Archive for the ‘Nuclear’ Category
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea — Punching their fists into the air and shouting “Let’s crush them!” some 100,000 North Koreans packed Pyongyang’s main square Thursday for an anti-U.S. rally as the communist regime promised a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” for any American-led attack.
Several demonstrators held up a placard depicting a pair of hands smashing a missile with “U.S.” written on it, according to footage taken by APTN in Pyongyang on the anniversary of the day North Korean troops charged southward, sparking the three-year Korean War in 1950.
North Korean troops will respond to any sanctions or U.S. provocations with “an annihilating blow,” one senior official vowed — a pointed threat as an American destroyer shadowed a North Korean freighter sailing off China’s coast, possibly with banned goods on board.
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.
Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.
It seems like North Korea is getting a bit more aggressive. Read the story here.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea’s massive stockpile of chemical weapons is as threatening as its nuclear program, analysts said Thursday, highlighting an aspect of the secretive regime’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction that is rarely talked about.
Adding to already high tensions in the region, a Japanese report said North Korea may fire its most advanced ballistic missile toward Hawaii around Independence Day — the day when the regime test-fired a long-range missile three years ago, though it failed seconds after liftoff.
A new missile launch — though not expected to reach U.S. territory — would be a brazen slap in the face of the international community, which punished North Korea with new U.N. sanctions for conducting a second nuclear test on May 25 in defiance of a U.N. ban.
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III told Congress yesterday that the Obama administration is exploring ways to involve two Russian radar installations in a missile-defense system for Central Europe.
The comment raised new doubts about whether the administration would stick with its predecessor’s plan to put U.S. interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic, which has been coolly received by Russia and some in Europe.
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – North Korea is unlikely to respond militarily to planned U.N. sanctions for its nuclear test, although the possibility should not be completely dismissed, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.
The draft U.N. Security Council resolution, written by the United States and endorsed by the four other permanent members plus Japan and South Korea, aims to hit the North’s meager overseas finances and could be voted on by as early as Friday.
“I don’t think that there has been a commensurate change in the posture of the North Korean military that would suggest an attempt to undertake operations,” Gates told reporters as he arrived in Brussels for a meeting of NATO Defense ministers.
But he said Pyongyang was so unpredictable that it was probably “not wise” to dismiss out of hand North Korean threats of military action.
A Russian foreign ministry source, quoted by Itar-Tass news agency, took a similar line, stating: “The resolution is being adopted in order to solve the problem, and not to whip up the situation.
“We don’t expect any actions to follow, including from North Korea, that would lead to an escalation of tension.
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