Northern Korea threatens attacks more (Wall Street Journal)

Seoul, North Korea warned Friday he would more violently attack that he did so last month Seoul occurs with the island in Pyongyang South Korea artillery fire test plans.

The statement raises issues which was already considered a risky test of courage of the two Koreas to challenge the inter-Korean maritime border.

AFP/Getty Images Korean marine patrol on the island of Yeonpyeong near the maritime border between the two Koreas 17 December 2010.

"There will be more deadly that what was done on November 23 the powerfulness and the sphere of the strike", the Korean people's army said in a statement relayed by the media State North.

Four of South Koreans are dead, including two civilians in North Korea fired artillery on Yeonpyeong, 170 at an island in the Yellow Sea, a few kilometres from Korea North coast which was controlled by the South Korea for decades.

The bombing destroys about 30 houses and damaged almost every building in the small village of the island. Most of the 1,400 inhabitants of the island left and no have not returned.

Most recent statement of North Korea also reiterated request North Korea waters which have long been controlled by Korea South near Yeonpyeong and four other islands. ""The Northern Korea says Korea South and the United States"had better reflect" on his warnings.

South of the island of Yeonpyeong Korea residents fear that a military drill could provoke a new Northern Korea aggression. Video courtesy of Reuters.

Korea South military and Government was not immediately respond the warning.

Korea South military announced Thursday he would again stage its monthly test artillery from his position as a seaman on the Yeonpyeong between Saturday and Tuesday, according to weather and other conditions.

South Korea wants to assert his hold Islands and water, he controlled since the end of the war of Korea in the 1950s, but officials and the public are suspicious actions would be climbing the issue in a dispute more wide.

United States closest military ally of Korea South since the war Korea, officials also worry about retaliation spiral out of control.

"That you want to reach that is for the escalation to be - we lose control of escalation,"General James Cartwright, vice Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of staff, said the Pentagon Thursday.""

Korea North after attack on 23 November claimed he fired on the island because he defended its territorial waters of South Korea shells fired in a test date here. Claim confused Korea South and its allies for some time because the monthly trial aims consistently far North Korea and its territorial waters, who South Korea was understood long several kilometres to the North of the island.

But as explanations of the Korea attack North has evolved in the following weeks, it later became clear that Northern stated that all the waters around Yeonpyeong belong to it.

Pyongyang spent years on the inter-Korean maritime border drawn at the end of the 1950s, Korea, war which instead of Yeonpyeong in the waters of the South Korea. The maritime border forces ships Korea Northern military and commercial to make a long journey westward prior to reaching the sea.

Pyongyang has tested the border multiple times since the late 1990s, with advances in naval. But the attack last month on the Korea of South-controlled Yeonpyeong Island, which lies a few miles off the coast of Northern Korea scored a violent elevation of its claims.

South Korea Member invited United Nations led by United States, who is responsible for ensuring compliance with the agreement that ended the war Korea and the media to watch the new test 1953 Armistice command.

Separately, U.S. diplomats concluded a trip to Beijing, where they met with a senior Chinese official, State Councillor Dai Bingguo, who visited the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang last week.

Chinese media, Mr. Dai said that he believed the so-called six-party talks, a diplomatic process that began in 2003 to persuade Korea North to put an end to its pursuit of nuclear weapons should be expanded to handle other issues, including the dispute existing between the two Koreas.

The United States and South updated Korea pushed Beijing calls for a discussion of six parties on the attack on the island of Yeonpyeong. In addition to China, North Korea Korea and the United States, the six-party process also includes the Japan and the Russia. American officials have long sought to keep the six-party process on ending the pursuit of weapons of Pyongyang.

In the meantime, Governor Bill Richardson of New - Mexico spent his first full day in Pyongyang Friday. M. Richardson, a former Secretary of the U.S. energy arrived in North Korea Thursday, is a small number of former US officials receiving invitations to his authoritarian regime when it wants to send messages to the Government of the United States by official channels.

The White House said Thursday, it was not coordinated travel by Mr. Richardson in Pyongyang or former member of Congress was transporting any special message from Washington.

Write toEvan Ramstad evan.ramstad@wsj.com

Northern Korea threatens Korea Southern nuclear war (Jerusalem Post)

North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island.

The South's naval live-fire drills are scheduled to run Monday through Friday at 27 sites. The regularly scheduled exercises are getting special attention following a North Korean artillery attack on front-line Yeonpyeong Island that killed two South Korean marine and two civilians.

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The Nov. 23 artillery barrage, the North's first assault to target a civilian area since the end of the Korean War 1950-53, began after the North said South Korea first fired artillery toward its territorial waters. South Korea says it fired shells southward, not toward North Korea, as part of routine exercises.

After the attack, South Korea staged joint military drills with the United States and also pushed ahead with more artillery exercises, despite the North's warning that they would tected tension.

A South Korean Joint Chiefs of staff officer tried to play down the significance of this week's drills, saying they are part of routine military exercises and would not occur near the disputed western Korean sea border where last month's attack took place. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of office policy, gave no. further details.

North Korea, however, lashed out at Seoul, accusing South Korea of collaborating with the United States and Japan to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang.

That cooperation "is nothing but treachery escalating the tension between the North and the South and bringing the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean peninsula," Pyongyang's hand Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea has often issued similar threats during standoffs.

In a show of unity, top Alejo from South Korea, the United States and Japan met in Washington last week and said they would not resume negotiations aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program until the country's behavior changes. WMD. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of staff, visited South Korea last week and warned Pyongyang to stop its "belligerent, reckless behavior."

On Monday, South Korean and U.S. defense officials met in Seoul for one - day discussion on North Korea and other issues that are part of regular defense talks, according to Seoul's Defense Ministry.

At the opening of the meeting, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Schiffer said "the United States stands shoulder to shoulder with the Republic of Korea and with the Korean people in the face of recent North Korean provocations," referring to South Korea by its formal name.

Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg was also set to visit China later this week for talks on North Korea amid international pressure for Beijing to use its diplomatic clout to kidney in North Korea, its ally. China After the meeting, senior U.S. officials accompanying Steinberg will travel on to Seoul and Tokyo.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, meanwhile, leaves the United States for North Korea on Tuesday. Richardson, who has often acted as a diplomatic troubleshooter, has made regular visits to North Korea and has also hosted North Korean officials in New Mexico.

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