North Korea Nuclear Standoff

[somethingfunny]

:uarrow:

Just been reported that Kim Jong Il has pardoned them and ordered their release.

Maybe all he wanted was a friend and a shoulder to cry on?

[x-y-no]

:uarrow:

Just been reported that Kim Jong Il has pardoned them and ordered their release.

Maybe all he wanted was a friend and a shoulder to cry on?

I'd say all he wanted was attention.

[Stephanie]

:uarrow:

Just been reported that Kim Jong Il has pardoned them and ordered their release.

Maybe all he wanted was a friend and a shoulder to cry on?

I'd say all he wanted was attention.

Probably, but I'm just glad that the reporters are back safe and sound.

[vbhoutex]

To the NK it is a huge media coup. I have to stop there or ban myself.

[cycloneye]

To the NK it is a huge media coup. I have to stop there or ban myself.

Pure propaganda,but I too stop.

[MGC]

Clinton will likely hit on the released reporters...wait till he gets them on the plane. About two years ago I got to see Bill live in Vegas. We were having a work gathering at the Las Vegas Hilton and good ole Bill was the guest speaker. All he did was talk about how great Hillary is. Anyway I'm glad those two got released.....MGC

[cycloneye]

Both are freed and are flying to the U.S.



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08 ... urnalists/

[cycloneye]

North Korea sends mixed signals.They will join the talks but at the same time they will activate a nuclear plant.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33183640/ns ... iapacific/

[Ptarmigan]

You can't trust North Korea.

[Cryomaniac]

You can't trust North Korea.

I'm not sure anyone does.

[cycloneye]

North Korea Tests two short-range missiles

Here we go again!



(SEOUL, South Korea) —Yonhap news agency says that North Korea has fired two short-range missiles off its east coast.

Yonhap quoted an unidentified South Korean government official as saying that the North test-fired the missiles on Monday afternoon.

Yonhap said the North has issued a no-sail zone in an area off the east coast Oct. 10-20.

The report came hours after South Korea proposed two sets of working-level talks with North Korea. But Seoul also said it had no plan to resume high-level dialogue with its communist neighbor — amid lingering tensions over the North's nuclear weapons programs.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ ... 68,00.html

[cycloneye]

The recarnation of the Korean war?



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573527,00.html

SEOUL, South Korea — The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South Korean military officials said.

There were no South Korean casualties, the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, and it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties on the North Korean side. Each side blamed the other for violating the sea border.

The clash — the first of its in kind in seven years — occurred as U.S. officials said President Barack Obama has decided to send a special envoy to Pyongyang for rare direct talks on the communist country's nuclear weapons program. No date has been set but it would be the first one-on-one talks since Obama took office in January. Obama is due in Seoul next week.

"It's a regrettable incident," South Korean Commodore Lee Ki-sik told reporters in Seoul. "We are sternly protesting to North Korea and urging it to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents."

North Korea's military issued a statement blaming South Korea for the "grave armed provocation," saying its ships crossed into North Korean territory.

The North claimed that a group of South Korean warships opened fire but fled after the North's patrol boat dealt "a prompt retaliatory blow." The statement, carried on the official Korean Central News Agency, said the South should apologize.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who convened an emergency security meeting, ordered his defense minister to strengthen military readiness.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that a North Korean patrol boat crossed the disputed western sea border around 11:27 a.m. (0227 GMT), drawing warning shots from a South Korean navy vessel. The North Korean boat then opened fire and the South's ship returned fire before the North's vessel sailed back toward its waters, the statement said.

The clash occurred near the South-held island of Daecheong, about 120 nautical miles off the port city of Incheon, west of Seoul, the statement said.

The North Korean ship was seriously damaged in the skirmish, a Joint Chiefs of Staff officer said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy. Prime Minister Chung Un-chan told lawmakers the ship was enveloped in flames when it fled north, according to Yonhap news agency.

[cycloneye]

North Korea looks for nuclear free peninsula

A change in their posture from the past hard line position.Is this genuine or is only talk?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34646352/ns ... iapacific/

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea reaffirmed its commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula in a New Year's message Friday, brightening the prospect that Pyongyang may rejoin the stalled international talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons programs.

[cycloneye]

Koreas exchange shelling rounds

North Korea said it was only a drill.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiap ... index.html

[Cryomaniac]

Drill or not, it's not a sensible thing to do.

[vbhoutex]

N. Korea "ready to blow up S. Korea and US
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588342,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r4:c0.000000:b0:z5

[cycloneye]

South Korea fires torpedos towards North Korea

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36052055/ns ... iapacific/



South Korea is investigating whether a naval ship sinking off the west coast of the peninsula was hit by a torpedo fired by the North.

The 1,500-ton vessel, which had more than 100 people on board, started sinking between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. local time (8 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET) near the island of Baengnyeong in the Yellow Sea. There were unconfirmed reports it had already sunk.

South Korean broadcaster SBS said many sailors were feared dead. A rescue operation was under way.

The South Korean Yonhap news agency reported that the South Korean navy subsequently fired at an unidentified ship in the direction of North Korea.

[Cryomaniac]

This could be big news.

[cycloneye]

South Korean ship sinks but no North Korean involvment.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36052055/ns ... iapacific/

[artist]

it won't be clear what caused the explosion until the ship is examined. "But at this point, all three scenarios — missile attack, internal explosion, torpedoes — are possible causes."