North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (front, C) and Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo (front, 3rd L) BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – China on Tuesday urged North Korea to follow through on its offer to allow U.N. nuclear monitors into the country as a way to alleviate international tensions during a standoff with the South. China, North Korea’s [...]
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s military staged live-fire drills from an island just miles (kilometers) from rival North Korea’s shores Monday, but Pyongyang said it would not strike back despite earlier threats to retaliate for the maneuvers. Seoul launched fighter jets, evacuated hundreds of people away from its tense land border with [...]
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) – A U.S. governor visiting North Korea has called for it to show maximum restraint to planned South Korean military drills and hopes the U.N. Security Council will deliver the same message in its emergency meeting, his office said. A frequent unofficial envoy to the reclusive country, New Mexico Gov. [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Beijing — The distant rumble of artillery practice in North Korea sent shell-shocked residents of Yeonpyeong Island scurrying to their bomb shelters Friday as a U.S. aircraft carrier cruised toward the region for military exercises this weekend. Although the explosions turned out to be training exercises inside North Korea, [...]
INCHEON, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s government held an emergency meeting Thursday on repercussions from a North Korean artillery attack as Washington and Seoul prepared for joint drills involving a U.S. nuclear-powered supercarrier. North Korea, meanwhile, lashed out at the United States and South Korea, warning of more “retaliation” if Seoul carries out any [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration sought to heighten the pressure on China to rein in North Korea, even as American officials said that they believe that Pyongyang’s deadly shelling of a South Korea military installation was an isolated incident and not the beginning of an extended military campaign. Admiral Mike Mullen, the [...]
Seoul (AP) – President Obama described North Korea’s attack Tuesday against a small South Korean island as a “provocative incident”.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP)– South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who convened an emergency security meeting shortly after the bombardment by North Korea, said that an “indiscriminate attack on civilians can never be tolerated.” “Enormous retaliation should be made to the extent that (North Korea) cannot make provocations again,” he said. North Korea bombarded a South [...]
BREAKING NEWS (AP) — North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets, military officials said. At least one South Korean marine reportedly was killed. The skirmish came amid high tension over North Korea’s [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of atomic bomb. [...]
The Telegraph: In Moscow’s bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin said tensions between the two countries were running at their highest and most dangerous level in a decade. “Tensions on the Korean Peninsula could not be any higher. The only next step is a conflict,” [...]
Washington Post: TOKYO – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will probably use an upcoming meeting of party elites to introduce his heir apparent, initiating the Stalinist dictatorship’s second hereditary power transfer, U.S. and South Korean experts and officials say. Kim’s youngest son, Kim Jong Eun, is widely expected to be given at least one [...]
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea’s military threatened Sunday to launch the “severest punishment” against South Korea for staging massive joint war games with the United States this week. The North’s army and people will “deal a merciless counterblow” to the allies “as it had already resolved and declared at home and abroad”, a spokesman for [...]
ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (AP) – A nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier led an armada of warships in exercises off the Korean peninsula Sunday that North Korea has vowed to physically block and says could escalate into nuclear war. U.S. military officials said the maneuvers, conducted with South Korean ships and Japanese observers, were intended to send [...]
