North Korea increases rhetoric, threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike
North Korea is threatening, for the first tiem, to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States and South Korea. Though South Korea has heard this rhetoric before, critics say these threats should be taken with great caution.
North Korea is claiming it test fired a trio of nuclear missiles yesterday. The claimed tests are raising tensions in the region and Japan has already called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met face-to-face today with her North Korean counterpart in Singapore in the highest-level meeting between the U.S. and North Korea in years, as Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Jonathan Head in Singapore.
A North Korean soldier shot and killed a South Korean tourist today at the Kumgang mountain resort in North Korea, highlighting just how tense relations between the two Koreas still are