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SEOUL (ANP/RTR) - De Noord-Koreaanse leider Kim Jong-un wil dat zijn land een "absolute superioriteit" in dronetechnologie verwerft. Dat zei hij bij een tentoonstelling en wapendemonstratie, meldt staatspersbureau KCNA vrijdag. Geavanceerde kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) in onbemande wapensystemen moet volgens Kim de hoogste prioriteit krijgen.

Bij de demonstratie werden onder meer zelfmoorddrones, kruisraketten en meervoudige raketwerpers ingezet. Het Zuid-Koreaanse leger meldde donderdag dat Noord-Korea ongeveer tien projectielen had afgevuurd, waaronder ballistische korteafstandsraketten.

Kim dringt al langer aan op de ontwikkeling van drones en AI voor het leger. In november 2024 gaf hij opdracht tot massaproductie van zelfmoorddrones.

Volgens de Zuid-Koreaanse inlichtingendienst stuurde Noord-Korea sinds oktober 2024 ruim 16.000 militairen naar Rusland. Zij deden in de oorlog tegen Oekraïne onder meer ervaring op met droneoorlogvoering.

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The invasive species has increased in spread and numbers and is costing farmers millions of dollars

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An unpublished government report on feral deer shows Australia is failing in its efforts to stop the spread of what one advocate warns could become “Australia’s next feral pig”.

The five years from 2020-2025 over which the national feral deer action plan was assessed covers a period in which the famously elusive species has increasingly encroached upon major cities, leading to more frequent encounters – including a memorable occasion in which two men in various degrees of undress were fined after becoming lost in the bush when they were spooked by deer while nude sunbathing.

Are you rummaging about for bits of wire and pumpkin-coloured crêpe paper and wondering if a scorch-marked tea-towel will work as a devil’s cape for a nine-year-old? Spare a thought for the parents of Australian kids going to a fancy-dress party in 1887

Actually, don’t – their costumes were made by professional costumiers, befitting the hundreds of posh kids who sashayed into the lord mayoress’s fancy-dress ball for children at Adelaide town hall nearly 140 years ago. But their rare and incredibly detailed photos could provide some Halloween inspiration.

My happy place is a hushed archive reading room looking at objects. I was looking for copyright-free researching images for my latest book, Spooky Ladies, and silently squeed as these costume photos were delivered in a very long, narrow, custom-made heritage-green box by the good folk at the State Library of South Australia, packed tightly with more than 300 stiff “cabinet cards”, showing kids dressed as fairies, devils, astrologers, witches, and fortune tellers.

Vivian Beaumont theater, New York City

Unconvincing performances and an ill-fitting big stage make a retooled version of the classic courtroom drama feel like a missed opportunity

Given the current state of the US military brass, it makes some sense that audiences would want to drift back to an older, nobler idea of the armed services, in which bad actors exist but are rooted out by the good guys in uniform. That perhaps explains the Broadway revival of A Few Good Men, Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 courtroom drama about a cocky military attorney defending two young marines who followed an illegal order with fatal results. The play is at once sharp and misty-eyed, critiquing a hallowed institution while reverently imbuing it with a certain dignity – in some ways, it does for the military what Sorkin’s The West Wing did for the Oval Office.

A Few Good Men was turned into a hit Oscar-nominated film in 1992, starring a then boyish Tom Cruise in the role of recalcitrant navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee and a frightening Jack Nicholson as Kaffee’s ultimate enemy, Colonel Jessep, the hardliner in command of the US military base at Guantánamo Bay, where a marine has died under troubling circumstances. Directed by Rob Reiner, the film is a clever, old-fashioned crowd pleaser, culminating in a classic trial scene punctuated by an iconic line. “You can’t handle the truth!”, Jessep memorably bellows at Kaffee just before confessing to his misdeeds. Those in search of crackling drama and sentimentality about the military should just watch that film, rather than plunking down a considerable sum of money to see the play in its current form at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont theater.