RENEWED NUKE SALE FEAR AFTER RECENT NKOREA TEST
By FOSTER KLUG A North Korean soldier looks at the southern side through a pair of binoculars at the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas…
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LAWMAKER WONDERS ABOUT NKOREA LEADER’S ‘STABILITY’
Models of a mock North Korea Scud-B missile, center right, and other South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 17, 2013.…
MISSILE PLAN CHANGES MAY PROVIDE OPENING FOR TALKS
By DESMOND BUTLER Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, March 15, 2013, to announce that the Obama administration will add 14 interceptors to…
KOREAS’ RHETORIC NO MATCH FOR SURREAL CALM AT DMZ
By FOSTER KLUG South Korean army soldiers prepare 155 mm howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea,…
PANEL SAYS NO COVER-UP ATTEMPT BY JAPAN NUKE PLANT
By MARI YAMAGUCHI FILE – In this Dec. 29, 2012 file photo, the Unit 1 reactor building, left, and Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are seen…
DEAD PIGS FOUND IN SHANGHAI RIVER RISE ABOVE 6,600
A worker hauls away dead pigs with a net in Zhonglian village of Jinshan district in Shanghai Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The number of dead pigs found floating in a…
HISTORY SHOWS NKOREAN PATTERN: WAIT, THEN ATTACK
By FOSTER KLUG In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader…
PENTAGON FORMING CYBER TEAMS TO PREVENT ATTACKS
By RICHARD LARDNER FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2010 file photo, Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Foreign…