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LEAD) N. Korea denies S. Korean bizmen's entry to Kaesong
SEOUL, April 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Wednesday rejected a request by South Korean businessmen to visit a jointly-run industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong to deliver food and check their facilities, Seoul's unification ministry said.
"Pyongyang has sent a notice that it can't agree to (the South Korean businessmen's visit to Kaesong)," the Ministry of Unification said. "It is very regrettable."
some of it has been posted, or reworded to get the reader eyes crossed then form Korea Herald , the one that is sure to get things going Kim is now in between a rock and a hard place if he does not act, there could be a coup read this twice for it to sink in www.koreaherald.com...
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Yonhap News Summary 04-17 13:30
Japanese envoy urges S. Korea to boost military ties 04-17 12:02
(2nd LD) N. Korea denies S. Korean bizmen entry to Kaesong 04-17 11:56
Park urges end to rewarding N. Korea's bad behavior 04-17 11:55
(LEAD) N. Korea denies S. Korean bizmen's entry to Kaesong 04-17 11:08
(URGENT) N. Korea snubs bizmen's request to visit Kaesong park: unification ministry 04-17 10:43
N. Korea nixes bizmen's request to visit Kaesong 04-17 09:21
(2nd LD) N. Korea not opposed to dialogue, but wants to save face first 04-17 03:54
Obama downplays N. Korea's nuclear warhead technology 04-17 02:41
(LEAD) N. Korea clearly rejects U.S. offer of dialogue 04-17 01:40
Hacking group releases member list of pro-N. Korea sites 04-16 23:26
N. Korea calls U.S. suggest of dialogue a 'deception' 04-16 22:36
N. Korea may be eyeing exit plan as tensions peak: USFK official 04-16 19:23
(LEAD) N. Korea mum on bizmen's request to visit Kaesong 04-16 17:23
Presidential office to hold meeting over possible N.K. provocations 04-16 17:03
(LEAD) Gov't to allow N.K. defectors to be experienced civil servants 04-16 16:27
N. Korean defectors allowed to become experienced civil servants 04-16 16:05
U.S. not mulling special envoy to N. Korea: Seoul 04-16 16:01
N. Korea sends delegation to energy fair in Iran 04-16 15:45
Seoul denies secret contact with N. Korea 04-16 14:33
(LEAD) Kerry's visit to Asia forges 'united front' against N. Korea: ambassador 04-16 14:06
Kerry's visit to Asia forges 'united front' against N. Korea: ambassador 04-16 13:58
N. Korea mum on bizmen's request to visit Kaesong 04-16 13:54
(3rd LD) In 'ultimatum,' N. Korea vows blitz attack on S. Korea 04-16 11:47
Kim Jong-un attends sporting event on founder's birthday 04-16 11:14
Hacking group attacks N.K. Web sites on founder's birthday 04-16 10:46
(2nd LD) Park to hold first summit with Obama on May 7 04-16 10:43
S. Korea eyes extra US$194 mln for defense spending 04-16 10:00
(News Focus) Park, Obama face crucial test on chemistry amid N.K. headache 04-16 09:50
(LEAD) Obama set for May 7 summit with S. Korean leader 04-16 09:11
Obama set for May 7 summit with S. Korean leader 04-16 08:40
(2nd LD) In 'ultimatum,' N. Korea vows blitz attack on S. Korea 04-16 04:00
(LEAD) In 'ultimatum,' N. Korea vows blitz attack on S. Korea 04-16 03:32
In 'ultimatum,' N. Korea urges Seoul to apologize for 'all hostile acts' 04-16 02:16
Song Hyun Wook, an electric company employee, had to work hard performing songs and dances on the anniversary, but the three-day holiday meant two precious days of rest afterward, he recalled Monday.
Raymond Pritchett @Galrahn 11h
Intel source "no military parade or other major festivities in North Korea Monday may indicate the nation is rationing supplies"
that it for now back later with more
Park, Obama: North Korea will not be rewarded
Published : 2013-04-17 20:53
Updated : 2013-04-17 21:05
South Korean and U.S. leaders on Wednesday hardened their stances against North Korea after the communist country rebuffed their dialogue offer while escalating tensions.
President Park Geun-hye reaffirmed her resolve not to reward North Korea’s saber-rattling, urging an end to the “vicious circle” of blackmail, negotiations and economic assistance.
U.S. President Barack Obama left the door open for talks with North Korea but vowed not to give in to the “same kind of pattern” that doomed negotiations to denuclearize Pyongyang.
On the same day, the bellicose regime rejected a request by South Korean business executives to enter the joint industrial park in Gaeseong to deliver food and check on their factories.
the is the proof that DPRK has the Nuke weapons tech from Pakistan.
Pakistan nuke scientist asks forgiveness
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-02-05 08:38
Pakistan nuke scientist asks forgiveness
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, left, founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, meets President Gen. Pervez Musharraf at the presidential palace in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004, released by Press Information Department. [AP]
The founder of Pakistan's nuclear program apologized in a nationally televised address Wednesday for spreading weapons secrets to three nations.
The government said Abdul Qadeer Khan asked President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for forgiveness for selling atomic technology to Iran, Libya and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
"I have chosen to appear before you to offer my deepest regrets and unqualified apologies," Khan said in a solemn speech broadcast on state television. "I take full responsibility for my actions and seek your pardon."
Intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was an agreement not to prosecute Khan, who agreed to cooperate with investigators and give them all the required information for their probe into the nuclear transfers.
A friend of the scientist said Tuesday that Khan told him he gave nuclear weapons technology to other countries with the full knowledge of top army officials, including Musharraf.
But Khan said government officials were not involved in the leaks.
"I also wish to clarify that there was never ever any kind of authorization for these activities by the government," he said.
you wanted a smoking gun , well it is loaded as well.
DEVICE DATE YIELD
[announced] YIELD
[estimated]
[boosted device?] 28 May 1998 25-36 kiloton total 9-12 kiloton
Fission device 28 May 1998 12 kiloton
Low-yield device 28 May 1998 sub-kiloton --
Low-yield device 28 May 1998 sub-kiloton --
Low-yield device 28 May 1998 sub-kiloton --
Fission device 30 May 1998 12 kiloton 4-6 kiloton
Fission device not detonated 12 kiloton --
This table lists the nuclear tests that Pakistan claims to have carried out in May 1998 as well as the announced yields. Other sources have reported lower yields than those claimed by Pakistan. The Southern Arizona Seismic Observatory reports that the total seismic yield for the May 28th tests was 9-12 kilotons and that the yield for the May 30th tests was 4-6 kilotons.
China is giving DPRK the fuel and food they need, if that is cut off then the DPRK will Collapse under it own weight.
Kerry: China, key to President Park's campaign to reach out to Pyongyang
By Lee Chi-dong
WASHINGTON, April 17 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday North Korea would collapse without China's assistance as he stressed the importance of getting Beijing behind efforts to denuclearize Pyongyang.
"I think it's fair to say that without China, North Korea would collapse," he said at a congressional hearing.
The senator, who has long followed North Korea, especially when he was a senator, pointed out that China provides almost three-quarters of North Korea's fuel.
"China is a significant banking conduit for the North," he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "China provides significant food aid to the North. Therefore I think it's important for us to work with China. And I think China has indicated its willingness to work with us."
Kerry traveled to Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo last week on his first trip to the region as Washington's top diplomat.
He said China's role is also important to South Korean President Park Geun-hye's efforts to reach out to North Korea, a policy aimed at building a trust-based dialogue process on the peninsula.
"She obviously can't do that in the middle of this kind of process," Kerry said. "My hope would be that the Chinese will come to the table in a way that they never have before."
The U.S. and China can work together to "redefine what's in all of our interests, which is a kind of stability," he said.
"And that could ultimately even open up the possibility of President Park's outreach to be able to have an impact," he added.
Kerry is known for longstanding support for talks with North Korea, but he made clear Washington would break the cycle of Pyongyang's provocations followed by talks and hasty deals on incentives.
"We're not going down the same old road. We're not going to reward them and come to the table and get into some food deal without some pretty ironclad concept of how we're going forward on the denuclearization," Kerry said.
He would not describe the Obama administration's North Korea strategy as "strategic patience."
"I'd call it strategic impatience," he said.
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next up Japan shoot down missile order in place till July www3.nhk.or.jp... Last but not least an other good laugh from DPRK as told by english.yonhapnews.co.kr... from the link
NDC Policy Department Clarifies Stand over U.S., S. Korea's Call for Dialogue
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Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- The Policy Department of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK released a statement Thursday clarifying the principled stand of the DPRK over the U.S. and the south Korean authorities' rhetoric about dialogue.
The statement says in part:
The U.S. and the south Korean puppet regime should take a bold decision of taking the following practical measures if they want to shirk the historical responsibility for the prevailing grave situation on the Korean Peninsula and evade sledge-hammer retaliatory blows of the army and people of the DPRK and if they truly stand for dialogue and negotiations:
First, they should immediately stop all their provocative acts against the DPRK and apologize for all of them.
As the first phase, they should take measures of retracting the UN Security Council's "resolutions on sanctions" cooked up under absurd pretexts.
They should bear in mind that doing so would be a token of good will towards the DPRK.
The south Korean puppet forces should promptly halt all anti-DPRK rackets being kicked up by them, linking their own mishaps such as the Cheonan warship sinking incident and the "March 20 hacking case" to the north.
Second, they should give formal assurances before the world that they would not stage again such nuclear war drills to threaten or blackmail the DPRK.
Dialogue can never go with war actions.
Frequent nuclear war maneuvers will only strain the situation and totally block the way of dialogue.
The army and people of the DPRK will not be taken in by sophism that the nuclear war drills being staged under its very nose are annual and defensive military actions for defending the U.S. and guaranteeing the security of south Korea.
Third, they should make a decision to withdraw all nuclear war means from south Korea and its vicinity and give up their attempt to reintroduce them as their immediate duty.
They should bear in mind that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can begin with the pullout of the nuclear war means introduced by the U.S. and this may lead to the global denuclearization.
The chief of Chongwadae should not forget that the prospect of south Korea may be rosy when the DPRK's nukes are considered as a property common to the nation but south Korea is bound to go to ruin when it remains under the U.S. nuclear umbrella.
The situation on the peninsula is directly linked with peace and security in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
The army and people of the DPRK together with the world peace-loving people who sympathize with justice and value conscience will closely follow the future behavior of the U.S. and its followers. -0-
well there it is no war, no Un dead, no coup, but if they do come to be , then .... if the web is up... post
2013/04/18 10:43 KST
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N.K. warns it will never engage in talks if Seoul seeks hostile acts
SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea warned Thursday that it will never engage in inter-Korean talks if South Korea continues to pursue hostile actions.
The statement released by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea comes after Pyongyang rejected calls for talks by both South Korea and the United States earlier in the week. The country also threatened to attack the South for insulting its leadership.
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North Korea demanded on Thursday the removal of UN sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile tests and a US pledge not to engage in "nuclear war practice" with South Korea if Washington truly sought dialogue. "If the United States and the puppet South have the slightest desire to avoid the sledge-hammer blow of our army and the people ... and truly wish dialogue and negotiations, they must make the resolute decision," the North's National Defence Commission said in a statement. "Firstly, the sanctions resolutions by the UN Security Council that were fabricated with unjust reasons must be withdrawn," the North's top military body said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
Originally posted by PutAQuarterIn
Rest of Asia N Korea demands end of sanctions if US wants dialogue
North Korea demanded on Thursday the removal of UN sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile tests and a US pledge not to engage in "nuclear war practice" with South Korea if Washington truly sought dialogue. "If the United States and the puppet South have the slightest desire to avoid the sledge-hammer blow of our army and the people ... and truly wish dialogue and negotiations, they must make the resolute decision," the North's National Defence Commission said in a statement. "Firstly, the sanctions resolutions by the UN Security Council that were fabricated with unjust reasons must be withdrawn," the North's top military body said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
www.hindustantimes.com...
Nothing they hadn't hinted at before, but still put it here for sake of documenting it.
Doesn't look like either side are willing to compromise what the other side really wants. We only want to talk if they give up the nukes, they only want to talk if we lift sanctions whilst letting them keep the nukes. Neither side is going to agree to the others demands anytime soon.
Originally posted by pheonix358
Originally posted by PutAQuarterIn
Rest of Asia N Korea demands end of sanctions if US wants dialogue
North Korea demanded on Thursday the removal of UN sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile tests and a US pledge not to engage in "nuclear war practice" with South Korea if Washington truly sought dialogue. "If the United States and the puppet South have the slightest desire to avoid the sledge-hammer blow of our army and the people ... and truly wish dialogue and negotiations, they must make the resolute decision," the North's National Defence Commission said in a statement. "Firstly, the sanctions resolutions by the UN Security Council that were fabricated with unjust reasons must be withdrawn," the North's top military body said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
www.hindustantimes.com...
Nothing they hadn't hinted at before, but still put it here for sake of documenting it.
Doesn't look like either side are willing to compromise what the other side really wants. We only want to talk if they give up the nukes, they only want to talk if we lift sanctions whilst letting them keep the nukes. Neither side is going to agree to the others demands anytime soon.
So the West has an easy way out! But they will not take it.
You have to ask, who does actually want this war! Lots of $$$$$$$$ to me made here folks.
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Originally posted by pheonix358
reply to post by generik
I am bloody sick of this crap attitude. It stinks to high heaven.
The US Government can give/allow Israel Nukes, estimated at 200 - 300 but NK can't have 1.
Why, because the US says so.
How many posters who are from the US keep saying the US should just Nuke NK. I for one do not, and never will trust the US with thousands of Nukes.
Get real. The vast majority of the problems in this world for the last half century have been caused by the US and by Russia. Take theirs away first.
The Non Proliferation Treaty has sections in it that the US has never abided by.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Jeez. Sick and tired of the double standards.
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