Asia

North Korea to cut all channels with South as “war may break out any time”

Photo Credit: Reuters/KCNA (Reuters) – Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at “any moment”, it said on Wednesday, days after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack. The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third… Read more →

South Korea and US begin military drills as North Korea threatens war

Photo: (AP) SEOUL, South Korea –  North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010. Enraged over the South’s joint military drills with the United States and recent U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang has piled threat on top of… Read more →

North Korea says ‘prepare for war’

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has told troops to prepare for “all-out war” as tensions continue to rise on the Korean peninsula. Kim Jong-un has visited North Korean troops on the border with the South and called on them to be ready “to annihilate the enemy,” the latest broadside in an increasingly bitter war of words with Seoul and Washington…. Read more →

North Korea vows nuclear attack on US, saying Washington will be ‘engulfed in a sea of fire’

Photo: (AP) North Korea amplified its threatening rhetoric hours before a U.N. vote on new sweeping sanctions, vowing to launch a first-strike nuclear attack against the United States and threatening to engulf Washington in a “sea of fire.” An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for “a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds… Read more →

Malaysian troops attack armed Philippine group in Sabah

Photo Credit: Reuters/Bazuki Muhammad (Reuters) – Malaysian troops backed by fighter jets stormed the camp of an armed Filipino group on Tuesday, trying to end a standoff on Borneo island after violence that killed at least 27 people and sparked fears of broader insecurity in the resource-rich region. Jets bombed the area in Malaysia’s eastern Sabah state for more than 30… Read more →

North Korea vows to cancel Korean War cease-fire

SEOUL, South Korea –  North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing U.N. sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills. Without elaborating, the Korean People’s Army Supreme Command warned of “surgical strikes” meant to unify the divided Korean Peninsula and of an… Read more →

UN Says Erdogan ‘Wrong’ to Link Zionism With Fascism

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for comments linking Zionism with fascism. “The secretary-general heard the prime minister’s speech through an interpreter,” Ban Ki-moon’s office said in an e- mailed statement today. “If the comment about Zionism was interpreted correctly, then it was not only wrong but contradicts the very principles… Read more →

N. Korea propaganda footage shows Obama, US troops on fire

Photo discovered on RT A new North Korean propaganda video has emerged, depicting US President Barack Obama and American soldiers through a background of flames. The footage states Pyongyang carried out its latest nuclear test to spite the US, which warned against it. A new North Korean propaganda video has emerged, depicting US President Barack Obama and American soldiers through… Read more →

North Korea threatens South with “final destruction”

Photo Credit: Reuters/Lee Jae-Won (Reuters) - North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after a nuclear test last week. “As the saying goes, a new-born puppy knows no fear of a tiger. South Korea’s erratic behavior would only herald its final destruction,” North… Read more →