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Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2019 3:40:10 GMT
A U.S. Army base in Dongducheon, South Korea — just 11 miles from the North Korean border — accidentally sounded an emergency alarm on Thursday night instead of the expected bugler’s tune “Taps.” Camp Casey, the Army installation closest to the North Korean border and a likely target for an attack in a potential conflict, sent its personnel into a brief panic when an emergency alarm went out over the base announcement system, according to the Washington Post. The alarm that played serves as an air raid siren and generally warns for soldiers to begin “alert procedures.” Army Lt. Col. Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for the 2nd Infantry Division stationed at the base, said the alarm came as the result of “human error.” The “Taps” bugler’s tune was supposed to play over the base announcement system, as is done at 10 p.m., to signify the end of the day.
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2019 18:47:51 GMT
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for his military and diplomats to prepare unspecified “offensive measures” to protect the country’s security and sovereignty, the North’s state media said on Monday, before his end-of-year deadline for the Trump administration to make major concessions to salvage a fragile nuclear diplomacy.
Kim during a ruling Workers’ Party meeting Sunday also “comprehensively and anatomically analyzed” problems arising in efforts to rebuild the North’s moribund economy and presented tasks for “urgently correcting the grave situation of the major industrial sectors,” the Korean Central News Agency said.
The plenary meeting of the party’s Central Committee, which began on Saturday, is being closely watch amid concerns that Kim could suspend his deadlocked nuclear negotiations with the Untied States and take a more confrontational approach by lifting a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests. ]
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Post by Admin on Jan 1, 2020 2:02:39 GMT
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Wednesday he will continue developing his country’s nuclear deterrent and introduce a new strategic weapon in the near future, according to the North’s state-run media KCNA.
Kim’s remarks came after the United States missed a year-end deadline for a restart of denuclearization talks.
The White House and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped North Korea would “choose peace.”
“So, seeing that reporting publicly, it remains the case that we hope that Chairman Kim will take a different course,” Pompeo told Fox News in an interview. “We’re hopeful that ... Chairman Kim will make the right decision - he’ll choose peace and prosperity over conflict and war.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 11, 2020 19:01:51 GMT
North Korea says it has been “deceived” by the United States and that the the past 18 months were nothing but “lost time” as Washington has attempted to work toward denuclearization.
In a statement published by state news agency KCNA on Saturday, Kim Kye Gwan, a top adviser to Kim Jong Un, said the North Korean leader had received "birthday greetings from the U.S. president" this week but that their personal relationship is not enough to restart talks.
"We have been deceived by the U.S., being caught in the dialogue with it for over one year and a half, and that was the lost time for us," the Pyongyang foreign ministry official said. "Although Chairman Kim Jong Un has a good personal feelings about President Trump, they are, in the true sense of the word, 'personal.'"
Nuclear negotiations between the two sides broke down last year after little substantial progress, and Saturday’s statement indicates North Korea may be difficult to bring back to the table.
"There will never be such negotiations as that in Vietnam, in which we proposed exchanging a core nuclear facility of the country for the lift of some UN sanctions in a bid to lessen the sufferings of the peaceable people even a bit," it said.
Tensions rose between the U.S. and North Korea late last month after Pyongyang warned that the U.S. would receive a "Christmas gift" and later that it would soon witness "a new strategic weapon."
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