North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is reportedly preparing to launch a terror attack against South Korea, according to top officials in Seoul.
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“It has become clear that we can not break North Korea’s will to develop nuclear weapons through existing means and goodwill”, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said.
South Korea cut off power and water supplies to a factory park in North Korea, a day after the North deported all South Korean workers there and ordered a military takeover of the complex that had been the last major symbol of cooperation between the rivals.
After South Korea then closed a jointly-run…
Upon arrival in Washington on Wednesday, Cho underscored Seoul’s push for greater pressure on Pyongyang, saying South Korea hopes to work closely with the United States to force a change in North Korea’s behavior so as to curb its nuclear and missile development.
After the rocket launch, Seoul announced that talks would begin with Washington on deploying a sophisticated USA missile defence system in South Korea and that the allies’ annual military drills in the spring will be the biggest ever.
South Dakota would be the first state in the U.S.to approve a law requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their sex at birth if the governor signs a bill passed Tuesday… In 2010, North Korean shelling killed 4 South Koreans, and a 1987 Northern bombing attack on a South Korean plane killed all passengers on the aircraft, reports CBS News. O’Shaughnessy, the deputy commander of the USA military command in South Korea, said in a statement.
Lawmakers felt compelled to retaliate against North Korea, expressing concern that global bodies, such as the United Nations, were not responding quickly enough to its aggressive moves.
American F-22 Raptors have joined locally based F-16s and F-15K Slam Eagles in South Korea for a show of force following “provocative actions” by the North.
Meanwhile, the local Navy said that it was conducting a counterterrorism drill with the Coast Guard, featuring an operation to defend commercial vessels in a North Korean hijacking scenario.
The deployment is opposed by China and Russian Federation, too.
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Seoul recently vowed to take “bone-numbing” measures against Pyongyang following the latter’s nuclear test last month and a satellite launch this month, CNN noted.
