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No date – al Qaeda has been counterfeiting US currency abroad, Counterfeit bills coming out of North Korea and produced by means of complex and expensive printing methods.

15 May 1397 – Sejong the great, Korean king, was born. He died in 1450. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

1860s – Korea and Russia since the 1860s, when China ceded southern Siberia to Russia. So Korea became a neighbour to Russia. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress (c)2009 US).

1895 – The assassination of the Empress of Korea by Yakuza of Japan. (The history of organized crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1895-1910 – In 1910 Japan annexed the Korean peninsula, the Kempeitai was a brutal occupation. Japans interest in Korea began in 1895. Japan’s control of Korean ports to be open to Japanese trade. The Kempeitai murdered the Emperors wife Empress Myeongseong, Queen Min, who had sought the assistance of the Russians in 1895. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

8 Oct 1895 – Assassins team led by major Niiro, Operation Fox Hunt. Royal palace at Kyungbok where they killed the Korean household guards. A Russian military advisor working at the palace, Aleksey Seredin Sabatin saw the attack. Women were raped. The empress was raped too. The rapes were hidden from the Japanese and Koreans for decades. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1907 – The Japanese Kempeitai first overseas in Korea in 1907. After a victory over Czarist Russia in the Russia Japanese war of 1904-1905. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1930s – 1945 - Tour to shed light on World War Two sex slavery. Korea times. The “comfort stations” system was set up and run by the Japanese from the 1930s until the end of the World War Two 1945. Asian and other women from 12 to 32 years of age were kidnapped, trafficked and raped, forced into sex slavery for the military. (25 June 2014. Korea Times).

1938-88 – 1938 when Byung chul Lee set up Samsung general stores to export Korean fish, veges and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing, following the Japanese occupation, Korean war. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

1945 – Korea was jointly occupied by Soviet and American forces at the end of World War Two. Korea was part of the Japanese empire since 1910, when the Japanese resistance collapsed in summer 1945. The red army, found the way open into North Korea. The way was also open in South Korea for American troops. The 38^th parallel divided Korea. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

August 1948 – Following Democratic elections President Syngman Rhee was installed in South Korea, which became the Republic of Korea, PCK, Three weeks later the Soviets occupied North and proclaimed it the Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea under Kim II Sung.

1949-June 1950 – To face the Soviet military threat NATO was formed in 1949. Outbreak of the Koran war in June 1950. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

1950 – George Blake, British KGB agent was appointed consul general in Seoul Korea, just before the Korean war. During the fighting he went to North Korea for three years, partly held by the Chinese communists. On his return to the UK he went into the field as a MI6, SIS officer from 1953-61, while he worked for the KGB.

1950 – By the beginning of 1950 the situation along the 38^th parallel had become serious, with frequent outbreaks of fighting. At the same time North Korean guerrillas carried out about 30 attacks inside South Korea. Kim II Sung paid two visits to Moscow where he met with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung.

1950s – Experiments. Cyril Cunningham the air ministry’s Brainwashing and Interrogation Unit worked for A19, to see what the Soviets were doing in Korea. He visited Porter Down, British drug tests. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

1950s and 60s – Throughout the 1950s and 60s the US focused its military attention on the Korean and Indochina wars.

1950-61 – Korea and the Cold war, into the US in 1959. Robert Jay Lifton, who was in the US Air force in 1950, POWs in Korea. 1961 a study of brainwashing. North Koreans used on POWs. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield. ©2006 UK).

12 Jan 1950 - Stalin’s green light to Kim II Sung, Stalin had started the Korean war by authorizing the North Korean invasion. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

June 1950 – The Korean war broke out. Civil Air Transport CAT was charterd by the UN for “Opeation Booklift”. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK.

June 1950 – Stalin authorized the use of Soviet fighter planes, manned by Soviet pilots over Korea, where they encountered American fighters, flown by American pilots. This was the only time the US Soviet shootout happened during the cold war. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

June 1950 –Colonel Donald Nichols US Intel. Syngnam Rhee South Korea. 1,800 political prisoners. Two big bull dozers, a ditch grave, trucks loaded with prisoners, hands tied, shot in the head and pushed into the grave. Police state in South Korea. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

June 1950-1951 – Korean war, SIS station in Seoul was run by George Blake, it was based at the British embassy. But Blake’s main target was the Soviet Union. Soviets trained the north Koreans. In 1951 Major Ellery Anderson led para’s dropped teams in to destroy north Korean trains, deep inside northern tunnels, and the wreckage was hard to clear. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

June 1950-July 1954 – UN service medal Korea 1951 for service on behalf of the UN in Korea, June 1950-July 1954. (Ancestry. May June 2007 p35).

25 June 1950 – Outbreak of the Korean war on 25 June 1950. Communist China entered the Korean war in 1951. Numerous Soviet advisors were busy assisting the North Korean forces. Soviet and American pilots over flew each other in the skies of east Asia (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich. ©2010 UK).

25 June 1950 – North Korea invaded South Korea. Stalin’s green light to Kim II Sung. North Korea directly bordered on China and the Soviet union. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

25 June 1950 – Korea, the first overt military assault across an international boundary, since the end of World War Two. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

25 June 1950 – Korean war, the UK and US main focus was Russian traffic. NSA history says there was no one working on North Korea at this time. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

July-Oct 1950 – The US interrogation teams working under Operation BLUEBIRD, went to interrogate Korean POWs. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK p52).

Early December 1950 – Saw China come to the aid of the North Koreans.

12 April 1951 – The worlds biggest jet air battle to date when 115 US AF fighters of the UN forces with 32 super fortress bombers, engaged 80 Russian MIG 15 jet fighters and destroyed or damaged 46, at small loss to themselves.

May 1951 – Nerve gas, what were they doing in Korea? Research on the use and misuse of drugs. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

1952 – I F Stone. The hidden history of the Korean war. New York press.

13 Jan 1952 – Pilots Kenneth L Enoch and John S Quinn of the 3^rd US Airforce bomb group were shot down over North Korea. On 16 May 1952 Chinese interrogations. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

May 1952 – A mobile seismic station called project Rockpile was established in Korea.

8 July 1952 – Feb 1953, Colonel Frank H Schwable, chief of staff of US marines. He had been shot down on 8 July 1952. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

1953 – The UK joint Intel committee, the evasion, escape and prisoner of war, to debate what happened to the Korean POWs. SIS, MI6. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield. ©2006 UK).

1953 – The cold war. The Korean war ended on 27 July 1953, a nerve agent called VX, in 1957 producing VX. Psychochemical warfare. The CIA and LSD. Agent orange and the Vietnam war. Psychological warfare and hypnosis murders. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen ©2014 US).

1953 – There were 70,000 Soviet pilots and gunners in North Korea. Many of the MIG-15 fighters which were attacking with Chinese marking, were actually flown by Soviet pilots. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barresss ©2009 US).

1953 – The A19 project. Korean POW's. Return of POW's. “Operation Big Switch” interrogation reports 1953-54. “Operation Little Switch”. Also “Operation Big Swap” and “Operation Little Swap” and “Operation Glory”.

1953 – North Korea war orphans. 27 Aug 2014. Cold war in 1953 the North Korean government sent 1,200 orphans to Poland.

1953 – In June 1953, Soviet brainwashing scare. In the west experiments with drugs and other experiments. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1953-60 – 24 Feb 1953 Russia and POWs Korea. A Royal marine Andrew Condron remained in China. He retuned to the UK in 1960. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield ©2006 UK).

April 1953 – George Blake was posted to Korea, he was capture and jailed until April 1953, then he went to Berlin for M16. Communism which brainwashed him in a North Korean prison camp. He went to Cambridge UK and was a Communist anyway. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher. ©1984 US).

June 1953 – The Soviet brainwashing scare. The west and experiments with drugs and other tests. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

July 1953 - Only after Stalin’s death did his successors approve a cease fire, July 1953. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

July 1953 – Armistice July 1953, the war had left the peninsula devastated, with no clear victory for the either side. 36,568 Americans died in combat, 600,000 Chinese troops and over 2 million Korean civilians and military personal had died, during the 3 years of fighting. (Cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

27 July 1953 – An American F-86F Sabre pilot shot down a civilian Aeroflot 11-12 airliner killing 21 people on board. The debris came down in China. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1955 – Reps of the North Korean academy of sciences attended a nuclear energy conference in Moscow. In 1956 Kim II Sung’s regime signed a deal on nuclear research with the Soviets and North Korean scientists began arriving at the Dubna nuclear research institute for training. In 1959 a second agreement on nuclear cooperation was signed with the Soviet Union, while a first agreement was reached with China. In late 1964 Kim sent a delegation to China wanting Chinese assistance in developing nuclear weapons. In 1965 Moscow sold North Korea a 2 to 4 megawatt research reactor built near the Kuryung river in the vicinity of Yongbyon, 60 miles northeast of Pyongyang. Placed under IAEA safeguards. Soviet and North Korean scientists also set up a nuclear research center at the site. (Spying on the bomb. JT Richelson ©2006).

July 1955 - Reps of the North Korean academy of sciences attended a nuclear energy conference in Moscow. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

1956 - Kim II Sung’s regime signed a deal on nuclear research with the Soviets. North Korean scientists began arriving at the Dubna nuclear research institute for training. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

August 1956-July 1957 – The 1^st battalion Royal Sussex regiment was stationed in Korea after the end of hostilities. (Family history. August 2009 p10).

1959 - A second agreement on nuclear cooperation was signed with the Soviet Union, while a first agreement was reached with China. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

1960 – Trumbull Higgins. Korea and the fall of MacArthur. Oxford uni press.

1960 – Han In Suk, after the Korean war, studied physics at Moscow university, returning to Pyongyang in 1960 and publishing papers on nuclear physics. (Spying on the bomb. (c)2006 JT Richelson).

1961 – One of the British POWs taken in the Korean war was George Blake, MI6 head of station in Seoul, SIS, KGB. In 1961 Blake was sent to 42 years in prison. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild ©2006 UK).

16 May 1961 – Park Chang Lee led a coup to overthrow the second republic of south Korea. (Wikipedia 16 May 2015).

1964 – South Korea joined the Vietnam war. Wikipedia.

Late 1964 - Kim sent a delegation to China, wanting Chinese assistance in developing nuclear weapons. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

1965 - Moscow sold North Korea a 2 to 4 megawatt research reactor, built near the Kuryung river, in the vicinity of Yong-byon, 60 miles northeast of Pyongyang, and placed under IAEA safeguards. Soviet and North Korean scientists also set up a nuclear research center at the site. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 JT Richelson).

1968 – USS Pueblo, an unarmed signal intelligence reconnaissance ship, was seized by North Korea in 1968. The 82 crew were held for 11 months and suffered terrible treatment. (Americas wars. (c)2003 Huchthausen).

Jan 1968 – The USS Pueblo, a small NSA spy ship was captured by North Korea. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1969 - Samsung electronics was set up in 1969 and merged with Samsung semi conductors in 1988 to become a key part of a Korean conglomorate. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

15 April 1969 – North Korea shot down an unarmed EC-121 electronic surveillance plane, with the loss of all 30 crew members. (The ends of power. R Haldeman ©1978).

1973 – Koran Yakuza, gambling and sex slavery. Brothels. Korean President Kim Dae Jung was kidnapped by Yakuza in 1973. Ethnic Koreans in Japan. Sex tourism, slavery of Koran women and girls, drugs, smuggling, extortion and corruption. (The history of organized crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1975 – Kim tried again to get China to provide aid to a North Korean nuclear weapons program in 1974. Then in the late 1970s Kim instructed the ministry of nuclear weapons program, which included the rapid expansion of the Yongbyon facilities. Heading the program was Lee Sung Ki, doctorate in engineering from Kyoto imperial university in pre war Japan. He served as dean of Seoul’s national university college of engineering and developed Vinalon a synthetic fibre made from coal. During the Korean war he defected from the south to the north, where he became primary scientific advisor, other key members of the early work Korean nuclear weapons effort included Do Sang Rok and Han In Suk. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

Nov 1976 – Canada sold nuclear reactors to South Korea and Argentina at the Canadian state corporation, expenses of ten million dollars in connection with these nuclear sales, part of them paid into bank accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. There were clearly prospects for bribery to boost nuclear sales.

1978 – The boat “Anoa” formerly called the “Choryo Mau” was salvaged from the Wellington harbour in New Zealand. A former Korean fishing boat, which was used by Mr Asia for drug smuggling in 1978. (Mr Asia ©2010 Aust J Shepherd).

26 Oct 1978 – Detection of a third underground tunnel, made by North Korea to attack South Korea. Wikipedia.

Sept 1982 – In the early 1980’s in a step towards developing nuclear weapons. North Korea began work on a 20 to 30 megawatt rector in the Yongbyon area near the Soviet supplied reactor. The graphite moderated, gas cooled reactor was well suited to be producing plutonium, requiring neither enriched uranium or heavy water. By Sept 1982 construction began on the new reactors nuclear core and the nuclear control building. By the end of 1984 the reactors cylindrical smokestack could be seen and other buildings were near completion. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 JT Richelson).

Sept 1983 – The Soviets shot down a civilian Korean airlines flight. A stockpile of plutonium for a nuclear bomb.

2 Sept 1983 – The Monitor archives. Alaska dispatch news. Shootdown of Korean Air flight KAL007. Dan Murphy. Christian Science monitor 23 July 2014.

11 Sept 1983 – A Korean airlines plane was shot down and 269 people were killed.

9 Oct 1983 – North Korean hit squad agents blew up a delegation from South Korea in Rangoon Burma, killing 21 people and injuring 48.

Nov 1983 – Grenada signed a secret military pact with North Korea, whose interests in the Caribbean were unclear. By 9 Nov 1983 15 North Koreans were returned to their country from Grenada. (American wars. ©2003 P Huchthausen).

1986 – Advisors from North Korea were thought to be in Libya. (Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).

1986 – Reactor operations began in the Yongbyon area near the Soviet supplied reactor. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 JT Richelson).

14 Sept 1986 – Kimpo airport bombing. North Korean agents detonated an explosive device at Seoul’s Kimpo airport killing 5 people and injuring 29 others.

29 Nov 1987 – Downing of airliner. North Korean agents planted a bomb on Korean airlines flight 858, which then crashed into the Indian ocean.

1990 – Carter J Eckert. Korea old and new history. Wikipedia.

1990 – Bruce Cummings. The origins of the Korean war 1947-50. Princeton uni press.

1991 – By 1991 North Korea had nuclear activities spread out across its territory. Uranium was being mined at two locations. Hungnam in the south and along the sea of Japan at Pyongsan in the far south. Pyongsan may also have been the home to a uranium enrichment facility. Apparently the sole site for uranium refining was Kusong in the west which had a daily capacity of 660 poundso f uranium ore. Nuclear research activities were conducted in three locations. Kimch’eak located on the east coast, in Pyongybon and at Yongbyon. Yongbyon, Yong-Dong territory to its west 55 miles north of Pyongyang. Renamed the center of research activities. O.1 megawatt critical assembly, the Soviet supplied research reactor had been upgraded to 8 megawatts and a 30 megawatt reactor. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).

1994 – Chen Jian. China’s road to the Korean war. The making of the Sino American confrontation. New York Columbia uni press.

1995 – Inside Hanoi’s secret , Solving the MIA mystery. Malcolm McConnell. Secret medical experiments conducted on American POWs in Korea. Google books.

1995 – William Stueck. The Korean war an international history. Princeton uni press.

1995 – Keith Howard. Stories of the Korean comfort women. New York Cassells.

1995 – Agency for national security planning. ANSP was the successor agency to South Korea’s Central intel agency KCIA. (Espionage (c)1995 E Volkman).

1995 – Shu Guang Zhang. Mao’s military romanticism. China and the Korean war 1950 to 1953. Lawrence uni press of Kansas.

1996 – Eijoh report. Kim Ung Yong. Japans invasion of Korea, from diplomatic accounts.

1 Oct 1996 – The assassination of South Korean consul in Vladivostok Russia. Assailants attacked and killed a South Korean consul, near his residence. No one claimed responsibility. But South Korea said the attack was professional by North Koreans.

10 Dec 1996 – Paranoia and threat of cold war. The Soviet pilot who shot down a Korean airliner in 1983 convinced the plane was on a spying mission. Michael Gorde. The Guardian UK.

1997-98 – North Korea’s Kumchanguri site, 25 miles northeast of Yongbyom, tunnels and digging for a huge underground complex involving 15,000 workers digging into the mountain. (Spying on the bomb ©206 Richelson).

17 June 1997 – 60 orphans starved to death says Unicef official North Korea. Conor O’Clery. The Irish Times Dublin.

1999 – Baghdad tried to smuggle banned ballistic missile technology from North Korea. Saddam signed a secret 1999 contract with Kim Jong Ji to buy upgraded technology from the long range No-Dong missile. The Iraqi’s handed over $US10 million in advance then waited for delivery. (Chch press NZ Sunday Times 6 Oct 2003).

7 Feb 1999 – North Korea Daily Socialist ideology. BBC London UK. Master of Socialist society. Socialist system.

14 March 2000 – South Korea, six members of a Socialist group were arrested. BBC London UK. International Socialism IS group.

April 2000 – The US imposed sanctions on North Korea’s Ch’angguag Shinyong company for selling missile tech to Syria. (Bill Gates. China, North Korea hit with sanctions. Washington Times 28 June 2001).

29 June 2000 – North Korea Socialist industrial. BBC London UK. Pyongyang 1956 DPRK.

Aug 2000 to Sept 2001 – The CIA said that Syria continues to work towards developing and producing a solid propellant rocket motor capability. North Korea and Russia continue to provide equipment and assistance for Syria’s liquid propellant missile program. The CIA also said that Syria continues towards building liquid fueled Scud-C missiles with assistance from North Korea. (Anthony H Cordesman. Weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Centre for strategic and int studies 15 April 2003).

21 Aug 2000 – North Korean party. Socialist planned economy. BBC London UK. Socialist economy.

24 Feb 2001 – North Korean radio Socialist policies. BBC London UK. Socialist red flag in the 21^st.

2002 – William Stueck, rethinking the Korean war. A new diplomatic and military history. Princeton uni press.

18 May 2002 – North Korea opium. Weekend Australian Canberra ACT.

Oct 2002 – North Korea first admitted having a covert program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. In Dec it expelled IAEA inspectors. In Feb it restarted a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon facility beginning the process necessary for nuclear weapons production.

1 May 2003 – Fears drug trail leads to North Korea. Darren Gooder. Shane Green.Tokyo. Sydney Morning Herald NSW.

14 Oct 2003 – South Koreans implicated in Russian Mafia crab smuggling operation. BBC London. Russian Mafia bank accounts. Japanese Mafia Yakuza now in Korea.

3 March 2004 – China, politburo member Wang Zhaoguo vistis Socialist. BBC London UK. Kim Il Sung Socialist youth league.

15 Oct 2004 – South Korean daily reports, North Korea expands opium farms and sells drugs via China. BBC London.

2005 – The history of Korea. Chun gil Kim. Google books.

10 June 2005 – Socialist principles. Economic management. North Korean Daily. BBC London UK.

2 July 2005 – North Korean paper says army embody Socialism. BBC London UK. The peoples army PNA and Socialist patriotism.

25 Sept 2005 – South Korea lawmaker urges tougher law against trade in narcotics ingredients. BBC London.

31 Oct 2005 – North Korean party Socialist. BBC London UK.

2006 – MKULTRA was funded by the CIA. Events in Korea. Brainwashing. Leonard Rubenstein article in the New York Times. Soldiers in Korea and torture. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield ©2006 UK).

1 Jan 2006 – North Korean Socialists. BBC London UK. Organ of Kim Ill Sung Socialist youth league.

3 August 2006 – The Taepodong-2 is the product of joint efforts with Tehran coinciding with Iran’s development of the Shehab-5 and 6, possibly design and technology from China, which has arms trade with Iran. The North is building a missile command base, 50km north of the DMZ, for as many as 30 mobile launch pads for the shorter range scud type Huasong missiles that can hit military and industrial targets deep in the south. (Reuters).

3 August 2006 – With the deployment of Rodong and SSN-6 missiles and the aim to deploy the Taepodong-2, North Korea is constructing new silos on the east coast and on the border with China. (Reuters).

3 August 2006 – Pyonyang has allegedly sold a total of 500 scuds to Iran, Libya, Syria, Egypt and Yemen. A small number of scuds to Vietnam and Sudan. 50 to 100 Rodong missiles to Iran, Pakistan and Libya. A scud missile could fetch $2 million US. A Rodong missile $4 million US, a Taepodog-2 $20 million US dollars. (Channel news Asia).

6 August 2006 – North Korean experts were bought into Lebanon in the guise of domestic servants by Iranian diplomats, and by staff of Iranian reps and officers in Lebanon. Hezbollah has managed to build a tunnel 25km.

11 Sept 2006 – North Korea planning A-bomb test.

9 Oct 2006 – Shots fired along the Korean border. Nuclear concerns.

12 Oct 2006 – Trader nabbed for smuggling nuke material 15 tons of potassium bifluoride to a middle eastern country.

16 Oct 2006 – Japanese police official warns of possible terror attacks by North Korea. North Korea will test H-bomb.

1 Nov 2006 – North Korea has a network of secret nuclear villages, secret towns with thousands of guarded residents, whose job is to develop nuclear weapons.,

4 Nov 2006 – Recently Daniel and Humberto Ortega of Nicaragua paid official state visits to North Korea seeking assistance and formal relations.

9 Nov 2006 – Seoul says North may have plutonium for 7 bombs.

19 Nov 2006 – Former Iraq weapons inspector, North Korea will perfect nuclear bombs.

29 Nov 2006 – Seoul South Korea sending non combat peacekeeping troops to Lebanon. North Korea China talks, six party talks, Japanese in Beijing, US Christopher Hill meetings, restarting the disarmament talks. North Korean negotiator Kim. (9645khz VOA 1.40 NZ local time).

8 Jan 2007 – North Korean paper Socialist economic power. BBC London UK. Powerful Socialist state.

19 Jan 2007 – North Koreas second highest leader, President Kim Yong Nam of the supreme peoples assembly, met with Iranian vice foreign minister Mahdi Safari for friendly talks. (Geopolitical diary).

12 June 2007 – North Korea Socialist patriotism. BBC London UK. Pyongyang.

4 Sept 2007 – North Korea Kim Il Sung thesis on Socialist education (propaganda). BBC London UK. Juche.

17 Oct 2007 – North Korean website. US CIA spy on Socialists. BBC London UK. Spying on Socialists since 1950. Socialists.

7 Nov 2007 – North Koran website, role in Socialist economy. BBC London UK. Socialist politics.

11 Feb 2009 – North Korean Socialists. BBC London UK. Socialist state system.

12 Aug 2009 – South Korea says drugs by foreigners tripled in 2008. BBC London Heroin and cocaine.

25 Sept 2009 – Richard Read. South Korean company to buy Eugene Hynix plant. Hire 1,000. Oregonian US.

18 Nov 2009 – South Korea to put paedophiles details online. ABC Sydney. The identity of paedophiles are to go on the internet. (Comfort children).

2010 – Luxembourg links, laddering was used as an excuse to harbour North Korean money. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

4 Sept 2010 – North Korean party organ Socialist patriotism. BBC London UK. Pyongyang Socialist North Korea.

27 Dec 2010 – North Korean party organ Socialist conditions. 38^th anniversary of the Socialist country. Socialist system DPRK Korean workers party.

16 Nov 2011 – Korea urges Japan to agree to talks on wartime sex slaves. Arirang global TV National Korea.

2012 – From war waif to ideal immigrant. The cold war transformation of the Korean orphan. Arissa H Oh. Journal of American ethnic history.

9 Sept 2012 – North Korea Socialist nature of country. BBC London UK. Socialist state DPRK.

27 Nov 2012 – North Korean leader wants a stop to anti-Socialist activities. BBC London UK. Kim Jong Un, the Socialist system.

20 Nov 2013 – North Korean paper ideology Socialist. BBC London UK. Socialist party power. Armed with Socialist ideas.

4 July 2014 – South Korean lawmakers adopt two anti-Japan resolutions. Global post. The 1993 statement has been deemed an official apology for Japans force of Asian and other women, mainly Korean and Chinese, into sex slavery.

15 Aug 2014 – Opium growing near North Korean border floods China. BBC London. Opium fields Hoeryong. Trafficking North Korean opium into northeast China Liaoning.

16 Sept 2014 – Foreigners Socialist North Korean, State run news agency. BBC London UK. Socialist North Korean power.

31 Oct 2014 – Ministry blasted for neglect of sex slavery websites. The Korea Herald. Claire Lee. 50 survivors in South Korea.

20 Nov 2014 – Putin backs closer ties with North Korea. Thomas Grove. Stuff.co.nz. UN report, torture, starvation and abuse of human rights.

17 Dec 2014 – US Congressman here on sex slavery mission. The Korea Times news Seoul.

28 Dec 2014 – Seoul and Tokyo to discuss sex slavery. The Korea Times news Seoul.

2015 – On 6 Feb 2002 in testimony before the US senate select committee on intel CIA Director George Tenet said North Korea is exporting ballistic missiles and missile components to countries like Iran, Libya, Syria and Egypt. Tenet said North Korea could have a ballistic missile that could reach the US by 2015, and that North Korea has enough plutonium for one or two nuclear bombs. North Korea is using the profits from its missile exports to further develop its missiles and covertly develop WMD. (James Risen. A nation challenged. The threats, al Qaeda still able to strike US. Head of CIA says New York Times 7 Feb 2002). (AP countries, groups and others that are considered risks to US security. St Petersberg Times 7 Feb 2002).

5 Jan 2015 – Book experiences of comfort women published. The Korea Times Seoul. Accounts from 12 victims of sex slavery by the Japanese military before and during world war two, was published. Kim Se-Jeong, the book is also available online. At least 200,000 women were raped into sex slavery in brothels.

26 Jan 2015 – Adoption and adoptees. Aljazeera. Started in 1950, hundreds of thousands of Korean babies were adopted by the US, Sweden, Australia and other countries.

11 Feb 2015 – 100 car pile up in South Korea. Two people dead and 65 injured. TVNZ.

5 March 2015 – WTMA. US General warns that North Korean missiles are a threat to the US. CNN.

Pacific research

PACIFIC

1826 – Methodist missionaries arrived in Tonga from Australia (Timeline internet).

1860 – Natives of Vanuatu were kidnapped as slaves for sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland Australia and Fiji. (8 July 2011).

10 Oct 1874 – Fiji became a British possession. (Chch Star NZ 10 Oct 2014 p11).

1876 – The log of Thomas Andrews, govt agent on the five month labour voyage of the “Jessie Henderson”, from Fiji to the Solomon islands to New Hebridies in 1876 has survived. Fiji archives. (NZ genealogist March April 2012 p64).

1879-1906 – About 60,000 south sea islanders were brought to Queensland Australia by “Blackbirders” or slaves for sugar plantations. 7 Dec 2012 ABC net.au Tony Eastley. Sugar cane farmer seeks recognition for buried slaves.

1879-1919 – Indo Fijian history. Indians in Fiji 1879-2004. Sugarcane plantations from 1879-1919. (NZ genealogist May June 2011).

14 May 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian slaves arrived in Fiji. Leonidas. (Wikipedia 14 May 2015).

31 Jan 1885 – The Solomon islands. Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.

1889-1896 – The US annexed the harbour of the pacific island of Pago Pago in 1889. The built a new navy between 1890 and 1896 (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1893-1898 – In 1893 American sugar planters with the US minister in Honolulu. US marines and sailors toppled Hawaiian Queen Lilinokalani, and installed American Sanford Dole, a cousin of the pineapple magnate James Dole as president, the US annexed Hawaii in 1898. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US)

1899 – Cover ups happen in government departments and injustice follows. Germany got control of the Samoan islands in 1899. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).

11 July 1902 – The coronation celebration in Fiji. ODT NZ. Papers past.

1911 – WRA Reynolds. Poo-Bah of the Pacific and the miss rule of the Cook islands. Wellington. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1912 – Frank Fox. Problems of the Pacific. London. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1914 – NZ captured Samoa at the start of World War One in 1914. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).

1914 – James Jeffery. Samoa, the pearl of the Pacific where everything is different. Dunedin. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1918 – HE Holland. Samoa, a story that teems with tragedy. Wellington. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1918 – R McK Watson. History of Samoa.Wellington 1918. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1918 – LP Leary. New Zealand and Samoa. London. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1920 – GH Scholefield. The Pacific, its past and future and the policy of the great powers. London (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

20 Feb 1929 – American Samoa became a territory of the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 20 Feb 2015).

1944 – By 1943 US factories were producing 100,000 planes a year. By summer 1944 the US had deployed 100 aircraft carriers in the Pacific. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The US reconstructed a small part of the earths surface, by detonating the first thermonuclear device, on a Pacific atoll, which did not survive the blast. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The first US thermonuclear test, on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok. The blast incinerated birds in flight for miles around, singed feathers and burned birds. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The US exploded its first hydrogen bomb, in a test in the Marshall islands. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1 March 1954 – The US detonated its largest thermonuclear device, over bikini atoll on the 1 March 1954. The BRAVO test. 15 megatons, it caused a 250 feet deep crater a mile cross, and a fireball for two miles from the test site. Radiation fallout spread hundreds of miles, causing the first human casualties from the H bomb era. 28 Americans, 236 Marshall islanders and the crew of a Japanese fishing boat were exposed. The boat was the Fukuryu maru, fishermen got ill and died. Radiation levels. Nov 1952 test, BRAVO explosion. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 March 1954 – The Bravo H bomb test on Bikini atoll. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

1 March 1954 – US oil supplies as the US was beginning to import lots of oil. The first US test of an H bomb at Faniwatok atol. 15 megatons, it was over 1,000 times greater than the bomb dumped on Hiroshima Japan. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

1957-58 – Atomic nuclear tests. Victims got compensation from Fiji. British colony, nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. (Independent UK. Rob Hastings. 31 Jan 2015).

15 May 1957 – At Malden island in the Pacific. The UK tested its first hydrogen bomb. In 'Operation Grapple'. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

25 Nov 1958 – The US Commander of the Pacific fleet was Admiral Arleigh Burke. Spy flights over China. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Oct 1959 – A US RB-57D was shot down over the Pacific. Aerial surveillance of the Soviet Union. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldricch ©2001 UK).

1968-76 – Christian brother Ian Robert Carroll in PNG Fatima Banz. Working with Street kids. He lived in PNG for 26 years. Catholic.

25 Nov 1969-1971 – Plague, Malaria and vaccine experiments on humans. On 25 Nov 1969 pres Nixon put and end to all US biological warfare, and ordered the US arsenal to be destroyed. Deadly biological weapons to kill and incapacitate. In 1971 on the atoll in the south Pacific called Johnston island, Red Hat operation. Johnston atoll where chemical agents were leaking VX. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen (c)2014 US).

1970s – Book Body of secrets by James Bamford. “Operation Ivy Bells” in the early 1970s. NSA submarines in the sea of Okhotsk tapped cables connecting the Soviet Pacific naval fleet base in Petropavlovsk to its HQ in Vladivostok. Divers from the USS Haliburt sent tapes with recordings to NSA HQ. Info on the Soviet Pacific fleet. Tapping undersea fibre optic cables and collecting info. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).

1971 – Vanuatu as a small offshore center, was created by the British government in 1971. 9 years before it got independence. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

1976 – Roger Dingman. Power in the Pacific. The origins of naval armed limitation 1914-22. Chicago uni of Chicago press.

1976 – Christian brothers at Nukutere college Rarotonga. br Simon Germaine Coughla. Catholic.

Late 1976 – Terrance John Clark. Raymond Brunnell, importing heroin from Fiji. Terry Clark aka Alexander Sinclair and the Mr Asia drug syndicate. (Justice. Kevin Ryan (c)1997 NZ).

March 1978 – Terry Clark, Maria Muhary, sister Angelique and Jim Shepherd went to Fiji, March 1978. Before Rabuka’s military takeover. The Fiji island of Taveuni. The Fiji trip, they met up with Chinese Jack Choo and Martin Johnstone at the Regent hotel in Nadi. The NZ police rugby team was at the hotel and they moved to the Hyatt hotel. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

March April 1978 – A meeting in Fiji in March or April 1978 at the Roget hotel in Nadi. Terry Clark, Chinese Jack Choo, Martin Johnstone and Jim Shepherd. Chinese Jack Choo was related by marriage to Khun Sa. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

6 March 1981 – France conducts a nuclear test at Muruora island. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 6 March 2015).

Late June 1981 – Michael Hand fled Australia under a false identity, that of a butcher, Alan Glenn Winter, on a flight to Fiji in late June 1981. He spent a week in Fiji, false beard and mustache, then went to New York City, Nugan Hand bank, money laundering for the CIA. (Wiki. Nugan Hand bank). (The anals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1985 – East Timor violations of human rights, executions, disappearances, torture and political imprisonment 1975-1984. book. Worldcat database Amnesty int. London UK.

1987 – Lagaga. A short history of western Samoa. Malama Meleisea. Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea. Google books.

1987 – Troical Cyclone Uma hit Vanuatu, 48 people died and 5,000 people were made homeless. A category 4 storm. (The Guardian UK 13 March 2015).

1989-1997 – br Anthony Roberto Gherardi taught at Nukutere college Avarua Cook islands Catholic Christian brothers.

1995 – The French government continues testing of nuclear devices at Moruroa Atoll. On 20 July 1995, 6 Aug 1995 PM NZ Jim Bolger. Boats to Rarotonga 18 Aug 1995. Cook islands Moruroa Tahiti. Previous nuclear tests. French boats, planes and helicopters. An orange hue tainted the sky over Moruroa atoll, the French had exploded a nuclear device. (Peter Williams QC ©1997 NZ)

1995 – HJ Hiery. The neglected war. The German south Pacific and the influence of World War One. Honolulu. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

17 July 1998 – New Guinea 2,100 people were killed in a 7 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

17 July 1998 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 7 quake. Solomon islands 3,000 people were killed. Malol Arop Otto Sissano. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 July 1998 – Three tsunamis, caused by an earthquake, rose 30 feet, destroying 7 villages in Papua New Gunea. The death toll was about 4,000, half the local population. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

27 Nov 1999 – Mass graves found in Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

21 Dec 1999 – Mass graves found in East Tmor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

2000 – 357kg heroin was found in Suva Fiji, worth $100 million. One of the worlds largest ever drug seizures. Trans shipment through Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz 22 Dec 2014).

24 Oct 2000 – Fiji asks New Zealand to warn about visits by paedophiles. Leah Haines. Dominion Wellington NZ. Paedophiles travel to Fiji, travel and extradite.

30 Oct 2000 - $100m heroin haul. Drugs destined for Australia, in Fiji. Illawarra. Wollongong. NSW. Fiji on drugs charges.

16 Nov 2000 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 8 earthquake. one person died and 5,000 people were made homeless. Timeline of earthquakes.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer. Sydney Morning Herald. Drugs and people smuggling. Mr Mick Palmer.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific paradise for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer Adelaide. Sydney Morning Herald NSW. Organised crime groups are targeting the south Pacific, trans national crime syndicates.

4 July 2001 – East Timor militia leaders. Timorese Socialist party. BBC London UK. Political party Timorese Socialist party PST.

28 Sept 2001 – Australian police, Vanuatu for heroin cache. Ben Bohane. Port Villa. Sydney Morning Herald. Peter Bong. AFP. Bob Lehman.

9 Sept 2002 – Papua New Guinea 3 people were killed when a tidal wave hit and 40 homes were washed away. Timeline of earthquakes.

31 Oct 2002 – Vanbdhana Pritika Jeet disappeared in Fiji. She disappeared when she was 18 years old. Missing person.

17 December 2002 – Fears of a coup and renewed violence, sparked by disgruntled police, who fired on the PM’s home in Honiara. New Zealand born … Lloyd Powell and others fled the country on a chartered plane. (Christchurch Press AFP Kiwis flee Solomon islands.)

23 December 2002 – PM pays extortionists. Australia criticised Solomon islands PM, Sir Allen Kemakeza, for using public money to pay more than $A 360,000 to police, who were extorting him. We have made the point that the Solomon islands government cannot give in to extortion. New Zealand and Australian police were trying to restore law and order. (Christchurch Press AFP)

11 Oct 2003 – Samoa warns no leniency for foreign paedophiles. BBC London. Lilu Vaomalo Kini, paedophiles.

2004 – Suva Fiji a factory, chemicals to make $1 billion worth of meth. Hong Kong and Malaysians were arrested. Exporting meth. Six New Zealand police officers went to Suva Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz. 22 Dec 2014).

9 Aug 2004 – Chinese Communist party invites Vanuatu PM to Beijing. BBC London UK. Central committee of the Chinese Communist party vice minister Mr Zhang Zhijun.

22 or 27 November 2004 – Vanuatu stolen aid. Australia has expressed concern about trans-national crime in Vanuatu and the implications for regional security, lawlessness and deeply entrenched corruption. PM Serge Vohor visited Taiwan to sign a military agreement to grant Taiwan official diplomatic recognition in spite of Vanuatu’s recognition of China. Australian aid to Vanuatu is being stolen by the government. No money was going to the people. Australia threatened to cut aid. Pm Serge Vohor refused to take part in Australian diplomatic talks in Port Vila. (AFP Christchurch Press).

27 November 2004 – Takiveikato was found guilty on three charges of inciting a mutiny. On 2 November 2000 in which rebel soldiers tried to kill military commander Voreque Bainimarama. (The Fiji Times Christchurch Press AFP).

2 December 2004 – A report the Pacific is viable, written by Australian national university professor Helen Hughs, was released by the centre for independent studies. The report suggests policy changes, including abandoning communal land ownership for individual property rights and freeing up labour markets. Aid to the Pacific region was more than $1.5 billion a year. (Christchurch Press NZPA).

10 Dec 2004 – Paedophiles top online crime threat. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Online paedophiles are a threat on the internet, British.

21 April 2005 – Illegal fisheries part of organised crime. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Organised Asian crime syndicates.

12 May 2006 – Organised crime claim. Sheila Lasibori. Papua New Guinea Post Courier port Morsbey. Asian organised crime transnational crime int TNCU.

15 Sept 2006 – Officials confirm threats. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morseby. Malaysian and Chinese triads are operating in the country.

18 October 2006 – Fiji PM warns of a coup threat.

1 November 2006 – Commodore Bainimarama is in Iraq. He told the Fiji Sun newspaper, the EU, Australian, NZ and US. Governments had been deeply corrupt and unconstitutional practises by the Qarase led government. (Stuff NZ news Michael Field).

20 November 2006 – International criminals are said to have laundered billions on the island of Nauru in the past ten years. The US accused Nauru of selling large numbers of false passports. (VOA Phil Mercer Sydney).

27 November 2006 – Tension grows with coup alert. There was clear evidence that the military chief was planning to stage a coup within two weeks. (Fiji Pacific).

19 Feb 2007 - US to stage biggest anti-terrorist exercise on Guam. The worlds biggest anti-terrorism exercise will be held this year on Guam. Underscoring the Pacific islands groups importance to Washington. Exercise TopOff4 is part of a series of large scale moves, to strengthen the US ability to respond to terrorist attacks involving WMD. William Marhoffer the US coast guard commander in Guam said the TopOff4 exercise would be bigger than last years Valiant shield war game in which the US, 30 ships, 280 aircraft and 22,000 military personnel. (Washington Times 19 Feb 2007. Cable gram. Agence France presse)

6 March 2007 - Vanuatu PM Ham Lini state of emergency. Port Vila ethnic clashes left two men dead and eight others in hospital. Armed police arrested more than 100 people. Dozens of armed personnel from the Vanuatu mobile forces made arrests for unlawful assembly, assault and property damage said police spokesman Willie Ben (Christchurch Press AP).

2 May 2007 – Papua New Guinea parliament votes to allow casinos and internet gambling. BBC London.

3 May 2007 – PNG bets on casinos The Daily Telegraph Surry hills NSW. Passed a law allowing casinos and internet gambling PNG.

7 Feb 2008 – Foreign drugs now on the streets in PNG. Pearson Kolo. Papua New Guinea Port Morsby, cocaine.

28 March 2008 – Organised crime business in the city. Papua New Guinea Post. Courier. Port Moresby. Organised crime international.

15 April 2008 – Asian mafia has grip on PNG. Daniel Kumbon. Papua New Guinea Post. Port Morsbey. Chinese mafia, Triads, already in PNG. Canada and Australia.

5 June 2008 – Fiji forum, Pacific transnational crime. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.

6 June 2008 – Transnational crime a threat. Verenaisi Raicola. The Fiji Times Suva. Cocaine and heroin.

17 June 2008 – Sophisticated crime shows triads. Papua New Guinea Courier Port Morseby. Chinese triads entering country.

19 Aug 2008 – Niue meeting told transnational crime a threat in Pacific. BBC London Cocaine heroin.

29 Sept 2009 – Samoa islands 8.3 earthquake and tsunami. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

29 Sept 2009 – 8.3 earthquake and tsunamis in Samoa 136 people were killed dozens of people were missing. Timeline of earthquakes.

30 Nov 2009 – State Human trafficking. Timoci Valu The Fiji Times Suva. International human trafficking.

23 Dec 2009 – Paedophile Roderick Robinson aka MacDonald was due to face trail in NZ on 3 counts of sex attacks on 2 girls under 12. 3 to 8 Nov 2008 in Hamilton New Zealand. Trial was due 31 May 2010. He fled to Fiji before 23 Dec 2009. False passport? (TVNZ 23 Oct 2014).

2010 – Palermo in the Pacific. Organised crime in the Asia Pacific region. Andreas Schloenhardt ebook Martinus Nijhoff pub (Worldcat database).

4 Jan 2010 – Tsunami in the Solomon islands 1,000 people were made homeless. There were 8 earthquakes since 3 Jan. 7.2 earthquake in Gizo. Timeline of earthquakes.

5 Jan 2010 – Triads after PNG shooting. The Australian national. Organised crime, triads Chinese migrants.

25 March 2010 – Chinese stunned. PNG Post Courier. Papua New Guinea. Chinese triads are sponsoring candidates in the 2012 election.

25 March 2010 – Triads in PNG politics. The Australian national. Asian triads are sponsoring candidates for next election.

19 May 2010 – Loopholes allow trafficking. Shareen Chand. The Fiji Times Suva. Sex trafficking of children. Sexploitation. Iris McKenzie. Sex trafficking is mistakenly called willing prostitution.

22 June 2010 – US demands action on child trafficking. The Fiji Times Suva Child trafficking in Fiji.

16 Dec 2010 – New Zealand spied on the Fiji military. Wikileaks cables show. Stuff.co.nz. Michael Field.

February 2011 – Elder Perry creates the first LDS stake in Guam. (Ensign p78).

30 March 2011 – AFP Fiji police operation results in cocaine bust. PAC news Suva. Importing cocaine into Australia from Fiji.

26 May 2011 – NZ police detective, Mark Franklin, was arrested and charged with drug dealing in Rarotonga. (Political kiwi).

5 July 2011 – Sex trafficking is a huge problem in the northern Marianas. Pacnews Suva. Sex trafficking victims in Pacific countries.

16 July 2011 – Two casinos have opened in Samoa. Kate Chapman The Press Christchurch. First casinos to be built in Samoa, license one on each of Samoa’s main islands.

18 July 2011 – Samoan casinos forbidden for locals. Pacnews Suva.

21 Oct 2011 – 7.6 earthquake in Tonga. Timeline of earthquakes.

9 Feb 2012 – Ecuador. Police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in January 2012, in diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by police dogs before leaving Ecuador, travel to Italy through a third country (AP 2/9/12 timeline internet).

17 April 2012 – 7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

7 November 2012 – Big gold and silver find in the waters off Tonga. Nautilus mineral mining company. (TVNZ Stuff.co.nz Michael Field)

16 Nov 2012 – Body, cocaine haul find on yaught, 200kg cocaine destined for Australia. Found on yaught on a Pacific atoll. ABC Sydney.

16 November 2012 – Cocaine and a corpse was found on an Australian bound yacht. In Tongan waters. (Lisa Martin AAP.The Australian).

16 November 2012 – Corpse and cocaine, worth $120 million, was found on a shipwrecked boat in Tonga. Suspected to be from Ecuador. (The Vancouver Sun AP Sydney).

16 November 2012 – The Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. From Ecuador bound for Australia, the US DEA said in August 2012. Organised crime syndicate and a dead body was on the boat too. (Matangi Tonga online).

16 November 2012 – Nauru police charged 15 Iranian asylum seekers with doing damage on the island. (Herald Sun).

16 Nov 2012 – Tonga police uncover massive cocaine haul. TVNZ yacht in Tonga with a dead body on board a cargo of cocaine.

19 Nov 2012 – World bank approves $US1.8 million grant for Tonga. Matangi Tonga online.

23 Nov 2012 – Australia defends tough media detention centre restrictions. VOA Sydney, Papua New Guinea and Nauru media are banned.

6 Feb 2013 – 8 earthquake on the Solomon islands and a tsunami. 9 people were killed and homes were destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 April 2013 – 6.8 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

22 August 2013 – Australian police seized a huge cocaine haul in the Pacific. Fox news. 750kg yachts trafficking drugs in the south Pacific.

23 August 2013 – Vanuatu police snare record cocaine haul in Port Vila harbour. 600kgs of cocaine with the Australian federal police. Radio NZ int.

23 August 2013 – AFP probe Australian links to Vanuatu drug boat 750kg. news.com.au.

23 August 2013 - $425 million worth of cocaine was seized from a Vanuatu yacht. NZ Herald. US and Australian agents. Stuff.co.nz, 750kg cocaine on a yacht in Vanuatu hidden under concrete

24 Aug 2013 – Vanuatu, huge drug haul. Dominion Post Wellington NZ p4.

16 Oct 2013 – 7.1 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of Earthquakes.

2014 – Solomon islands flooding and earthquakes, disaster.

1 April 2014 – PNG transnational crime. PNG Papua New Guinea. Crystal meth worth $US 20 million..

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Alleged interference in Vanuatu citizenship.

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Malnutrition Pacific poverty. Severe malnutrition in the Pacific region especially children

21 Aug 2014 – Truth of shooting still murkey. Fiji police investigation shows a video of men shot at sea, a Somalian pirate hijacking.

23 Aug 2014 – Human trafficking UN. Uni of Guam sex trafficking. Pacific daily news www.unwht.org

30 Aug 2014 – Radio NZ. Unemployment and poverty are major factors in the Pacific. IMF. Fiji Times reports.

17 Sept 2014 – TVNZ One news. 6.7 earthquake hits Guam. Minor damage and power cuts.

17 Sept 2014 – Reuters 7.1 earthquake strikes Guam. Manuel Mogato and Nick Macfie.

17 Sept 2014 – Guam earthquake 6.7 in Lalate St Louis. ABC news.

19 Sept 2014 – Guam police officer was charged with sexual assault. San Francisco Chronicle Hagatna Guam AP. Charged the police officer with misconduct and sexual assault.

30 Sept 2014 – Sydney Morning Herald. Sex abuse and rape threats. Nauru asylum seekers. Threats by guards. Sarah White. Michael Gordon. Detention centre.

12 Oct 2014 – Unions in Tonga threaten strikes over the cost of living. Radio NZ. Trade unions and public servants, Tonga strikes.

20 Oct 2014 – Crime syndicate busted, 9 people were charged with drugs and a gun. Involved in a drug syndicate which imported drugs from Papua New Guinea. Meth. Australian police, crime ring linked to cannabis in Queensland. (ABC Australia).

22 Oct 2014 – New Zealander, Labour MP Shane Jones becomes Nauru’s new High Commissioner to the small island state. Waatea news.com.

22 Oct 2014 – Papua New Guinea Bouganville government begins a missing persons policy. ICRC press release. Port Morsbey Red Cross, missing person cases.

23 Oct 2014 – NZ union backs charity educating Fiji workers. Radio NZ. A charity backed by NZ unions in Fiji workers struggle.

30 Oct 2014 – UN hears Fiji police brutality is not new. Radio NZ. Assault in police custody is not new in Fiji. Police corruption and brutality.

31 Oct 2014 – Corruption in Papua New Guinea. Crawford school of public policy. Australia national university.

31 Oct 2014 – Billy Ginger Hanson aged 9 who disappeared from Seattle US with his father is found. Daily Mail. Found on a remote island in the South Pacific 5,500 miles from home.

1 Nov 2014 – Australia to invest $8.8 million in Fiji. The Australian. Funds over 4 years. Australia new aid policy. Foreign minister Julie Bishop.

2 Nov 2014 – Quake hits off Fiji. Stuff.co.nz. 5.3 earthquake.

2 Nov 2014 – 6.9 earthquake off Tonga. ABC online. South Pacific west northwest of Tonga north east of Ndoi island in Fiji.

8 Nov 2014 – Earthquake Papua New Guinea 6.4 or 6.6 or 6.9. ABC Australia widely felt.

10 Nov 2014 – Australian riot police in the Solomon islands for elections. Radio NZ. More than 90 police were flown in to cover next weeks elections.

12 Nov 2014 – PNG police say corruption is widespread. Radio NZ. Papua New Guinea.15 MPs are currently under investigation.

13 Nov 2014 – Military news in the Pacific and Ukraine show Russia is back. The Australian. Convoy of Russian warships in international waters north of Australia. Jared Owens The Times UK. AFP.

17 Nov 2014 – Independent commission needed in Solomon islands to tackle corruption. ABC Australia.

1 Dec 2014 – Armed men held passengers captive, ransacked the offices of Papua New Guinea’s second largest airport. ABC Australia. Liam Cochrane. Nadzab airport, broke into a safe, the Air Niugini safe. The men escaped.

13 Dec 2014 – Missing people. Fiji Times. Increase in the number of people reported missing in Fiji in recent days.

22 Dec 2014 – Heroin found in Fiji $20 to $30 million worth of heroin was found in quad bike tyres. A man was arrested. Stuff.co.nz. Heroin found in quad bike tyres.

22 Dec 2014 – The Fiji Times online. Police FRCA raid uncovers $30 million worth of heroin. Timoci Vulc. Heroin hidden in a container. Tyres of a quad bikes, heroin consignment from China.

23 Dec 2014 – Fiji’s biggest heroin bust. Radio NZ $25 million worth at Fiji’s Latoka wharf, the largest heroin seizure in Fiji. One person was arrested. Fiji Sun online. Fiji Times. Businessman to appear in court, a 40 year old.

28 Dec 2014 – Democrat Akilisi Pohiva is Tonga’s new PM. Radio NZ. He was elected ‘by the parliament’ in Tonga.

30 Dec 2014 – Big volcanic eruption near Tonga’s capital. Michael Field. Stuff.co.nz.

31 Dec 2014 – New eruption at Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apei. Wired. Erik Klemetti.

2015 – Radiation is killing the Pacific. Fukushima Japan. Dr Apsley, videos on YouTube. Amazing discoveries. No date. TEPCO has been pumping contaminated water into the Pacific ocean. 1 Aug 2014. David Gutierrez. National news.

8 Jan 2015 – 11 people are missing at sea in Papua New Guinea. PNG Today. Three children are included. A search is underway.

23 Jan 2015 – Vanuatu 7 earthquake reported on Twitter.

24 Jan 2015 – Thousands protest in PNG over the police shooting of young man. Radio NZ. Hanuabada police HQ in PNG, police shooting of a young man.

31 Jan 2015 – Atomic nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. A British colony. Victims got compensation from Fiji. (Independent K. Rob Hastings.)

31 Jan 2015 – 1957 and 1958 British nuclear tests, Christmas island. Mirror UK. Susie Boniface.

5 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Toby Manhire. New Zealand spies on the Pacific for NSA’s Five Eyes says Edward Snowden.

13 March 2015 – Vanuatu in lockdown for cyclone Pam, superstorm, a category 5 storm. Cellphone and other networks down. Flooding and landslides. At 4pm trees were beginning to be uprooted. Cave systems in Tanna and Erremanga. People in the Solomons sheltered in caves. (Radio NZ int).

13 March 2015 – BBC UK Cyclone Pam news.

13 March 2015 – SBC Australia APP Flooding in Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu as cyclone Pam strengthens.

13 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Joshua Robertson. Cyclone Pam, a massive storm bearing down on Vanuatu. 260,000 people in its path. Port Vila in lockdown, a category 5 storm.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ int. State of emergency in Tuvalu. Cyclone Pam flooding washing away homes and damaging grave sites.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Cyclone Pam in the Solomon islands. People are seeking shelter in caves. Category 5 storm destroyed homes. Extensive damage to homes. Tikopia lost 90% of its food crops and fruit trees. Water is contaminated. All phone lines are down.

15 March 2015 – Newstalk ZB. New Zealand’s GCSB is targeting the Solomon islands PM’s inner circle. Dylan Moran. Cyclone Pam just hit the Solomon islands. People sheltered in caves.

19 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Mass immunisation in Vanuatu. Vaccines by UNICEF. 1,000 children vaccinated in the next ten days. They have already vacinated 1,000 children under 5, in the last 24 hours. 10,000 to be vaccinated in the next 10 days. Malnourished children with no food to eat.

30 March 2015 – RT 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea, near the Solomon islands. USGS.

30 March 2015 – Three undersea earthquakes near Niuatoputapu. Matangi Tonga. Three large quakes 6.8 and 6.4.

30 March 2015 – Earthquakes strike Samoa and Tonga. The Guardian UK. A series of quakes. Two size 6 quakes hit off Samoa's east. ABC online.

30 March 2015 – Daily Mail online UK. 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Tsunami, a small one. Aftershocks expected.

30 March 2015 – Times of India. AP Sydney. 7.7 earthquake Papua New Guinea. Tsunami warning issued. Only a small one. Aftershocks expected.

31 March 2015 – Tsunami warning after PNG hit by 7.5 quake aftershock. Arab news.

21 May 2015 – 6.9 earthquake in the Pacific. An undersea quake near Santa Cruz, Honiara Solomon islands. No tsunami warning was issued.

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Russia Cites 'Threats' as Nuclear Arsenal Boosted

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