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North and South Korea firing huge amounts of artillery across maritime border

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U.S. artillerymen with Battery I prepare to demonstrate the fire sequence of an M777A2 155 mm lightweight howitzer for Republic of Korea (ROK) Marines at the Rodriguez Live-Fire Complex during Korean Marine Exchange Program (KMEP) 13-8 on August 17, 2013 (Image credit: Lance Cpl. Kasey Peacock/U.S. Pacific Command/Flickr)

North and South Korea have exchanged artillery fire into each other’s waters a day after North Korea raised the possibility of more nuclear tests, according to reports.

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The exchange of fire came after North Korea carried out what CNN called “provocative live-fire exercises near the South Korean maritime border.”

North Korea began the drill just after noon Monday, semiofficial South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that some ordnance fired by North Korea landed in the waters of South Korea and that they responded with fire.

The two countries fired almost 1,000 artillery shells total, with North Korea firing some 500 over more than three hours.

Some 100 of the North Korean artillery shells fell south of the water border, according to South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok.

South Korea responded by firing 300 artillery shells into the waters of North Korea, he said, according to the Associated Press.

While the firing of artillery shells can be seen as an escalation of tensions between the two countries, no shells by either side were fired at land or military installations.

Still, the spokesman said that North Korea’s actions are a provocation aimed at testing the security posture of South Korea.

In addition to firing the some 300 shells back into North Korean waters, South Korea dispatched fighter jets near the Northern Limit Line, the disputed maritime border between North Korea and South Korea.

When the defense spokesman was asked what South Korea was firing back at, he said, “We are not shooting at North Korea, just shooting into the sea.”

The North Korean exercise “appeared to be more saber-rattling from Pyongyang rather than the start of a military standoff,” according to Reuters.

This comes after North Korea said South Korea was guilty of “gangster-like” behavior for “abducting” a North Korean fishing boat.

South Korea, however, maintained tat they sent the boat back after drifting into its waters.

The actions by North Korea were criticized by the White House, who called them “dangerous and provocative.”

The White House said that North Korea’s threats and provocations are only acting to isolate it further.

“We remain steadfast in our commitment (to) the defense of our allies and remain in close coordination with both the Republic of Korea and Japan,” said White House National Security Council spokesman Jonathan Lalley, according to Reuters.

Residents of five of the front-line South Korean islands were sent to shelters during the North Korean artillery fire and the ferry service that links the islands to the mainland was stopped temporarily, according to an official with Ongjin county, which governs the islands.

No immediate comment was issued by North Korea, the AP reports.

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened on Sunday to conduct what it called “a new form of nuclear test,” raising the level of rhetoric after members of the United Nations Security Council condemned the North’s recent ballistic missile launch.

“It is absolutely intolerable that the UN Security Council, turning a blind eye to the US madcap nuclear war exercises, ‘denounced’ the Korean People’s Army (KPA)’s self-defensive rocket launching drills and called them a ‘violation of resolutions’ and a ‘threat to international peace and security’ and is set to take an ‘appropriate step’,” the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement on the official KCNA news agency.

The statement said KPA drills to counter the US will involve “more diversified nuclear deterrence” that will be used for hitting medium- and long-range targets “with a variety of striking power.”

“We would not rule out a new form of nuclear test for bolstering up our nuclear deterrence,” the North’s statement said, without giving any indication of what that might entail.

After Pyongyang fired two medium-range Rodong ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday, the 15-member Security Council on Thursday condemned the launches violating UN resolutions.

North Korea’s first firing in four years of mid-range missiles that can reach Japan followed a series of short-range rocket launches over the past two months.

In defiance of UN resolutions, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in February 2013 and declared it had made progress in securing a functioning atomic arsenal.

It is widely believed the North does not have the capacity to deliver a nuclear strike on the mainland United States.

(Reporting by Narae Kim; Editing by Richard Borsuk)

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China rejects UN report accusing North Korea of crimes against humanity

China dismissed a UN report alleging North Korea has committed crimes against humanity, effectively confirming the fears of human rights advocates that Beijing will shield its ally Pyongyang from international prosecution.

The report, published in February, accused the reclusive country of mass killings and torture comparable to Nazi-era atrocities and said officials, possibly even Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un himself, should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Chen Chuandong, a counselor at China’s mission in Geneva, told the UN Human Rights Council on Monday that the independent commission of inquiry had made unfounded accusations and made recommendations that were “divorced from reality.”

“The inability of the commission to get support and cooperation from the country concerned makes it impossible for the commission to carry out its mandate in an impartial, objective and effective manner,” Chen said.

China, as a member of the UN Security Council, would have the power to veto any move to refer North Korea to the Hague-based ICC. Diplomats had already warned China was likely to object to the report, which also criticized Beijing for its treatment of North Korean defectors.

The chief author of the report, retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, had opened the debate urging the United Nations to take action.

“Contending with the scourges of Nazism, apartheid, the Khmer Rouge and other affronts required courage by great nations and ordinary human beings alike,” Kirby said.

“It is now your solemn duty to address the scourge of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”

Kirby said the team’s findings, based on testimony from hundreds of victims, defectors and witnesses, were unequivocal, and demanded closure of political prison camps believed to hold up to 120,000 people.

But Chen said the report was based on information and interviews collected outside the country, without first hand information. “The question then arises: can such an inquiry be truly credible?”

The commission has been seeking a meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva, UN officials said. “We are not very optimistic that it will happen,” a UN official told Reuters.

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Shin Dong Hyuk, a North Korean born in a political prison camp who escaped after his mother and brother were publicly executed, told Reuters he had expected China to reject the report.

But the “big purpose” of establishing the inquiry was to get the report discussed at the UN Security Council, he added.

In a speech at the Geneva debate, he noted that millions of people had been slaughtered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

“And 60 years later, at this moment in North Korea, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners are waiting for their death,” he said, adding that the report could not be “thrown away like a used tissue and forgotten”.

US Ambassador Robert King, the US envoy on North Korean human rights issues, said pressure on Pyongyang would go on even if China blocked a UN Security Council resolution.

“The fact that right now we may not be able to go forward as far as we’d like to go does not mean that we’re going to stop and say we can’t do anything more, and we’re not going to do it,” he told reporters. “Human rights are not a quick and easy fix and we’re not going to stop.”

North Korean Ambassador So Se Pyong reiterated Pyongyang’s rejection of the report, rubbishing it as a ridiculous provocation and a fabrication instigated by the United States and other “hostile forces,” who he said should be investigated for their own human rights records.

(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Libya threatens to bomb North Korean tanker if it ships oil from rebel port

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya threatened on Saturday to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tried to ship oil from a rebel-controlled port, in a major escalation of a standoff over the country’s petroleum wealth.

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Explainer: Why North Korea is acting like a 2-year-old again

SEOUL, South Korea — Last week, the US and South Korean militaries launched their annual war-game ritual, the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises, which will last until April 18.

On a peninsula divided for more than 60 years, the games have long been condemned from across the border as a contentious show of force.

As to be expected, this year’s games have already raised a fuss from Kim Jong Un’s coterie of propaganda writers, who consider the Key Resolve/Foal Eagle exercises to be preparation for an American-led invasion. Washington and Seoul insist they are only for self-defense.

On the international stage, North Korea has begun flailing and showing its irritation. Twice — on Feb. 27 and March 3 — the isolated nation test-fired short-range missiles into the Yellow Sea. Although such tests occur every few months or so, these latest launches have been interpreted as “provocative” efforts to send a message. And on Feb. 24, hours after the office-based computer simulation portion commenced, a North Korean ship crossed the contested sea border three times. It retreated with no shots fired.

These moves are “not terribly unusual,” said John Delury, a professor of international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul. “This is North Korea’s way of drawing attention to the unresolved nature of borders and military exercises,” according to Delury. “The rationale of these exercises is to deter the North, but given the territorial disputes, [they’re] also an irritant,” he said.

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North Korea essentially has itself to blame for the exercises

Even though the Korean War ended in 1953, both sides signed an armistice, not a peace treaty. The North Korean government and United Nations command agreed to divide the Korean peninsula into the communist North and nominally democratic South.

The absence of a treaty, unfortunately, means the North and South are still technically at war. About 28,500 American soldiers continue to be stationed in South Korea, while every able-bodied South Korean male is required to serve two years in the military. The legacy of the Korean War can be seen at Panmujeon, the village at the de-militarized zone (DMZ) where South and North Korean military police chillingly stand at the border face-to-face.

Every year American soldiers deliver the message to North Korean forces at the DMZ village that the training is purely defensive. Considering North Korea ignited the Korean War with a surprise attack on the South in 1950, the goal since then has been to show that American and South Korean forces — two very different armies with different strategic philosophies — can work in harmony in a chaotic, large-scale hypothetical war. That involves moving loads of tanks and heavy equipment across a rugged and mountainous nation, no easy task when calamity erupts.

North Korea, meanwhile, carries out frequent trainings of its own. The scary part: Many are actually geared toward offensive tactics.

Although the war games are merely exercises, they sometimes dramatically heighten tensions

During past exercises, critics have railed at the US military for taking things too far. Last year, when North Korea was busy rattling the saber with unfulfilled rhetoric of war and a coming death by inferno, the Pentagon responded with a flyover of nuclear-capable B-52s not far from North Korea. That’s the sort of gesture that risks escalating into a tit-for-tat.

Still, North Korea survives in a constant state of military emergency, so it’s no wonder the paranoid leadership plays up the threat of Foal Eagle/Key Resolve being the pretext for an American-led invasion. Occassionally, the rhetoric has erupted into something bigger. During war games in 2010, the North allegedly torpedoed and sank a naval corvette, killing 46 sailors not far from where the Korean and American navies were carrying out anti-submarine exercises. (While a Western investigation implicated North Korea, Pyongyang denies culpability and the United Nations punted on the matter.)

South Koreans aren’t always fond of the war games, either

Even though the American and South Korean governments enjoy good relations, Korean protestors have raised hackles at Key Resolve/Foal Eagle. In addition to the risks of sparking the North’s anger with war games, say some left-wing Koreans, the presence of American military bases is exacerbating the division, and contributing to pollution and crime in the surrounding communities.

In 2006, when US Marines simulated an amphibious landing on Malipo Beach, dozens of protestors ran along the coast and slapped anti-US stickers on the vehicles. The following year, more than 800 Korean military police had to be deployed in the same zone. That time the US Marines didn’t exit the amphibious carriers to storm the beachhead by foot, citing security reasons.

“Yankees, go home!” protesters shouted behind barbed wire from a nearby street, a common refrain at demonstrations at the time.

Nowadays, the movement against the American military presence has died down, even though many Koreans continue to harbor bitterness. That’s thanks in part to an escalation of tensions with North Korea since the mid-2000s. Seoul has even signaled that it wants the US to keep wartime operational command over all forces on the peninsula, a move that would squash plans for a command handover to South Korea in 2016.

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North Korea fires short-range missiles, which South calls "reckless provocation"

North Korea fired short-range missiles into the sea off its eastern coast for the second time in a week Monday, prompting a warning from South Korea of “reckless provocation.”

The missile tests have clearly been timed to coincide with annual South Korea-US military exercises which kicked off a week ago and run until mid-April.

Two missiles were fired Monday and both flew around 500 kilometers (310 miles) into the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea’s Defense Ministry.

Four short-range Scud missiles were fired in similar fashion on Thursday.

Both tests were condemned by Seoul, which urged the North to cease all testing immediately and said it would consider calling for sanctions.

“The North is taking a double-faced stance by making conciliatory gestures on one hand and pushing ahead with reckless provocation on the other,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok.

The Scuds are at the longer edge of the short-range spectrum, with an estimated reach of 300-800 kilometres (185-500 miles) — capable of striking any target in the South.

It is not unusual for North Korea to carry out such tests, which often go unreported by South Korea.

But Kim said the Scud firings were of particular concern.

“We believe that the North is testing various ballistic missiles with various ranges as a show of force to threaten us,” he said.

Washington initially played down Thursday’s firings, but later suggested they violated UN sanctions imposed on the North’s missile program.

UN Security Council resolutions prohibit North Korea “from launching any ballistic missile, and this includes any Scud missile,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren said Friday.

Pyongyang routinely condemns the South-US joint exercises as rehearsals for invasion.

Last year they coincided with a sharp and unusually protracted surge in military tensions, that saw North Korea issuing apocalyptic threats of pre-emptive nuclear strikes.

By contrast, this year’s drills began as relations between Seoul and Pyongyang were enjoying something of a thaw.

They overlapped with the end of the first reunion for more than three years of families divided by the Korean War — an event that raised hopes of greater cross-border cooperation.

Pyongyang had initially insisted that the joint exercises be postponed until after the reunions finished. But Seoul refused and — in a rare concession — the North allowed the family gatherings on its territory to go ahead as scheduled.

Most analysts believe the missile tests reflect Pyongyang’s need to flex its muscles in the wake of the reunion compromise.

Last week also saw an incursion by a North Korean patrol boat across the disputed Yellow Sea border that has been the scene of brief but bloody naval clashes in the past.

No shots were fired and the vessel retreated to its side of the boundary after repeated warnings from the South Korean navy.

North Korea has hundreds of short-range missiles and has developed and tested — with limited success — several intermediate-range models.

Its claims to have a working inter-continental ballistic missile have been treated with scepticism by most experts, but there is no doubt that it is pushing ahead with an active, ambitious missile development program.

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North Korea Puts Yorkshire Terriers In Zoo

A zoo in North Korea has reportedly welcomed its newest animal attraction – a pack of Yorkshire Terriers.

The miniature dogs have been introduced to Central Zoo in the capital Pyongyang, according to state media.

Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said the dogs are now learning “several feats”, although it did not elaborate on the type of tricks they might perform.

North Koreans not familiar with ‘Yorkies’, which were bred in Yorkshire to catch rats and mice by scuttling around clothing mills, were given a helpful guide to the pint-sized pet.

“Each one has long hair – tan on its head and legs and blue grey on its body,” KCNA reported.

“It is 22-24cm tall and weighs 2.5-3.5kg. It lives about 14 years on an average.”

A picture released by KCNA appeared to show three Yorkshire Terriers in seemingly good condition.

However, Central Zoo was previously condemned by travel publication Lonely Planet, whose website claims most of the animals kept there “look pretty forlorn”.

“Worst off are the big cats, nearly all gifts of long-dead communist big wigs around the world – the wonderful lions, tigers and leopards are kept in woefully inadequate compounds, and many have lost the plot as a result,” it says.

“The zoo’s two elephants and its hippo all look exceptionally lacklustre as well.”

Footage uploaded to YouTube in December 2012 by documentary maker Alun Hill appeared to show bears and elephants trudging around largely concrete enclosures, and tigers staring at visitors from behind bars.

According to the video, the zoo houses more than 6,000 animals of about 650 different species in 60 animal shed and aquariums.

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North and South Dakota Top List Of Happiest U.S. States, West Virginia At The Bottom

North and South Dakota Top List Of Happiest U.S. States, West Virginia At The Bottom

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North Dakota was able to push out reigning “happiest state” Hawaii in an annual survey that measures Americans’ sense of well-being. West Virginia was revealed as the unhappiest state for the fifth year in a row.

North Dakota made the huge leap to first after coming in at number19 in the previous poll conducted by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. South Dakota came in a close second, moving up from 12th place, while Hawaii came in eighth after coming in first the previous five years.

West Virginia and Kentucky came in last and second to last, respectively.

The poll is based on more than 178,000 interviews of American adults in all 50 states between January and December 2013. The poll is an average score from six sub-indexes, which examine a person’s life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors and basic access to necessities such as healthcare.

According to the poll, North Dakota ranked top in two sub-indexes: work environment and physical health.

A reason for this may because the state has experienced a job boom, according to Gallup.

Midwestern and Western states took up nine of the top ten highest well-being scores. Other states that join the Dakotas in the top ten happiest states are Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, Vermont, Colorado, Hawaii, Washington and Iowa.

The South is highly represented in the bottom ten, which is made up of Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and finally, West Virginia.

These regional patterns of well-being are aligned with previous years.

Residents in Kentucky and West Virginia reported poor physical health and low incomes.

The poll shows well-being has steadily increased in 11 states since 2010.

Sources: Healthways, Gallup

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Kenneth Bae worried about his health in North Korean camp

Kenneth Bae’s continued imprisonment has sparked a diplomatic stalemate

• Kenneth Bae says he will probably end up back in the hospital


• He makes the comments in a conversation with a Swedish diplomat


• North Korea has held Bae, a Korean-American, since November 2012


• Pyongyang has canceled an invitation to a U.S. envoy to visit and discuss the case

(CNN) — Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American being held in North Korea, says he is worried about his health after authorities moved him back into a labor camp following a stay in a hospital.

“I know if I continue for the next several months here, I will probably be sent back to the hospital again,” Bae says in a video of a conversation with a Swedish diplomat recorded Friday.

Footage of the conversation in the labor camp was released by Chosun Sinbo, a pro-North Korean newspaper based in Japan that has been given access to Bae in the past.

Wearing a gray jacket with the prisoner number “103″ marked on it, Bae tells the Swedish diplomat, Cecilia Anderberg, that he thinks he’s already lost as much as 10 pounds in weight since he was transferred back to the camp a few weeks ago.

He expresses hope that North Korea will allow a U.S. envoy to visit for talks about his case.

But those hopes were dashed over the weekend.

A State Department official said Sunday that North Korea had rescinded its invitation to the envoy, Ambassador Robert King, without giving a reason.

Bae, of Lynwood, Washington, was arrested in November 2012 in Rason, along North Korea’s northeastern coast. Pyongyang sentenced him last year to 15 years of hard labor, accusing him of planning to bring down the government through religious activities.

He is widely reported to have been carrying out Christian missionary work in North Korea.

Bae, 45, operated a China-based company specializing in tours of North Korea, according to his family, who have described him as a devout Christian.

CNN’s Tim Schwarz contributed to this report.

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Here"s a shocker: North Korea is going to be short on grain in 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is likely to face a shortage of 340,000 tons of grain this year, a report showed Sunday, which would mean another year to its chronic food scarcity.

The report contributed to the Korea Development Institute said Pyongyang is estimated to need some 5.37 million tons of grain this year.

The estimate was based on assumptions that the population of the communist country is 24.8 million and that each person consumed an annual average of 175 kilograms of grain in 2013.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program, who had visited the North for about two weeks in late September to survey food production, forecast the communist country’s grain production at 5.03 million tons this year.

“While North Korea can cover a shortage of 300,000 tons with imports, it will have to rely on international aid for the remaining 40,000 tons,” the report written by the Korea Rural Economic Institute said.

The report noted that the country’s grain production in the last few years falls far short of 6 million tons during the 1980s.

It said while North Korea is making efforts to cultivate food from all arable lands, the country is suffering losses in productivity due to soil erosion and floods.

North Korea suffers from chronic food shortages with the average amount of rice and corn consumed by the people said to be only half of the daily consumption recommended by the United Nations.

Yonhap News Agency contributed to this report.

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