NKorea charges US man in plot to overthrow regime. PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.
The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since early November, further complicates already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington following weeks of heightened rhetoric and tensions. The trial mirrors a similar situation in 2009, when the U.S. and North Korea were locked in a standoff over Pyongyang's decision to launch a long-range rocket and conduct an underground nuclear test.
Pre-teen North Koreans trained as soldiers. By JEAN H.
LEE PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's newest batch of future soldiers — scrawny 11-year-olds with freshly shaved heads — punch the air as they practice taekwondo on the grounds of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School. Students and teachers here say they're studying harder these days to prepare for a fight. Across the country, banners, slogans and artwork have been redrawn to focus on fighting "the imperialist Americans and their traitorous followers," a reference to South Korea. North Korean reveals cannibalism is common after escaping starving state.
Sung Min Jeong, 44, claims that in Chongjin – a city at the tip of the North Korean coast – a shopkeeper serves up human meat.
"One of his strongest thoughts is … if he didn't take steps to leave North Korea, he would've become a North Korean who ate human flesh," an interpreter for Mr Jeong told news.com.au. The thought that he would have to one day eat a fellow human being is what drove Mr Jeong to leave his homeland behind and to escape to Sydney in March 2011. It is not the first time reports of cannibalism have emerged from the secretive state. Fears that famine-stricken North Koreans are being forced to eat human flesh heightened earlier this year following claims a man was executed for murdering his two children for food.
"While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. Opinion: Why I fled North Korea. Obama says he doesn't believe North Korea has nuclear missile. Obama says Kim Jong Un is following familiar pattern of provocationHe says intelligence suggests the North can't build a nuclear missileThe North may make more provocative moves in the coming weeks, he warnsNorth Korea has dismissed the idea of talks with the U.S. as "a crafty ploy" Are you from South or North Korea?
Send us your views. Inside North Korea: Video and photos show true horror of Kim Jong-Un's evil regime. A child of around 10 sits dying of starvation by the side of the road while just yards away soldiers load enough rice on to trucks to feed families for weeks.
As the young boy slumps on the grimy kerb in his filthy, oversized army jacket, locals stroll past zombie-style without even glancing in his direction or displaying an ounce of pity for his wretched plight. Nearby his friends scavenge in disease-ridden rubbish tips for scraps of what might pass for food in a land where people are so poor they are forced to eat tree bark or even corpses, according to those on the inside. And not far away, prisoners are herded from their harsh labour camps to frantically dig out crops from frozen ground while trigger-happy troops hover over them waiting for the one wrong move that could end with death. North Korea states 'nuclear war is unavoidable' as it declares first target will be Japan.
In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist country lashed out at Tokyo's standing orders to destroy any missile heading toward Japan, threatening such actions will result in a nuclear attack against the island nation.
If Japan executes its threat to shoot down any North Korean missile, such a “provocative” intervention would see Tokyo — an enormous conurbation of 30 million people — “consumed in nuclear flames”, KCNA warned. “Japan is always in the cross-hairs of our revolutionary army and if Japan makes a slightest move, the spark of war will touch Japan first,” the report added. An official at Japan’s defence ministry said that the country “will take every possible measure to respond to any scenario”, while the US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that a North Korean missile launch would be a “huge mistake”. Dateline Pyongyang. In February, North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test since 2006.
The test, performed in defiance of scores of United Nations sanctions, outraged the international community. Within weeks, the U.N. had leveled more sanctions on the rogue regime, beefing up inspections of North Korean cargo, banning luxury exports to the impoverished nation’s appallingly self-indulgent ruling coterie, requiring countries to freeze all financial transactions that might somehow aid the North Korean nuclear program, and barring the transport of bulk cash into the country. A shot from Lee's photojournal at Instagram.com Kim Jong-un’s government, predictably, was enraged, threatening to launch a nuclear attack on the United States and to turn nearby Seoul into a sea of fire. China Sides with North Korea. “No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains,” said President Xi Jinping on Sunday at a regional forum hosted by Beijing.
Immediately, global media interpreted the remarks as a rebuke of North Korea. The New York Times, for instance, called Xi’s words “an indirect but clear criticism of China’s longtime ally.” Has Beijing finally made the switch from supporting Pyongyang to siding with the international community? Most everyone thinks so. After all, who else could Xi have been referring to on Sunday? They also effectively closed the last cooperative project been the two Koreas and deployed two intermediate-range ballistic missiles on their mobile launchers, getting them into position for firing.
Not so fast. And the following day, People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship publication, issued a stinging commentary, leaving no doubt who Xi thought was the culprit. PJTV: Reflections of Disaster. Lawmaker drops bombshell: North Korea may have nuclear missiles. The results of a classified Defense Intelligence Agency report indicate that “North Korea now has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles.”
Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition That was the bombshell out of a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday. It came when Rep. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Representative Lamborn read from the report toward the end of a defense budget hearing.
“They say, ‘DIA assess with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles. “I can’t touch that one,” Dempsey answered. The problem was that the report hasn’t been released, he said. Missile spotted in 'launch position', United States and South Korean armed forces placed at 'vital alert' Watchcon 2. A FORMER North Korean spy who bombed a South Korean airliner has told the ABC the North's leader Kim Jong-Un is struggling to control his military.
Courtesy: ABC 7.30 To access our premium content,please subscribe or log in. British MP defends North Korea against 'wicked' America. Left-wing British Member of Parliament George Galloway, a long-time defender of the world’s worst dictatorships, blamed the tensions on the Korean peninsula on the United States Thursday. “I’m much more afraid of the United States of America and so are most people in the world,” Galloway said on “Comments,” a show he hosts on the Iranian government’s English-language propaganda station, Press TV. U.S. troops ‘would die’ in N. Korean onslaught. Text smaller Text bigger WASHINGTON – If North Korea were to launch an attack, U.S. intelligence analysts tell WND the barrage of hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds and missiles would destroy not only South Korea’s capital, Seoul, but also most of the U.S. troops stationed primarily around the capital and near the Demilitarized Zone separating the two countries.
“The 28,500 guys on the border are a speed bump and a trigger for war,” a U.S. intelligence officer who is closely monitoring North Korean activities told WND in an exclusive interview. “They probably would die.” He explained, “Every U.S. and South Korean (location) already has a pre-programmed target reference point by the North Koreans.” The initial assessment by this and other U.S. intelligence analysts give a grim picture of the initial onslaught of an attack initiated by North Korea.
Discover the terrifying way North Korea could strike at the heart of the U.S. in F. China deplores Korea tension, warns against regional turmoil. US delays missile test over N Korea tensions - Americas. The United States has decided to delay a long-planned missile test scheduled for next week out of California "to avoid any misperception or miscalculation", given tensions with North Korea, a senior US defence official has said.
The unusual precaution by the US follows a barrage of hostile rhetoric from North Korea - including the threat of open war - that has created jitters in South Korea's financial markets. The US decision will delay the test of the Minuteman III intercontinental missile, which had been scheduled for next week out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. "This is the logical, prudent and responsible course of action to take," the official said on Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity. It also came after reports in the South that Pyongyang, under its 30-year-old leader, Kim Jung-un, had moved two medium-range missiles to a location on its east coast. SKorea: NKorea may be preparing to test missile. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top South Korean national security official said 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 efforts to punish South Korea and the U.S. for ongoing joint military drills, and for their support of U.N. sanctions over Pyongyang's Feb. 12 nuclear test. The Pentagon has strengthened missile defenses and made other decisions to combat the potential threat. U.S. Gen. Dempsey said the U.S. has been preparing for further provocations or action, "considering the risk that they may choose to do something" on one of two nationally important anniversaries — April 15, the birth of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, and April 25, the creation of the North Korean army.
The U.S. How Korean war might play out. Embassies face decisions as tensions rise in North Korea. Emergency service personnel wearing chemical protective clothing participate in an anti-chemical warfare exercise on Tuesday, April 16 in Seoul. North Korea moves second missile to east coast amid threats against US. Map: This is how far those North Korean missiles can actually reach. North Korea Army: 'War Could Break Out Today' By Mark Stone, in Seoul, South Korea The North Korean military says it has ratified a "merciless" attack against the United States, potentially involving a "cutting-edge" nuclear strike.
"The moment of explosion is approaching fast," the army said in a statement on state news agency KCNA. Does the mystery surrounding N. Korea's Kim Jong Un make him more dangerous? US working diplomatic channels to resolve N. Korea standoff, amid shows of strength. As the Pentagon flies B-2 bombers over the Korean Peninsula and strengthens its missile-defense posture in the region, U.S. officials are steadily working the diplomatic channels around North Korea -- in a bid to dial down tensions before things get "hotter. " Rule of Law » Where Is Obama’s Moral Clarity on North Korea? April 3rd, 2013 - 5:54 pm Welcome to 2013. Maybe the Mayans couldn’t add correctly. Seoul warns North Korea. US to move missiles to Guam after North Korea threats. 4 April 2013Last updated at 06:11 ET. Officials To Take ‘Whatever Precautions’ Needed After North Korea Threat.
Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up AUSTIN, Texas (CBS Houston) – In response to perceived threats against the city from the North Korean government, officials in Austin have said they are willing to do whatever federal officials feel may be necessary to protect civilians. North Korea vows to expand nuclear arsenal, signaling end of talks. Russia Worried by 'Explosive' North Korea Situation. North Korea analyst: 'One of the most dangerous moments' SEOUL -- Thumbing its nose again at the international community, North Korea announced Tuesday that it would restart a nuclear reactor that was closed in 2007 under a six-nation disarmament agreement. Although Pyongyang claimed in the past that the reactor's purpose was to generate electricity, this time the regime declared outright it would also be "bolstering up the nuclear armed force both in quantity and in quality.
" U.S. struggling to contain nuclear threats from North Korea, Iran. But amid more bellicose threats from North Korea and on the eve of a new round of talks with Iran, neither the administration nor its Asian and European allies appear any closer to resolving either case. U.S. General Says North Korea Situation Is 'Volatile' and 'Dangerous' Aggressive talk from North Korea concerns U.S. leaders. What kind of attack could North Korea launch? North Korea says enters state of war against South. North Korea: 'outbreak of war hours away' as Kim Jong-un plans US strike. North Korea tensions: Russia's Lavrov fears 'spiral'
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