News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 year ago
South Korea's new president has broken his silence on rising tensions with the North, saying Pyongyang's recent actions were "not desirable". The North had threatened to turn the South to "ashes" after the South's military chief said Seoul could...
News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
Agencies Published: April 03, 2008, 09:23 Seoul: The verbal sparring between North and South Korea has continued after the North threatened to turn the South to “ashes” as tensions continue to rise on the Korean peninsula. The comments were a...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 year ago
South Korea's president on Thursday rebuffed the latest taunts from North Korea, telling his communist neighbor to change its tone and get back to more serious dialogue. In the past week, the North has hurled personal insults at President Lee...
News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak urged North Korea Thursday to hold "straightforward" talks to ease growing cross-border tensions, as the North renewed attacks on his administration. "Since my inauguration, North Korea has intensified tension...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 year ago
North Korea Thursday accused South Korea's new conservative government of pushing relations towards "catastrophe," Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported. The criticism came two days after the North's communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun labelled...
News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 year ago
The 2008 white paper on disarmament and nonproliferation also criticizes China's failure to provide an adequate explanation of its antisatellite test in January 2007, reiterating Japan's concerns and calling for greater transparency of its military...