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Claim: US Ambassador Julie Chung Has Been Recalled To Washington !! (Social Media Users, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Message for U.S. Citizens: U.S. Embassy Has Returned to Normal Staffing [...] U.S. Citizens: We have been reading the questions you have been asking on social media about our services and our consular section is here with answers! This has been a long and difficult journey and we appreciate your patience as we work our way back. Please visit our website for more information: https://go.usa.gov/x6QfC [...] JUNE 15, 2021 STATEMENTS AND RELEASES WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals – including four career members of the Senior Foreign Service – as ambassadors to represent the United States on the world stage: Julie Chung, Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Democratic Socialist Republic of …
Claim: US Ambassador Julie Chung Has Been Recalled To Washington !! (Social Media Users, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-02-16): Cooperation with the United States is also vital. During its first two years, the Biden administration did not take significant steps to draw attention to North Korea’s human rights. This stood in sharp contrast to the administration’s vocal condemnation of human rights violations in China, as well as Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine. On January 23, the White House finally appointed Julie Turner—the director of the Office of East Asia and the Pacific in the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor—as the nominee for the special envoy on North Korean human rights. This position, created by the U.S. North Korean Human Rights Act, had remained vacant since Ambassador King stepped down in January 2017. This could indicate that the Biden administration is moving toward a more proactive approach on human rights issues in North Korea. [...] In line with Victor Cha’s recommendations, Seoul should work closely with Washington to craft a comprehensive strategy that fosters positive-sum dynamics between human rights and nuclear issues. Last month, there were reports that Seoul was "pushing for the resumption of bilateral consultations with the United States on the North Korean human rights problem."[23] Ambassador Lee Shin-wha is a highly capable expert with a deep understanding of both the UN and the United States, and she will be able to play an important role in these efforts. Congress should move quickly to confirm Julie Turner as her counterpart, so that they can formulate and implement a bilateral strategy to address human rights issues in North Korea.
Claim: US Ambassador Julie Chung Has Been Recalled To Washington !! (Social Media Users, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2021-05-06): Meanwhile, State Department leaders like Julie Chung, the acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, her colleague Stacy Williams, chair of the Bureau’s Diversity Council, and Hood of the Near Eastern Affairs bureau continue to develop their own strategies to retain more diverse diplomats and help them rise. Both bureaus have instituted standardized questions for hiring and laid down an expectation that all diplomatic outposts would start diversity and inclusion councils. Chung and Williams have built programs for retention and professional development at different career levels, from welcoming incoming diplomats to pairing midcareer officers with more senior mentors who can help them navigate the system. "Recruitment is the easy part," Chung said. "Retention and promotion to senior levels is still lacking and where we need to put in the work."
Claim: US Ambassador Julie Chung Has Been Recalled To Washington !! (Social Media Users, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Released on September 22, 2015 Deputy Chief of Mission Julie Chung will swear in 64 Americans as members of the ninth cohort of Peace Corps Cambodia volunteers during a special ceremony on Friday, September 25, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh. U.S. Ambassador-Designate William A. Heidt will deliver welcoming remarks. … [...] Released on July 10, 2015 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Royal Government of Cambodia will launch a new program to support persons with disabilities in Cambodia on July 13, 2015. U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Julie Chung and H.E. Sem Sokha, Secretary of State, Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans, and Youth Rehabilitation …
Claim: US Ambassador Julie Chung Has Been Recalled To Washington !! (Social Media Users, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-12-12): Recalling her journey from South Korea to USA with her parents at the age of five, Ambassador Chung said how she still possesses the memory of a weeping kid who was compelled to leave all her familiar friends, places and people as her parents wanted to migrate to the USA seeking a better life. [...] Joined the Foreign Service in 1996 in the first cohort of the Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship program Ambassador Chung who previously served as principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs was also the director for the Japan Desk and acting deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister Counsellor, she has served as deputy chief of mission in Cambodia and economic counsellor in Thailand. Other overseas assignments include Baghdad, Bogotá, Guangzhou, Tokyo and Hanoi. While working in the Office of Korean Affairs in Washington, D.C., she frequently travelled to North Korea to implement the U.S.–North Korea Agreed Framework. [...] Ambassador Chung recalled how she and her husband hopped on a train from Colombo Fort to go to Anuradhapura. Ï was pregnant with my son when I climbed Sigiriya during that trip. So, when I got the list of countries that I could choose to be posted as Ambassador, my husband was also really excited about this country. He’s from an island called Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. So he liked to live in an island. I like the people here. Since I don’t have any allergies and can eat lots of spices I enjoy Sri Lankan food.
Claim: US Ambassador Julie Chung Has Been Recalled To Washington !! (Social Media Users, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2022-11-09): Television anchorwomen Julie Chen and Connie Chung are known to millions of viewers, while television chef Martin Yan also has written more than two dozen cookbooks. Noted architect I.M. Pei designed the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Chinese-Americans are well represented in the fashion industry by Vivienne Tam and Vera Wang. But it is in the field of sports that Chinese-Americans have emerged in force, with world champion tennis player Michael Chang, gold medal Olympic gymnast (1996) Amy Chow, world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan, and the National Basketball Association’s first international number one draft pick, Yao Ming. [...] Contact your nearest embassy or call 1-888-407-4747 (U.S./Canada) or +1-202-501-4444 (overseas)
Claim: US Ambassador Julie Chung Has Been Recalled To Washington !! (Social Media Users, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2024-09-10): The JVP/NPP manifesto is open in its support for India, declaring the party would not allow the use of Sri Lankan "land, sky or the sea for any activity that will threaten the region, including India." With India a crucial US strategic partner in the military encirclement of China, the JVP is lining up with Washington. JVP leaders have held several closed-doors meetings with Julie Chung, the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and senior US officials during the past two years.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2020-11-23): Our fact check reveals that the image of the German soldier in a World War II uniform, carrying a modern mobile phone was actually taken during the filming of a six-part mini-series called Bohéma about the film industry in Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1953 in the year 2016.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2022-10-21): Often these are older phones, already used by the soldier or some relative, or donated by a supportive citizen volunteer. Perhaps it is a brand-new phone from cheaper Chinese and South Korean manufacturers bought at a shining technology store in Kyiv or a regional capital, with an explicit purpose as the soldier’s communication "war horse" that will carry the burden of many information-related tasks. Sometimes it may be bought at a tiny, crammed phone store, a sort of kiosk selling new and used devices, in the midst of a bazaar in the soldier’s hometown or a similar tiny town in the vicinity of the front. [...] Soldiers used phones to watch films and series, play games (such as mobile versions of chess that could also be played as a boardgame, pictured in Fig. 9), listen to music, watch TV and receive news on the frontline. This was also stimulated by the systematic TV signal jamming from the Russian side (reportedly up to 15 km deep). Poor connection stimulated use of torrents that allow downloading about one hour worth of content a day even with unstable connection.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2024-01-01): In the 1980s, the U.S. military began looking for ways to update its battlefield communications network. Challenges faced by Soldiers on the ground during early Cold War-era conflicts in Korea and Vietnam had exposed shortcomings in the force’s terrestrial radio system. The Army needed a replacement that offered enhanced range, better error correction, data capability, and the ability to automate call routing and switching, which would allow signal operators to manage more users at once. A massive research effort yielded the first major leap in field communications since the World War II crystal radio—Mobile Subscriber Equipment or MSE, the precursor to the modern mobile phone.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2018-04-21): Despite the fact that soldiers are officially forbidden from using private mobile devices on the front lines, most of them still do. As one Ukrainian army soldier told us: [...] In this paper we offer an account of the role mobile tech- nologies play for soldiers and civilians involved in or affected by an armed conflict. Such an in situ investiga- tion carried out on both sides of the frontline helps us understand the mundane social practices at war and how they are shaped by technological devices and infrastruc- tures, civilian as well as military ones. Though the con- flict has changed, becoming more organized and formalized over time, the soldiers continued to rely on local volunteers for sweaters in winter and legal advice when in trouble. From the beginning, private mobile phones were a key infrastructure in this war. Existing in parallel with the army communication infrastructure, private mobiles allowed soldiers to link with different actors in civil society. As the war unfolded soldiers pre- dictably used mobile media in creative ways for infor- mation gathering and even local enemy negotiations but they also relied on these devices to relieve the boredom of active duty. This continued despite the fact that these devices critically endangered them when in use.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2012-12-04): The Cell Phone in War [...] I don't know what to say about this photograph aside from suggesting that an enterprising PhD student write a dissertation on "Cell Phones in War." How are fighting, killing, and controlling territory different when you can call your brother after battle, post a photo of your squadron on the march to Facebook, or play Angry Birds between skirmishes? [...] Machine gun in right hand. Cell phone in left. On duty on the gun-truck's machine gun, at 80 miles an hour into Aleppo, checking messages along the way.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2023-01-31): The universal adoption of smartphones, as well as social media, has revolutionized the dynamics of surveillance, especially in theater. Social media requires few intermediaries, meaning that members of the armed forces can—and do—use smartphones to participate in online dialogue without oversight. More data—such as locations, and information about habits, health, relationships, religious beliefs, and more—is being generated and shared than ever before. Although militaries often instruct soldiers in the field not to utilize personal phones, the rules are regularly ignored. [...] Militaries need to adapt to the realities of an era in which smartphone and social media use by soldiers is inevitable. Proactively understanding specific vulnerabilities associated with the ecosystem of data collected by apps running on soldier’s smartphones could help identify which apps are particularly good (or particularly bad) at protecting data that might be of interest to military adversaries. [...] Despite their troubling vulnerabilities, smartphones on the battlefield do enable immense tactical opportunities. A key challenge for modern militaries lies in maximizing the benefits of the extraordinary communications and computational capacity of current and next-generation smartphones while sufficiently mitigating the equally extraordinary cyber and intelligence risks involved in their use.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2021-06-03): Surgery on the battlefield: Mobile surgical units in the Second World War and the memoirs they produced [...] MSUs were not the only type of mobile unit in the Second World War. Field transfusion units, for example, were often co-located with MSUs, and malaria forward treatment units allowed men to recover and return to their units without the delay that was inevitable with evacuation to a base hospital. [...] Second World War mobile surgical units medical memoir literature
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2022-04-21): Mobile phones have captured much revealing and distressing footage of how the war is unfolding in Ukraine, but the technology is also being utilised by both Russia and Ukraine to eke out a military advantage. The devices, whether they are the latest smartphone or older phones capable of just calls and texts, will be in the pockets of many Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, allowing each side to track the movements of opposition troops.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2020-04-25): The EE-8 field telephone was used by the US Military from 1935 into the Vietnam War. It used a wired line with a maximum transmission distance of 7 miles. The EE-8 uses D cell batteries to power the electric signal that carries the signal through the wire to the other phone. It has a hand-cranked dynamo to generate the charge that rings the phone on the other end of the line. The case is leather, with fabric insulation covering the cord for the receiver. During World War II the phone was preferred to the radio, and the EE-8 was much more reliable than the backpack mounted Walkie-Talkie (SCR-300) and the Handy-Talkie (SCR-536). The phone line, which could be run through a switchboard from a command center, was often run by soldiers during combat situations.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2020-07-13): This photo has been shared online with the claim that it showed an 1930s-1940s German soldier using a modern mobile telephone. It does indeed show a man in an 1930s-1940s German soldier uniform on a modern telephone but the photo was not taken during the Second World war, it was taken in 2016. [...] From deep in the Czech photo archives, finally proof of the rumor that a few German soldiers were issued prototype iPhones in the last years of WWII. However, due to the limited number of repeating towers, "low bars" was a constant problem."
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2022-11-22): 1943 War Photo Allegedly Shows Time Traveler Using A Cellphone [...] A 1940s wartime picture has sparked a debate online after some claimed it shows a man holding a mobile phone to his ear and may be evidence that time travel is real. [...] Another such photo was a picture taken on a beach in Cornwall, England, in September 1943, which shows a man in a brown suit looking at an item in his hands that appeared to resemble a mobile phone.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2023-12-31): In the current war, which includes intense urban warfare with Hamas combatants hiding amongst civilians, booby trapped buildings, a simultaneous hostage search, and Hamas fighters disguised as civilians or hostages themselves, such ease of communication can mean the difference between life or death for IDF units. "Soldiers use cellular devices from deep within the Gaza Strip to have encrypted conversations with other soldiers in the field, with various bases or headquarters. This helps those at headquarters or other bases gain a clearer picture of the situation and give orders to soldiers in the field," says Ofri. The phone also allows soldiers, many of whom have been in Gaza for months at a time with no reprieve, to have some communication with the outside world, allowing soldiers to listen to their children’s weddings or circumcision ceremonies via the device. [...] Before the development of the smartphone in 2018, the military used a cell phone developed in the early 2000s called "Mountain Rose." They discontinued Mountain Rose about five years ago when the army shifted to using the current smartphone. Before Mountain Rose, the IDF used radios for communication, and before that, carrier pigeons, immortalized in novelist Meir Shalev’s story "A Pigeon and a Boy" about a Haganah pigeon carrier during the 1948 War of Independence.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2022-11-18): Facebook convinced time travel is real after ‘cellphone’ spotted in WWII pic [...] Sleuths on Facebook have spotted an odd-looking fellow in a black-and-white 1940s photograph where he appears to be using a device way too high-tech for the decade. [...] But this man isn’t in army fatigues. Instead, he stands out for wearing a lightly colored trench coat while holding his hand close to his ear as a modern-day cellphone user would.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2024-09-20): Technology during World War II Technology played a significant role in World War II. Some of the technologies used during the war were developed during the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s, much was developed in response to needs and lessons learned during the war, while others were beginning to be developed as the war ended. Many wars have had major effects on the technologies that we use in our daily lives, but World War II had the greatest effect on the technology and devices that are used today. Technology also played a greater role in the conduct of World War II than in any other war in history, and had a critical role in its outcome. [...] Only a handful of French tanks had radios, and these often broke as the tank lurched over uneven ground. German tanks were, on the contrary, all equipped with radios, allowing them to communicate with one another throughout battles, whilst French tank commanders could rarely contact other vehicles.
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2020-08-09): Just under 80 years ago, World War II’s so-called Forgotten Army — the British soldiers who fought alongside Allied Forces in India and Myanmar, also known as Burma, at the tail end of the war — turned to new technology for morale and much-needed social connections during the war. Their experiences show us just how valuable screen time can be, even if imperfect. [...] Watching the films, patterns emerge. Army personnel talk about chasing the Japanese out of Myanmar while using the racist pejorative common to the time. Upper lips remain resolutely stiff, soldiers declare, "As you can see, I’m well," and thank their families for their letters. Many reel their missive off by heart as it might appear on the page: "I am" instead of "I’m," signing off with "All love, Harry." Unaccustomed to the alien technology, others choke in front of the camera, stuttering in embarrassment: "Oh, blimey … I’m sorry, I’m a little bit st-stagestruck."
Claim: Is This A Soldier Using A Modern Mobile Phone During World War II? Check Out The Truth… (Social Media Users, 2020-11-23)
Evidence (2024-06-16): Wireless Communications of the German Army in World War II During World War II, the German Army relied on an diverse array of communications to maintain contact with its mobile forces and in particular with its armoured forces. Most of this equipment received the generic prefix FuG for Funkgerät, meaning "radio device". Occasionally the shorted Fu designation were used and there were exceptions to both these systems. Number ranges were not unique across the services so sometimes different equipment used by different services had the same FuG prefix. This article is a list and a description of the radio equipment. [...] UHF Communication Link Equipment [edit]From 1936 the German forces started deploying a range of communication links using UHF frequencies to form a point-to-point mesh communication network. During the war this was extended to cover the majority of the occupied areas or Europe and North Africa. Both the army and the air force made use of the same equipment. The units of the T series were "backpack"-style mobile equipment. The K series were truck mobile units using a range of masts up to approximately 11 m tall. The G series were still mobile but were intended to form more of a backbone for communications and were intended to remain in place for longer periods than the K. They again used a series of masts up to 50 m high. Depending on the set a range of communication facilities were available consisting of voice and/or teletype and Hellscriber. Range was line-or-sight so the ranges reported here were assuming the antenna could "see" one another.[4][5]