Jul 25, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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 a ...
Continue ReadingJul 23, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Bloomberg: North Korea said it would counter U.S. and South Korean joint naval exercises with “nuclear deterrence†after the Obama administration said the government in Pyongyang shouldn’t take any provocative steps. North Korea will “legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the South Korean puppet ...
Continue ReadingJul 23, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- North Korea on Friday threatened the United States and South Korea with a "physical response" to planned weekend naval exercises as tensions with the communist nation rose in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the North. In Vietnam for a Southeast Asian regional security forum, ...
Continue ReadingJul 21, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Useless Sanctions Times: Reporting from Seoul, South Korea —Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced new U.S. sanctions against North Korea Wednesday focused on halting money-making schemes employed by the regime to fund its nuclear program. "These measures are not directed at the people of North Korea, who have suffered too long due to the misguided priorities ...
Continue ReadingJul 15, 2010 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Fox News: North Korea's health care system is in shambles, with doctors sometimes performing barbaric amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight for payment in cigarettes, in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said Thursday. North Korea's state health care system has been deteriorating for years amid the country's economic difficulties. ...
Continue ReadingJun 4, 2010 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
DoD: The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army Master Sgt. Roy E. Head of Clinchport, Va., ...
Continue ReadingMay 12, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea claimed Wednesday that its scientists succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction, but experts doubted the isolated communist country actually had made the breakthrough in the elusive clean-energy technology. Fusion nuclear reactions produce little radioactive waste — unlike fission, which powers conventional nuclear power reactors — and some hope ...
Continue ReadingMay 12, 2010 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Tokyo (AP) - - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday declared North Korea, Syria and Iran the new axis of evil, claiming that North Korean weapons seized in Bangkok in December were bound for Middle Eastern militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Lieberman said during a visit to Japan that the three countries are cooperating and pose ...
Continue ReadingMay 11, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday accused nuclear power North Korea of supplying Syria with weapons of mass destruction. Lieberman's office quoted him as telling Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at a meeting in Tokyo that such activity threatened to destabilise east Asia as well as the Middle East. "The cooperation between Syria ...
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Israeli Defense Minister: No Obama Threat To Nuclear Reactor, Israel To Maintain Nuclear “Ambiguity”
May 11, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Jerusalem Post: Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated Tuesday that there is no reason to fear any change in US policy regarding the Dimona reactor. When asked in an Army Radio interview if it was possible that Washington would agree to inspection of the reactor by International Atomic Energy Agency observers, Barak said that during his recent visit ...
Continue ReadingApr 30, 2010 86 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
EU Times: A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s Hyundai ...
Continue ReadingMar 29, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea may have deliberately directed an underwater mine toward the South Korean naval ship that exploded and sank three days ago near a disputed maritime border, the defense minister told lawmakers Monday. Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said military authorities have not ruled out North Korean involvement in the sinking of ...
Continue ReadingMar 26, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Earlier Friday, North Korea's military threatened "unpredictable strikes," including a nuclear attack, in anger over a report that South Korea and the U.S. were preparing for possible instability in the totalitarian country. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Military officials say a South Korean navy ship has sunk off an island not far from North Korea. An official ...
Continue ReadingDec 8, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Obama's Special Envoy Stephen Bosworth, the man who won't come even close to saving the world or keeping it safe for America SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - An envoy dispatched by President Barack Obama launched a mission Tuesday to coax North Korea to rejoin international talks on ending its nuclear programs amid warnings of strong ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2009 34 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration. You'll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it's easy to set up, and if you'd rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up ...
Continue ReadingSep 7, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Washington Post: Just over two years ago Barack Obama triggered the first and most enduring foreign policy debate of the presidential campaign when he was asked whether he would "be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba ...
Continue ReadingSep 3, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday that it was in the final stage of enriching uranium, a process that would give it a second path to making a nuclear weapon. After a series of conciliatory gestures by the North over the past month, the announcement raises the stakes in efforts by the international community ...
Continue ReadingAug 31, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
IBD Editorials: North Korean arms bound for the Islamic Republic of Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions were intercepted, but Tehran will still be the first nuclear terror regime. No wonder Dick Cheney wanted to attack. The United Arab Emirates' seizure of a French-owned ship transporting 10 containers of North Korean-made explosives, rocket-launched grenades and other arms ...
Continue ReadingAug 28, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo of North Korean weapons being shipped to Iran, which would have violated a U.N. embargo on arms exports from the communist state, Western diplomats said on Friday. The weapons seized on Aug. 14 included rocket launchers, detonators, munitions and ammunition for rocket-propelled ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 22 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Missouri post at the top of the Featured Stories is a perfect example. ACTIVISTS are travelling all across the country on special operations. We are meeting and planning with resistance leadership throughout the union. We are working behind the scenes in ACTIVE planning for the broader strategy needed for the next ...
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