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2 Western journalists killed in Syria, opposition activists say

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Homs food supplies critically low STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: French official: Journalist Remi Ochlik was also killed in a bombing attack The Sunday Times says its reporter Marie Colvin was reportedly killed The journalists were killed by government shelling in Baba Amr, opposition activists say State Department: "We may have to consider additional measures" if al-Assad doesn't relent Are you there? Send us your images or video Washington (CNN) -- Two Western journalists were killed Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs amid heavy shelling from government forces, opposition activists said. The Sunday Times of London said one of the journalists reportedly killed was staffer Marie Colvin -- the only British newspaper journalist inside the embattled Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr. And French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe confirmed journalist Remi Ochlik was killed in a bombing. He was 28. Colvin was on air with CNN on Tuesday night, recalling how she watched a young boy die after his house was struck by shelling. Colvin, who had reported from many conflicts including last year's Libyan civil war, said Syria was the worst conflict she had covered, partly because of the sheer amount of ordinance falling on Homs. "There's a lot of snipers on the high builds surrounding the neighborhood. I can sort of figure out where a sniper is but you can't figure out where a shell is going to land," she said. The deaths Wednesday followed that of New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, who was reporting in eastern Syria when he died last week, apparently from an asthma attack, the newspaper said. While violence erupting once again across the country Wednesday, Syrians pleading for help in stopping a government-led slaughter might have fresh hope, as the United States called for more international action and hinted that arming the opposition isn't out of the question. In Washington, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the conflict under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime demands reaction. "We believe that we are in a situation where we -- the international community -- needs to act in order to allow for the transition from Assad to a more democratic future for Syria to take place before the situation becomes too chaotic," Carney told reporters Tuesday. Asked about calls in recent days by Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, for the United States to consider arming the opposition, Carney said, "We don't want to take actions that would contribute to the further militarization of Syria, because that could take the country down a dangerous path. "But we don't rule out additional measures that, working with our international partners, that the international community might take," he added. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland held out hope for a political solution, but she too cited the possibility of seeking "additional measures" in the absence of change. "From … [Read more...]

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U.S., North Korea to hold first post-Kim Jong Il talks

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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BEIJING (AP) – The U.S. and North Korea reopen nuclear talks Thursday that will provide a glimpse into where Pyongyang's opaque government is heading after Kim Jong Il's death and test its readiness to dismantle nuclear programs for much-needed aid. The two countries were on the verge of a deal to have Washington provide food in return for Pyongyang suspending uranium enrichment when it was upended by the longtime leader's death on Dec. 17. That North Korea has agreed to re-enter talks so soon afterward could signal a measure of cohesion and a continuation of Kim Jong Il's policies as it transfers power to his young son and a coterie of advisers. However, stonewalling could point to disagreement within the new leadership or unpredictable directions in policy for a government that has long sought to develop nuclear weapons and already has detonated two nuclear test blasts. The workings of North Korea's government are difficult for outsiders to discern, so analysts and foreign government officials alike will closely monitor Thursday's talks in Beijing. "The fact that North Korea has come to the negotiating table means the country is enjoying a level of internal stability," said Kim Keun-sik, a North Korea expert at Kyungnam University in South Korea. "But we can't immediately link North Korea's stability to how fruitful the talks will be," he said. It is a sensitive time for North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un, who is believed to be in his late 20s. The country suffers from chronic food shortages that complicate its vow to start becoming a thriving nation during this year's centennial of the birth of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korea is also locked in a long-running standoff with its neighbors and Washington, who want to see the North's nuclear program permanently dismantled. The talks in Beijing, the third round since July, ostensibly are aimed at restarting wider six-nation disarmament negotiations that also involve China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. Pyongyang walked away from those talks in 2009 and later exploded its second nuclear device. However, in mid-December hopes were high when outlines emerged of a U.S.-North Korean nuclear agreement. The Associated Press reported then that the U.S. was poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea. That would have been followed within days by an agreement to suspend North Korea's uranium enrichment program, according to a broad outline of the agreement made known to the AP by people close to the negotiations. The six-nation talks, once restarted, would be aimed at dismantling North Korea's remaining nuclear programs in exchange for what would likely involve even greater donations of aid. Victor Cha, a Korea expert and White House director of Asian affairs during the George. W. Bush presidency, said he was concerned that the U.S. side may now be overly eager for a deal in hopes of avoiding any Korean security crisis during this … [Read more...]

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Four killed, dozens wounded in Afghan Koran burning

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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(Reuters) - Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country. The American Embassy said its staff were in "lockdown" and travel had been suspended as thousands of people expressed fury over the burning, a public relations disaster for U.S.-led NATO forces fighting Taliban militants ahead of the withdrawal of foreign combat troops by the end of 2014. The U.S. government and the American commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan apologized after Afghan laborers found charred copies of the Koran while collecting rubbish at the sprawling Bagram Airbase about an hour's drive north of Kabul. It failed to contain the fury. Thousands of Afghans took to the streets again, chanting anti-American slogans. Winning the hearts and minds of Afghans is critical to efforts to defeat the Taliban. Similar incidents in the past have caused deep divisions and resentment among Afghans towards the tens of thousands of foreign troops in Afghanistan. Seven foreign UN workers were killed during protests that raged across Afghanistan for three days in April 2011 after a U.S. pastor burned a Koran in Florida. In Parwan province, home to the sprawling Bagram airbase where the Koran burning incident occurred, two people were shot dead by Afghan police and 13 wounded while attacking offices, provincial spokesman Roshan Khalid said. A protester was shot dead by police in Logar province, east of the capital, the governor's spokesman, Deen Mohammad Darwish, said. Afghan health ministry spokesman Ghulam Sakhi Kargar said one person also died in hospital in Kabul from gunshot wounds received during one of two shooting incidents at protests in at least four areas of the capital. Shots came from the direction of a foreign military vehicle parked outside a U.S. military base, said a Reuters witness. It is not clear who opened fire. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) officials said they were unaware of shootings. Later, wounded protesters along the busy Jalalabad road on the fringe of Kabul said Afghan police had fired on them. CHANTS OF "DEATH TO AMERICA," "DEATH TO KARZAI" Twenty-one people, including 11 policemen, were wounded in the capital, said Mohammad Zahir, head of Kabul police's crimes unit. They included the city police chief, Ayoub Salangi, who was hit in the ankle by a stone. Critics say Western troops often fail to grasp the country's religious and cultural sensitivities. Demonstrations by as many as 2,000 people broke out as word of the find spread. Police said most injuries were caused by flying stones and sticks hurled by protesters. Demonstrators had charged police lines and nearby military bases at a protest on the edge of Kabul, burning tires and smashing vehicles and building windows. Protesters shouted "Death to America!" and "Death … [Read more...]

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Yemenis vote for post-Saleh era amid violence

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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(Reuters) - Yemen sealed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power on Tuesday by electing his deputy to shepherd the country away from the brink of civil war. Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the sole, consensus candidate, billed the vote as a way to move on after months of protests against Saleh's 33-year rule, but the president's sons and nephews still command key army units and security agencies. "Elections are the only exit route from the crisis which has buffeted Yemen for the past year," Hadi said at a polling station after casting his vote. The vote will make Saleh, now in the United States for more treatment of burns suffered in an assassination attempt last June, the fourth Arab autocrat in a year to be forced from power after revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. At stake is an economy left in shambles, where 42 percent of the population of 24 million lives on less than $2 per day and rampant inflation is driving up food and fuel prices. Long queues formed early in the morning outside polling stations in the capital Sanaa amid tight security, after an explosion ripped through a voting centre in the southern port city of Aden on the eve of the vote. "We are now declaring the end of the Ali Abdullah Saleh era and will build a new Yemen," Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman said as she waited to cast her ballot outside a university faculty in the capital Sanaa. Voters dipped their thumbs in ink and stamped their print on a ballot paper bearing a picture of Hadi and a map of Yemen in the colors of the rainbow. A high turnout was crucial to give Hadi the legitimacy he needs to carry out changes outlined in a power transfer deal brokered by Yemen's Gulf neighbors, including the drafting of a new constitution, restructuring of armed forces in which Saleh's relatives hold key positions, and multi-party elections. An official from the election security committee estimated a turnout of 80 percent, although final results will not be known for two to three days. The vote was backed by the United States and Yemen's rich neighbors led by Saudi Arabia, who - alarmed at signs of al Qaeda exploiting the disorder wracking the country to strengthen its regional foothold - sponsored the peace deal signed in November providing for Saleh to hand power to Hadi. A pickup truck mounted with anti-aircraft guns and full of soldiers stood by another Sanaa University department as hundreds of men lined up to vote. "The regime may not have changed but the people have. It's the first step towards real change," said Samir Radwan, a 43-year-old doctor. "Saleh was taking us to hell. We stopped him and we are now starting to build a new Yemen." TROUBLE IN NORTH, SOUTH The election leaves unresolved a military standoff between Saleh's relatives, a mutinous general and gunmen loyal to tribal notables. There is an armed revolt in the north of the country and a secessionist movement in the south where Islamists … [Read more...]

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Relentless shelling in Syria kills 7, including baby, opposition group says

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Walking through a deserted Homs STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Red Cross says is trying to negotiate a cease-fire so it can deliver vital aid Russia says it will not participate in a "Friends of Syria" conference this week Opposition group: Almost 9,000 have died since the 11-month government crackdown began U.S. senator: Arming Syrian opposition should be "very much considered" (CNN) -- While aid workers struggle to access the most devastated parts of Syria, families in the ravaged city of Homs wonder when the misery inflicted by government forces will end. Seven people -- including a baby -- died Tuesday from fresh shelling on three Homs neighborhoods, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition activist group. "My husband died on the first day of the bombing. They didn't let me see his body; it was shredded to pieces. His blood is still in the streets," says Umm Khidir, one of several mothers holed up in a makeshift shelter after a weeks-long bombing campaign on the city. She said her son is sick with a fever, but there's no medicine. "He keeps crying and saying, 'I want daddy, I want daddy.' I can't bring his daddy back," she said, demanding to know why the world is not coming to their aid. "What is the world waiting for? For us to die of hunger and fear?" The International Committee of the Red Cross is trying to negotiate a cease-fire between Syrian authorities and the opposition so the humanitarian agency can deliver food and medical supplies to Homs and other places, said spokesman Bijan Farnoudi. And representatives from various countries are expected to meet in Tunisia on Friday in the latest international attempt to stop the Syria's brutal crackdown on civilians. "The goal of this conference is to increase pressure on the Syrian regime," Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said Monday. Russia and China -- two major trade partners with Syria -- have vetoed U.N. Security Council attempts at condemning the Syrian regime. "There are indications coming especially from China, and to some extent from Russia, that there may be a change in position," Elaraby said. But Russia will not participate in the "Friends of Syria" conference, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday. And a senior Russian politician who met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday claimed some countries are seeking foreign interference under the guise of humanitarian intervention, according to Syrian state-run media. Alexey Pushkov said Russia's lower house of parliament has called for reducing the use of international organizations to achieve the interests of major and powerful countries by meddling in other countries' affairs, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. According to SANA, al-Assad thanked "the friendly Russian people and Russian leadership on Syria," insisting once again that "armed terrorist groups" are behind the violence that has crippled the country. The … [Read more...]

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Iran says would act against enemies if endangered

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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(Reuters) - Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic's armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying on Tuesday. "Our strategy now is that if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran's national interests, and want to decide to do that, we will act without waiting for their actions," Mohammad Hejazi told Fars news agency. Iran is facing increasing international pressure and isolation over its disputed nuclear activity. Expanded Western sanctions aim to block its economically vital oil exports and Tehran has said it could retaliate by shutting the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane vital to global energy supplies. Still, a top U.S. intelligence official said last week that while U.S. spy services believed Iran would respond if attacked, they thought it was unlikely to start a conflict. Israel and the United States do not rule out military action against Iran if sanctions and diplomacy fail to rein in its nuclear energy campaign. Senior U.N. inspectors have begun their second round of talks in Tehran in three weeks, seeking Iranian explanations with respect to intelligence about "possible military dimensions" to the Iranian nuclear program. Iran denies Western accusations that it is covertly seeking the means to build nuclear weapons and in recent weeks has again vowed no nuclear retreat, but also voiced willingness to resume negotiations with world powers without preconditions. Iran says it is enriching uranium solely as fuel for a future network of nuclear power stations, not for bombs. The European Union enraged Tehran last month when it decided to slap a boycott on its oil to take full effect on July 1. On Sunday, Iran's oil ministry announced a retaliatory halt in oil sales to French and British companies, though that step will be largely symbolic as those firms had already greatly reduced purchases of Iranian crude. On Monday, the European Commission said Belgium, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands had already stopped buying Iranian oil, while Greece, Spain and Italy were cutting back purchases. Tighter sanctions including the pending embargo on Iranian oil imports into the EU have helped push oil prices up to $119 a barrel from $107 at the start of the year. (Editing by Mark Heinrich) … [Read more...]

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Source: Greece to get $170 billion bailout

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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BRUSSELS (AP) – After more than 12 hours of talks, the countries that use the euro reached an agreement early Tuesday to hand Greece €130 billion ($170 billion) in additional bailout loans to save it from a potentially disastrous default next month. The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund, which will be providing the money for the new bailout, hope the new program will eventually put Greece back into a position where it can survive without external support and secure its place in the euro currency union. Finance ministers from Greece and the other 16 euro countries meeting in Brussels wrangled until the early morning hours over how that could be achieved. On top of the new rescue loans, Athens will also ask banks and other investment funds to forgive it some €107 billion in debt, while the European Central Bank and other national central banks in the eurozone will forgo profits on their holdings. The accord, which had been months in the making, seeks to reduce Greece's massive debts on all fronts, with both private and official creditors going beyond what they had said was possible in the past. But despite those unprecedented efforts, it was clear that Greece, which kicked off Europe's debt crisis two years ago, was at the very best starting a long and painful road to recovery. At the worst, the new program would push the country even deeper into recession and see it default on its debts further down the line. "It's not an easy (program), it's an ambitious one," said Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, adding that there were significant risks that Greece's economy could not grow as much as its international creditors were hoping. The eurozone — and Greece — had been under pressure to reach an accord quickly to prevent Athens from defaulting on a €14.5 billion bond payment on March 20. The fear is that an uncontrolled bankruptcy even of relatively small Greece could unleash market panic across the rest of the continent. That would further unsettle other struggling countries like Ireland, Portugal or the much bigger Italy or Spain. Despite the promise of new rescue loans, which come on top of a €110 billion bailout granted in 2010, the other 16 euro countries made clear that their trust in Greece is running low. Before Athens will see any new funds, it has to put into practice a whole range of previously promised cuts and reforms. More significantly, Greece will have to pass within the next two months a new law that gives paying off the country's debts legal priority over funding government services. In the meantime, Athens will have to set up a kind of escrow account, managed separately from its main budget, that will at all times have to contain enough money to service its debts for the coming three months. These requirements, together with tighter on-the-ground monitoring, are an unprecedented intrusion into the fiscal affairs of a sovereign state in Europe and could eventually see Greece being … [Read more...]

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Syrian army reinforcements head to Homs

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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BEIRUT (AP) – A Syria-based activist says three columns of army reinforcements including tanks are heading toward the restive central city of Homs. Mustafa Osso says the regime appears to be preparing to storm rebel-held neighborhoods in the city before a referendum is held Feb. 26 on a new constitution. Osso told the Associated Press on Monday he does not think the regime will be able to retake Homs through military force as residents plan to fight until "the last person." PHOTOS: Unrest in Syria His comments came as the government kept up shelling of the rebel-held Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs. It has been under assault for more than two weeks. On Sunday, gunmen in Syria staged a guerrilla-style ambush that killed a senior state prosecutor and a judge in an attack that suggested armed factions are growing bolder and more coordinated in their uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime. Sunday's roadway slayings — reported in an opposition-dominated northern region by the Syrian state news agency — came a day after a deadly hit-and-run attack on a political figure in the heart of the pro-Assad city of Aleppo. The targeted killings have not reached Assad's inner circle, but they indicate a growing shift toward violent tactics by the opposition as it brings aboard more military defectors and seeks to tighten control over the small pieces of territory in its hands. The fears of a looming civil war have neighboring Jordan racing to finish a refugee camp near the Syrian border to handle a possible exodus of people fleeing for safety. Meanwhile, Egypt became the latest Arab nation to publicly snub Assad by ordering the withdrawal of its ambassador in Damascus. The Syrian government has offered some concessions, including proposing a referendum next week that could allow more political voices to challenge Assad's Baath Party. But the opposition demands nothing short of Assad's resignation. And the regime has not eased off its attacks on the opposition forces, which it describes as "terrorists" carrying out a foreign conspiracy to destabilize the country. The U.N. last gave a death toll for the conflict in January, saying 5,400 people had been killed in 2011 alone. But hundreds more have been killed since, according to activist groups. An opposition group, Local Coordination Committees, says more than 7,300 have been killed since the uprising began more than 11 months ago. There is no way to independently verify the numbers, since Syria bans almost all foreign journalists and human rights organizations. The latest assassinations came on a road in the northwest province of Idlib, which has become a patchwork of areas held either by the government or mutinous soldiers who have safe-haven bases in nearby Turkey. The state news agency SANA said gunmen opened fire on a car carrying Idlib provincial state prosecutor Nidal Ghazal and Judge Mohammed Ziadeh, who were killed instantly. The driver also was fatally … [Read more...]

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Iranian ships reach Syria, China warns of civil war

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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(Reuters) - China's main newspaper accused Western countries of stirring civil war in Syria and two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian naval base, underscoring rising international tensions over the near year-long crisis. Despite pursuing a sustained military crackdown on the opposition in cities across the country, President Bashar al-Assad forged ahead with plans to hold a referendum at the end of the week. Activists in the western city of Hama said troops, police and militias had set up dozens of roadblocks, isolating neighborhoods from each other. "Hama is cut off from the outside world. There is no landlines, no mobile phone network and no internet. House to house arrest take place daily and sometimes repeatedly in the same neighborhoods," an opposition statement said. Government troops extended their control on Hama after an offensive last week that concentrated on northern neighborhoods on the edge of farmland that have provided shelter for Free Syrian Army rebels. The rebel fighters have been attacking militiamen, known as shabbiha, while avoiding open confrontations with armored forces that had amassed around Hama. Government forces also maintained their siege of pro-opposition neighborhoods of Homs, south of Hama on the Damascus-Aleppo highway. Opposition activists reported sporadic morning shelling of Baba Amro district. Security forces also mounted a campaign of arrests and raids in two suburbs of Deraa city and loud gunfire was heard, activists said. The reports could not be independently verified. The Monday actions followed a weekend which saw one of the biggest demonstrations yet in the capital as the pro-democracy uprising against Assad's 11 year-rule neared its first anniversary. Security forces have killed at least 5,000 people, according to human rights groups, in a campaign to crush the revolt while the Assad government says it has lost more than 2,000 soldiers and security agents in what it describes as a struggle against foreign-backed terrorists, The conflict has also pitted Western and Gulf-led Arab powers against Assad allies Russia, China and Iran. The former have condemned Assad for the bloodshed and called for him to step down. Beijing and Moscow say all sides are to blame for the violence and the crisis should be resolved through talks, not foreign intervention. China's Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily, in a front page commentary on Monday, said: "If Western countries continue to fully support Syria's opposition, then in the end a large-scale civil war will erupt and there will be no way to thus avoid the possibility of foreign armed intervention." A Chinese envoy met Assad in Damascus on Saturday and backed his plan to hold a referendum this coming Sunday on a new constitution which would lead to multi-party parliamentary elections within 90 days. Syria's official SANA news agency said about 14,600,000 people throughout the country were eligible to take part in … [Read more...]

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South Korea carries out military drill despite threats from North

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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(A South Korean K-1 tank fires live rounds during a military exercise near the border with North Korea on September 30, 2011.) STORY HIGHLIGHTS South Korea holds a regular artillery drill on islands where tensions have flared before North Korea describes the exercise as a provocation In 2010, the North responded to a drill in the same area by shelling a South Korean island More military exercises by South Korea and the U.S. are scheduled for the coming weeks Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea fired live artillery on Monday in a military drill near the country's heavily armed border with North Korea, which has described the exercise as a provocation. The drill Monday involved howitzers, mortars and attack helicopters, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. It took place on islands off the west coast of the Korean peninsula where tensions have flared in the past. Seoul notified the North on Sunday of the drill, a regular live-fire exercise that lasts an hour. About 1,000 island residents were moved to safe areas during the drill, Yonhap reported, citing military officials. "This is a very dangerous play with fire to ignite a war against the North as it is a clear declaration of war against it," Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday, citing a bulletin from the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea. New book on Kim Jong Il's eldest son In late 2010, North Korea responded to a South Korean military exercise in the same area by firing artillery at Yeonpyeong Island, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians. "If the puppet warmongers preempt reckless firing despite our warning, they will not escape punishment thousands-fold severer" than the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, the bulletin said. It identified "the puppet warmongers" as being South Korea and the United States, which has tens of thousands of troops in South Korea. The death in December of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and the subsequent anointment of his son and chosen successor, Kim Jong Un, has created uncertainty about the future direction of the secretive regime in Pyongyang. Further tensions over military maneuvers on the Korean peninsula are expected in the coming weeks. There are two joint exercises planned involving thousands of U.S. and South Korean forces scheduled between February and April. … [Read more...]

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