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Pyongyang Wants More Launches, As Seoul Reviews Missile Technology Seoul (AFP) April 6, 2009
North Korea wants to launch more satellites following Sunday's "historic achievement," a pro-Pyongyang newspaper Monday quoted a senior official as saying. North Korea said it put an experimental communications satellite into orbit Sunday, while the United States and its allies called the launch a disguised ballistic missile test in defiance of a United Nations resolution. South Korea an ... read moreUN Unable To Respond To NKorea As Test Sets Back Disarmament
United Nations (AFP) April 6, 2009After three hours of closed-door talks, the UN Security Council failed to reach agreement on how to respond to North Korea's long-range rocket launch seen by most Western nations as a clear violation of UN resolutions. "Members of the Security Council agreed to continue consultations on an appropriate action by the council in accordance with its responsibilities given the urgency of the matt ... more
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NKorea rocket launch rattles Japan
Tokyo (AFP) April 6, 2009For officially pacifist Japan, North Korea's rocket launch over its territory served as a sobering reminder that it is well within firing range of the volatile communist regime. Less than three years after Pyongyang declared it had tested a nuclear bomb, it was able to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile high over Japan, largely keeping to the trajectory that it had announced before t ... more China, NKorea trade booming despite rocket tensions
Dandong, China (AFP) April 6, 2009Trucks loaded with food, electronic goods, clothes and household items line up every day at the custom house here, awaiting final approval to cross the Friendship Bridge into North Korea. Cross-border trade between China and North Korea is rising quickly in the frontier town of Dandong, despite the political and diplomatic problems that Pyongyang's erratic behaviour has created for Beijing, ... more Canada says Afghan law on women won't be enforced
Ottawa (AFP) April 5, 2009Canada said Sunday it had received assurances from the Afghan government that the country's new controversial law on women will not be enforced and eventually will be changed. Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said he had discussed the issue earlier Sunday with his Afghan counterpart, Dadfar Spanta, who had assured him that the process of enforcing the law "has been halted." ... more Launch boosts NKorea missile programme, security threat limited
Seoul (AFP) April 5, 2009Sunday's rocket launch will give North Korea's missile programme a big boost if proven to have been successful but it does not immediately make the world a more dangerous place, analysts say. The nuclear-armed communist North said the launch successfully put into orbit a communications satellite which is now broadcasting songs in praise of its past and present revolutionary leaders. ... more |
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US blasts North Korea rocket launch as 'provocative'
Prague (AFP) April 5, 2009US President Barack Obama on Sunday blasted North Korea's rocket launch as "provocative" and pledged to take action at a UN Security Council meeting. Obama, in Prague on his first tour of Europe, said that North Korea had fired a Taepodong-2 missile in "clear violation" UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which prohibits any missile-related activities by Pyongyang. "With this provocativ ... more Iran's Mousavi vows to push nuclear drive
Tehran (AFP) April 5, 2009Former Iranian prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is running for the presidency in the June election, said he will push ahead with the country's controversial nuclear drive if elected. Having nuclear technology for peaceful purposes without being a threat to the world is our strategic objective," Mousavi said in a speech to his election campaign managers on Tuesday, a copy of which was ... more Kehler: Spherical Battlespace Is New Theater Of Operations
Colorado Springs CO (AFNS) Apr 04, 2009The world is no longer flat and information is no longer static. Neither can military operations confine focus to one area of a conflict while remaining oblivious to interconnections with the larger picture. It is time the view of the battlefield is turned upside-down. This is the message of the commander of Air Force Space Command. Speaking before a crowded conference hall here Marc ... more China's leverage on North Korea limited: analysts
Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2009North Korea's rocket launch on Sunday shows China does not have as much influence on Kim Jong-Il's regime as some believe, despite being its biggest economic and political ally, analysts said. In the lead-up to the rocket launch, China came under pressure from many fronts to use its influence on its communist neighbour to not go ahead with it. North Korea had said it was launching a comm ... more |
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