Breaking News::::::North Korea fires two short-range missiles (3:00 AM EDT) after testing nukes

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Report: North Korea Fires Two Short-Range Missiles Off East Coast (3:00 AM eastern time)

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea launched tests Tuesday of two more short-range missiles a day afterconducting a nuclear test, news reports said, pushing the regime's confrontation with world powers further despite the threat of U.N. Security Councilaction.

Two missiles - one ground-to-air, the other ground-to-ship - with a range of about 80 miles (130 kilometers) weretest-fired Tuesday from an east coast launch pad, the Yonhap news agency and YTN television reported, citing unnamed South Korean officials.

South Korea's spy chief, Won Sei-hoon, had informed lawmakers earlier Tuesday that North Korea appeared to bepreparing to test-fire more missiles, according to Park Young-sun, a legislator who attended the closed-door session.

Pyongyang also test-fired three short-range missiles Monday in the hours after conducting an underground nuclear testin the northeast, Yonhap said.

The Security Council called Monday's underground atomic test in northeastern North Korea a "clearviolation" of a 2006 resolution banning the regime from developing its nuclear program and has begun working on a new resolution that could mean strongersanctions.

France called for new sanctions while the U.S. and Japan pushed for strong action against North Korea for testing abomb that Russian officials said compares in power to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

North Korea had threatened in recent weeks to carry out a nuclear test and fire long-rangemissiles unless the Security Council apologized for condemning Pyongyang's April 5 launch of a rocket the U.S., Japan and other nations called a test ofits long-range missiletechnology.
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THE TEST...
'ON A PAR WITH HIROSHIMA'...
GAVE USA LESS THAN HOUR'S NOTICE...
Could carry out more...
Fires 3 short-range missiles...
Aggressive...
Condemned...
UN Urgent Meet...
Japan says 'unacceptable'...



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[h2]N. Korea conducts powerful nuclear test[/h2]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that nuclear and missile tests conducted by North Korea were a "grave concern to all nations" and a legal violation that warranted action by the international community.

"North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, as well as its ballistic missile program, constitute a threat to international peace and security," Obama said in a statement after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test and reportedly fired a short-range missile.

The nuclear test was a major diplomatic challenge to Obama at a time when he is facing a global economic crisis and working to curb Iran's nuclear enrichment program, which the West fears is aimed at producing nuclear arms but Tehran says is for energy.

Obama vowed when he took office to extend a hand to troublesome countries "willing to unclench your fist" but so far he has had little success with North Korea or Iran, which have continued to advance their nuclear programs and showed little interest in renewed dialogue.

The nuclear test was Pyongyang's second -- its first was in October 2006 -- and came just two months after North Korea launched a rocket believed to be a test of its long-range missile capability. Pyongyang said it had put a communications satellite into space.

"North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, as well as its ballistic missile program, constitute a threat to international peace and security," Obama said in his statement.

'RECKLESSLY CHALLENGING'

Calling the nuclear test a violation of international law, Obama said, "North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the international community."

He said his administration would work through the U.N. Security Council and the six-party talks on North Korea to address the issue. Under the so-called "six-party" talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, North Korea committed in 2005 to abandon all its nuclear programs.

Pyongyang has been engaged in years of on-off negotiations with regional powers, which have been pressing the impoverished state to give up its nuclear ambitions in return for massive aid and an end to the country's pariah status.

North Korea had been threatening for some time that it would conduct another nuclear test. Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special envoy for North Korea, warned earlier this month that Pyongyang would face consequences if it carried out a test but said there was little Washington could do to stop it.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on CBS's "The Early Show" that the test indicated North Korea's growing belligerence, isolation and defiance of international law.

"All of those things point to a country that I think continues to destabilize that region and actually in the long term should they continue to develop a nuclear weapons program, pose a significant threat to the United States," he said.

North Korea said it successfully conducted the nuclear test on Monday and ratcheted up tensions a few hours later by firing what the Yonhap news agency said was a short-range missile.

Mullen told CNN it would take a couple of days to verify the test but said there was "no indication that it wasn't as they say."

The (U.S.) Geological Survey confirmed that a seismic event took place consistent with a test, the official said on condition of anonymity.

"We are consulting with our six-party and U.N. Security Council partners on next steps," A U.S. State Department official said.

U.S. observers speculated that North Korea's actions were part of an attempt to deter any external interference as it prepares for internal succession. Scott Snyder of the Asia Foundation in Washington said it suggested Pyongyang had a heightened sense of vulnerability at the moment.

"One has to wonder if this is part of the internal political transition that may be occurring inside North Korea," said Jim Walsh, an expert in international security and a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 
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this is truly crazy, wow.
it always wakes me back up to how the world really is/can be, but this has to be handled A.S.A.P.
 
Originally Posted by scribble253

seems like this all adding up to 2012

The way things are starting to stack up, Im starting to believe it myself. Something along the lines of WWIII would no longer surprise me.
 
North Korea don't want it. Their military is reasonably strong, but they're dead broke and their population is completely devestated as it is.

Iran on the other hand...(even though the youth and most urban/modernized citizens don't rock with Ahmadinejad)
 
Bomb em both back to the stone age

Problem solved

If you don't like my problem solving solutions.. too bad
 
There's no need to nuke anything.

Once one country nukes another, everyone else will jump in and it will basically destroy the planet earth.

We'll be living in some kind of 28 Days Later / Mad Max / Escape from New York type reality.
 
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