Pyongyang: North Koreans celebrated the birthday of their first leader Monday by dancing in plazas and snacking on peanuts, with little hint of the fiery bombast that has kept the international community fearful that a missile launch may be imminent. Pyongyang fired off a rocket ahead of the last anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth - the centennial - but this time the day was simply the start of a two-day holiday for Pyongyang residents who spilled into the streets.
Girls in red and pink jackets skipped along streets festooned with celebratory banners and flags and boys on inline skates took a break to slurp up bowls of shaved ice. There was no sense of panic in the North Korean capital, where very few locals have access to international broadcasts and foreign newspapers speculating about an imminent missile launch and detailing the international diplomacy under way to try to rein Pyongyang in.
Elsewhere in the region, however, the focus remained on the threat of a launch as US Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a tour to coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally, as well as with Seoul and Tokyo. In Seoul, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a parliamentary committee Monday that North Korea still appeared poised to launch a missile from its east coast, though he declined to disclose the source of his information.
Kerry warned North Korea not to conduct a missile test, saying it would be provocation
08:27 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Seoul: A top South Korean national security official said on Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. North Korea's warning last week followed weeks of war threats and other...
06:40 AM, Apr 08, 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
Vatican City: 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. The...
07:50 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Washington: Arguing that North Korea will achieve nothing by threats or provocations, the US on Tuesday said that Pyongyang should choose the path of peace and comply with its international obligations. "We continue to urge the North Korean leadership to heed President Obama's call to choose the path of peace and to come into compliance with its international obligations," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters. "This is something...
09:00 AM, Mar 27, 2013
A senior US official has told lawmakers that they now consider cyber attacks as among the top threats to the national security, even though their is remote chance of any such major attack against the critical infrastructure systems during the next two years. ...
11:50 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Three persons have been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in connection with the alleged online abuses and threats to the all-girls rock band, Pragaash. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, "I'm glad the police in Kashmir has identified and arrested people for the online threats made to the girls. I'm told more arrests are possible." ...
09:20 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Founder President of Karnataka Janata Party Padmanabha Prassana Kumar on February 6 alleged he faced threats to his life in Karnataka from BS Yeddyurappa, who is heading KJP now and he wanted 'poltical asylum' in Tamil Nadu. ...
04:01 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Goa Police has registered an offence against suspected serial killer Mahanand Naik under Information Technology Act for threatening a woman, whom he had allegedly raped, using a mobile phone from inside the high-security Central Jail at Aguada near Panaji. "Inquiries into the complaint made by the victim at Ponda Police had revealed that the calls were actually made to her from the mobile phone which had a location at Calangute,...
11:26 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Dublin: Five Northern Ireland politicians received letters containing bullets on Wednesday as an extremist Protestant campaign of death threats and street protests escalated over Belfast City Council's decision to stop flying the British flag year-round. Hours later, an off-duty police officer narrowly avoided being shot when confronted by a gunman outside his home in the mainly Protestant town of Bangor. No group claimed responsibility. The Police Service of Northern Ireland...
04:56 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Now that Barack Obama has won a second term, let's look at some of the reasons for his victory in what was predicted as a ...
01:34 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who set aside the mutation of a Rs 58 crore worth plot of land sold by Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra to realty giant DLF in 2009, is demoralised as he has received death threats for the first time in his life, said one of Khemka's friends who is also a lawyer. Anupam Gupta said that Khemka had got "serious death threats"....
03:38 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Ramanathapuram: It has been revealed that the TN fishermen detained by the Sri Lankan navy were threatened with death while they were in custody for a few hours at Neduntivu on Tuesday. The Lankan navy personnel laughed after attacking the fisherman, said the injured fisherman Adimai.The Lankan navy detained 16 fishermen in mid-sea on Tuesday and they were taken to Neduntivu later where they were interrogated. The SL personnel attacked...
07:50 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that most threats to Israel's security were "dwarfed" by the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weaponry, which local media reports charged Tehran had stepped up its efforts to achieve. The comments at a weekly cabinet meeting and the front-page reports in the liberal Haaretz, a frequent Netanyahu critic, and in the conservative, pro-government Israel Hayom came as Israeli debate intensified about whether...
02:09 AM, Aug 13, 2012
Davos: A new initiative on cyber security has been launched at the World Economic Forum to strengthen efforts to combat rising cyber risks. The initiative 'Partnering for Cyber Resilience' is a set of shared principles, endorsed by chief executives of firms that recognise interdependence of organisations in tackling cyber risks, according to a statement from the WEF. Citing the importance of the initiative, India's largest software exporter TCS CEO and...
01:32 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Pitching for an effective global mechanism to deal with cyber threats in the wake of spiralling growth of Internet, Britain today said it can jointly work with India on new avenues of research to make online space safer. Marcus Winsley, Head of the Press and Communication Group of British High Commission in India, noted that UK holds a major stake in cyber security as the country loses around...
10:48 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Kolkata: The homepage of the official website of the CID, West Bengal was hacked today by a suspected anti-India organisation calling itself the Muslim Liberation Army. "Our first page was found replaced. We have restored our website. Investigation is on," DIG (Operation) CID K Jayaraman said here today. The original page was, however, restored after several hours, Jayaraman said. An investigation was on to ascertain the real identity of the...
09:08 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: With terror striking the capital again, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said intelligence about threats were shared with Delhi Police in July but contended that it would not be possible at this stage to identify the group that caused the bomb blast at High Court. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha on the blast, he regretted that the "tragic incident" had taken place despite Delhi Police...
02:11 PM, Sep 07, 2011
Washington: As Osama bin Laden watched his terrorist organization get picked apart, he lamented in his final writings that al Qaeda was suffering from a marketing problem. His group was killing too many Muslims and that was bad for business. The West was winning the public relations fight. All his old comrades were dead and he barely knew their replacements. Faced with these challenges, bin Laden, who hated the United...
03:37 PM, Jun 24, 2011
Women football players in Afghanistan are facing worse obstacles from daily disapproval to anonymous death threats. ...
10:40 AM, Jun 10, 2011
