semiconductors.

I would argue that $82 billion is not as important as the much larger aggregate value of the goods that have semiconductors packaged into them before they get imported to the United States. Those are indirect semiconductor imports. The United States imports $521 billion of machines that have semiconductors packaged into them before they arrive in the United States, $478 billion of electronics that have semiconductors packed into them, and $386 billion of vehicles that have semiconductors packaged into them.

RA: That’s something like $1.4 trillion, if my math is right.

JC: Yes, but it’s probably broader than that rough taxonomy. But the point is, tariffs on those categories is also a tariff indirectly on semiconductors. This is what I mean by cascading bottlenecks; the second- and third-order effects matter a lot when you’re talking about AI infrastructure because of how complex it is and how many different component parts make up a data center.

RA: That explains some of the recent panic in the stock markets.

I want to look more closely now at some of the chokepoints you’ve described. You had this great essay in FP recently about undersea cables as a massive but under-covered vulnerability in the AI economy. Talk to us a bit about that.

JC: I point out in the article that 80 percent of global trade happens above the ocean. But 95 percent of data flows beneath the ocean. This undersea flow happens on a technology that first emerged in the 1850s. So a pre-Civil War technology is highly relevant to the AI conversation. And so you have 750,000 miles of undersea cables that transmit $10 trillion of financial transactions a day, an unimaginable volume of instant messages every single day, offshore power every single day—and perhaps most importantly, the exacerbating reality that national security secrets are also included in that. So it matters a lot. Just to put it in perspective, 750,000 miles of undersea cables is enough to go around the Earth 30 times. These undersea tables are made of fibers as thin as a human piece of hair and can go as deep as five miles down into the ocean. So they’re kind of our lifeblood.

But there are 150 cable breaks a year. Historically, those cable breaks happen primarily because, like any hardware, they naturally deteriorate as they age. Sometimes there’s an accident. But what’s changing is the scale and what’s driving that breakage.

Now, it’s affected by geopolitics. Just to give a couple of examples, back in October, a Chinese vessel in the Baltic Sea dragged its anchor over 100 miles and severed a cable connecting Sweden, Lithuania, Germany, and Finland. NATO actually had to intervene to seize the ship. In January, a Chinese vessel severed one of the 15 cables that connects the island of Taiwan. But not everything is geopolitical; shortly thereafter, one of the Taiwanese-governed islands, Matsu, had two of its cables break down and get severed due to natural deterioration. All of this can easily get conflated.

But it’s not just state-sponsored attacks. Over 90 percent of the Europe-to-Asia data traffic happens through the Red Sea. With the war happening in the Middle East right now, you’ve had multiple instances of cables getting cut in the Red Sea. The Houthis don’t have undersea cutting capability, which they claim to, but they have sunk a couple of commercial vessels whose anchors inadvertently severed some cables. And so the entire landscape under the water is changing quite remarkably.

RA: I want to move to critical minerals. China has long controlled many of these minerals but now has also become a kind of monopoly player on the processing front. How does that play into the geopolitics of AI?

JC: I want to preface this by saying there are a number of supply chains that the United States deems geopolitically important, including the 50 critical minerals and 17 rare-earth elements. I’m concerned that, even in the best of times, these highly complex value chains are not well understood. A voracious appetite to diversify a supply chain may get out politically speaking in front of the economic realities of what’s possible. So if you look at critical minerals and rare earths, most of the focus is on mining and where the minerals are. So you’ll hear that a new lithium mine was found in this place and a new nickel mine was found in that place and this will transform our dependence on China for critical minerals and rare earths.

The problem is the value chain is much more complex than just where the minerals are. Once you mine the minerals, you need to purify the metal, chemically treat it, refine it, and process it. And 92 percent of all refining and processing capability exists in China. It’s highly concentrated. There are only five non-Chinese refineries in the entire world. There’s one in Nevada, one in France, one in Western Australia, one in Malaysia, and one in Estonia. So that’s another reason why this is a very difficult space to break into. So you have ESG [environmental, social, and governance] challenges—it’s one of the dirtiest processes in the world. And you have a high concentration of the refining and processing capabilities in a single country. The United States, permitting wise, can’t get its act together fast enough to permit refineries and processing facilities. But also it is not a field that is attracting large amounts of human capital. The big mining programs are no longer actively training the next generation of talent. And even if you address all of that, you have price manipulation threats from China, which controls so much of the market.

RA: As we keep looking at these different chokepoints, chips are the best known or at least most discussed element of this. What is your sense of how much longer the United States, through export controls, can stay ahead of China, at least on the highest-end level of chips?

JC: This is an issue today, but not before, because we used to run our data centers largely on CPUs, which worked really well for AI cloud workloads. But generative AI, and AI workloads with the high-end chips, represents a paradigmatic shift in the space.

People talk about whether or not the use cases will ever justify the spend. People obsess over open weighted models versus closed models. We follow what’s happening inside of these companies with a reality show fascination. But none of these known unknowns matter as much as the one that I think is most urgent: the nations that will determine where all this AI infrastructure is going to be built. Right now, the United States has a dominant position on this. There are 8,000 data centers worldwide, roughly half of which are in the United States.

But the problem is, for AI workloads the chips are ultra high density and require a concentrated source of power. Power demand in the United States has been roughly flat, or even declining, for two decades. We’ve been offloading baseload power. The difference between AI workloads powered by GPUs and cloud workloads powered by CPUs is that intermittent power doesn’t work.

RA: And what’s the difference between baseload power and intermittent supply?

JC: So intermittent power is wind and solar. It’s subject to the weather, so you can’t rely on it 24/7. Whereas baseload power—nuclear, coal, natural gas—is 24/7. And you need 24/7 power to run these data centers.

But that’s only part of the problem. The data center architecture for AI workloads is quite different. The chips get very hot. It needs to have liquid cooling, an entirely different HVAC system, etc. And the United States only has 3 percent vacancy in its data centers around the country. But even if you didn’t have a vacancy problem in U.S. data centers, you can’t easily retrofit existing data centers. From an engineering perspective, they’re not designed to handle these loads. The United States has enough baseload power, but that baseload power is in places like Texas and North Dakota and the data centers are in northern Virginia and Silicon Valley. And so the political complexity of moving natural gas from those locations to those data centers is quite difficult and prohibitively expensive. So the United States doesn’t have enough powered land to meet AI demand over the next couple of years on its own. And it doesn’t have enough differentiated data centers. It can do a lot of this. But my view is if the United States wants to maintain a dominant position in the most advanced AI, it’s going to need some kind of an overflow option to provide that excess capacity.

RA: The geopolitics of this are fascinating. Where could you get the energy needed for strong, nonintermittent baseload power? And I’m curious how the Middle East or the Gulf states, which are energy rich and have the ability to move quickly, fit into these calculations?

JC: Before I answer that, Ravi, I’ll just give a sense of the scale of the energy needs. So, in 2022, the United States had roughly 17 gigawatts of power that was powering its data centers. Estimates from our Goldman Sachs investment group say that by 2030, that’s going to be more than double to 35 gigawatts of power. That is an extraordinary jump in a country where power demand has been flat for two decades. Today, U.S. data centers use 3 percent of U.S. power and electricity. We estimate that by 2026, that number is going to look more like 8 percent.

The United States has three kinds of countries it could rely on to build out some of this capacity. You can keep it in the Western democratic world: Canada, Australia, the Nordic countries. That’s a little complicated right now because of what we see playing out. But even if it wasn’t complicated, those countries have the same challenges as the United States in moving baseload power to data centers.

Places like Malaysia and Indonesia have tons of cheap energy; a lot of these data centers have been built there in the past. The problem is geopolitical; if you train frontier models in those countries, there’s nothing to stop that capacity from going straight to China.

So then that brings you to a third option, which is the Middle East. The Middle East to me is one of the more attractive hedges for the United States because you have an unlimited amount of capital, tons of cheap energy, controlled regulatory environments, unlimited powered land, oceans to build data centers near for liquid cooling, and—perhaps most importantly—you have the sovereign ambition to do it. Now, the criticism levied by the administration—which put Middle Eastern countries into a tiered category where they were capped at 320,000 GPUs, which is not enough to realize all of their ambitions in the AI space—is how do we know that the Middle East will stay onside and so forth? And that’s certainly a gamble. But if you look at the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, there’s been a paradigmatic shift in these countries with younger leaders taking over a decade ago and the return of great-power competition between Washington and China instead of a war on terror as international framework.

In a lot of respects, these Middle Eastern countries—the wealthy Gulf countries—are the ultimate geopolitical swing states. They control hugely important parts of the supply chain. They have abundant, flexible capital that they can deploy as they see fit. They have agendas that they pursue, independent of Washington and Beijing but are needed by both Washington and Beijing. And while they can’t always play both sides, they’re flexible, agile, and increasingly asserting themselves economically. AI represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for them for geopolitical mobility. If they’re going to pursue it anyway and are trending away from their path leading up to 9/11, and we need an overflow option, we should do everything possible to help accelerate that path.

RA: You brought up this idea of a geopolitical swing state, a term that you coined. But if you set up partnerships with them and they build data center capacity, what is to keep them from swinging to China at a later stage?

JC: Geopolitical swing states have quickly found that AI represents a ceiling on how much you can swing.

This gets back to the point about chokepoints. If you’re a geopolitical swing state reliant on critical components controlled by the United States, then the United States has a big say on how much you can swing. And because of export controls on high-end chips, the United States has forced the hand of countries that initially wanted to build a cocktail technological ecosystem of Chinese and American technology. When it came to advanced technology, they had to make a binary choice.

The concept of a geopolitical swing state represents a new moment in history. These countries have certain attributes that position them to take advantage of the tension between the United States and China and achieve enormous mobility, which they will maximize to their own interests. The swings that they make or don’t make will be in service of clearing geopolitical brush to maximize their interest as well as their usefulness to both countries. But there are some issues where maximizing their usefulness exclusively to the United States serves their interests because the United States is the only country that has the 2-nanometer chips that they need.

RA: It seems as if, instead of swing states changing how the geopolitics of AI works out, the geopolitics of AI is restraining some of the behavior of swing states.

JC: Yeah, it’s a fascinating thing. The entire world found out about generative AI at the exact same time. On Nov. 30, 2022, the public release of ChatGPT created this unique moment of technological simultaneity that we’ve never experienced in history before. We’re revisionists, and we like to think of the internet as emerging more abruptly than it did or social media as emerging more abruptly then it did. This was abrupt and simultaneous, even if the lead-up to it was not, in terms of the ubiquity of understanding. And while there was simultaneity, there wasn’t parity in terms of who was best positioned to win from a commercial or sovereign perspective.

But to me, since that moment of simultaneity, the illiberal use cases of generative AI matter a lot. There is chatter about how it can be used for disinformation and misinformation, bio and chemical warfare, more traditional warfare, etc. All of that is true. But the geopolitics, at least right now, around AI are anchored a lot around the physical movement of goods or physical infrastructure that’s required to facilitate the movement of data or to run AI software. So it’s a little bit of a back to the future.

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South Korea fires warning shots, says 'closely monitoring' as North Korean soldiers violate border

South Korea fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers when around 10 briefly crossed the heavily fortified border that divides the peninsula.Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), in a statement, said that their military troops is monitoring the movement of North Korean soldiers and taking measures. The North Korean troops were detected at 5 pm (0800 GMT) within the demilitarised zone separating…

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SEOUL, June 25 (UPI) -- North Korea sent some 350 trash-filled balloons toward South Korea overnight, Seoul's military said Tuesday, as back-and-forth provocations continue across a tense inter-Korean border.

As of Tuesday morning, around 100 balloons carrying trash and waste paper had landed in Seoul and the northern part of Gyeonggi Province, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to reporters.

An analysis of recovered balloons found they did not contain hazardous materials, the JCS said.

The latest launch marked the fifth time in the last month that North Korea has sent balloons filled with debris and even excrement, according to South Korean officials.

Seoul's Unification Ministry told local media on Monday that parasites, such as roundworms and threadworms, believed to have originated in human excrement, were detected in earlier balloons.

South Korea briefly resumed anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts at the border earlier this month in response to the launches. On Tuesday, the military said it was prepared to begin the transmissions again at any time.

"Our military's psychological warfare broadcast against North Korea is ready to be implemented immediately and will be implemented flexibly depending on the strategic and operational situation," the JCS message said. "This depends on North Korea's actions."

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol mentioned the North's balloons during an address to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the Korean War in the southeastern city of Daegu on Tuesday, calling their launch "despicable and irresponsible."

Yoon also slammed the defense treaty signed by North Korea and Russia last week during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Pyongyang.

"Last week, [North Korea] signed a 'Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty' with Russia, which started the war in Ukraine, and promised to strengthen military and economic cooperation, in direct violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions," Yoon said.

"It is an anachronism that runs counter to the progress of history," he said.

The North's launches appear to be a response to the longstanding practice of North Korean defectors floating balloons with anti-Pyongyang messages across the border.

Activist group Fighters for a Free North Korea said it sent 20 balloons carrying some 300,000 leaflets, USB drives containing South Korean media and U.S. dollars across the border last week.

On Friday, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, issued a statement in official media condemning the launch by "disgusting defectors" and warning of possible retaliation.

North Korea has reacted with fury to the activists' balloons in the past. In June 2020, Pyongyang severed all communications with Seoul and blew up an inter-Korean liaison office over what it called South Korea's failure to rein in the defectors.

The demilitarized zone that has separated the two Koreas since fighting halted in the 1950-53 war has also been the site of multiple border incursions in recent weeks, with North Korean troops crossing the military demarcation line three times since June 9.

On each occasion, the South Korean military fired warning shots and the North's soldiers returned to their side of the border.

JCS officials said the crossings appear unintentional, as the North has been ramping up activity in frontline areas of the DMZ since withdrawing from an inter-Korean military agreement in November.

North Korean soldiers have been observed clearing land, laying mines, reinforcing tactical roads and installing structures that appear to be anti-tank barriers at several locations, the JCS said.

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Russian Military Aircraft Enter KADIZ, Prompting S. Korean Military Response l KBS WORLD

Photo : YONHAP News Russian military planes entered the Korea Air Defense Identification Zone(KADIZ) Saturday morning, prompting the South Korean military to respond. According to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS), several Russian military aircraft consecutively entered KADIZ at around 9:20 a.m., before leaving the area in the eastern or northern direction. The office said the aircraft did not…

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Some of the Key Questions Answered in this Report:

1. What is the Mechanical Bar Screens size at the regional and country level 2. What are the key drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges of the Mechanical Bar Screens, and how they are expected to impact the market 3. What is the global (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa) sales value, production value, consumption value, import and export of Mechanical Bar Screens 4. Who are the global key manufacturers of the Mechanical Bar Screens? How is their operating situation (capacity, production, sales, price, cost, gross, and revenue) 5. What are the Mechanical Bar Screens opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the Mechanical Bar Screens? 6. Which application/end-user or product type may seek incremental growth prospects? What is the market share of each type and application? 7. What focused approach and constraints are holding the Mechanical Bar Screens? 8. What are the different sales, marketing, and distribution channels in the global industry? 9. What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the Mechanical Bar Screens? 10. Economic Impact on the Mechanical Bar Screens and development trend of the Mechanical Bar Screens 11. What are the Mechanical Bar Screens opportunities, market risk, and market overview of the Mechanical Bar Screens

The content of the study subjects, includes a total of 15 chapters: Chapter 1, to describe Hydrogen Bromide product scope, market overview, market estimation caveats and base year. Chapter 2, to profile the top manufacturers of Hydrogen Bromide, with price, sales, revenue and global market share of Hydrogen Bromide from 2020 to 2025. Chapter 3, the Hydrogen Bromide competitive situation, sales quantity, revenue and global market share of top manufacturers are analyzed emphatically by landscape contrast. Chapter 4, the Hydrogen Bromide breakdown data are shown at the regional level, to show the sales quantity, consumption value and growth by regions, from 2020 to 2031. Chapter 5 and 6, to segment the sales by Type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2020 to 2031. Chapter 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, to break the sales data at the country level, with sales quantity, consumption value and market share for key countries in the world, from 2020 to 2024.and Mechanical Bar Screens forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2026 to 2031. Chapter 12, market dynamics, drivers, restraints, trends and Porters Five Forces analysis. Chapter 13, the key raw materials and key suppliers, and industry chain of Hydrogen Bromide. Chapter 14 and 15, to describe Hydrogen Bromide sales channel, distributors, customers, research findings and conclusion. Global Info Research is a company that digs deep into global industry information to support enterprises with market strategies and in-depth market development analysis reports. We provides market information consulting services in the global region to support enterprise strategic planning and official information reporting, and focuses on customized research, management consulting, IPO consulting, industry chain research, database and top industry services. At the same time, Global Info Research is also a report publisher, a customer and an interest-based suppliers, and is trusted by more than 30,000 companies around the world. We will always carry out all aspects of our business with excellent expertise and experience.