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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 SKorea & U.S. Troops on high alert amid NKorea threats from Yahoo News By Hyung-jin Kim Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea boosted their alert level Thursday to the highest category since 2006, after the communist regime threatened military strikes on allied troops in escalating tensions over its nuclear test. North Korea threatened Wednesday to attack any U.S. and South Korean ships that try to intercept its vessels and renounced a 1953 truce halting the Korean War fighting, raising the prospect of a naval clash off the Korean peninsula's west coast. The North was responding to Seoul's decision to join a U.S.-led anti-proliferation program aimed at stopping and inspecting ships suspected of transporting banned weapons, including nuclear technology. South Korea announced it was joining after the North's underground test blast of a nuclear bomb. On Thursday, the South Korea-U.S. combined forces command increased the surveillance to level 2 from the present level 3, Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said. He said that was the highest level since 2006, when the North conducted its first-ever nuclear test. The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea as a deterrent against North Korea. Won said the bolstered level means more aviation surveillance assets, intelligence analysts and other intelligence-collecting measures would be deployed to watch North Korea. He refused to disclose further details. The North has long warned it would consider the South's participation in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative as a declaration of war against North Korea. The North would "deal a decisive and merciless retaliatory blow" to anyone trying to inspect its vessels, according to a North Korean military statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday. Pyongyang lashed out at both the U.S. and South Korea, calling Seoul's move to join the Proliferation Security Initiative tantamount to a declaration of war and a violation of the truce keeping the peace between the two Koreas. "Full participation in the PSI by a side on the Korean Peninsula where the state of military confrontation is growing acute and there is constant danger of military conflict itself means igniting a war," North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement carried on state media. North Korea's army said it would be "illogical" to honor the 1953 armistice between the two Koreas, given the violations by the U.S. and South Korea, and said it could no longer promise the safety of U.S. and South Korean warships and civilian vessels in the waters near the maritime border. At the White House, spokesman Robert Gibbs played down North Korea's angry rhetoric, saying the threats will only add to its isolation. He said North Korea has threatened to end the armistice many times in the past but the peace has held. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it voiced "serious concern" about the nuclear test to the North Korean ambassador and urged Pyongyang to respect the U.N. resolutions and return to the disarmament talks. The truce signed in 1953 and subsequent military agreements call for both sides to refrain from warfare, but don't cover waters off the west coast. North Korea has used the maritime border dispute to provoke two deadly naval skirmishes — in 1999 and 2002. North Korea now is believed to have enough plutonium for at least a half-dozen weapons, but experts say it still has not mastered the miniaturization technology required to mount a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile. After firing a long-range missile on July 4, 2006, and carrying out its first nuclear test three months later, North Korea agreed in February 2007 to start disabling Yongbyon in exchange for 1 million tons of fuel oil and other concessions. Disablement began in November 2007. The process halted last summer in a dispute with Washington over verifying past atomic activities, and Pyongyang said last month it was quitting the talks altogether. Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, and Foster Klug, Pamela Hess in Washington and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. Click to read the rest of the article and the comments Posted by rdansie at 8:56 PM Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
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सोल, २० वैशाख (रासस÷सिन्ह्वा) ः प्रत्येक दशमा सातजना कोरियाली नागरिकले कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपमा पूर्ण रुपमा अस्त्रबिहीन कोरिया सम्भव छ भनेका छन् । एक सर्वेक्षणमा यस्तो देखिएको कोरियाली राजधानी सोलबाट बिहीबार प्राप्त समाचारमा जनाइएको छ । उक्त सर्वेक्षणमा सहभागीमध्ये दश जनामा सातले कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपलाई पूर्ण रुपमा आणविक अस्त्र बिहीन बनाउन सम्भव भएको बताएका थिए । रियलमिटर नाम दिइएको उक्त सर्वेक्षणमा सहभागीमध्येका ७१.४ प्रतिशतले यस्तो बताएका जनाइएको छ । दक्षिण कोरियाका ५०१ जना नागरिकलाई सो सर्वेक्षणमा संलग्न गराइएको उक्त सर्वेक्षण संस्थाले जनाएको छ । उक्त सर्वेक्षणको परिणाम बुधबार सार्वजनिक गरिएको जनाइएको छ । त्यसैगरी दक्षिण कोरियाको सत्तारुढ डेमोक्र्याटिक पार्टीका करिब ९० प्रतिशत सदस्यहरुले पनि कोरियाली आणविक अस्त्रबिहीन कोरियाली प्रायद्वीप सम्भव रहेको बताएका थिए । त्यसैगरी यहाँको विपक्षी दल लिबर्टी कोरिया पार्टीका करिब आधाजति सदस्यहरुले भने आणविक अस्त्रबिहीन कोरिया सम्भव नरहेको बताएका छन् । गएको शुक्रबार अर्थात् अप्रिल २७ मा दक्षिण कोरियाली राष्ट्रपति मुन जाय इन र उत्तर कोरियाली नेता किम जोङ उनबीच शान्तिवार्ता र सम्झौता भएको थियो । सो सम्झौताअनुसार यी दुई देशले युद्ध अन्त्यको घोषणा गरी आगामी दिनमा एक अर्काको विरुद्धमा प्रचारप्रसार नगर्ने जनाएका थिए । सो सम्झौताको कार्यान्वयन पनि सुरु भइसकेको छ । गत शुक्रबारको सो सम्झौताको पालना गर्दै दक्षिण कोरियाले उत्तरको सीमामा राखिएको उत्तर कोरियाका विरुद्धमा प्रचार गर्ने संयन्त्र हटाएको छ । दक्षिण कोरियाको रक्षामन्त्रालयले सो कुराको जानकारी दिएको छ । कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपमा सन् १९५३ पछि कोरियाली जनता त्रास र अन्योलमा बाँच्न बाध्य छन् । कोरियाली युद्धका कारण छुट्टिएका परिवारबीच अझै पुनर्मिलन हुन नसकेको अवस्थामा दुई कोरियाबीचको यो पछिल्लो वार्ताले मिलनको आशा पनि थपेको बताइन्छ । पश्चिमा लगायतका विश्वका सञ्चारमाध्यमहरुले कोरिया युद्धपछि पहिलो पटक दुई देशका उच्च नेताहरुबीच भएको हालैको यो दुर्लभ भेटले आगामी दिनमा कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपमा शान्ति आउने र दुई कोरियाको एकता हुन पनि सक्ने सम्भावना रहेको बताइरहेका छन् । गएको शुक्रबार सम्पन्न भएको दुई कोरियाली उच्च नेताहरूको भेटवार्ताले कोरियाली जनतालाई मात्र नभएर दक्षिण कोरिया, जापान, अमेरिकालगायत विश्व समुदायलाई पनि शान्तिको लागि राहत प्राप्त हुने सङ्केत देखिएको बताइएको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले अमेरिका र जापानसँग पनि वार्ता गर्ने जनाएको छ । गतवर्षमात्र अमेरिका र उत्तर कोरियाबीच ठूलो वाकयुद्ध चलेको थियो । त्यसपछि भने उत्तर कोरिया नरम बन्दै गएको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले गत वर्षको सेप्टेम्बर ३ मा छैटौँं तथा त्यस समयसम्मको सबैभन्दा ठूलो आणविक परीक्षण गरेको थियो । त्यस क्षेप्यास्त्र परीक्षणले कोरियाली प्रायद्वीप हुँदै संसारमै ठूलो हलचल ल्याइदिएको थियो ।