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Could NKorea hit its neighbors with nukes?

AsianetApril 9, 2013 09:24

North Korea is widely recognized as being years away from perfecting the technology to back up its bold threats of a pre-emptive strike on the United States. But some nuclear experts say it might have the know-how to fire a nuclear-tipped missile at South Korea and Japan, which host U.S. military bases. No one can tell with any certainty how much technological progress North Korea has made, aside from perhaps a few people close to its secretive leadership.

NKorea aggression could strengthen US-China bond

AsianetApril 9, 2013 09:21

North Korea’s latest outburst of nuclear and military threats has given the U.S.

North Korea crisis: How did it come to this?

AsianetApril 9, 2013 09:18

Tensions have soared in recent weeks over North Korea, which has threatened a nuclear strike against the United States and has allegedly moved missiles to its east coast. HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? The latest crisis erupted when North Korea fired a long-range rocket on December 12 that splashed down near the Philippines.

For US and North Korea, will crises ever end?

Agence France-PresseApril 9, 2013 02:45

With tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring to include threats of nuclear war, frustration is mounting at what US policy experts see as the failure of all efforts to rein in North Korea. Decades of threats have waxed and waned despite myriad attempts to reach out for talks or punish the regime, as seen recently in the tightening of UN sanctions. North Korea watchers see a familiar pattern in which the communist state ramps up threats or takes actions such as missile launches or nuclear tests in a bid to show anger and force concessions from the United States.

Kerry says U.S. ready to 'reach out' to North Korea

Thomson ReutersApril 9, 2013 02:31

By Arshad Mohammed and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear weapons. He also vowed Washington would protect its Asian allies against any provocative acts by the North, but said it wants a peaceful solution to rising tensions in the region.

For US and North Korea, will crises ever end?

Agence France-PresseApril 8, 2013 22:30

North Korea clears its military to attack US with nukes

AsianetApril 6, 2013 16:36

North Korea warned Thursday that its military has been cleared to attack the US using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons, while the US said it will strengthen regional protection by deploying a missile defense system to Guam. Despite the intense rhetoric, analysts do not expect a nuclear attack by North Korea, which knows the move could trigger a destructive, suicidal war.

US to send missile defenses to Guam over North Korea threat

AsianetApril 6, 2013 16:35

The United States said it would soon send a missile defense system to Guam to defend it from North Korea, as the US military adjusts to what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called a "real and clear danger" from Pyongyang. Hours later, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said North Korea had moved what appeared to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast.

North Korea vows to restart nuclear facilities

AsianetApril 6, 2013 12:04

North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. The North's plutonium reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament talks that have since stalled.

The Trouble with North Korea

AsianetApril 6, 2013 08:52

Nobody would care much about North Korea - a small and isolated country of 24 million people, ruled by a grotesque dynasty that calls itself communist - if it were not for its nuclear weapons.