Related: Koreas Coming Together
"N. Korea fires more missiles; Short-range launches are first since July" by Blaine Harden, Washington Post | October 13, 2009
SEOUL - With a large arsenal of short-, medium-, and long-range rockets, North Korea has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from missile sales in recent decades, according to a 2006 report by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif.
The center said the North has sold missiles to Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen.
Who has the US SOLD THEM TO, 'eh?
Aren't Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, and Yemen friends? That about to change?
Missile experts say Iran’s missile program is largely dependent on modified mid-range Nodong missiles manufactured by North Korea....
Yes, YOU KNEW the FOCUS would be ON THEM, huh?
North Korea fired five short-range missiles into the sea yesterday and declared a navigation ban in waters off its eastern and western coasts, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency....
So what? We do war games all the time!
Related: Israel, U.S. to hold anti-missile drill next week
Beware the FALSE FLAG, Iran!
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, reacting to reports of the launches, said the United States and its allies were trying to demonstrate to North Korea that the international community would not accept its continuing nuclear program. “Our goals remain the same. We intend to work toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula,’’ Clinton told a news conference in Belfast....
What, was she drunk again?
Before yesterday’s missile launches, South Korea proposed low-level meetings with North Korea to discuss flood-control measures on a river that runs through their heavily fortified border.
The South also proposed a meeting of Red Cross officials to work out details for more reunions among families separated since the 1950s by the Korean War. The war ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty, which means that the Koreas are still technically at war.
But are CLOSER TO PEACE is what it sounds like!
SEOUL - North Korea yesterday expressed regret over the deaths of six South Koreans who were killed when water released from a dam swept south down a river, in a potential breakthrough in its relations with the South.
North Korea opened the dam without warning last month, setting off flash floods that killed the six fishing or camping on the Imjin River, which flows into South Korea. North Korea had said an emergency forced it to open the dam, but the South demanded an apology.
An expression of regret, although it fell short of a formal apology, was highly unusual, and the South Korean government took it as a signal that the North wanted to improve ties. The North’s attitude was being closely watched yesterday because the inter-Korean meeting came two days after it test-fired five short-range missiles and amid reports that it may test more missiles....
You know, the South doesn't seem to worried about them, so why should we?
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