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North Korea Threatens to Attack South, US
By not in system - AOL NewsSEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea threatened Sunday to enlarge its nuclear arsenal and mercilessly attack South Korea and the United States, as the allies prepared to start annual joint military drills which the North says are a rehearsal for an invasion. North Korea routinely issues similar threats against South Korea and the U.S. over any joint military drills. The latest warning, however, could rekindle tensions on the Korean peninsula which sharply rose last year after two deadly incidents blamed on the North. North Korea fired artillery at a front-line South Korean island in November, ...
What's at Stake in US-China Summit? Pretty Much Everything
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsPresidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao have a lot to talk about. The Chinese leader arrives in the United States for a state visit at a time when Washington and Beijing are partners, adversaries or both on nearly every substantial international issue -- from Iranian and North Korean nuclear ambitions to disputes over subsidized steel and software piracy, from human rights and climate change to control of sea lanes and currency exchange rates. And the scope of U.S.-Chinese interaction itself has been evolving so rapidly that the White House has described the building of a better working ...
North Korea Becoming a Bigger Threat to US, Gates Says
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsNorth Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities and development of intercontinental missiles are apparently advancing faster than the United States has acknowledged in the past -- making the capricious communist state a bigger potential threat in the coming years. Defense Secretary Robert Gates ratcheted up the Obama administration's judgment of the dangers posed by Pyongyang during a news conference in Beijing after discussing North Korea with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Pool / Getty Images U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the ...
5 Hair-Raising Crises in Foreign Affairs/National Security We Somehow Avoided in 2010
By David Wood - Politics DailyYear-end lists always look back at people and events of significance, but sometimes it's just as instructive to recall things that didn't take place. Here are five -- among many -- of the most hair-raising crises and terrifying emergencies that we managed to skirt in 2010: North Korea didn't start a nuclear war. The brutal and xenophobic regime in Pyongyang continued its fusillade of incendiary rhetoric and bluster, vowing once again to unleash nuclear war if South Korea and the United States continued their "provocative'' military exercises. But the North's leadership stayed safely inert, ...
A New Korean War Would Be Devastating, but It Could Happen
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- There would be no winner if war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula. But more than 57 years after the armistice suspended open hostilities between the U.S.-allied Republic of Korea in the south and the Chinese-backed Democratic People's Republic in the north, their border remains trip-wire tense. And both sides are braced for a return to conflict, however unlikely, that would kill millions of people and resonate economically and politically across the globe. In the South Korean capital of Seoul today, residents participated in a 20-minute air attack drill by donning gas masks and ...
North Korea Trumpets Advanced Nuclear Facilities
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Nov. 30) -- North Korea described in detail today the advanced state of its nuclear program, boasting that it has thousands of centrifuges dedicated to uranium enrichment. While it's not clear whether the centrifuges could produce weapons-grade material, the claims are sure to spook officials in the U.S., South Korea and even China, which -- according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks -- is growing increasingly frustrated with its ally's erratic behavior. Pyongyang's account of its nuclear capability raises the stakes in a regional crisis that culminated last week in the ...
North Korea Warns Region on 'Brink of War'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 26) -- Thunderous booms from North Korean artillery have rattled the remote fishing island at the center of the Koreas' latest standoff for a second time this week, as Pyongyang warned "trigger-happy" U.S. forces that their upcoming military drills with the South inch the peninsula "closer to the brink of war." China weighed in too, with its Foreign Ministry voicing its first official protest against U.S.-South Korean military exercises, set to begin Sunday. But the ministry statement was more muted than past ones, revealing that Beijing may be seeking to tamp down tensions on all ...
South Korea Boosts Troops as Defense Minister Resigns
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 25) -- South Korea's defense minister has resigned over his handling of the North's bombardment this week of a tiny fishing island near the two Koreas' disputed sea border. Lawmakers from South Korea's ruling and opposition parties had demanded that Defense Minister Kim Tae-young step down, amid growing public criticism that the military mishandled Tuesday's clashes on Yeonpyeong Island. Two South Korean marines died as well as two civilians, in a surprise bombardment by the communist North. Kim toured the island's devastation today and then afterward handed in his resignation. A ...
US Pressures China to Defuse Korean Powder Keg
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 24) -- The Obama administration called on China today to use its influence to head off further flare-ups on the Korean peninsula, as fires continued to smolder from the North's artillery attack Tuesday on a South Korean island that killed two marines and two civilians. "It's very important for China to lead," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ABC's "The View." "The one country that has influence in Pyongyang is China and so their leadership is absolutely critical." State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley also said China needs to rein in North Korea. "China ...
USS George Washington Departs for South Korea: Facts and Figures
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 24) -- The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is headed to the Yellow Sea for a series of military exercises with South Korean forces. The four-day drill series, planned "well before" the recent North Korean attacks that killed two South Korean civilians, is being interpreted as a first response to deterring escalation of power tensions in the region. The military exercise is "defensive in nature," according to a statement released by the United States Forces Korea, which also emphasized the U.S. and South Korea's mutual "commitment to regional stability through deterrence." The ...
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