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Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA)
A nuclear issue surfaced on the Korean peninsula as the U.S. has deployed nukes in south Korea and threatened the DPRK with them.
The Japanese reactionaries, he noted, have committed themselves with the U.S. not to rule out "economic sanctions," "sea blockade" and "preemptive attack" against the DPRK under the pretext of its "nuclear threat" and now are formally joining in the U.S. moves to blockade the DPRK.
Aug 14, 5:38 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After two days of talks, the United States, Japan and South Korea have agreed that North Korea must end its nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Thursday.
North Korea is approaching the negotiations with a tough public line. On Wednesday, a foreign ministry spokesman demanded that the United States commit to a nonaggression treaty and normalize ties with the North.
The official also rejected any early inspection of North Korea's nuclear programs. That goal was reaffirmed by the United States, Japan and South Korea in their meetings at the State Department this week.
Japanese reporters were told after the meeting that Tokyo intends to press North Korea to permit the return of families of those Japanese who were kidnapped decades ago for training as spies.
Powell has offered to put in writing assurances that the Bush administration does not intend to attack North Korea and have Congress note the assurance.
The reports suggested Powell's signal of written assurances was opposed by the Pentagon and members of Vice President Dick Cheney's staff.
Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly will head the U.S. delegation at the Beijing talks.
N. Korea suspected of training hackers
Seoul
June 10 2003
Computers are rare and Internet access is almost non-existent for most people in North Korea. Yet the isolated country is suspected of training computer hackers for cyberterrorism, US and South Korean officials say.
April 16, 1998
The secret exercise, known as "Eligible Receiver," proved that hackers could easily shut down the U.S. electric-power grid within days and "render impotent" the command-and-control elements of the U.S. Pacific Command, NSA officials said.
Of course, we'll have time to look at it and determine whether or not our grid needs to be modernized. I happen to think it does, and have said so all along.
Some experts warn of a cascade event, where a terrorist is able to manipulatecontrol systems and cause catastrophic failure within an infrastructure. Cascadeevents can be very damaging, causing widespread utility outages.
Well, now it looks like we have reason to believe the power outage could have been caused by a NK hacker. Something we don't know about is about to start kicking off, perhaps this was a setback to that plan?