On the morning of June 9, 2006 10: 36, the mysterious earthquake wave around North Hamgyong Road in North Korea touched the whole world, and then the North Korean government officially announced that it had conducted a nuclear test. The world was shocked. North Korea's nuclear issue has a long history. The Bush administration adheres to the hostile policy towards North Korea, and defines North Korea as a "rogue state", "axis of evil" and "outpost of tyranny". In this regard, the North Korean government remains highly vigilant. Since Saddam Hussein's regime was overthrown, North Korea's sense of urgency has intensified. Therefore, the North Korean government took advantage of the American intervention in Iraq to accelerate the development of nuclear weapons and seek the ultimate guarantee of its own security. North Korea's brazen nuclear test explosion was universally opposed by the whole world. The United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 17 18, expressing "the most serious concern" about North Korea's nuclear test, and decided to take sanctions against North Korea. Is the security situation in Northeast Asia "avalanche"? The fact that the six-party talks aimed at denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula resumed after a lapse of 13 months gives the answer. Similar search: Iran's nuclear talks are tortuous and the prospects are unpredictable. On the third day of 2006, Iran announced that it had resumed uranium enrichment activities for more than two years. Since then, the entanglement surrounding the Iranian nuclear issue has not stopped. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad firmly believes that Iran is facing the best development opportunity in hundreds of years, and Iran continues to deal with big countries while insisting on "nuclear research".

Iraq: the most "expensive" war

Three years ago, ambitious American troops invaded Iraq; Three years later, the mired American army handed over such a list in blood shed: Death: more than 2,942 people. Number of injured: close to 20,000. Cost: over $350 billion. The end of the war is still far away, and the expenditure of the US military is increasing at the rate of $200 million per day. According to the latest report released by the Congressional Budget Office, in 20 10, the US war expenditure in Iraq will reach 500 billion US dollars, which will greatly exceed the Vietnam War, thus becoming the most expensive war that the United States has participated in since World War II. The "high cost" of this war is also reflected in the heavy price paid by the United States, the party and the Bush administration. In the mid-term elections, * * * and the Party lost control of both houses for the first time since 1994; Defense Secretary Rumsfeld resigned. The Bush administration, which had hoped to kill Zarqawi and hang Saddam Hussein, is seriously considering its new policy toward Iraq. Similar search: in 2006, the United States fell into a comprehensive predicament in the Middle East. The Palestinian-Israeli dispute has not yet been resolved, and the war in Lebanon has started again. King Jordan said: There is a danger of three civil wars in the Middle East. He was referring to Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon.

Latin American left wing: the fastest expansion

2006 is the "election year in Latin America", and presidential elections were held in 10 countries. The left-wing forces won a series of victories and won political power in seven countries, including Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Costa Rica. Among them, Ortega, an "anti-American fighter", was re-elected successfully in Nicaragua, and Chavez, known as the "happiest" in the United States, defeated the pro-American faction with an overwhelming advantage in the Venezuelan presidential election, pushing the expansion of the Latin American left to a climax in 2006. At this point, "three quarters of Latin American state power is in the hands of left-wing leaders." Today, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has fallen to the lowest point since the end of the Cold War, and the American neo-liberal model has been thrown into the abyss by most Latin American countries. In 1990s, American free market model was injected into Latin American countries. Today, Latin America is one of the regions with the most uneven distribution of wealth in the world, with more than 40% people living below the poverty line. Chavez and other left-wing leaders won the victory by implementing the poverty alleviation plan to provide the most basic living guarantee for the vast majority of poor people. Similar search: On June 6th, 2006, Liberian ellen johnson sirleaf was sworn in as the first elected female president in Africa. Grandmothers with six grandchildren need to build a country that ranks among the least developed countries in the world, with unemployment and illiteracy rates as high as 80%.

Oil price: close to $80, the highest in history

The oil price, which began to rise in 2004, strengthened in 2005 and reached its peak in 2006. Go up, go up, go up. From June to August 2006, the international oil price climbed all the way, and the crude oil futures price once approached the $80 mark. According to the data of the International Monetary Fund, the international average oil price in 2006 was $69.2 per barrel, which was nearly 30% higher than that in 2005. Although the oil price hovers around $60 per barrel, the factors that push up the oil price still exist: strong demand from major oil importing countries, manipulation of the oil market by international financial oligarchs, geopolitical turmoil such as the Iranian nuclear issue, and terrorist attacks on oil production facilities. Similar search: the world economy developed well in 2006. The world economic growth rate is expected to reach 5. 1%, but the global economic imbalance has not been alleviated, and the Doha Round negotiations have been completely suspended.

Lively space: welcoming the first female tourist

More than 30 years ago, Anousheh Ansari, an American businesswoman, was a girl who was fascinated by the characters in sci-fi TV series. They can fly from one planet to another in an instant. More than 30 years later, in 2006, Ansari took off on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and stayed on the International Space Station for 10 days, becoming "the first female space tourist in the world" and "the first female Muslim to go into space". Similar search: in 2006, space was a bit lively: the probe launched by human beings brought the comet dust sample back to Earth for the first time; Brazilians realized their space dream for the first time; The controversial Pluto was "expelled" and the number of planets of the solar system was reduced to 8; Europe's first lunar probe "Smart 1" successfully hit the moon.

Global warming: the most serious warning

"Siberia has been hit by an unprecedented heat wave", "new york is trying to keep Manhattan from being submerged" and "Tibetan glaciers are at risk of disappearing in the next century" ... This kind of news that appeared in the winter of 2006 has repeatedly reminded mankind who suffered from "hot water" in the summer of 2006 that global warming is accelerating. In southern Siberia, usually in June 5438+065438+ 10, migratory birds have flown away and mammals have hibernated. In June 2006, the forest was still full of disturbing sounds, and even dandelions and raspberries in some places had strange flowers. In September 2006, a study published by American scientists pointed out that the current global average temperature is approaching the highest value in a million years, with a difference of no more than 1 Celsius. The British environment minister warned that if we don't act quickly, the environmental disaster will cause more losses than the sum of the two world wars and the Great Depression in the 1930s. Similar search: in June 2006, the population of the United States, the world's largest energy consumer, exceeded 300 million. As the biggest polluter in the world, the amount of garbage produced per capita in the United States is three times the global average.