London: Britain on Friday said it has no immediate plans to withdraw its diplomats from North Korea and condemned as provocative Pyongyang's warning that it cannot protect foreign embassies after April 10 in the event of a conflict linked to soaring nuclear tensions. "No decisions have been taken and we have no immediate plans to withdraw our embassy," a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) statement said here on Friday. "Earlier...
10:50 PM, Apr 05, 2013
London/Seoul: North Korea has asked embassies to consider moving staff out and warned it cannot guarantee the safety of diplomats after April 10, Britain said, amid high tension and a war of words on the Korean peninsula. The requests come on the heels of declarations by the government of the secretive communist state that real conflict is inevitable, because of what it terms "hostile" US troop exercises with South Korea...
10:32 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Washington: The United States has right to launch a pre-emptive military strike against North Korea if there was "solid evidence" that Pyongyang planned to attack the US or South Korea, an influential lawmaker said on Friday. "If we have good reason to believe there's going to be an attack, I believe we have the right to take pre-emptive action," Peter King, the Republican Congressman from New York said. "I don't...
10:48 AM, Apr 05, 2013
The US fears that North Korea could be planning a missile launch. As Pyongyang steps up its rhetoric, the Pentagon now tries to decrease the temperature. Missile and launch components have been moved to the east coast of North Korea in the "last few days", a US official with direct knowledge of the information told CNN on Thursday. ...
10:42 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Seoul: North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korea's defence minister said on Thursday, but he added that there are no signs that Pyongyang is preparing for a full-scale conflict. The report came hours after North Korea's military warned that it has been authorised to attack the US using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons. It was the North's latest war cry against...
06:56 PM, Apr 04, 2013
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has said that North Korea presents a real and clear danger. The US has also confirmed that even China has mobilised units along its border with North Korea and that the Chinese military is at Level One readiness which is the highest state of alert in China. This comes after Pyongyang has once again warned USA, saying that the moment of explosion is nearing. ...
04:00 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Seoul: Hackers have apparently disrupted North Korea's government-run Twitter account. The disruption comes at a time of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The North's Uriminzokkiri's Twitter account on Thursday displayed four tweets saying "hacked." A fifth tweet said "Tango Down" and was followed by a link to Uriminzokkiri's Flickr page. Both sites were running on Thursday but carrying content that differed sharply from content typically posted by the regime...
03:40 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Washington: The recent rhetoric and actions taken by Pyongyang in past few weeks present a real danger not only to Japan and South Korea but also to the American interests in the region, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said. "Some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests, certainly of our allies, starting with South Korea and...
09:57 AM, Apr 04, 2013
New York: US stocks fell on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 index posting its biggest daily decline in more than a month, after a weaker-than-expected survey of private employers raised concerns about the strength of the economy. News the Pentagon was sending a missile defense system to Guam in the coming weeks and remarks by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that North Korea posed a "real and clear" danger added to...
05:48 AM, Apr 04, 2013
North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-un is using his forebears' time-tested "crazy-guy-in-the-neighborhood" strategy, senior US officials say, but with a provocative new twist - aiming Pyongyang's threats directly at the United States. There are indeed signs of an earlier method in what might seem like Kim's rhetorical madness, which US policymakers say is patterned after more than a half century of rule over the reclusive state by his father and...
05:40 PM, Apr 03, 2013
In its latest string of threats, North Korea has released a video, showing its strength and perpetrating the message that it's ready to fight. North Korea has released this video just days after it declared it was in a state of war. But what is unusual about this video is the rare show firing on a US target dummies. ...
04:05 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Categorically ruling out the possibility of accepting North Korea as a nuclear power, the United States said that Pyongyang has the peaceful option to enter into negotiations for the denuclearisation. ...
09:08 AM, Apr 03, 2013
North Korea said on Tuesday it will restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material, in what outsiders see as its latest attempt to extract US concessions by raising fears of war. ...
06:40 AM, Apr 03, 2013
North Korea will restart all nuclear facilities including its shuttered Yongbyon nuclear reactor, its official KCNA news servce said on Tuesday. ...
11:40 AM, Apr 02, 2013
North Korean nuclear weapons act as a deterrent to potential aggressors and as a foundation for its prosperity, the country's leader said in a speech delivered on Sunday and published in full by the country's KCNA news agency on Tuesday. ...
10:20 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The United States does not see any change in the military posture of North Korea despite threat and recent rhetoric coming from its leadership, the White House said. "I would note that despite the harsh rhetoric we're hearing from Pyongyang, we are not seeing changes to the North Korean military posture, such as large-scale mobilisations and positioning of forces," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Monday. ...
07:55 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday to join military drills aimed at underscoring the US. commitment to defend Seoul in the face of an intensifying campaign of threats from North Korea. ...
10:35 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Pope Francis used his first Easter Sunday address to call for peace in the world and appealed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. In his first "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message, Francis also called for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, an end to the civil war in Syria, and political solutions to conflicts in several African countries. ...
07:50 PM, Mar 31, 2013
France has appealed to North Korea for avoiding such steps that may escalate the tension after Pyongyang announced having entered a "state of war". ...
06:22 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Amid escalating tension in the Korean peninsula after recent aggressive statements by North, the US has said it is in close touch with its South Korean allies and is prepared for any possible threat from Pyongyang. "We've seen reports of a new and unconstructive statement from North Korea. We take these threats seriously and remain in close contact with our South Korean Allies," said Caitlin Hayden, spokesperson of the National...
09:51 AM, Mar 31, 2013
