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S. Korea: OK, Maybe North Isn't Plotting New Test

Beijing losing patience with Pyongyang

(Newser) - Tensions on the Korean peninsula eased marginally today after South Korean officials backed off earlier reports that Pyongyang was getting ready for another missile test. A top official told reporters that he had misspoken when he said there was an "indication" that another test was imminent , and had been...

US Delays Missile Test Over N. Korea Tensions

White House defends move as 'absolutely not' a retreat

(Newser) - As tensions escalate with North Korea, the US has opted to delay a missile test at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, CNN reports. The long-planned test of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was unrelated to North Korea, but delaying it is "prudent and wise" in light of...

S. Korea: North Is Readying Missile Launch for Wed.

Pyongyang warning concerned diplomats to get out by Wednesday

(Newser) - South Korea is warning today that Pyongyang's latest sabre-rattling amounts to the very real threat of a missile launch, likely around Wednesday, reports the New York Times . The South's director of national security said today that the North had warned foreign diplomats to seek assistance in evacuating by...

US Might Have Unlikely Ally Against N. Korea: China

Beijing shows signs it's getting fed up with Pyongyang: New York Times

(Newser) - American efforts to rein in North Korea have long run into one big roadblock called China, but that might be changing, reports the New York Times . New President Xi Jinping seems more receptive to working with the West to keep the North in check, as seen in Beijing's quick...

N. Korea Loads Missiles, Hides Launchers: Report

Observers fear surprise launch: Yonhap

(Newser) - North Korea has installed two medium-range missiles on mobile launchers hidden close to its east coast, Yonhap News reports by way of South Korean military sources. One senior official describes them as Musudan missiles , which Yonhap notes were debuted in October 2010 and are believed to have a 1,865-mile...

Bills Player to N. Korea: If You Hit US, Nuke the Patriots

Stevie Johnson tweets rogue state to target Foxboro, Mass.

(Newser) - Buffalo Bills player Stevie Johnson would really like North Korea to "chill out with that nuke talk ." But if it doesn't, the wide receiver has suggested a target for Kim Jong Un's agression: "War is nothing to be played with. I apologize North Korea........but...

North Korea's Reactor Reboot Has Begun: Report

Construction can be seen in satellite photos: Think tank

(Newser) - Looks like North Korea may be making good on at least one of its threats: After saying it would restart its Yongbyon nuclear reactor , it has apparently launched construction on the site, according to a US think tank. The construction appears visible in a March 27 satellite image of Yongbyon,...

N. Korea: We've OK'd Nuclear Strike on US

Army warns that 'moment of explosion' is near

(Newser) - Last month, North Korea threatened to hit the US with a pre-emptive nuclear strike . (It even had a video of what it might look like.) Today, Pyongyang managed to up the ante. The North Korean army warned that it had been given the green light to launch said strike...

US Moving Missile-Defense System to Guam After N. Korea Threats

Pentagon to deploy advanced battery to protect military bases

(Newser) - North Korea's threats to hit US targets in the Pacific might well be hot air, but the Pentagon says it has no choice but to take them seriously. As a result, it plans to move a high-tech missile-defense system to Guam to protect military bases in the area, reports...

N. Korea Bars South's Workers From 'Last Symbol of Detente'

Workers turned back from border complex

(Newser) - Some action from North Korea after weeks of harsh words: Pyongyang has blocked nearly 500 South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North today. As Reuters reports, the move to block South Koreans from going to their jobs at...

Kerry to North Korea: Knock Off the Bluster

Warns that US won't tolerate a nuclear North

(Newser) - John Kerry today warned North Korea to halt a recent spate of rhetoric and actions, and he vowed that the US would defend itself and allies South Korea and Japan from any trouble. The secretary of state's comments came after North Korea ratcheted up an almost daily string of...

UN Adopts Landmark Arms Treaty

Most nations back, but Russia, China abstain

(Newser) - The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first UN treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade today, a goal sought for more than a decade to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters, and organized crime. The resolution adopting the landmark treaty was approved...

North Korea's New Threat: We're Restarting Reactor

Ban Ki-moon fears country is on a 'collision course'

(Newser) - The latest in the almost-daily series of threats from Pyongyang is a vow to restart its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and other facilities to "bolster up the nuclear armed force" and provide electricity, according to a rep for the country's Department of Atomic Energy. The Yongbyon reactor was shut...

US Navy Sends Radar Platform to Observe North Korea

Washington also delivers a warship along with it

(Newser) - The US Navy says it's locating a sea-based radar platform and a warship nearer to North Korea's coast in order to keep an eye on the nation's military maneuvers, a Defense Department official tells CNN . Yet despite North Korea's latest round of aggressive rhetoric , White House...

US Deploys Stealth Jets in Korea Show of Force

Pyongyang calls nukes a 'treasure' that won't be surrendered

(Newser) - In a move seen as a clear warning to Pyongyang, the US deployed F-22 stealth fighter jets during joint military exercises yesterday. The Raptors, which are among the most advanced weapons the Air Force has at its command, would probably be the first aircraft deployed if a conflict did take...

North Korea: We're Now in 'State of War' With South

But South Korea downplays threat

(Newser) - North Korea keeps one-upping its own rhetoric: Today, Pyongyang declared that "from this time on, the North-South relations will be entering a state of war," reports the BBC . "The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over." The...

North Korea Preps Rockets, Citing US 'Ultimatum'

Thousands rally against US in Pyongyang

(Newser) - The US B-2 bomber flights over the Korean peninsula amounted to an "ultimatum," the North says—so it has put its rockets on standby, aimed at US military bases. Leaders decided late last night that "the time has come to settle accounts with the US imperialists,"...

Iran, N. Korea, Syria Block UN Arms Trade Treaty

Other countries to keep pushing for pact

(Newser) - Iran, North Korea, and Syria blocked adoption of a UN treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade for the first time, saying it fails to ban sales to terrorists, but other countries refused to let the treaty die. The treaty's adoption required agreement by all 193 UN...

US Sends Stealth Bombers to South Korea

They drop inert munitions as part of drills

(Newser) - The US sent B-2 stealth bombers—which can carry nuclear weapons—from Missouri to South Korea for military drills, Washington said today. Following the drills, which involved them dropping inert munitions, they returned home, CNN reports. The move "demonstrates the United States' ability to conduct long range, precision strikes...

N. Korea Cuts Military Hotline, Warns of War 'at Any Moment'

Move may strand hundreds on wrong side of border

(Newser) - Pyongyang, declaring that "under the situation where a war may break out at any moment, there is no need to keep North-South military communications," has cut another key hotline to the South, CNN reports. The "dialogue channel" Pyongyang has cut is used daily as South Korean workers...

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