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Japan confirms DPRK launched missile

By   /  May 18, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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ANI Japanese government confirmed the DPRK’s missile launches on Saturday, saying none of the missiles have landed in Japan’s territorial waters, Kyodo news agency reported. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that the DPRK launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, citing the country’s defense ministry. It is reported [...]

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US, China agree on North Korea denuclearisation

By   /  April 28, 2013  /  News, Politics, World  /  No Comments

US, China agree on North Korea denuclearisation

Oman Tribune The United States and China agreed on Saturday to make a joint effort to push for the peaceful denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, following weeks of bellicose rhetoric from North Korea and rising tensions in northeast Asia. US Secretary of State John Kerry met China’s top leaders in a bid to persuade them [...]

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North Korea demands recognition as nuclear weapons state

By   /  April 23, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Al Arabiya North Korea demands to be recognized as a nuclear weapons state, a state newspaper reported on Tuesday, in a defiant show of the country refusing to agree to U.S. conditions on their nuclear arms. The North’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper rejected the U.S. and South Korean condition “as groundless and unacceptable” that it agrees [...]

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North Korea moves two more missile launchers: Report

By   /  April 21, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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AFP | TOI North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, a report said Sunday. Expectations had been high that Pyongyang would carry out a test to coincide with celebrations marking the birth of North Korea’s late founding leader Kim [...]

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North Korean reveals cannibalism is common after escaping starving state

By   /  April 17, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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A North Korean man living in Australia has claimed that human flesh is served up to eat in the country’s third largest city.

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U.S. military Black Hawk crashes near North Korea border

By   /  April 16, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Al Arabiya Amid heightened military tensions within the Korean peninsula, a U.S. military helicopter crashed Tuesday near the North Korean border with no apparent casualties, officials said. The helicopter was reportedly taking part in a joint South Korea-U.S. drill, officials said, as reported by AFP news agency. In what a U.S. official described the crash as [...]

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North Korean EMP Attack ‘Unstoppable’

By   /  April 15, 2013  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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By F. Michael Maloof | WND If North Korea were to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on the United States, it could use a long-range missile to orbit a satellite over the South Pole, putting it in line to fly over Omaha, Neb., and explode it at a 300-mile altitude where U.S. Aegis anti-ballistic missile systems [...]

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Has North Korea crossed a line to mass suicide?

By   /  April 15, 2013  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

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By David Ignatius | The Daily Star One unlikely benefit of the North Korea crisis is that the world may be getting fed up with the country’s pugnacious young leader, Kim Jong Un. In his belligerent talk of war, Kim appears to have crossed a line, upsetting traditional allies such as China and Russia as well as the United States and South [...]

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US missile destroyers, anti-ballistic missile system in position

By   /  April 14, 2013  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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By Alexie Villegas Zotomayor | Marianas Variety The United States continues to remain vigilant in the wake of North Korea’s ratcheting up its threats against U.S. allies and territories in the Pacific. The Pentagon has maintained its proactive approach in dealing with the North Korean war rhetoric as it deploys missile destroyers and a anti-ballistic [...]

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Analyst says that North Korea’s only exit is Missile launch

By   /  April 14, 2013  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

Japan to 'shoot down' North Korean rockets 'if it threatens nation's territory'

By Sandy Kim | WNT South Korea – Faced with aggravated allies and unblinking enemies, North Korea is likely to proceed on the current crisis by test-firing a missile or two and declaring victory ahead of a national celebration on Monday, analysts of the ECIPS (European Centre for Information Policy and Security) say. After several [...]

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False alarm in Japan to warn about N. Korea’s missile launch

By   /  April 13, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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VOR A false alarm has sounded in Japan for a third time since early this week to warn of North Korea’s ballistic missile launch, according to Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The Ministry points out the error was made at the Osaka airspace control centre, whose staff was about to ask nearby airports [...]

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North Korea threat: Japan to move Patriot missiles

By   /  April 12, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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ZeeNews Japan said on Friday it would deploy Patriot missiles in Okinawa permanently from this month as part of its efforts to boost defence capability amid concerns over North Korea’s missile threat. Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said his ministry would station Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) systems at two military bases in the southern Japanese [...]

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