Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with NPR’s Louisa Lim about Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to South Korea and the negotiating efforts to de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
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Japan is preparing to defend itself against any aggression from North Korea, setting up missiles in the capital and deploying warships.
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A Defense Intelligence Agency report suggests that North Korea has the ability to make nuclear weapons small enough to put on a missile. That does not necessarily mean that North Korea has the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.
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Gives some history about North Korea along with interviews of people who lived there and worked there. Some really eye opening documentary if you wanna learn more about North Korea
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An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from CNN: “North Korea has raised at least one missile into its upright firing position, feeding concerns that a launch is imminent, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday. This comes as the world continued to keep watch for a possible missile launch by the secretive government, and a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in the region. In the latest daily tough talk from the North, a government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that ‘war can break out any moment.'”
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Amid rising inter-Korean tensions, the BBC looks at some of the major attacks and incursions which have been blamed on North Korea.
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Seoul says the evidence points to North Korean spies being responsible for cyber-attacks that disrupted work at six TV stations and banks in March.
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Adm. Samuel Locklear says the U.S. could intercept a ballistic missile launched at the U.S. homeland or Pacific allies.
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