US President Donald Trump secretly switched from Air Force One to a smaller US military aircraft after leaving last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, in an operation reportedly prompted by an “Iranian threat,” American outlets say.

According to a report by The Washington Post on Monday, Trump initially boarded an older-model Air Force One in Ankara in view of television cameras, while journalists and some White House staff members believed he would travel aboard the aircraft to Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom.

The Post cited material reviewed by the newspaper, a US official familiar with the operation, and another person with knowledge of Trump’s travel.

Secret aircraft switch

Minutes after boarding Air Force One, however, Trump and several aides were moved to a smaller Air Force C-32A, using an airport catering truck normally used to transport meals and supplies, the report added.

The truck was raised planeside and positioned at a door on the opposite side of the aircraft's main entrance.

The reporters, who believed they were traveling with Trump, were instructed to lower their window shades before takeoff. Trump then flew to Mildenhall aboard the C-32A.

The operation came as US forces were conducting large-scale unprovoked attacks on Iran.

The attacks breached both a ceasefire and a subsequent memorandum of understanding, which were meant to halt the cycle of escalation triggered by the American-Israeli aggression launched against Iran on February 28.

As Trump visited Turkey, the Iranian armed forces were delivering a firm retaliatory response to the violations by striking American interests in the region.

The New York Times and CBS News have previously reported that US intelligence officials had raised concerns at the time about a potential operation against Trump or his aircraft.

After arriving at Mildenhall, Trump was photographed disembarking from the presidential aircraft before boarding a new Qatar-provided plane for the remainder of his journey to Washington.

the wapo article https://archive.is/pJotY

Japan's Defense White Paper Is Reinvasion-minded One for Legalization of Operation of War Machine: International Security Analyst

Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Kang Won Chol, an international security analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article "Japan's defense white paper is a reinvasion-minded one for the legalization of the operation of war machine":

Japan has been rushing headlong into militarization, seized with an ambition for reinvasion. Against this backdrop, it issued the 2026 Defense White Paper.

In the white paper, being rejected as the one for aggression at home and abroad, Japan groundlessly described the DPRK and other neighboring countries as a "serious and imminent threat" and the "greatest strategic challenge" in order to justify its reckless arms buildup.

It is nothing but an act of turning black into white that Japan stipulated the "threat" from neighboring countries in the white paper although it has been putting spurs to the tightening of the alliance with the U.S. and its followers after setting it as a "state policy" to negate its past crimes and realize its ambition to become a military power.

As everybody knows, Japan, a war criminal state responsible for inflicting a great disaster upon the humankind in the first half of the 20th century, refuses to discard the militarist ambition for reinvasion in the face of all the political and legal restrictions, and have been heading for its conversion into a military power out of vengeance for its defeat for over 80 years. This poses an imminent and serious threat to the world at present.

Following the publication of the white paper, Defence Minister Koizumi stressed the need to beef up and renovate the military muscle with a sense of urgency and crisis in response to the escalating threats from the neighboring countries. This clearly shows how desperately he is pushing Japan into following an extremely dangerous road in the vanguard for militarization.

The reality proves that Japan's political climate and true colors characterized by an aggression gene remain unchanged and mutate into more dangerous forms with each passing day.

No matter how hard Japan tries to describe its real intention for aggression as "defense", it will never conceal its true colors as a root cause of endangering the peace and escalating the tensions in the region.

To build up in every way an overwhelming and powerful war deterrent for self-defence capable of containing and frustrating the enemy states' ambition for reinvasion and their attempt to unleash an aggressive war serves as an indispensable contribution to reliably defending the sovereignty of the country and maintaining the regional peace and stability.

Japan's frantic moves to turn itself into a war state and invasion-minded state will only further endanger Japan's future.

The international community should sharpen vigilance against Japan's neo-militarist move to seriously destroy the regional peace and security and turn itself into a more dangerous entity each day, and strongly condemn and reject it. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/d242566fdde21fbd57ee9c6a064fd74b

https://archive.is/WObjF

It was first reported that Asmongold was banned on August 6. He uploaded a video to youtube ~5 hours ago saying that his ban will last for 2 weeks. The youtube video has around 1 million views.

Pyongyang Hosiery Factory

Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- Choljuk-trademarked hosiery are popular among the DPRK people.

The hosiery produced by the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory are quality and smart. They are diverse in variety and shape.

The factory, which plays a big role in the production of consumer goods, is associated with the guidance of respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un who has worked heart and soul to provide the people with better daily necessities.

On August 6, 2014, he visited the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory and taught the issues arising in improving the quality of goods including the betterment of colors and patterns of hosiery as required by developing reality and the tastes of people, and in putting production on a normal basis.

The factory designed hundreds of kinds of hosiery suited to the tastes, likings and the characteristics of seasons, sexes and ages and perfected rational methods of dyeing different fibers, thus making the products diverse and multicolored.

It has developed and produced tens of kinds of hosiery like functional hosiery with strong antibiosis and good for absorption and exhalation of sweat. The number of expanded varieties reached more than 300 this year.

Choljuk-trademarked hosiery attracted attention of many people at the 16th Commodity Exhibition at Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 and the light industrial goods exhibition "Development of Light Industry-2025". And various products and production processes were registered as February 2 Goods and won the certification of quality control system.

The factory was selected as one of the ten best enterprises in 2024 and 2025

It was awarded rotating pennants and citations several times as it fulfilled the yearly national economic plans. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/dcb8f52637680b002e34635d6bcbc0de

https://archive.is/xjgQr

Hexbear users tend to like DPRK, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea. Pyongyang is the capital city of DPRK.

DPRK is heavily sanctioned and censored by the West. There is a lot of misinformation spread about DPRK, sometimes positive, sometimes negative. An example of positive misinformation would be all the twitter accounts making up fake Kim Jong Un quotes.

DPRK is communist and practices Juche.

There are websites hosted in DPRK that are accessible internationally. DPRK owns the .kp TLD. Every website that ends with .kp is hosted in DPRK.

Linking directly to websites hosted in DPRK could demystify the western perspective of DPRK. To combat western narratives, all posts on the comm should contain a link to a .kp website or archive of a .kp website.

The concept of the comm is simple. Visit a DPRK website, find something you like, post the link to the page on hexbear. Optionally screenshot the page or archive it with an archive website.

Hexbear has a China comm, so why not have a DPRK comm?

here's a current list of DPRK websites. https://archive.is/RT91h

These webpages tend to post new stuff daily, so the comm would never run out of content.

Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly called on the US government to cease uploading such posts, stating that "It’s inappropriate even for public institutions to reproduce copyrighted materials without the rightsholders’ consent." This concern was voiced by Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi in a parliamentary session back in April, when he made direct reference to a pro-war video that used Nintendo’s Wii Sports.

However, according to a report by Mainichi Shimbun this week, the Japanese Ministry called on the Trump administration to stop using IPs like Naruto, Pokémon and Mario at least twice more this June through the US Embassy in Japan. Japan requested that the US administration take into account the potential damage to these IPs when used without permission in US policy and pro-war related content.

https://archive.is/xDJgd (senate . gov)

Update From Senator Mitch McConnell

August 6, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued the following statement today:

“Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home. Elaine and I are grateful for the many well wishes and support from friends, colleagues, and Kentuckians, and for the attentive care I’ve received from excellent doctors, nurses, therapists, and hospital staff.

“On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period, and I’ll continue to engage with my staff and colleagues on important Senate business.”

https://xcancel.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2085433285602136467#m

“Massive attack coming… wait, never mind, they want to negotiate.”
That’s theater diplomacy on loop.

Using bullying + broken promises + fake news as leverage is a failed strategy.

Acknowledge the facts and fulfill your commitments. We don’t need more theater.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on U.S. Groundless "Theory of Cyber Threat"

Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on August 3 as regards the fact that the U.S. incited the atmosphere of denunciation against the DPRK to mislead public opinion about its "cyber threat":

The U.S. and its followers' "joint warning" about the "cyber threat" by the DPRK is nothing but a stereotyped political accusation with a sinister purpose to tarnish the image of our state.

The repeated malicious assertion of the member states of the multilateral sanctions monitoring team merely aims to spread false information devoid of credibility. Such assertion only brings to light the illegality of ghost mechanism the West organized of its own accord and the gravity of its moves for inter-camp confrontation, not a "threatening nature" by someone.

The dishonest forces are now turning the cyber space, which should contribute to peace and co-prosperity of mankind and progress and development of society, into a theatre of confrontation and veiled enmity to pursue their selfish purpose. And it is an undeniable fact that the U.S. should be blamed for it

The U.S., which was the first in the world to form a cyber command, is hell-bent on joint cyber drills including the Cyber Flag with its allies. And it also formed a military-industrial complex for cyber warfare to steadily expand and strengthen its cyber attack force.

The concept of cyber operation, which has been applied to every joint military drill frequently staged by the U.S. with its vassal forces, is by no means for "defense" but part of its war preparations to attain superiority in electronic information warfare and even in battlefields in contingency.

The U.S. moves to form an exclusive camp in IT field, openly asserting that AI is equivalent to nuclear weapons, are worsening the instability of cyberspace on a global scale and causing a new security crisis.

It is illogical that the U.S., which has possessed and operated the biggest cyber force in the world by monopolizing the core resources of cyber space, is talking about "cyber threat" from other countries. And it is a mere excuse for justifying its illegal policy on placing pressure on sovereign states.

The U.S. and other hostile forces' moves to establish hegemony in cyber space, a treasure common to mankind, with the "theory of cyber threat" fabricated with misinformation can never be tolerated.

The DPRK will never allow any politically- and ideologically-motivated attempt of the U.S. and other hostile forces to use the cyber issue as the means of criticism and pressure on other countries, and make steady and practical efforts to defend the security and development interests of the state in all domains. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/88e2c2a3487746298b9cab4b388da292

https://archive.is/EzJkY (kcna)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-says-us-led-cyber-threat-warnings-are-bid-smear-its-image-2026-08-03/