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The US has denounced North Korea for threatening a "sacred war" against the South, whose military has been holding live-fire drills near the border.
The state department's Philip Crowley told the BBC there was no justification for Pyongyang's "belligerent words".
In a day of rising tension, Seoul and Pyongyang traded strong rhetoric, with the South warning of a "powerful response" to any attack from the North.The US has denounced North Korea for threatening a "sacred war" against the... more
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CNN reported today that North Korea accepted the return of US inspectors on its soil in charge of overseeing its nuclear program in order to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula. This comes as a results of meetings held by New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who was accompanied by CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Blitzer made the following statement:
'The Democratic Republic of North Korea has agreed to authorize the IAEA's monitors to return to one of the country's nuclear sites, and has agreed to negotiate the sale of 12,000 new rods of fuel and their routing to a foreign country, most likely South Korea. The fuel rods could be enough to manufacture about six to eight nuclear weapons'.
Blitzer added that the DPRK also agreed to the creation of a military commission and the installation of a hot line between the two Koreas and the United States.CNN reported today that North Korea accepted the return of US inspectors on its soil... more
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Defense Ministry: South Korea starts live-fire drill
By the CNN Wire Staff
December 20, 2010 12:51 a.m. EST
South Korea's planned live-fire military exercises have started, according to the country's ministry of defense.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Residents on five islands are told to take cover
* North Korea says the drill could ignite a war
* No agreement is reached in the Security Council, Russia and the United States say
(CNN) --
South Korea's planned live-fire military exercises started Monday afternoon, the country's ministry of defense said.
North Korea has said the drill could ignite a war and has promised to respond militarily, but has also agreed to a series of actions after former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson urged the North to not take an aggressive response.
On Sunday, South Korea ordered thousands to find shelter in preparation for the drill while the United Nations' Security Council wrangled over growing tensions in the Korean peninsula.
An approximate 8,000 residents were ordered to take cover in Yeonpyeong, Baengnyeong, Daecheong, Socheong and Udo in the hours leading up to the drill.
North Korea said over the weekend that the planned exercises were designed to violate the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 and "ignite war at any cost."
At the United Nations, nearly eight hours of emergency Security Council talks on the standoff ended Sunday without a unified statement.
CNN's Kyung Lah and Jiyeon Lee in Seoul Richard Roth and Whitney Hurst at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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South Korea says exercises to start Monday
By the CNN Wire Staff
December 19, 2010 6:48 p.m. EST
South Korean marines carry supplies on Yeonpyeong Island on Sunday, December 19.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* NEW: South Korea says the controversial drills are to begin Monday
* The U.N. Security Council held emergency talks on the issue in New York
* The North says the drill could ignite a war
* North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island in November, killing four
(CNN) -- South Korea's planned live-fire military exercises in the Yellow Sea will begin Monday despite threats from North Korea that the drills will result in "disaster," the South Korean military announced.
The drills are slated to take place off Yeonpyeong Island, which North Korean forces shelled in November. North Korea said over the weekend that the planned exercises were a "sinister design" to violate the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 and "ignite war at any cost."
At the United Nations, diplomats were huddled in an emergency meeting of the Security Council in an attempt to defuse the standoff over the planned exercises. But seven hours of ongoing talks had produced no result Sunday evening.
Russia requested the emergency meeting and proposed a draft statement, proposing amendments which Western nations said would place more of the blame on North Korea, diplomats said. But they said the major holdout was China, the North's closest ally, which refuses to agree on any statement that even mentions the Yeonpyeong shelling.
Russia and China, both permanent Security Council members, have asked South Korea to reconsider its planned drills. Sunday's closed-door session was held with representatives of both North and South Korea present and speaking.
Earlier, a South Korean military official told the country's state-run Yonhap news agency that Seoul would not be deterred by threats from the North.
"The planned firing drill is part of the usual exercises conducted by our troops based on Yeonpyeong Island. The drill can be justifiable, as it will occur within our territorial waters," the official said.
Tensions between the two Koreas have been high since the North fired upon the island last month, killing two marines and two civilians. The South Korean military had said Thursday that the exercises would take place in the seas southwest of the island between December 18 and 21, but adverse weather forced a delay Saturday.
"We won't take into consideration North Korean threats and diplomatic situations before holding the live-fire drill. If weather permits, it will be held as scheduled," the military official said.
Meanwhile, North Korea was beefing up its military forces on its west coast ahead of the South's planned drills, Yonhap reported, citing a South Korean government official.
"The North Korean artillery unit along the Yellow Sea has raised its preparedness level," the source said.
Yeonpyeong is located in the Yellow Sea, just south of the Northern Limit Line -- the maritime boundary drawn in 1953 by the United Nations just after the Korean War. The line is three nautical miles from the North Korean coast.
In the absence of a full peace agreement between the two Koreas, the Northern Limit Line remains in place. North Korea has suggested an alternative line, but South Korea has resisted, as it would bring the North's maritime boundary close to Incheon, a main port.
A North Korean spokesman over the weekend said that the planned military exercises were a "sinister design" to violate the Korea Armistice Agreement and "ignite war at any cost."
"The shelling to be perpetrated by the puppet forces of south Korea at last, trespassing on the prohibiting line would make it impossible to prevent the situation on the Korean Peninsula from exploding and escape its ensuing disaster," the spokesman said, according to North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea blamed the United States for allegedly egging on the South Koreans.
North Korea "will force the U.S. to pay dearly for all the worst situations prevailing on the peninsula and its ensuing consequences," the spokesman said.
CNN's Jiyeon Lee in Seoul and Richard Roth and Whitney Hurst at the United Nations contributed to this report.Defense Ministry: South Korea starts live-fire drill
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North Korea warned South Korea to stop planned artillery drills on an island the North bombed last month, saying its retaliation for the manoeuvres would be even more intense than its original attack that killed four South Koreans.
South Korea has said it plans one-day, live-fire drills sometime between Saturday and Tuesday on Yeonpyeong Island, depending on weather and other factors.
The North, which claims nearby waters and has said it consider such drills an infringement of its territory, responded to similar firing exercises on Nov. 23 by raining artillery shells on the tiny island, which is home to a fishing community and military bases and is near the Koreas' disputed sea border.
If South Korea goes ahead with more drills on Yeonpyeong Island, “despite our military's prior warnings, second and third unpredictable self-defensive strikes will be made,” an unnamed senior North Korean military official said in comments carried by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.
The retaliation would be made “to safeguard our republic's sacred territorial waters,” the North said in the notice that was sent to South Korean military officials Friday. “The intensity and scope of the strike will be more serious than the Nov. 23 (shelling).”
Russia on Friday called on South Korea to halt the military exercise. “The Russian Federation... calls on the Republic of Korea to refrain from holding the planned firing of artillery in order to prevent the further escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The South has said its planned drills are part of “routine, justified” exercises and has warned that it is prepared to deal with any North Korean attack. Representatives of the American-led UN Command that oversees the armistice that ended the Korean War will observe the drills.
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World AIDS Day comes amid progress, concern
By the CNN WIre Staff
December 1, 2010 2:32 a.m. EST
A giant red ribbon hangs on the White House for observance of World AIDS Day.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* The estimated number of children with HIV/AIDS in 11 Asian countries increases 46 percent
* The UN says the number of new HIV infections has dropped 20 percent in the past decade
* But the number of new HIV infections outpaces the number of people starting treatment
(CNN) -- As the global community commemorates World AIDS Day on Wednesday, international health organizations report both promising and sobering trends.
While the United Nations says new HIV infections have declined by almost 20 percent worldwide over the past decade, the estimated number of children living with HIV or AIDS in 11 Asian countries has increased by 46 percent between 2001 and 2009, the World Health Organization's South-East Asia office said Wednesday.
"In 2001, an estimated 89,000 children were living with HIV/AIDS," said Vismita Gupta-Smith, public information and advocacy officer for WHO's regional office in New Delhi, India. "In 2009, there are an estimated 130,000 children living with HIV infection," including recent HIV infection, advanced HIV infection and AIDS.
The 11 countries in the region are Bangladesh, Bhutan, North Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Liste.
But a report by a United Nations program released last month shows some encouraging news, including drops in AIDS-related deaths and new HIV cases.
Data from the 2010 global report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that an estimated 2.6 million people became newly infected with HIV, compared with the estimated 3.1 million people infected in 1999.
Also in 2009, approximately 1.8 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses, compared with the roughly 2.1 million in 2004, according to UNAIDS.
Among young people in 15 of the most severely affected countries, the rate of new HIV infections has fallen by more than 25 percent, led by young people adopting safer sexual practices, according to UNAIDS.
"We are breaking the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic with bold actions and smart choices," said Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS. "Investments in the AIDS response are paying off, but gains are fragile -- the challenge now is how we can all work to accelerate progress."
But not all the news from the UNAIDS report, which covered 182 countries, was good.
"Even though the number of new HIV infections is decreasing, there are two new HIV infections for every one person starting HIV treatment," UNAIDS said.
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region most affected by the epidemic, with 69 percent of all new HIV infections, according to UNAIDS.
In seven countries, mostly in eastern Europe and central Asia, new HIV infection rates have increased by 25 percent.
UNAIDS said in the Asia-Pacific region, 90 percent of countries have laws that obstruct the rights of people living with HIV.
Despite the lower numbers of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths, UNAIDS said the demand for resources is surpassing the supply.
"Donor governments' disbursements for the AIDS response in 2009 stood at $7.6 billion, lower than the $7.7 billion available in 2008," UNAIDS said. "Declines in international investments will affect low-income countries the most -- nearly 90 percent rely on international funding for their AIDS programs."World AIDS Day comes amid progress, concern
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Chinese officials speak after Guardian US embassy cables reveal Beijing is leaning towards acceptance of reunification under Seoul's control
China supports the "independent and peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula" and cannot afford to give the North Korean regime the impression it has a blank cheque to act any way it wants, Chinese officials based in Europe said today.
The officials, who asked not to be identified, spoke after the Guardian revealed that senior figures in Beijing, exasperated with North Korea behaving like a "spoiled child", had told their South Korean counterparts that China was leaning towards acceptance of reunification under Seoul's control.
China's moves to distance itself from the North Korean regime were revealed in the latest tranche of leaked US embassy cables obtained by WikiLeaks and published yesterday by the Guardian and four international newspapers.
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Contrary to demands by Representative Peter King (R- New York) that the whistleblower Web site WikliLeaks be "designated a foreign terrorist organization" for making public thousands of previously secret U.S. diplomatic cables, the Web site should be honored for performing a vital public service to the world by revealing that North Korea sold 19 nuclear-capable R-27 missiles to Iran, giving Tehran the potential to fire them at targets throughout Europe and even toward the Russian capital, Moscow. The documents, if accurate, show that Iran and North Korea pose a far greater threat to world peace and stability than previously thought.
http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2010/11/exposed-iran-and-n-korea-pose-greater.htmlContrary to demands by Representative Peter King (R- New York) that the whistleblower... more
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China officials have repeatedly expressed grave concerns about their communist alley North Korea, it is revealed in the latest WikiLeaks cables. Pyongyang was behaving like a "spoiled child", a Chinese foreign ministry official is quoted as having said in 2009.Chinese officials reportedly told their South Korean counterparts that Beijing placed little value on the North as a buffer state.And they even suggested that the peninsula should be reunified under Seoul's control.The revelations come as regional tensions remain high after the North shelled a South Korean island a week ago.Another leaked cable reveals that China's Vice Foreign Minister, He Yafei, downplayed Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to Pyongyang, telling the US Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg: "We may not like them... [but] they are a neighbour."Another cable relays a discussion over an official lunch in February 2010 between former South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo and the US ambassador to Seoul, Kathleen Stephens.The minister is said to have revealed that a new, younger generation of Chinese leaders no longer regarded North Korea as a useful or reliable ally, and would not risk renewed armed conflict on the peninsula.
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SEOUL, South Korea — President Lee Myung-bak promised in a televised speech on Monday to make sure that North Korea “pays a dear price” should it attack the South again.
His toughly worded address at the Blue House, the presidential palace in Seoul, made no mention of China’s initiative over the weekend to defuse the latest crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Analysts said that omission signaled South Korea’s disappointment that China was not doing more to rein in North Korea, which relies heavily on China for economic aid.
China called on Sunday for “emergency consultations” in early December in Beijing with North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States. The so-called six-party talks among those nations, aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapon program, have failed in the past, usually ending with North Korean officials walking out.
Coupled with hastily arranged high-level meetings with North and South Korean leaders, China’s proposal illustrated its nervousness over the escalation in tensions on the peninsula since North Korea’s lethal shelling last Tuesday of a South Korean island in the disputed maritime border area between them.
“I think it is a dramatic change of Chinese policy to address its growing concern,” said Zhu Feng, deputy director of the Center for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. “This initiative shows that Beijing is more proactive.”
Even so, the Chinese response, which appeared to be studiously neutral, was far from what either South Korea or the United States had publicly sought.
In his Monday morning address, South Korea’s president thanked the United States, Japan, Russia and other nations for condemning North Korea’s artillery attack on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong, which left 4 dead and 16 injured.
Monday brought a fresh show of support, as Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan called the shelling “barbaric” and said he hoped to meet with Mr. Lee in Tokyo next month.
President Lee said the shelling constituted a new level of aggression from North Korea. In the future, he said, South Korea will respond to such attacks in kind.
He replaced the defense minister last week after the military failed to quickly return fire after the Yeonpyeong assault and fired far fewer rounds than the North Koreans.
Mr. Lee said South Korea had showered North Korea with humanitarian aid and striven peacefully to reduce the threat of its nuclear weapons but the North had reacted with unremitting hostility, including the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, which left 46 crewmen dead.
“I cannot help but be infuriated at the brutality of the North Korean regime,” he said. “Our people have clearly come to know that any more endurance and tolerance will cultivate even bigger provocation.”
Two polls of South Koreans, released in the last two days, underscored their dismay over North Korea’s belligerence, unhappiness over their military’s response to the latest incident and disappointment in China’s reaction. But one of the surveys, by the East Asia Institute, also suggested that South Koreans were deeply ambivalent over how to react to North Korea. While nearly 7 in 10 said military aggression called for retaliation, more than half also said they preferred conciliatory policies toward North Korea.
Especially annoying to many South Koreans is China’s failure to criticize North Korea for last week’s artillery barrage, which resulted in the first South Korean civilian deaths from North Korean weaponry since the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War. Instead, China’s state-run media gave equal prominence to North Korea’s claim that the United States had masterminded the crisis.
“This is disappointing,” Yoon Duk-min, a regional security specialist at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security in Seoul, said of China’s proposal. “The six-party talks are a dialogue to solve the nuclear issue, not the current crisis on the peninsula.”
Kim Yong-hyun, a professor at Dongguk University, said South Korea was unlikely to accept China’s offer to host talks because it would seem to reward North Korea’s violence. “Maybe after time passes, but not now,” he said.
The Chinese effort came as the United States, South Korea’s most powerful ally, conducted four-day naval war exercises with South Korean forces in the Yellow Sea in response to the shelling, a move that both China and North Korea have criticized as provocative.
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Jang Gee-Yeon, a tanker-driver on the island of Yeonpyeong, wasn’t scared at first when the North Korean shells started landing. “We’d been told there were going to be exercises, so I thought it was just a misfire,” he said. “Then I got a call saying it was real. I was in shock. I ran up to the village and it was burning in at least thirty places. There could have been more. The smoke was so thick, I couldn’t see everywhere.”
The island only has one small fire engine, so Jang and his colleagues decided to convert their tanker into a lashed-up pump. “We fixed it up so we could spray water from it,” he said. “I drove. There was nobody else. We got a hose and we put out five house fires and three fires on the mountain above the village. We were looking up the whole time, worried that another bomb would land on top of us.”
If Hollywood ever needs somewhere to start World War Three, Yeonpyeong would be a good choice. North Korea is in plain view, about as far away as Portsmouth is from Ryde. A notice at the ferry terminal warns you to call a hotline number if you see enemy frogmen. On Tuesday afternoon, from an artillery base close enough to be visible through binoculars, the North Koreans launched a rather more direct assault.
A whole street of houses and shops in the village stands charred and ruined. Blackened bar-stools and twisted bicycles show the force of the blast, and even three days later the smell of burning remained. Dogs, some of them wounded, run or limp through the streets, abandoned by their owners in the panic to get away. The village is empty of all but journalists. On the boat back, I spoke to a policeman who collected the bodies of the two civilians killed. “One of them was just a totally burnt-out shell, a skeleton,” he said. “The other was scattered, blown apart.”
According to local media, the North Koreans used “hyperbaric,” or fuel-air, explosives – rare and unusually destructive weapons, only just this side of breaching international law. But then the attack itself, Pyongyang’s first, in its own words, “precisely aimed” land assault on South Korea's civilians since the end of the war in 1953, broke wholly new and dangerous ground.
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calls for calm after North Korea fires barrage at South Korean island
China, Japan and Germany express their concern about Pyongyang’s attack on the island of Yeonpyeong, and call on both parties to resolve their differences peacefully.
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YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – China tried Sunday to defuse tension over a recent North Korean attack on the South by proposing an emergency meeting in Beijing, hours after the U.S. and South Korea launched naval war games in a united show of force.
Beijing's top nuclear envoy called for an emergency meeting among the six nations involved in the stalled North Korean nuclear disarmament talks to calm tempers over North Korea's artillery barrage Tuesday that killed four people on South Korea's front-line island of Yeonpyeong.
Nuclear envoy Wu Dawei said in a statement issued in Beijing that the international community, particularly members of the six-party talks — the two Koreas, Japan, the U.S., China and Russia — were deeply concerned about recent developments. He called for a meeting of chief nuclear negotiations in China in early December.
However, it was unclear whether the proposal would be accepted. Seoul and Washington have resisted restarting the disarmament-for-aid talks until Pyongyang shows a concrete commitment to denuclearization.
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Analysis: US carrier visit a dilemma for China
BEIJING – This weekend's arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea poses a dilemma for Beijing: Should it protest angrily and aggravate ties with Washington, or quietly accept the presence of a key symbol of American military pre-eminence off Chinese shores?
The USS George Washington, accompanied by escort ships, is to take part in military drills with South Korea following North Korea's shelling of a South Korean island Tuesday that was one of the most serious confrontations since the Korean War a half-century ago.
It's a scenario China has sought to prevent. Only four months ago, Chinese officials and military officers shrilly warned Washington against sending a carrier into the Yellow Sea for an earlier set of exercises. Some said it would escalate tensions after the sinking of a South Korean navy ship blamed on North Korea. Others went further, calling the carrier deployment a threat to Chinese security.
Beijing believes its objections worked. Although Washington never said why, no aircraft carrier sailed into the strategic Yellow Sea, which laps at several Chinese provinces and the Korean peninsula.
This time around, with outrage high over the shelling, the U.S. raising pressure on China to rein in wayward ally North Korea, and a Chinese-American summit in the works, the warship is coming, and Beijing is muffling any criticisms.
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Ominous clouds are on the horizon in the Pacific off California and in the waters off China. An escalating conflict between North & South Korea has brought an aircraft carrier close to the Chinese coast. Earlier this fall there was video of a missile being launched off of Los Angeles a report that was quickly “explained” only some reports indicate a cover-up may be under way. Here we present a pair of stories that illustrate the rising tensions between these two trading partners.
Meanwhile most of our armed Forces are engaging Muslim terrorists whose growing influence in the region are a direct threat to the Chinese. At what point do sensible people ask themselves why the attacks of 9/11 by a small terrorist group we helped create justify fighting a huge war covering five countries Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen? If American forces weren’t engaging radical Muslims in this region they would all be lining up to support the growing Muslim rebellion in western China.
For too long we have engaged in a reckless policy that has plunged us deeply into debt and threatens our way of life. For a long time American business has helped empower a brutal dictatorship that has violently suppressed and dissent. For what the current Chinese government has done in Tiananmen Square, Tibet and to the Falun Gong we have made them into the economic power of the day. In doing so have sold out our ideals in the name of a fast buck only a fairly small number of people got those fast bucks.
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Pyonyang has already condemned military war exercises between the U.S. and South Korea, saying that those naval maneuvers which are due to start on Sunday will bring Korea to the brink of war. It added that 'these military exercises between U.S. imperialists and their South Korean bellicose puppets are directed against North Korea'.
In the meantime, the Chinese have expressed concern over these exercises, and declared that it opposed any action that would undermine the stability of the Korean peninsula. Following North Korea's artillery shelling on Tuesday on South Korean Yeonpyeong Island. which left four dead and more than twenty injured, China was urging restraint. A Reuters report announced that Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi met with North Korean ambassador Ji Jae Ryong, and spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan; he reiterated that all relevant parties should handle the matter 'responsibly'.Pyonyang has already condemned military war exercises between the U.S. and South... more
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There's at least one thing Sarah Palin was not thankful for this Thanksgiving: the media.
In a Facebook post Thursday evening, Palin excoriated the press for seizing on a gaffe made on Glenn Beck's radio show the previous day, when she suggested that North Korea was an ally to the U.S.
"It seems they couldn't resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline," Palin wrote.
"If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck's radio show ," the post continued, "they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime."
Journalists have made an entire beat out of Palin's frequent criticism of their ranks. (The Cutline is obviously guilty as charged.) Earlier this week, there was widespread coverage of Palin's most recent attack on CBS anchor Katie Couric, who she claimed has "such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say."
Palin says she prefers getting her message across via Twitter and Facebook.There's at least one thing Sarah Palin was not thankful for this Thanksgiving:... more
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'Using a burst of artillery fire to signal its fury with South Korea and its U.S. allies, North Korea warned the conditions brewing in the Korea peninsula have pushed it to the "brink of war."
The flash of artillery fire could be heard in Yeonpyeong, the same island that North Korea attacked earlier in the week when four people died and buildings were set ablaze.
Only a few dozen South Koreans have stayed behind on Yeonpyeong, which lies only 11 kilometres from the shores of North Korea. They ran to shelters after seeing the faraway flash of artillery on Friday.
The Friday artillery fire did not hit any South Korean targets, though it was launched while U.S. Gen. Walter Sharp was touring the part of Yeonpyeong that came under attack.
The commander of the 28,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea called out the North Korean regime for violating the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.
"We at the United Nations Command will investigate this completely and call on North Korea to stop any future attacks," Sharp said Friday.
But in North Korea, the Pyongyang government was insistent that the U.S. was an aggressor, by stating an intention to take part in joint military drills with South Korea in disputed waters.
A North Korean military official bragged about the Tuesday attack in which the military "precisely aimed and hit the enemy artillery base".'
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