Kim terms US biggest enemy , calls to develop more nuclear weapons to combat hostility
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January 9, 2021
Seoul, Jan 9: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the United States the biggest enemy of his country and vowed to advance the nuclear arsenal of his country unless the US ended what he called its hostility to his regime, reported state media. Washington s policy against Pyongyang won t change regardless of who is in the White House, adding that an end to its hostile stance will be the key to future relations between the two countries, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Kim on Friday speaking at the eighth congress of the ruling Workers Party.
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Counting the cost 2020: A year of climate breakdown (December 2020)
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Report identifies ten extreme events, influenced by climate change, that each caused $1.5 billion damage or more.
Storm Ciara which struck UK and Europe in February cost $2.7 billion and killed 14 people.
Floods, windstorms, tropical cyclones and fires killed thousands of people across the globe.
A new report by Christian Aid,
Ten of those events cost $1.5 billion or more, with nine of them causing damage worth at least $5 billion. Most of these estimates are based only on insured losses, meaning the true financial costs are likely to be higher.
Among them is Storm Ciara which struck the UK, Ireland and other European countries in February costing $2.7 billion and killing 14. The UK s Environment Agency issued 251 flood warnings.
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The burden of weather disasters in 2020 fell disproportionately on the world s poorest nations SAEED KHAN Text size
The ten costliest weather disasters worldwide this year saw insured damages worth $150 billion, topping the figure for 2019 and reflecting a long-term impact of global warming, according to a report Monday.
The same disasters claimed at least 3,500 lives and displaced more than 13.5 million people.
From Australia s out-of-control wildfires in January to a record number of Atlantic hurricanes through November, the true cost of the year s climate-enhanced calamities was in fact far higher because most losses were uninsured.
Not surprisingly, the burden fell disproportionately on poor nations, according to the annual tally from global NGO Christian Aid, entitled Count the cost of 2020: a year of climate breakdown .