gmb45
27th May, 2009, 05:51 AM
NOSTRADAMUS: the war to end all wars will start in the middle east.
North Korea has threatened a military strike against the South.
North Korean soldiers, officials and people participate in the Pyongyang People's Rally to celebrate what the North says is a successful second nuclear test
North Korean soldiers, officials and people celebrate the nuclear test
The action comes a day after South Korea joined a US-led initiative to intercept shipments suspected of being involved in weapons of mass destruction.
The communist North's military said it will respond with "immediate, strong military measures" if the South stops and searches any North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.
The statement, carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), said North Korea no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War, as a protest over the South's participation.
South Korea announced its involvement in the anti-proliferation program yesterday, one day after the North conducted a nuclear test.
In the past 48 hours Pyongyang has launched five short range missiles in an act of defiance after the Security Council condemned its detonation of an underground nuclear device on Monday.
At sunrise the fifth streaked up from the North Korean mainland and out across the Sea of Japan as Kim Jong Il continued to thumb his nose at the UN, the US and its regional neighbours.
Foreign visitors walk past models of a North Korean Scud-B missile
Model missiles at the Korean War Museum
A military spokesman quoted by official media said the North could no longer guarantee the safety of shipping off its west coast - suggesting a missile could also be fired in that direction.
A South Korean newspaper reported US spy satellites have detected signs that North Korea has re-started its nuclear plant at Yongbyon.
The newspaper - quoting intelligence sources - said the satellites detected steam rising from the reprocessing facility at the nuclear plant.
North Korea had promised it would restart the reprocessing of spent fuel rods in protest at UN criticism of the launch of a long range ballistic missile in April.
In New York members of the United Nations Security Council have gone into closed meetings in an attempt to deliver a unanimous response to North Korea's continued breach of previous UN resolutions.
Ambassadors from the five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China - were joined by ambassadors from the two countries most affected by the nuclear test, South Korea and Japan.
They met for an hour trying to agree on a new resolution but US Ambassador Susan Rice, speaking on behalf of the group, warned it would be a long process.
China remains one of North Korea's few allies but is plainly losing patience with its neighbour.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman repeated that Beijing "resolutely opposed" the nuclear test and urged Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table.
North Korea has threatened a military strike against the South.
North Korean soldiers, officials and people participate in the Pyongyang People's Rally to celebrate what the North says is a successful second nuclear test
North Korean soldiers, officials and people celebrate the nuclear test
The action comes a day after South Korea joined a US-led initiative to intercept shipments suspected of being involved in weapons of mass destruction.
The communist North's military said it will respond with "immediate, strong military measures" if the South stops and searches any North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.
The statement, carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), said North Korea no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War, as a protest over the South's participation.
South Korea announced its involvement in the anti-proliferation program yesterday, one day after the North conducted a nuclear test.
In the past 48 hours Pyongyang has launched five short range missiles in an act of defiance after the Security Council condemned its detonation of an underground nuclear device on Monday.
At sunrise the fifth streaked up from the North Korean mainland and out across the Sea of Japan as Kim Jong Il continued to thumb his nose at the UN, the US and its regional neighbours.
Foreign visitors walk past models of a North Korean Scud-B missile
Model missiles at the Korean War Museum
A military spokesman quoted by official media said the North could no longer guarantee the safety of shipping off its west coast - suggesting a missile could also be fired in that direction.
A South Korean newspaper reported US spy satellites have detected signs that North Korea has re-started its nuclear plant at Yongbyon.
The newspaper - quoting intelligence sources - said the satellites detected steam rising from the reprocessing facility at the nuclear plant.
North Korea had promised it would restart the reprocessing of spent fuel rods in protest at UN criticism of the launch of a long range ballistic missile in April.
In New York members of the United Nations Security Council have gone into closed meetings in an attempt to deliver a unanimous response to North Korea's continued breach of previous UN resolutions.
Ambassadors from the five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China - were joined by ambassadors from the two countries most affected by the nuclear test, South Korea and Japan.
They met for an hour trying to agree on a new resolution but US Ambassador Susan Rice, speaking on behalf of the group, warned it would be a long process.
China remains one of North Korea's few allies but is plainly losing patience with its neighbour.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman repeated that Beijing "resolutely opposed" the nuclear test and urged Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table.