http://www.newsvine.com/koreasNewsvine - koreasen-usCopyright 2013Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:03:10 +0000Thu, 23 May 2013 01:50:52 +0000http://www.newsvine.comhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17775710-pivotal-nkorea-question-what-is-kim-thinkinghttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17775710-pivotal-nkorea-question-what-is-kim-thinkingkoreasworld-newsastensionnightmare-scenarioTue, 16 Apr 2013 10:14:49 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Monday, March 11, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third left, looks at South's western border island of Baengnyeong during his visit to the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment, North Korea. Just ignore Pyongyang's unlikely threats of nuclear holocaust as you would, say, a child throwing a tantrum. In his 16 months on the job, Kim’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether he will be able to pull back, a feat perfected by his late father, considered a master at brinkmanship. The mystery surrounding Kim Jong Un's intentions has some outsiders predicting nightmare scenarios. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS, File) </p><p>FILE - In this March 7, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 8, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, walks with military personnel as he arrives for a military unit on Mu Islet, located in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of North Korea's border with South Korea. In his 16 months on the job, Kim’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether he will be able to pull back, a feat perfected by his late father, considered a master at brinkmanship. The mystery surrounding Kim Jong Un's intentions has some outsiders predicting nightmare scenarios. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS, File) </p><p>FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, people at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, watch TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In his 16 months on the job, Kim’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether he will be able to pull back, a feat perfected by his late father, considered a master at brinkmanship. The mystery surrounding Kim Jong Un's intentions has some outsiders predicting nightmare scenarios. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Friday, April 12, 2013 file photo, people visit a flower show featuring thousands of Kimilsungia flowers, named after the late leader Kim Il Sung, while models of a rocket and missiles are also displayed in Pyongyang, North Korea. In his 16 months on the job, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether he will be able to pull back, a feat perfected by his late father, considered a master at brinkmanship. The mystery surrounding Kim Jong Un's intentions has some outsiders predicting nightmare scenarios. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, a South Korean army soldier aims his machine gun during an anti-terrorism drill against possible terrorists' attacks at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. In his 16 months on the job, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether he will be able to pull back, a feat perfected by his late father, considered a master at brinkmanship. The mystery surrounding Kim's intentions has some outsiders predicting nightmare scenarios. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)</p><p>A South Korean protester holds a sign and flowers during a rally demanding peace on the Korean peninsula in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. While some groups argue to simply ignore Pyongyang's unlikely threats of nuclear holocaust others, equally well-credentialed, say the prospect of another Korean War has never been higher, with a massive, proud North Korean army incensed by propaganda specialists pumping up an already supercharged atmosphere with increasingly violent threats. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17759244-nkorea-lashes-out-anew-over-protest-in-seoulhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17759244-nkorea-lashes-out-anew-over-protest-in-seoulkoreasnorth-koreaunited-statessouth-koreanorth-koreanworld-newsastensionnorth-koreanskim-il-sungsupreme-commandkim-jong-unMon, 15 Apr 2013 10:44:55 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>North Koreans carry flowers to giant statues of North Korean late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. North Korea celebrated Monday the 101st birth anniversary of national founder Kim Il Sung, its most important holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>North Korean soldiers offer flowers for North Korean late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. North Korea celebrated Monday the 101st birth anniversary of national founder Kim Il Sung, its most important holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>A man, left, in his suit, stands posing for photos while a soldier, right, squats down examining the lawn outside the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. The palace, which was the official residence of Kim Il Sung until his death in 1994, is now a mausoleum where the two late leaders' embalmed bodies lie in state. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A North Korean soldier guarding the entrance to Pyongyang's Kumsusan mausoleum, where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, looks back through the doors of the main gate Monday, April 15, 2013. North Koreans turned out on Monday to mark the 101st birthday of Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>People queue up outside a food shop in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>South Korean journalists try to shoot North Korean side at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>A South Korean army soldier aims his machine gun during an anti-terrorism drill against possible terrorists' attacks at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean protesters burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at an anti-North Korea protest on the birthday of Kim Il Sung in Seoul, South Korea Monday, April 15, 2013. South Korea's defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary committee in Seoul on Monday that North Korea remains ready to launch a missile from its east coast, though he declined to disclose how he got the information. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>South Korean protesters burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at an anti-North Korea protest on the birthday of Kim Il Sung in Seoul, South Korea Monday, April 15, 2013. South Korea's defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary committee in Seoul on Monday that North Korea remains ready to launch a missile from its east coast, though he declined to disclose how he got the information. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>A North Korean child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean soldier guarding the entrance to Pyongyang's Kumsusan mausoleum, where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, looks back through the doors of the main gate Monday, April 15, 2013. North Koreans turned out on Monday to mark the 101st birthday of Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>North Korean women carry a bundle of brooms after the cleaning of the area around bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>People visit statues of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il to celebrate the 101st birthday of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A man, center, supervises a dancing group during a mass folk dance in front of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>People visit giant statues of the late North Korean leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>Anti-war activists wearing military clothes of a North, left, and South Korea hug each other during a rally to mark Global Day of Action on Military Spending in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. They demanded peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula. Elsewhere in the region, however, the focus remained on the threat of a missile launch by the North as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a tour to coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally, as well as Seoul and Tokyo. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier aims his machine gun as a passenger goes through a ticket barrier during an anti-terrorism drill against possible terrorists' attacks at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. Elsewhere in the region, however, the focus remained on the threat of a missile launch as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a tour to coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally, as well as Seoul and Tokyo. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A woman looks at North Korean territory next to dolls of South Korean soldiers at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Foreign governments have been struggling to assess how seriously to take North Korea's recent torrent of rhetoric — including warnings of possible nuclear war — as it expresses its anger over continuing U.S.-South Korea military maneuvers just across the border. Officials in South Korea, the United States and Japan say intelligence indicates that North Korean officials, fresh off an underground nuclear test in February, are ready to launch a medium-range missile. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers walk amongst barricades set up on Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Foreign governments have been struggling to assess how seriously to take North Korea's recent torrent of rhetoric — including warnings of possible nuclear war — as it expresses its anger over continuing U.S.-South Korea military maneuvers just across the border. Officials in South Korea, the United States and Japan say intelligence indicates that North Korean officials, fresh off an underground nuclear test in February, are ready to launch a medium-range missile. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers hold their positions at a barbed wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Foreign governments have been struggling to assess how seriously to take North Korea's recent torrent of rhetoric — including warnings of possible nuclear war — as it expresses its anger over continuing U.S.-South Korea military maneuvers just across the border. Officials in South Korea, the United States and Japan say intelligence indicates that North Korean officials, fresh off an underground nuclear test in February, are ready to launch a medium-range missile. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors use binoculars to look at North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Foreign governments have been struggling to assess how seriously to take North Korea's recent torrent of rhetoric — including warnings of possible nuclear war — as it expresses its anger over continuing U.S.-South Korea military maneuvers just across the border. Officials in South Korea, the United States and Japan say intelligence indicates that North Korean officials, fresh off an underground nuclear test in February, are ready to launch a medium-range missile. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean protesters wearing masks made out of envelopes displaying the flags of the United States, left, North Korea, center, and South Korea, right, participate in a rally to mark Global Day of Action on Military Spending near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. The protesters demanded a peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean protesters wearing masks made out of envelopes displaying the flags of the United States, left, North Korea, center, and South Korea, right, participate in a rally to mark Global Day of Action on Military Spending near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. The protesters demanded a peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A North Korean child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>People watch TV news program showing North Korea founder late Kim Il Sung, left, and his son leader late Kim Jong Il, second from left, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>People watch TV news program showing portraits of North Korea founder late Kim Il Sung, left, and his son leader late Kim Jong Il at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>People watch TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army soldier stand guard on Unification Bridge in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. North Koreans danced in plazas and snacked on peanuts as part of holiday festivities while the Supreme Command led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered more of the fiery language that has made the international community wary of an imminent missile launch or other provocation.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers conduct military exercise in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. North Koreans danced in plazas and snacked on peanuts as part of holiday festivities while the Supreme Command led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered more of the fiery language that has made the international community wary of an imminent missile launch or other provocation.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers conduct military exercise in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. North Koreans danced in plazas and snacked on peanuts as part of holiday festivities while the Supreme Command led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered more of the fiery language that has made the international community wary of an imminent missile launch or other provocation.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>People line up outside a window of a food shop in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A food shop keeper sweeps with a broom while people line up outside a shop window in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Military personnel salute as civilians bow to giant statues of the late North Korean leaders, Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>A boy holds a toy gun while his grandmother watches a mass folk dance in front of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>North Korean men hold a propaganda billboard as they watch mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, a South Korean army soldier aims his machine gun during an anti-terrorism drill against possible terrorists' attacks at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. In his 16 months on the job, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether he will be able to pull back, a feat perfected by his late father, considered a master at brinkmanship. The mystery surrounding Kim's intentions has some outsiders predicting nightmare scenarios. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)</p><p>Members of South Korea's 199 Special Rescue Service of Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster wearing suits to protect against hazardous materials, participate in an anti-chemical drill against hydrochloric acid at the Seoul thermal power plant in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The drill was conducted at the thermoelectric power plant to cope with an increasing number of chemical leak incidents occurring nationwide. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>In this April 15, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo, April 16, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un applauds as he visits an athletics contest held by Kim Il Sung University of Politics and Kim Il Sung Military University, at a stadium in North Korea. North Korea quietly marked a second day of celebrations for its first leader's birthday and issued prickly new rhetoric Tuesday threatening retaliation for what it sees as provocations by South Korea and the United States, who have been watching closely for signs the North may go ahead with a suspected medium-range missile launch. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>A firefighter tries to extinguish a U.S. Marine helicopter CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter after it crashed during an exercise called SsangYong, a Korean Marine Exchange Program and part of the Foal Eagle exercise in Chulwon, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Twenty-one personnel were on board the helicopter, including five crew members, according to a statement from United States Forces Korea. All were taken to the hospital, but 15 were quickly released. The remaining six were in stable condition. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>A U.S. Marine helicopter CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter burns after it crashed during an exercise called SsangYong, a Korean Marine Exchange Program and part of the Foal Eagle exercise in Chulwon, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Twenty-one personnel were on board the helicopter, including five crew members, according to a statement from United States Forces Korea. All were taken to the hospital, but 15 were quickly released. The remaining six were in stable condition. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>CORRECTS DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE ACCIDENT - A firefighter tries to extinguish a U.S. Marine helicopter CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter after it made a "hard landing" during an exercise called SsangYong, a Korean Marine Exchange Program and part of the Foal Eagle exercise in Chulwon, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Twenty-one personnel were on board the helicopter, including five crew members, according to a statement from United States Forces Korea. All were taken to the hospital, but 15 were quickly released. The remaining six were in stable condition. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>CORRECTS DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE ACCIDENT - A U.S. Marine helicopter CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter burns after it made a "hard landing" during an exercise called SsangYong, a Korean Marine Exchange Program and part of the Foal Eagle exercise in Chulwon, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Twenty-one personnel were on board the helicopter, including five crew members, according to a statement from United States Forces Korea. All were taken to the hospital, but 15 were quickly released. The remaining six were in stable condition. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>FILE - In this April 15, 2013 file photo, South Korean protesters burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at an anti-North Korea protest on the birthday of Kim Il Sung in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea lashed out anew Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at South Korea over the small public protest, saying it would not hold talks with its southern neighbor unless it apologized for anti-North Korean actions "big and small" and warning that it could take retaliatory measures at any time. The sign at center showing images of the Kim family reads "Throw Them Out." (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17726368-nkorea-denies-cyberattack-on-skorean-companieshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17726368-nkorea-denies-cyberattack-on-skorean-companieskoreasnorth-koreasouth-koreanworld-newsascyberattackSat, 13 Apr 2013 02:27:08 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>North Korean children hold up red scarves to be tied around their necks during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks to U.S. Embassy staff at a "Meet & Greet" shortly before leaving Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 13, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State Kerry delivered a stark warning to North Korea on Friday not to test-fire a mid-range missile, while tamping down anxiety caused by a new U.S. intelligence report suggesting significant progress in the communist regime's nuclear weapons program.(AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17705160-a-look-at-us-south-korea-joint-military-exerciseshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17705160-a-look-at-us-south-korea-joint-military-exerciseskoreasglancenorth-koreaunited-statessouth-koreakorean-peninsulaus-newsaswar-gameskorea-foal-eagleThu, 11 Apr 2013 14:16:53 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Thursday, March 28, 2013 file photo, U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber, left, flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea. North Korea’s loathing for the military exercises can be traced, partly, to the flight of two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers - among the war-fighting wonders of the world - that took off from their Missouri bases in late March and flew more than 6,500 miles to drop dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island near the border before returning home. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Jung-hun, File) KOREA OUT</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly during a military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Osan. South Korea. The names of U.S.-South Korean war games staged over the years don't sound all that threatening: Team Spirit, Ulchi Focus Lens, Key Resolve ... Foal Eagle. But whatever they're called, the annual show of force is guaranteed to get a rise out of Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17699679-nkorea-fury-at-joint-war-games-goes-back-decadeshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17699679-nkorea-fury-at-joint-war-games-goes-back-decadeskoreasnorth-koreaworld-newstensionwar-gamesThu, 11 Apr 2013 07:28:23 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 file photo, a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet, center, lands on the runway during their military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea. At the air base, a procession of some of America's finest military machines barreled down a long runway separated from a sun-sparkling stream by a razor wire-topped fence. F-16 and A-10 jets, helicopters, a C-130 cargo plane powered up into the sky, banking over brown dirt fields, one-story Korean-style homes, squat apartment buildings and long rows of crops covered with plastic to protect from a strong, cold early-spring wind. (AP Photo/Bae Jung-hyun, Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT</p><p>FILE - In this Thursday, March 28, 2013 file photo, U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber, left, flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea. North Korea’s loathing for the military exercises can be traced, partly, to the flight of two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers - among the war-fighting wonders of the world - that took off from their Missouri bases in late March and flew more than 6,500 miles to drop dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island near the border before returning home. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Jung-hun, File) KOREA OUT</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets prepare to take off from a runway during their military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Osan, South Korea. The names of U.S.-South Korean war games staged over the years don't sound all that threatening: Team Spirit, Ulchi Focus Lens, Key Resolve ... Foal Eagle. But whatever they're called, the annual show of force is guaranteed to get a rise out of Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly during a military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Osan. South Korea. The names of U.S.-South Korean war games staged over the years don't sound all that threatening: Team Spirit, Ulchi Focus Lens, Key Resolve ... Foal Eagle. But whatever they're called, the annual show of force is guaranteed to get a rise out of Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet prepares to land on a runway during a military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Osan, South Korea. The names of U.S.-South Korean war games staged over the years don't sound all that threatening: Team Spirit, Ulchi Focus Lens, Key Resolve ... Foal Eagle. But whatever they're called, the annual show of force is guaranteed to get a rise out of Pyongyang.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, U.S. Air Force A-10 attack aircraft wait to take off from the runway during their military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Osan. The names of U.S.-South Korean war games staged over the years don't sound all that threatening: Team Spirit, Ulchi Focus Lens, Key Resolve ... Foal Eagle. But whatever they're called, the annual show of force is guaranteed to get a rise out of Pyongyang.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet takes off from a runway during a military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Osan, South Korea. The names of U.S.-South Korean war games staged over the years don't sound all that threatening: Team Spirit, Ulchi Focus Lens, Key Resolve ... Foal Eagle. But whatever they're called, the annual show of force is guaranteed to get a rise out of Pyongyang.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17690208-swiss-say-no-takers-yet-on-offer-to-defuse-koreashttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17690208-swiss-say-no-takers-yet-on-offer-to-defuse-koreasswitzerlandeukoreasnorth-koreaunited-statesworld-newsWed, 10 Apr 2013 17:19:49 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17668544-factories-that-ran-on-korean-cooperation-go-silenthttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17668544-factories-that-ran-on-korean-cooperation-go-silentkoreasnorth-koreasouth-koreanworld-newsdemilitarized-zonetensionkaesongTue, 9 Apr 2013 10:18:31 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>A South Korean army soldier moves a part of barricade for the media to enter at Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean soldier stands guard at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean military ambulance passes at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean soldier checks the id cards of members of media as their vehicles wait to enter at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>This aerial photo shows units of Japan Air Self-Defense Force's PAC-3s deployed at Defense Ministry in Tokyo Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Japan has deployed missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo as a precaution against a possible North Korean ballistic missile tests. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>A South Korean vehicle with products from North Korea's Kaesong is surrounded by media upon its arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean vehicle with products from North Korea's Kaesong is surrounded by media upon its arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers on a military truck move during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea in Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea said Monday it will recall 51,000 North Korean workers and suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate.(AP Photo/Ahn Yong-joon)</p><p>A South Korean vehicle carrying boxes, returning from the North Korean city of Kaesong arrives at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at the Kaesong industrial complex, a jointly run factory with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers salute a military vehicle as it leads South Korean vehicles from the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at the Kaesong industrial complex, a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean security guard gives a direction to a vehicle from North Korea's Kaesong as a vehicle is surrounded by media at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A factory complex that is North Korea’s last major economic link with the South was a virtual ghost town Tuesday after Pyongyang suspended its operations and recalled all 53,000 of its workers, cutting off jobs and a source of hard currency in its war of words and provocations against Seoul and Washington. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean vehicles returning from the North Korean city of Kaesong arrive at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean worker, fifth from left, who arrived with boxes of products, seen at left, from North Korea's Kaesong is questioned by media upon his arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at the Kaesong industrial complex, a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/08/17650756-nkoreans-mark-key-holiday-oblivious-to-tensionshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/08/17650756-nkoreans-mark-key-holiday-oblivious-to-tensionskoreasnorth-koreasouth-koreasouth-koreanpacific-oceannorth-koreankim-jong-ilkorean-peninsulaworld-newsasdemilitarized-zonetensionnorth-koreanskim-il-sungsouth-korean-defense-ministrydespite-north-koreaMon, 8 Apr 2013 08:52:32 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>South Koreans wait for a chance to enter the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea raised tensions Wednesday when it barred South Koreans and supply trucks from entering the Kaesong industrial complex, where South Korean companies have employed thousands of North Korean workers for the past decade. The writing reads "Departure and Kaesong." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A man walks at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Koreans read newspapers reporting on North Korea's threat of war on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>An unidentified elementary school teacher, center, orders her students to leave as they watch South Korean housewives stage a press conference denouncing the annual joint military exercise known as Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. The writing on the banner reads " Peace."(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean man uses his mobile phone in front of empty lockers which are used for worker's belongings before leaving for the North Korean city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea raised tensions Wednesday when it barred South Koreans and supply trucks from entering the Kaesong industrial complex, where South Korean companies have employed thousands of North Korean workers for the past decade.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean worker, left, who arrives with electronic products from North Korea's Kaesong is helped by a South Korean woman who greeted him at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean military vehicle passes by gates leading to the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, 2012, two North Korean men working for ShinWon, a South Korean clothing maker, prepare garments for production at a factory in Kaesong, North Korea. North Korea says it will recall 51,000 North Korean workers and suspend operations at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of co-operation with its southern rival. Pyongyang's statement Monday, April 8, 2013, comes amid weeks of war threats and other efforts to punish South Korea and the U.S. for ongoing joint military drills. (AP Photo/Jean H. Lee, File)</p><p>A South Korean worker, left, who arrives with electronic products from North Korea's Kaesong, is helped by a South Korean woman who greeted him, after returning from the North at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean soldier salutes a military vehicle as it leads South Korean vehicles from the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers on a military truck move during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea in Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea said Monday it will recall 51,000 North Korean workers and suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate.(AP Photo/Ahn Yong-joon)</p><p>A South Korean worker, top, who arrives from North Korea's Kaesong is interviewed by the media at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea said Monday it will suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, pulling out more than 53,000 North Korean workers and moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of the Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea said Monday it will recall 51,000 North Korean workers and suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate. (AP Photo/Ahn Yong-joon)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier patrols along a barbed-wire fence near a directional sign showing the distance to North Korea's Kaesong city and South Korea's capital Seoul at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of the Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea said Monday it will recall 51,000 North Korean workers and suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate.(AP Photo/Ahn Yong-joon)</p><p>South Korean housewives stage a press conference denouncing the annual joint military exercise known as Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. The writing reads "Stop Exercise." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier moves a part of barricade for the media to enter at Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean soldier stands guard at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers on their military trucks pass at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers on their military trucks, pass at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean soldier stands guard at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean military ambulance passes at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean soldier checks the id cards of members of media as their vehicles wait to enter at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>This aerial photo shows units of Japan Air Self-Defense Force's PAC-3s deployed at Defense Ministry in Tokyo Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Japan has deployed missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo as a precaution against a possible North Korean ballistic missile tests. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>A South Korean vehicle with products from North Korea's Kaesong is surrounded by media upon its arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean vehicle with products from North Korea's Kaesong is surrounded by media upon its arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers on a military truck move during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea in Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea said Monday it will recall 51,000 North Korean workers and suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate.(AP Photo/Ahn Yong-joon)</p><p>A South Korean vehicle carrying boxes, returning from the North Korean city of Kaesong arrives at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at the Kaesong industrial complex, a jointly run factory with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers salute a military vehicle as it leads South Korean vehicles from the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at the Kaesong industrial complex, a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean security guard gives a direction to a vehicle from North Korea's Kaesong as a vehicle is surrounded by media at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A factory complex that is North Korea’s last major economic link with the South was a virtual ghost town Tuesday after Pyongyang suspended its operations and recalled all 53,000 of its workers, cutting off jobs and a source of hard currency in its war of words and provocations against Seoul and Washington. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean vehicles returning from the North Korean city of Kaesong arrive at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean worker, fifth from left, who arrived with boxes of products, seen at left, from North Korea's Kaesong is questioned by media upon his arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at the Kaesong industrial complex, a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>U.S. Army soldiers drive armored vehicles during annual military drills in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korea has unleashed a flurry of war threats and provocations over U.N. sanctions for its last nuclear test, and over the ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, which the allies say are routine but Pyongyang says is a preparation for a northward invasion. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) </p><p>A U.S. Army soldier stands on an armored vehicle during annual military drills in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korea has unleashed a flurry of war threats and provocations over U.N. sanctions for its last nuclear test, and over the ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, which the allies say are routine but Pyongyang says is a preparation for a northward invasion. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) </p><p>U.S. Army soldiers prepare for an exercise during their annual military drills with South Korea in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korea has unleashed a flurry of war threats and provocations over U.N. sanctions for its last nuclear test, and over the ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, which the allies say are routine but Pyongyang says is a preparation for a northward invasion. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier uses his radio at Unification Bridge, which has been barricaded, near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>U.S. Army soldiers prepare for an exercise during annual military drills in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korea has unleashed a flurry of war threats and provocations over U.N. sanctions for its last nuclear test, and over the ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, which the allies say are routine but Pyongyang says is a preparation for a northward invasion. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) </p><p>A North Korean soldier stands beneath roadside propaganda which reads "Let's Uphold the Military First Revolutionary Leadership of the Great Comrade Kim Jong Un With Loyalty" in Pyongyang on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean flag hangs on a light pole as a pedestrian passes by along a Pyongyang street on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>South Koreans look out a bus window upon their arrival from North Korea's Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Others stuffed their cars full of goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean man, center, unloads boxes transported from North Korea's Kaesong as reporters seek his comment upon arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Others stuffed their cars full of goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean vehicles, returnning from the North Korean city of Kaesong, arrive at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korean workers didn't show up for work at the Kaesong industrial complex, a jointly run factory with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an increasingly hostile relationship. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>South Koreans arrive with their belongings from North Korea's Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Others stuffed their cars full of goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean businessman reacts during an emergency meeting of the Corporate Association of Kaesong Industrial Complex in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The factory complex that is North Korea's last major economic link with the South was a virtual ghost town Tuesday after Pyongyang suspended its operations and recalled all 53,000 of its workers, cutting off jobs and a source of hard currency in its war of words and provocations against Seoul and Washington. (AP Photo/Choi Jae-goo, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>Visitors look over the North-South Korea industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea, through binoculars at Dora Observation Post in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The massive industrial park the rival Koreas have jointly run for nearly decade was a virtual ghost town Tuesday, its South Korean managers left to wander past shutdown assembly lines or stuff their cars to the brim with whatever goods would fit before heading south for the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Won Dae-hyun) KOREA OUT</p><p>A North Korean commuter crosses a street in central Pyongyang on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>An apartment block stands among the buildings at dawn in central Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>U.S. Army soldiers conduct their annual military drills in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. North Korea on Tuesday urged all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on the verge of a nuclear war. The new threat appeared to be an attempt to scare foreigners into pressing their governments to pressure Washington and Seoul to act to avert a conflict.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Visitors look over the North-South Korea industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea, through binoculars at Dora Observation Post in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The massive industrial park the rival Koreas have jointly run for nearly decade was a virtual ghost town Tuesday, its South Korean managers left to wander past shutdown assembly lines or stuff their cars to the brim with whatever goods would fit before heading south for the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Won Dae-hyun) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean vehicles returning home from North Korea's Kaesong arrive at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Others stuffed their cars full of goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier walks along the military wire fences at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Other managers stuffed their cars full of finished goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers on the truck pass at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Other managers stuffed their cars full of finished goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier moves a part of barricade for the media to enter at Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Other managers stuffed their cars full of finished goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean military ambulance advances at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Other managers stuffed their cars full of finished goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier uses his radio at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massive industrial park run by the rival Koreas after North Korea pulled its more than 50,000 workers from the complex. Other managers stuffed their cars full of finished goods before heading south across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the nations. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Japan Self-Defense Forces' personnel stand near PAC-3, Patriot Advanced Capability surface to air missiles deployed at the compound of Defense Ministry amid a tense situation over North Korea's possible missile launch in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)</p><p>In this 1968 telegram from Pyongyang, North Korea, released by the Wilson Center North Korea International Documentation Project, a Romanian diplomat details a meeting with the North Korean Foreign Ministry in which foreign diplomats were warned that the Korean Peninsula was on the verge of war and encouraged to build bunkers as a precaution. In a move that echoes 1968, North Korea's Foreign Ministry has urged foreign diplomats to consider evacuating its citizens in case of an attack on Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Wilson Center North Korea International Documentation Project)</p><p>A North Korean soldier, center top, looks at the southern side as South Korean soldiers stand guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers look at North Korea through binoculars from Dora Observation Post near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Korean women pass by roadside propaganda depicting a North Korean soldier killing a U.S. soldier in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The poster reads in Korean "Life or Death Battle. Merciless Punishment to U.S. Imperialists and Puppet Traitors." (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>North Korean children carrying brooms walk on a sidewalk in Pyongyang on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, on their way to help tidy up the area around bronze statues of the late leaders as the capital city prepares to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>Young North Korean workers and students climb stairs to the base of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during an event to pledge loyalty to the country in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>North Korean pedestrians walk on a sidewalk past a large nationalist painting in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean soldier passes by roadside propaganda depicting a North Korean soldier killing a U.S. soldier in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The poster reads in Korean "Life or Death Battle. Merciless Punishment to U.S. Imperialists and Puppet Traitors." (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>An apartment block stands among the buildings in central Pyongyang, North Korea at dusk on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean man drives a small tractor in central Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>North Korean women pass by roadside propaganda depicting a North Korean soldier killing a U.S. soldier in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The poster reads in Korean "Life or Death Battle. Merciless Punishment to U.S. Imperialists and Puppet Traitors." (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean soldier, center top, looks at the southern side as South Korean soldiers stand guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Korean pedestrians walk on a sidewalk past a large nationalist painting in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet prepares to land on the runway during a military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Osan, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>U.S. Army armored vehicles are parked for an exercise during annual military drills with South Korea in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>U.S. Army soldiers prepare for an exercise during their annual military drills with South Korea in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean worker, left, who arrives with products from North Korea's Kaesong is helped by a South Korean man who greeted him at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean worker who arrives from North Korea's Kaesong carries products from his car to another car at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean vehicles returning home from North Korea's Kaesong are escorted by a South Korean military vehicle upon their arrival at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers guard at Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier walks at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier walks at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier guards at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Koreans visit the Pyongyang Folk Park on the outskirts of Pyongyang Thursday, April 11, 2013. The park, which spans Korean history from prehistoric to modern times, opened in September 2012 after three years of construction by North Korean soldiers. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier guards at barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Koreans dance together beneath a mosaic painting of the late leader Kim Il Sung during a mass folk dancing gathering in Pyongyang Thursday, April 11, 2013, to mark the anniversary of the first of many titles of power given to leader Kim Jong Un after the death of his father Kim Jong Il. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A woman runs on her way to catch a trolley bus in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. A sign behind the bus reads: "Let's Uphold the Military First Revolutionary Leadership of the Great Comrade Kim Jong Un With Loyalty." (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Seen through a moving car's window, a man and a woman stand in front of a planetarium at the Three Revolutions Exhibition Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A boy inlineskates near the Juche Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A North Korean Air Koryo attendant wears a pin showing portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, while she prepares the cabin before take off for Pyongyang from Beijing airport, in China, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>An Air Koryo attendant offers North Korean newspapers and magazines before take off for Pyongyang from Beijing airport, in China, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Seen through a car window, a woman dressed in traditional attire, center, rubs her face after participating in an official cultural event while another, right, talks on her mobile phone as they walk down a street at dusk in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>North Koreans dance together beneath a mosaic painting of the late leader Kim Il Sung during a mass folk dancing gathering in Pyongyang Thursday, April 11, 2013, to mark the anniversary of the first of many titles of power given to leader Kim Jong Un after the death of his father Kim Jong Il. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>North Koreans dance together beneath a mosaic painting of the late leader Kim Il Sung during a mass folk dancing gathering in Pyongyang Thursday, April 11, 2013, to mark the anniversary of the first of many titles of power given to leader Kim Jong Un after the death of his father Kim Jong Il. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean Air Koryo attendant wears a pin showing portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, while she prepares the cabin before take off for Pyongyang from Beijing airport, in China, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, North Korean soldiers chat as they stand guard on the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite to the Chinese border city of Dandong. North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a missile launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, a North Korean soldier holds his rifle patroling on the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite to the Chinese border city of Dandong. North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a missile launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, North Korean military officers look from a sight-seeing boat sailing on the Yalu River, the China-North Korea border river, near North Korea's town of Sinuiju, opposite to the Chinese border city of Dandong. North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a missile launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT</p><p>In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, a North Korean soldier looks as he patrol on the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite to the Chinese border city of Dandong. North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a missile launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT</p><p>A flag of the April Spring People's Art Festival hangs on the stage at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. The festival opened Thursday to mark late president Kim Il Sung's birthday on April 15, known in North Korea as the Day of the Sun. Portraits in the background show Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>Journalists ask a worker, third from left, who arrived back from North Korea's Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Bracing for what South Korea's foreign minister warned could be a test-fire of a medium-range missile, Seoul deployed three naval destroyers, an early warning surveillance aircraft and a land-based radar system, a Defense Ministry official said in Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean protesters from Korea Freedom Federation shout slogans during a rally denouncing North Korea's decision to pull workers from the Kaesong industrial park, as well as its threat of nuclear war and its alleged plan to launch a missile, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. The letters read "Stop immediately War threat." Bracing for what South Korea's foreign minister warned could be a test-fire of a medium-range missile, Seoul deployed three naval destroyers, an early warning surveillance aircraft and a land-based radar system, a Defense Ministry official said in Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>U.S. Army soldiers conduct their annual military drills in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. This year's drills are unusual in the level of fury they've inspired from the North — Pyongyang has threatened nuclear war — and in the tougher than usual U.S. response that some call a case of Washington overplaying its hand. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers check a barbed-wire fence in Paju, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, South Korea, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Bracing for what South Korea's foreign minister warned could be a test-fire of a medium-range missile, Seoul deployed three naval destroyers, an early warning surveillance aircraft and a land-based radar system, a Defense Ministry official said in Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>US Secretary of Sate John Kerry chats with Russia's Sergey Lavrov, left, at the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting at Lancaster House Thursday April 11, 2013 in London, England. G8 Foreign Ministers are holding a two day meeting where they will discuss the situation in the Middle East, including Syria and Iran, security and stability across North and West Africa, Democratic People's Republic of Korea and climate change. British Foreign Secretary William Hague will also highlight five key policy priorities. (AP Photo / Paul Rogers, pool)</p><p>North Korean children hold up red scarves to be tied around their necks during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>Military cadets march out of a stadium after a ceremony to induct children into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadiu in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>Retired North Korean military members stand at attention during an induction ceremony for children into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>Retired North Korean military members tie red bandanas around the necks of children during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>Retired North Korean military members stand at attention during an induction ceremony for children into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>North Koreans gather in a stadium in Pyongyang to attend an induction ceremony for children into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A grid of dots and numbers, painted so citizens know where to stand during mass political events, cover the street in front of Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>North Korean men walk along a street in front of a clothing store in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>Two military officers admire displays at a flower show featuring thousands of Kimilsungia flowers, named after the late leader Kim Il Sung, while models of rockets and missiles are also exhibited in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>North Korean children hold up red scarves to be tied around their necks during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, asks about a TV wireless microphone to South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se before their meeting at the foreign ministry in Seoul, Friday, April 12, 2013. Kerry arrived in South Korea on Friday on an unusual diplomatic journey, traveling directly into a region bracing for a possible North Korean missile test and risking that his presence alone could spur Pyongyang into another headline-seeking provocation. (AP Photo/Lee Jae-won, Pool)</p><p>People visit a flower show featuring thousands of Kimilsungia flowers, named after the late leader Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A portrait of North Korea's late leaders, Kim Il Sung, and Kim Jong Il, is displayed at a flower show featuring thousands of Kimilsungia flowers, named after Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) </p><p>El secretario estadounidense de Estado John Kerry y el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Corea del Sur Yun Byung-se poan para los fotógrafos antes de reuniones privadas en Seúl, el viernes 12 de abril de 2013. (Foto AP/Paul J. Richards, Pool)</p><p>Tourist information assistant, right, shows the direction to a visitor in Seoul, South Korea Friday, April 12, 2013. North Koreans crowded a Pyongyang flower show, packed theaters and pledged loyalty to their leader Friday ahead of a key national holiday, while the top U.S. diplomat landed in rival South Korea for talks on how to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se during a joint press conference at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. Kerry is making his first-ever visit to Seoul amid strong suspicion that North Korea may soon test a mid-range missile. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Retired North Korean military members stand at attention during an induction ceremony for children into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>People visit a flower show featuring thousands of Kimilsungia flowers, named after the late leader Kim Il Sung, while models of a rocket and missiles are also displayed in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, greets upon his arrival at Seoul military airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. Kerry is traveling directly into a region bracing for a possible North Korean missile test and risking that his presence alone could spur Pyongyang into another headline-seeking provocation. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and South Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se share a few words while waiting for a group meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Friday, April 12, 2013. Kerry is making his first-ever visit to Seoul amid strong suspicion that North Korea may soon test a mid-range missile. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)</p><p>South Korean members of the Abductees Family Association with their national flags hold an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 14, 2013. As the world watches to see what North Korea's next move will be in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship with the United States, residents of its capital aren't hunkering down in bunkers and preparing for the worst. Instead, they are out on the streets en masse getting ready for the birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung - the biggest holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>South Korean members of the Abductees Family Association attend an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul, South Korea Sunday, April 14, 2013. As the world watches to see what North Korea's next move will be in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship with the United States, residents of its capital aren't hunkering down in bunkers and preparing for the worst. Instead, they are out on the streets en masse getting ready for the birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung - the biggest holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>Runners rest inside Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, April 14, 2013. North Korea hosted the 26th Mangyongdae Prize Marathon to mark the upcoming April 15, 2013 birthday of the late leader Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>Visitors buy the North Korean goods at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which separates the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 14, 2013. As the world watches to see what North Korea's next move will be in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship with the United States, residents of its capital aren't hunkering down in bunkers and preparing for the worst. Instead, they are out on the streets en masse getting ready for the birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung — the biggest holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Korea's town Kaepoong is viewed from the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that separates the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 14, 2013. As the world watches to see what North Korea's next move will be in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship with the United States, residents of its capital aren't hunkering down in bunkers and preparing for the worst. Instead, they are out on the streets en masse getting ready for the birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung — the biggest holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors use binoculars to watch North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 14, 2013. As the world watches to see what North Korea's next move will be in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship with the United States, residents of its capital aren't hunkering down in bunkers and preparing for the worst. Instead, they are out on the streets en masse getting ready for the birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung - the biggest holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>In this April 14, 2013 photo, North Korean flags are decorated ahead of the birth anniversary of national founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea celebrates its most important holiday of the year on Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>North Koreans carry flowers to giant statues of North Korean late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. North Korea celebrated Monday the 101st birth anniversary of national founder Kim Il Sung, its most important holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>North Korean soldiers offer flowers for North Korean late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. North Korea celebrated Monday the 101st birth anniversary of national founder Kim Il Sung, its most important holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>A man, left, in his suit, stands posing for photos while a soldier, right, squats down examining the lawn outside the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. The palace, which was the official residence of Kim Il Sung until his death in 1994, is now a mausoleum where the two late leaders' embalmed bodies lie in state. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>A North Korean soldier guarding the entrance to Pyongyang's Kumsusan mausoleum, where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, looks back through the doors of the main gate Monday, April 15, 2013. North Koreans turned out on Monday to mark the 101st birthday of Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>People queue up outside a food shop in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)</p><p>South Korean journalists try to shoot North Korean side at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE</p><p>A South Korean army soldier aims his machine gun during an anti-terrorism drill against possible terrorists' attacks at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean protesters burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at an anti-North Korea protest on the birthday of Kim Il Sung in Seoul, South Korea Monday, April 15, 2013. South Korea's defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary committee in Seoul on Monday that North Korea remains ready to launch a missile from its east coast, though he declined to disclose how he got the information. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p><p>South Korean protesters burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at an anti-North Korea protest on the birthday of Kim Il Sung in Seoul, South Korea Monday, April 15, 2013. South Korea's defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary committee in Seoul on Monday that North Korea remains ready to launch a missile from its east coast, though he declined to disclose how he got the information. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/08/17649869-un-chief-nkorea-nuclear-test-would-be-provocativehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/08/17649869-un-chief-nkorea-nuclear-test-would-be-provocativeeukoreasnorth-koreamoonworld-newstensionban-ki-moonunited-nations-secretary-general-ban-ki-moonMon, 8 Apr 2013 07:38:30 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/05/17612268-north-korea-threats-spark-buzz-on-guam-not-panichttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/05/17612268-north-korea-threats-spark-buzz-on-guam-not-panicuskoreasair-forcenorth-koreaworld-newstensionguamFri, 5 Apr 2013 09:09:01 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2013 file photo, members of the 374th Airlift Wing of U.S. Air Force work on a C-130 aircraft during the Cope North military exercises at Andersen U.S. Air Force Base in Guam. There soon will be another military element to life on the U.S. territory &#8212; a defense system will be installed to shoot down incoming missiles and warheads. Its deployment comes amid intensifying threats from North Korea, which recently listed Guam among its targets for a nuclear attack on the United States. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda, File)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/01/17548655-nkorea-recalling-workers-from-jointly-run-factoryhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/01/17548655-nkorea-recalling-workers-from-jointly-run-factorykoreasnorth-koreaunited-statessouth-koreasouth-koreannorth-koreanworld-newsastensionwhen-north-koreakim-jong-unwhen-pyongyangmore-south-koreansMon, 1 Apr 2013 08:39:43 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Koreans wait to leave for the North Korean city of Kaesong at the Inter-Korea Transit Office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. The writing at right reads " Departure and Kaesong." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Koreans wait to leave for the North Korean city of Kaesong at the Inter-Korea Transit Office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean vehicles head to the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean marine sits on a K-55 self-propelled howitzer during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea Monday, April 1, 2013. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier inspects vehicles waiting to head to the North Korean city of Kaesong at the Inter-Korea Transit Office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean vehicles return from the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean marines stand on their K-55 self-propelled howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea Monday, April 1, 2013. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean marines stand on K-55 self-propelled howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea Monday, April 1, 2013. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo Monday, April 1, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives a speech during a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo Monday, April 1, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un raises his hand with other officials to adopt a statement during a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, the North Korean leader gathered legislators Monday, April 1, 2013 for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>A South Korean army tank moves during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Hwacheon, South Korea, Monday, April 1, 2013. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Hae-ryong) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean Army armored vehicles cross a pontoon bridge during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Hwacheon, South Korea Monday, April 1, 2013. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Hae-ryong) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean Army armored vehicles cross a pontoon bridge during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Hwacheon, South Korea Monday, April 1, 2013. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Hae-ryong) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean Marine K-55 self-propelled howitzer are parked during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea Monday, April 1, 2013. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>El gobernante norcoreano Kim Jong Un pronuncia un discurso durante la reunión plenaria del comite central del gobernante Partido de los trabjadores en Pyongyang, Corea del Norte, el domingo 31 de marzo de 2013. (AP Foto/KCNA vía KNS)</p><p>FILE - In this June 27, 2008 file photo from television, the 60-foot-tall cooling tower is seen before its demolition at the main Nyongbyon reactor complex in Nyongbyon, also known as Yongbyon, North Korea. North Korea vowed Tuesday, April 2, 2013, to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. The North's plutonium reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament talks that have since stalled. The declaration of a resumption of plutonium production — the most common fuel in nuclear weapons — and other facilities at the main Nyongbyon nuclear complex will boost fears in Washington and among its allies about North Korea's timetable for building a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach the United States, technology it is not currently believed to have. (AP Photo/APTN, File)</p><p>FILE - In this June 27, 2008 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the cooling tower of the Nyongbyon nuclear complex is demolished in Nyongbyon, also known as Yongbyon, North Korea. North Korea vowed Tuesday, April 2, 2013, to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. The North's plutonium reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament talks that have since stalled. The declaration of a resumption of plutonium production — the most common fuel in nuclear weapons — and other facilities at the main Nyongbyon nuclear complex will boost fears in Washington and among its allies about North Korea's timetable for building a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach the United States, technology it is not currently believed to have. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gao Haorong, File) NO SALES</p><p>A man looks at the display showing possible damage if a 1 megaton class nuclear weapon is detonated in Seoul, at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart all mothballed facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, adding to tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet, center, lands on the runway during their military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. (AP Photo/Bae Jung-hyun, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>U.S. Air Force A-10 attack aircraft wait to take off on the runway during their military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. (AP Photo/Bae Jung-hyun, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, not pictured, at the State Department in Washington, on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)</p><p>South Korean marine's K-55 self-propelled howitzers are covered by smoke during a military exercise in the border city between two Koreas, Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean vehicles turn back their way as they were refused for entry to North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean vehicles turn back their way as they were refused for entry to North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Marine K-55 self-propelled howitzers are on positions during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Marines pass by K-55 self-propelled howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers walk on the empty road after South Korean vehicles which were refused for entry to North Korea at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>In this Sept. 21, 2012 photo, North Korean workers assemble Western-style suits at the South Korean-run ShinWon Corp. garment factory inside the Kaesong industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea. On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, North Korea refused entry to South Koreans trying to cross the Demilitarized Zone to get to their jobs managing factories in the North Korean city of Kaesong. Pyongyang had threatened in recent days to close the border in anger over South Korea's support of U.N. sanctions punishing North Korea for conducting a nuclear test in February. (AP Photo/Jean H. Lee)</p><p>In this Sept. 21, 2012 photo, a North Korean worker handles wires at a South Korean-run factory inside the Kaesong industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea. On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, North Korea refused entry to South Koreans trying to cross the Demilitarized Zone to get to their jobs managing factories in the North Korean city of Kaesong. Pyongyang had threatened in recent days to close the border in anger over South Korea's support of U.N. sanctions punishing North Korea for conducting a nuclear test in February. (AP Photo/Jean H. Lee)</p><p>In this Sept. 21, 2012 photo, North Korean workers prepare garments for production at the South Korean-run ShinWon Corp. factory inside the Kaesong industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea. On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, North Korea refused entry to South Koreans trying to cross the Demilitarized Zone to get to their jobs managing factories in the North Korean city of Kaesong. Pyongyang had threatened in recent days to close the border in anger over South Korea's support of U.N. sanctions punishing North Korea for conducting a nuclear test in February. (AP Photo/Jean H. Lee)</p><p>In this Sept. 21, 2012 photo, a North Korean worker prepares to measure fabric at the South Korean-run ShinWon Corp. garment factory inside the Kaesong industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea. On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, North Korea refused entry to South Koreans trying to cross the Demilitarized Zone to get to their jobs managing factories in the North Korean city of Kaesong. Pyongyang had threatened in recent days to close the border in anger over South Korea's support of U.N. sanctions punishing North Korea for conducting a nuclear test in February. (AP Photo/Jean H. Lee) </p><p>In this Sept. 21, 2012 photo, a South Korean manager consults with North Korean workers preparing to produce clothing at the South Korean-run ShinWon Corp. garment factory inside the Kaesong industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea. On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, North Korea refused entry to South Koreans trying to cross the Demilitarized Zone to get to their jobs managing factories in the North Korean city of Kaesong. Pyongyang had threatened in recent days to close the border in anger over South Korea's support of U.N. sanctions punishing North Korea for conducting a nuclear test in February. (AP Photo/Jean H. Lee)</p><p>Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Hagel labeled North Korea's rhetoric as a real, clear danger and threat to the U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies. He said the U.S. is doing all it can to defuse the situation, echoing comments a day earlier by Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</p><p>A South Korean security guard works to turn back vehicles as they were refused to enter to Kaesong, North Korea, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean drivers wait to head the North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean truck driver waits to head the North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean drivers walk back to their trucks to turn back at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean truck drivers wait to head for the North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean trucks turn back their way as they were refused to enter North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korean border authorities refused to allow entry to South Koreans who manage jointly run factories in Kaesong. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>FILE - In this June 27, 2008 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the cooling tower of the Yongbyon nuclear complex is demolished in Nyongbyon, also known as Yongbyon, North Korea, in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs. The North's plutonium reactor began operations in 1986 but was shut down as part of international nuclear disarmament talks in 2007 that have since stalled. North Korea vowed Tuesday, April 2, 2013, to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gao Haorong, File) NO SALES</p><p>South Korean drivers wait to head for the North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>The gateways to the North Korea's city of Kaesong are shut down at the Inter-Korean Transit Office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. The letters at top read " Inter-Korean Transit Office." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean worker Kown Suk-mi who was working for a South Korean business in the North Korean city of Kaesong, top center, is surrounded by the media after returning from Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013.North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean small business owners who run factories in the sprawling complex in North Korea's border city of Kaesong, hold a press conference to demand that the North Korea to normalize the border crossings in front of the gateways to North Korea at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. The banner reads " Normalize the border crossings. " (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean vehicles returning from the North Korean city of Kaesong arrive at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean trucks turn back their way as they were refused to enter North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korean border authorities refused to allow entry to South Koreans who manage jointly run factories in Kaesong. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean Army soldier gestures at a military check point in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A North Korean soldier watches the South Korean side at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in South Korea Thursday, April 4, 2013. South Korea's defense minister said Thursday North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, but said it is not capable of hitting the United States. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Jong-hoon) KOREA OUT</p><p>A North Korean soldier uses a pair of binoculars to watch the South Korean side at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in South Korea Thursday, April 4, 2013. South Korea's defense minister said Thursday North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, but said it is not capable of hitting the United States. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Jong-hoon) KOREA OUT</p><p>A North Korean soldier watches the South Korean side at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in South Korea Thursday, April 4, 2013. South Korea's defense minister said Thursday North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, but said it is not capable of hitting the United States. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Jong-hoon) KOREA OUT</p><p>Soldiers of the U.S. Army 23rd chemical battalion wear gas masks while attending a demonstration of their equipment during a ceremony to recognize the battalion's official return to the 2nd Infantry Division based in South Korea at Camp Stanley in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, Thursday, April 4, 2013. The 23rd chemical battalion left South Korea in 2004 and returned with some 350 soldiers in Jan. 2013. The battalion will provide nuclear, biological and chemical detection, equipment decontamination and consequence management assistance to support U.S. and South Korean military forces. North Korea warned Thursday that its military has been cleared to attack the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons, while the U.S. said it will strengthen regional protection by deploying a missile defense system to Guam. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers place a camouflage net over their military vehicle during a military exercise near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea warned Thursday that its military has been cleared to attack the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons, while the U.S. said it will strengthen regional protection by deploying a missile defense system to Guam. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers place a camouflage net over their military vehicle during a military exercise near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea warned Thursday that its military has been cleared to attack the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons, while the U.S. said it will strengthen regional protection by deploying a missile defense system to Guam. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>FILE - In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Thursday, April 4, 2013 but he added that there are no signs that Pyongyang is preparing for a full-scale conflict. The report came hours after North Korea's military warned that it has been authorized to attack the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons. It was the North's latest war cry against America in recent weeks, with the added suggestion that it had improved its nuclear technology. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying what appears to be a new missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Thursday, April 4, 2013 but he added that there are no signs that Pyongyang is preparing for a full-scale conflict. The report came hours after North Korea's military warned that it has been authorized to attack the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons. It was the North's latest war cry against America in recent weeks, with the added suggestion that it had improved its nuclear technology. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)</p><p>A South Korean driver is greeted by his colleague after returning from the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean vehicles return from the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>FILE - In this April 15, 2012, file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korea is probably years away from perfecting the technology to back up its bold threats of a pre-emptive strike on America. But some nuclear experts say it might have the know-how to fire a nuclear-tipped missile at South Korea and Japan, which host U.S. military bases. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)</p><p>Chinese tourists take pictures at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, dividing the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 5, 2013. After a series of escalating threats, North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korea's defense minister said Thursday. But he emphasized that the missile was not capable of reaching the United States and that there are no signs that the North is preparing for a full-scale conflict. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army reservists raise their hands to adopt a resolution against North Korea during a rehearsal for their Foundation Day ceremony at a gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 5, 2013. About 1,000 reservists denounce North Korean for their escalating threat for war. North Korea has been railing against U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began in March and are to continue until the end of this month. The allies insist the exercises in South Korea are routine, but the North calls them rehearsals for an invasion and says it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A protester holds a candle during a rally denouncing the annual Foal Eagle, South Korea and the United States joint military exercise, near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 5, 2013. North Korea has been railing against U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began in March and are to continue until the end of this month. The allies insist the exercises in South Korea are routine, but the North calls them rehearsals for an invasion and says it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean Army soldier walks on Unification Bridge in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Saturday, April 6, 2013. More South Koreans on Saturday began to leave North Korea and the factory park where they work, four days after Pyongyang closed the border to people and goods. (AP Photo/AhnnYoung-joon)</p><p>South Korean vehicles, left, return from the North Korean city of Kaesong at Unification Bridge in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Saturday, April 6, 2013. More South Koreans on Saturday began to leave North Korea and the factory park where they work, four days after Pyongyang closed the border to people and goods. The letters read " Unification Gate." (AP Photo/AhnnYoung-joon)</p><p>South Korean army vehicles cross Unification Bridge in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Saturday, April 6, 2013. More South Koreans on Saturday began to leave North Korea and the factory park where they work, four days after Pyongyang closed the border to people and goods. (AP Photo/AhnnYoung-joon)</p><p>People watch a TV program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea’s top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington because of escalating tension with North Korea that have also led more than a dozen South Korean companies to halt operations at a joint factory complex in the North, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean army soldier helps pick up a box as a driver dropped it on the road after arriving back from the North Korean city of Kaesong at Unification Bridge in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Saturday, April 6, 2013. More South Koreans on Saturday began to leave North Korea and the factory park where they work, four days after Pyongyang closed the border to people and goods. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean Army soldier walks on Unification Bridge in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Saturday, April 6, 2013. More South Koreans on Saturday began to leave North Korea and the factory park where they work, four days after Pyongyang closed the border to people and goods. (AP Photo/AhnnYoung-joon)</p><p>A South Korean Army soldier salutes as a military vehicle crosses the barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>An ambulance drives through barricades on the Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean Army soldier controls traffic at the barricaded Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Koreans, working at a field in North Korea's Kaepoong, are viewed from the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A North Korean soldiers, right, walking near a military guard post in North Korea's Kaepoong, is viewed from the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean woman poses for her souvenir photo at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors watch North Korean territory through binoculars at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors watch North Korean territory through binoculars at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors walk by a map of Korea Peninsula and South Korea's national flag at the exhibition hall of the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean man uses binoculars to watch North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A girl uses binoculars to watch North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea said its top military officer has put off a plan to visit Washington due to current tension with North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean soldier closes a military gate in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A North Korean military guard post is seen near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence at sunset near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors pass by weapons deployed in the Korean War era at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>People buy accessories at Myeongdong, a main shopping street, amid a tense situation over North Korea's threat for war, in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Koreans wait for a chance to enter the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea raised tensions Wednesday when it barred South Koreans and supply trucks from entering the Kaesong industrial complex, where South Korean companies have employed thousands of North Korean workers for the past decade. The writing reads "Departure and Kaesong." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A reporter uses her mobile phone in front of a closed immigration gate for the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea raised tensions Wednesday when it barred South Koreans and supply trucks from entering the Kaesong industrial complex, where South Korean companies have employed thousands of North Korean workers for the past decade. The writing reads "Departure." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean truck drivers gather as they wait for a chance to enter the customs, immigration and quarantine office at Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A man walks at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Koreans read newspapers reporting on North Korea's threat of war on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>An unidentified elementary school teacher, center, orders her students to leave as they watch South Korean housewives stage a press conference denouncing the annual joint military exercise known as Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. The writing on the banner reads " Peace."(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean man uses his mobile phone in front of empty lockers which are used for worker's belongings before leaving for the North Korean city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. North Korea raised tensions Wednesday when it barred South Koreans and supply trucks from entering the Kaesong industrial complex, where South Korean companies have employed thousands of North Korean workers for the past decade.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/30/17531022-white-house-takes-north-koreas-threats-seriouslyhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/30/17531022-white-house-takes-north-koreas-threats-seriouslyuskoreaswhite-housepoliticsnorth-koreatensionSat, 30 Mar 2013 18:35:17 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/28/17500012-us-sends-nuclear-capable-b-2-bombers-to-skoreahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/28/17500012-us-sends-nuclear-capable-b-2-bombers-to-skoreauskoreasnorth-koreasouth-koreaworld-newsasThu, 28 Mar 2013 11:22:31 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber, left, flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Lee Jung-hun, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/27/17489721-guam-governor-says-north-korea-attack-unlikelyhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/27/17489721-guam-governor-says-north-korea-attack-unlikelyuskoreasnorth-koreaworld-newstensionguameddie-baza-calvoWed, 27 Mar 2013 20:14:56 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/25/17450959-nkoreas-parliament-meets-amid-nuclear-tensionhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/25/17450959-nkoreas-parliament-meets-amid-nuclear-tensionkoreasnorth-koreaunited-statessouth-koreasouth-koreannorth-koreankorean-peninsulaworld-newsassouth-koreanstensionkim-jong-unamerican-b-2Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:39:13 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech during the third anniversary of the sinking of a South Korean naval war ship "Cheonan," at the National Cemetery in Daejeon, South Korea, March 25, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool)</p><p>South Korean President Park Geun-hye walks by the portraits of some of 46 South Korean sailors who were killed in the sinking of their war ship "Cheonan," at the National Cemetery in Daejeon, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. The sailors are buried here in the city. South Korea marks three years from the incident on March 26. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool)</p><p>South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the sinking of South Korean naval ship "Cheonan" which killed 46 South Korean sailors, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. The placards read: "Punishment, North Korea's provocation." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean conservative activists burn cutout pictures of North Korean national founder the late Kim Il Sung, right, and late leader Kim Jong Il during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the sinking of South Korean naval ship "Cheonan" which killed 46 South Korean sailors, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. A banner reads: "Bomb at statue of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean navy sailors pay tribune to mark the third anniversary of the sinking of South Korean naval ship "Cheonan" in front of the wreckage of the vessel at the Second Fleet Command of Navy in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 South Korean sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Shin Young-keun) KOREA OUT</p><p>CORRECTS DATE - South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech during the third anniversary of the sinking of a South Korean naval war ship "Cheonan," at the National Cemetery in Daejeon, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool)</p><p>South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, walks through gravestones for South Korean sailors killed in a sunken war ship, at a cemetery in Daejeon, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. South Korea marks three years from the incident on March 26. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool) </p><p>South Korean conservative activists burn cutout pictures of North Korean national founder the late Kim Il Sung, right, and late leader Kim Jong Il during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the sinking of South Korean naval ship "Cheonan" which killed 46 South Korean sailors, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. A banner reads: "Bomb at statue of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday evening, March 26, 2013. North Korea's military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture in the latest in a string of bellicose threats aimed at South Korea and the United States. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean army K1 tank fires live rounds during an exercise at Seungjin Fire Training Field in mountainous Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Lim Byung-shick) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army K1 tanks move during an exercise at Seungjin Fire Training Field in mountainous Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lim Byung-shick) KOREA OUT</p><p>A South Korean K1 army tank fires live rounds during an exercise at Seungjin Fire Training Field in mountainous Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Lim Byung-shick) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean army K-55 self-propelled howitzers move during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea in Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean army K-55 self-propelled howitzers move during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea in Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North, a move that ratchets up already high tension and possibly jeopardizes the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber, left, flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Lee Jung-hun, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber, center, flies over near the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Shin Young-keun, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Shin Young-keun, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean vehicles leave for a joint industrial complex of North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea said it cut the last military hotline with Seoul because there was no need for communications between the countries in a situation "where a war may break out at any moment." (AP Photo/Yonhap, Im Byung-shik) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean vehicles return from a joint industrial complex of North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea said it cut the last military hotline with Seoul because there was no need for communications between the countries in a situation "where a war may break out at any moment." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Visitors arrive at the showroom of the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, at the Unification Observation Post near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A man passes by a map of the Korean peninsula at the Unification Observation Post near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A man takes pictures of dolls of South, right, and North Korean soldiers on display at the Unification Observation Post near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>University students punch the air as they march through Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. Placards read: “Let’s crush the puppet traitor group” and “Let’s rip the puppet traitors to death!” (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>North Korean army officers punch the air as they chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>North Koreans gather at a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>North Koreans punch the air during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. The placard reads: "U.S. forces, get out!" (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>North Koreans punch the air during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>North Koreans punch the air during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>University students punch the air as they march through Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. Placards read: “Let’s crush the puppet traitor group” and “Let’s rip the puppet traitors to death!” (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>South Korea's K-1 tanks take part in their military exercise in the border city between two Koreas, Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Friday that his rocket forces were ready "to settle accounts with the U.S.," unleashing a new round of bellicose rhetoric after U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers dropped dummy munitions in joint military drills with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korea's K-1 tanks take part in their military exercise in the border city between two Koreas, Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Friday that his rocket forces were ready "to settle accounts with the U.S.," unleashing a new round of bellicose rhetoric after U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers dropped dummy munitions in joint military drills with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Korean army officers punch the air as they chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)</p><p>South Korean soldiers prepare for their military exercise in the border city between two Koreas, Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Friday that his rocket forces were ready "to settle accounts with the U.S.," unleashing a new round of bellicose rhetoric after U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers dropped dummy munitions in joint military drills with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A visitor looks at North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors look at a giant relief map of Korean Peninsular at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors use binoculars to watch North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors take pictures North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A man uses binocular to watch North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors use binoculars to watch North Korean territory at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A visitor films exhibition near the pictures of North Korean founder late Kim Il Sung, left, and his son, leader late Kim Jong Il at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Koreans walk near the their military guard post, in North Korea's Kaepoong near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A North Korean military guard post, bottom, in North Korea's Kaepoong is viewed from the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>North Korea's town Kaepoong is viewed from the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 30, 2013. North Korea issued its latest belligerent threat Saturday, saying it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea a day after its young leader threatened the United States because two American B-2 bombers flew a training mission in South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Koreans wait to leave for the North Korean city of Kaesong at the Inter-Korea Transit Office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. The writing at right reads " Departure and Kaesong." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Koreans wait to leave for the North Korean city of Kaesong at the Inter-Korea Transit Office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean vehicles head to the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Monday, April 1, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/18/17359195-pentagon-highlighting-bomber-missions-in-koreahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/18/17359195-pentagon-highlighting-bomber-missions-in-koreauskoreaspoliticsunited-statessouth-koreaair-force-b-52Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:18:51 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/18/17353906-senior-us-official-warns-nkorea-reassures-skoreahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/18/17353906-senior-us-official-warns-nkorea-reassures-skoreakoreassouth-koreaworld-newstensionMon, 18 Mar 2013 07:29:57 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Models of a mock North Korea Scud-B missile, center, and other South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 17, 2013. A South Korean military official said Saturday North Korea launched what appeared to be KN-02 missiles last week during its own drills. He won't say on what day it happened.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter holds letters before talks with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin at the Defense Ministry of South Korea in Seoul, Monday, March 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jae-Won, Pool)</p><p>South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, right, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter shake hands while posing for photos before their talks at the Defense Ministry of South Korea in Seoul Monday, March 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jae-Won, Pool)</p><p>South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, right, listesn to U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter during their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 18, 2013. Carter is traveling to Asia to meet with U.S. allies and visit here on the second leg of his four-nation Asian tour. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/10/17261077-koreas-rhetoric-no-match-for-surreal-calm-at-dmzhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/10/17261077-koreas-rhetoric-no-match-for-surreal-calm-at-dmzkoreasnorth-koreaunited-statessouth-koreasouth-koreannorth-koreankorean-warworld-newsastensionrecent-koreanMon, 11 Mar 2013 00:58:48 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>South Korean protesters hit a huge banner with a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally denouncing North Korea's recent threat and supporting South Korean President Park Geun-hye near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers work on their K-9 self-propelled artillery vehicle during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the U.S. on Monday kicked off an annual military drill amid worries about a possible bloodshed following North Korea’s threat to scrap a decades-old war armistice and launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean protesters wearing masks hold placards during a rally denouncing the annual joint military exercises, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean protester holds a sign during a rally denouncing the annual joint military exercises, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean protesters wearing masks hold placards during a rally denouncing the annual joint military exercises, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. The letters read "When the war occurs, all 70 million people will die." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A South Korean protester wearing a mask holds a placard with a map of Korean peninsular during a rally denouncing the annual joint military exercises, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean protesters attend a rally denouncing the annual joint military exercises, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean protesters shout slogans near a huge banner with a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally denouncing North Korea's recent threat and supporting South Korean President Park Geun-hye, seen in a picture on the left side of the top banner, near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers work on their K-9 self-propelled artillery vehicles during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the U.S. on Monday kicked off an annual military drill amid worries about a possible bloodshed following North Korea’s threat to scrap a decades-old war armistice and launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, presides over a cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Do Kwang-hwan, Yonhap) KOREA OUT</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers work on their K-9 self-propelled artillery vehicles during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the U.S. on Monday kicked off an annual military drill amid worries about a possible bloodshed following North Korea’s threat to scrap a decades-old war armistice and launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South korean Army soldiers set up barbed wire fence during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the U.S. on Monday kicked off an annual military drill amid worries about a possible bloodshed following North Korea’s threat to scrap a decades-old war armistice and launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean Army soldiers sit on their K-9 self-propelled artillery vehicle during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the U.S. on Monday kicked off an annual military drill amid worries about a possible bloodshed following North Korea’s threat to scrap a decades-old war armistice and launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third left, looks at South's western border island of Baengnyeong during his visit to the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment, North Korea. North Korea's young leader urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides on a boat, heading for the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment, North Korea, near the western sea border with South Korea. North Korea's young leader urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, confers with military officers at a long-range artillery sub-unit of KPA Unit 641 during his visit to front-line military units near the western sea border in North Korea near the South's western border island of Baengnyeong. Kim urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second left, watches sturgeons in a pond at the Ryongjong Fish Farm in South Hwanghae, southwestern North Korea. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>A North Korean soldier works at a computer terminal under portraits of the the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il inside the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>In this Sunday, March 9, 2013 photo, a bus is covered in camouflage netting in parking lot of a building in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean soldier works at a computer terminal under portraits of the the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il inside the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides on a boat, heading for the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment, North Korea, near the western sea border with South Korea. North Korea's young leader urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>A South Korean marine K-55 self-propelled howitzer fires during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The body that controls North Korea’s military dismissed new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the first woman to hold the office, with a sexist reference Wednesday to the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A South Korean marine K-55 self-propelled howitzer fires during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2013.The body that controls North Korea’s military dismissed new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the first woman to hold the office, with a sexist reference Wednesday to the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) </p><p>South Korean marines stand in the gun smoke of a K-55 self-propelled howitzer during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The body that controls North Korea’s military dismissed new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the first woman to hold the office, with a sexist reference Wednesday to the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>South Korean marines check a weapon on their K-55 self-propelled howitzer during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The body that controls North Korea’s military dismissed new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the first woman to hold the office, with a sexist reference Wednesday to the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) </p><p>South Korean Marines walk by a K-55 self-propelled howitzer during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. North Korea's first public, senior-level mention of South Korea's first female president ended up being a sexist crack. The body that controls Pyongyang's military complained Wednesday about the "venomous swish" of her skirt.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>FILE - In this Friday, March 8, 2013 file photo, South Korean President Park Geun-hye salutes during a joint commission ceremony of 5,780 new officers of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines at the Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong, south of Seoul, South Korea. The body that controls North Korea's military is dismissing the South Korea's new president with a sexist comment about the "venomous swish" of her skirt. An unidentified spokesman for the National Defense Commission's armed forces ministry also repeated North Korean vows from recent days of a "merciless retaliation" over ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. The statement Wednesday, March 13, reiterates another North Korean promise to no longer abide by the armistice that ended the Korean War. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Ahn Jung-won, File) KOREA OUT</p><p>A man walks by a map of Korean War at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. North Korea's first public, senior-level mention of South Korea's first female president ended up being a sexist crack. The body that controls Pyongyang's military complained Wednesday about the "venomous swish" of her skirt. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>A man walks by a sign written on steps in front of the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. North Korea's first public, senior-level mention of South Korea's first female president ended up being a sexist crack. The body that controls Pyongyang's military complained Wednesday about the "venomous swish" of her skirt. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers prepare 155 mm howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, March 14, 2013. The body that controls North Korea’s military dismissed new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the first woman to hold the office, with a sexist reference Wednesday to the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) </p><p>South Korean marines take a rest on their K-55 self-propelled howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, March 14, 2013. The body that controls North Korea’s military dismissed new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the first woman to hold the office, with a sexist reference Wednesday to the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon). </p><p>In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed Thursday, March 14, 2013, by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a live ammunition firing drill by the Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment and the Mu Islet Hero Defense Detachment deployed in the southwestern sector of North Korea. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed Thursday, March 14, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un uses a pair of binoculars to watch live ammunition firing drills by the Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment and the Mu Islet Hero Defense Detachment deployed in the southwestern sector in North Korea. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>South Korean army soldiers prepare 155 mm howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, March 14, 2013. The body that controls North Korea’s military dismissed new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the first woman to hold the office, with a sexist reference Wednesday to the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon). </p><p>An amusement park is seen at Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, South Korea,Thursday, March 14, 2013. Busloads of tourists still show up to gawk at the world's most heavily fortified border, even as governments on both sides threaten to reduce each other to rubble. The Koreas' border can seem a surreal place at the best of times — part tourist trap, part war zone. An amusement park, fast-food joints and kitschy souvenir shops mix with an ever-present Cold War tension that is higher now than it has been in years, following North Korean outrage over U.N. sanctions and joint U.S.-South Korean military drills. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Japanese highschool students gesture toward North Korean side at the Unification Observation Post in Paju near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, South Korea,Thursday, March 14, 2013. Busloads of tourists still show up to gawk at the world's most heavily fortified border, even as governments on both sides threaten to reduce each other to rubble. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Stamps of North Korean national founder the late Kim Il Sung and late leader Kim Jong Il, center top, are displayed at the Unification Observation Post in Paju near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, South Korea,Thursday, March 14, 2013. Busloads of tourists still show up to gawk at the world's most heavily fortified border, even as governments on both sides threaten to reduce each other to rubble. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Hiram Macharia, a 25-year-old Kenyan, takes a picture at Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, South Korea,Thursday, March 14, 2013. Busloads of tourists still show up to gawk at the world's most heavily fortified border, even as governments on both sides threaten to reduce each other to rubble. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Chinese tourists take souvenir pictures at Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, South Korea,Thursday, March 14, 2013. Busloads of tourists still show up to gawk at the world's most heavily fortified border, even as governments on both sides threaten to reduce each other to rubble. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>U.S. Air Force Airman First Class, Lee Simpson from Sportanburg, S.C., mans a machine gun atop a humvee, with South Korean soldiers during a joint military drill between South Korea and the United States near the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/09/17245498-skoreans-learn-to-live-with-nkorean-war-threatshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/09/17245498-skoreans-learn-to-live-with-nkorean-war-threatskoreaswarnorth-koreanworld-newsassouth-koreansthreatswar-threatsSat, 9 Mar 2013 08:07:56 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Visitors take their souvenir pictures near a military barbed-wire fence at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. North Korea's military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties between Washington and Pyongyang as the United Nations moves to impose punishing sanctions over the North's recent nuclear test. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean army soldiers patrol by the ribbons, forming a shape of tthe Korean peninsula, along a barbed-wire fence at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. North Korea's military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties between Washington and Pyongyang as the United Nations moves to impose punishing sanctions over the North's recent nuclear test. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Visitors take their souvenir pictures at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. North Korea's military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties between Washington and Pyongyang as the United Nations moves to impose punishing sanctions over the North's recent nuclear test. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>In this March 7, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 8, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, walks with military personnel as he arrives for a military unit on Mu Islet, located in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of North Korea's border with South Korea. Seven years of U.N. sanctions against North Korea have done nothing to derail Pyongyang’s drive for a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United States. They may have even bolstered the Kim family by giving their propaganda maestros ammunition to whip up anti-U.S. sentiment and direct attention away from government failures. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION</p><p>A North Korean teacher holds open a children's pop-up book, which depicts a U.S. soldier killing a Korean woman with a hatchet, in a library room at Kaeson Kindergarten in central Pyongyang on Saturday, March 9, 2013. For North Koreans, the systematic indoctrination of anti-Americanism starts as early as kindergarten. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)</p><p>A North Korean defector protests against North Korea's threat for war as South Koreans pass by on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Nearly two decades ago, South Koreans cleared store shelves after a North Korean threat to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" raised war panic. On Saturday, South Koreans expressed some fear but mostly apathy and restraint after a week of warlike rhetoric from the North, including another "sea of fire" vow. The letters read " When South Koreans submit to threat by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, we cannot keep the peace." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>Fans hold a banner to encourage a singer before the start of his concert as South Korean protesters, bottom, stage a rally denouncing the UN's new sanction against North Korea, and the annual joint military exercises between South Korea and the United Sates, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Nearly two decades ago, South Koreans cleared store shelves after a North Korean threat to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" raised war panic. On Saturday, South Koreans expressed some fear but mostly apathy and restraint after a week of warlike rhetoric from the North, including another "sea of fire" vow. The letters, bottom left, read " Stop war exercise." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/23/17064700-nkorea-warns-us-commander-in-skorea-over-drillshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/23/17064700-nkorea-warns-us-commander-in-skorea-over-drillsapkoreasnorth-koreasouth-koreaworld-newsastensionSat, 23 Feb 2013 07:45:36 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In this Feb. 16, 2013 image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, waves as he attends a statue unveiling ceremony at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea on the anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's birthday. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video) TV OUT, NORTH KOREA OUT</p><p>A South Korean army soldier patrols inside the barbed-wire fence at Imjingak in Paju near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of Panmunjom, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. North Korea is upgrading one of its two major missile launch sites, apparently to handle much bigger rockets, and some design features suggest it is getting help from Iran, a U.S. research institute said last Thursday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p><p>A giant North Korean flag flutters on the top of a tower in the propaganda village of Gijeongdong, North Korea, as it is seen from South Korea's Taesungdong freedom village near the border village of Panmunjom on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17010669-departing-south-korean-leader-warns-north-koreahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17010669-departing-south-korean-leader-warns-north-koreakoreasnuclearnorth-koreasouth-koreaworld-newsTue, 19 Feb 2013 05:28:00 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, center, holds the National Security Council (NSC) meeting regarding North Korea's nuclear test at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. North Korea said it successfully detonated a miniaturized nuclear device at a northeastern test site Tuesday, defying U.N. Security Council orders to shut down atomic activity or face more sanctions and international isolation. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT</p><p>In this Feb. 16, 2013 image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, waves as he attends a statue unveiling ceremony at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea on the anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's birthday. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video) TV OUT, NORTH KOREA OUT</p><p>A South Korean activist holds North Korean flags before releasing them with huge helium balloons during an anti-North Korea rally denouncing North Korea's third nuclear test at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. They released 200,000 propaganda leaflets across the border to denounce the North Korea's third nuclear test and late leader Kim Jong Il's birthday on Saturday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>CORRECTS SPELLING TO LEE MYUNG -BAK INSTEAD OF LEE MUNG-BAK- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak speaks to the nation during a press conference to mark his retirement at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. During the address, Lee warned North Korea has pushed itself further into a corner with its recent nuclear test. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT</p><p>CORRECTS SPELLING TO LEE MYUNG -BAK INSTEAD OF LEE MUNG-BAK - People watch a television airing a live broadcast of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's retirement speech at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. During his address, Lee warned North Korea has pushed itself further into a corner with its recent nuclear test. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/08/16893303-seoul-court-sentences-pro-nkorea-activist-for-triphttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/08/16893303-seoul-court-sentences-pro-nkorea-activist-for-tripkoreasactivistsouth-koreanworld-newsFri, 8 Feb 2013 06:25:15 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>Protesters shout slogans during a rally denouncing the joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States in front of the transition team office for President-elect Park Geun-hye in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. South Korean and U.S. troops began naval drills Monday in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon follow through on a threat to conduct its third atomic test. The letters read " Stop, Joint military exercises between South Korean and the United States." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/23/16097206-nkorea-criticizes-skorean-border-xmas-towerhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/23/16097206-nkorea-criticizes-skorean-border-xmas-towerkoreasnorth-koreasouth-koreaworld-newsaschristmas-treetreesouth-koreansSun, 23 Dec 2012 04:28:32 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>A 30-meter-tall (100-foot-tall) steel Christmas tree with about 30,000 light bulbs, is lit by Christian groups at the western mountain peak, known as Aegibong, in Gimpo, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. The Christmas tree would be visible by North Koreans living near the Demilitarized Zone that divided the two Koreas. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Local residents are blocked by police officers as they try to block Christian groups who light a 30-meter-tall (100-foot-tall) steel Christmas tree with about 30,000 light bulbs that would be visible by North Koreans living near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, near the western mountain peak known as Aegibong in Gimpo, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. The letters read "Oppose, the light bulbs at Aegibong." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>Local residents, second from left, is blocked by police officers as he tries to block Christian groups which light a 30-meter-tall (100-foot-tall) steel Christmas tree with about 30,000 light bulbs that would be visible by North Koreans living near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, near the western mountain peak known as Aegibong in Gimpo, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/14/15916714-boat-carrying-3-north-koreans-drifts-southhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/14/15916714-boat-carrying-3-north-koreans-drifts-southboatkoreassouth-koreanworld-newsnorth-koreansarrivalSat, 15 Dec 2012 03:12:22 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/13/15875630-nkorea-policy-in-seoul-to-soften-despite-rockethttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/13/15875630-nkorea-policy-in-seoul-to-soften-despite-rocketkoreaselectionpresidential-electionsouth-koreaworld-newsaslee-myung-bakThu, 13 Dec 2012 05:49:57 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>South Korean soldiers cast their absentee votes for the presidential election at a local polling station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. South Korea's presidential election is scheduled for Dec. 19. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers wait for their colleagues after casting their absentee votes for the presidential election at a local polling station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. South Korea's presidential election is scheduled for Dec. 19. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers cast their absentee votes for the presidential election at a local polling station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. South Korea's presidential election is scheduled for Dec. 19. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p><p>South Korean soldiers cast their absentee votes for the presidential election at a local polling station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. South Korea's presidential election is scheduled for Dec. 19. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</p>