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South Korean President vows strong retaliation to North
India monitoring situation in Korean peninsula
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Dressed as a man, Diana visited gay bar
Pak seeks ISAF help to check cross-border attacks from Afghan
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South Korean President vows strong retaliation to North
President Park Geun-Hye's warning came as North Korea's rubber-stamp Parliament was set to hold its annual session and a day after ruling party leaders vowed to enshrine Pyongyang's right to nuclear weapons in law. It also came as the US announced it had deployed stealth fighters to South Korea as part of an ongoing joint military exercise. In a meeting with senior military officials and Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin, Park said she took the near-daily stream of bellicose threats emanating from the North over the past month "very seriously". "I believe that we should make a strong and immediate retaliation without any other political considerations if (the North) stages any provocation against our people," she said. Park, a conservative who had advocated cautious engagement with the North during her election campaign, has been compelled to take a more hardline posture after assuming office in February. The defence minister made it clear that the South would carry out pre-emptive strikes against the North's nuclear and missile facilities in the event of hostilities breaking out. "We will establish a so-called 'active deterrence' aimed at neutralising the North's nuclear and missile threats quickly," Kim said. The Korean peninsula has been caught in a cycle of escalating tensions since the North's long-range rocket launch in December which its critics condemned as a ballistic missile test. United Nations sanctions were followed by a nuclear test in February, after which came more sanctions and more apocalyptic threats from Pyongyang as South Korea and the United States conducted joint military drills. Those threats have run the gamut from limited artillery bombardments to pre-emptive nuclear strikes, and have been met with warnings from Seoul and Washington of severe repercussions. — AFP I believe that we should make a strong and immediate retaliation without any other political considerations if (the North) stages any provocation against our people.
Seoul: North Korea appointed Pak Pong-Ju (74) as the Prime Minister on Monday. Pak was sworn in at the annual meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly, the North's rubber-stamp Parliament. |
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India monitoring situation in Korean peninsula
New Delhi, April 1 According to Indian Ambassador to South Korea Vishnu Prakash, from all indications, there was little likelihood of any imminent or active hostilities breaking out on the Korean peninsula. “As of now, everything is normal. Government offices, financial institutions, airlines, hospitality industry, businesses, schools and colleges as well as foreign missions are functioning smoothly, as usual,” he said. The Indian envoy said all personnel of the Indian Embassy and their family members were in place in Seoul, leading a normal life and following their regular routine. |
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Nurse’s death: Key evidence handed over to hoax call station
London, April 1 Saldanha had been found hanging days after the call from 2Day FM RJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian to a UK hospital treating Kate Middleton. An inquest into her death opened last week at the Westminster Coroner's Court where Australia's Southern Cross Media Group, which owns the radio station, was allowed a position on the legal Bench when the official inquest proceedings begin on May 2. On Friday, the court handed over copies of her three notes before her suicide, a police report, toxicology results and a letter from her GP, which is expected to reveal whether she was on medication at the time of her death. — PTI |
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Dressed as a man, Diana visited gay bar
The late Princess of Wales was a fan of the Kenny Everett Television Show and had struck up a friendship with him and his friend Cleo Rocos. The new book by Rocos, 'The Power of Positive Drinking', reveals the bizarre episode in which Diana, wearing an army jacket, black cap and sunglasses, managed to order a round of drinks at Royal Vauxhall Tavern in South London in 1988. Mercury, Rocos and Everett played their part by soaking up the attention during the nerve-wracking 20-minute visit - allowing the Princess to blend in undetected, the Mirror reported. The risky plan was hatched in 1988 after the friends had gathered at Kenny's penthouse in London. Rocos had tried to warn off Diana by saying the pub was full of "hairy gay men" and "sometimes there are fights outside". "Go on, let the girl have some fun," Freddie had said. — PTI
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Pak seeks ISAF help to check cross-border attacks from Afghan
Islamabad, April 1 Kayani raised the issue of cross-border attacks with visiting ISAF commander Gen Joseph F Dunford, who is on his first trip to Pakistan. — PTI |
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8 killed in suicide truck bomb in Iraq
Baghdad, April 1 The latest attack, in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, comes as Iraq marks 10 years since the US-led invasion of the country that intended to oust Saddam and install a stable, democratic ally in the Middle East but instead unleashed brutal violence and endless political disputes. The attacker detonated the tanker truck at a police headquarters in Tikrit, 160 km north of Baghdad, killing eight persons and wounding 14 others, the police and medics said. Most of the casualties in the attack, which struck in morning rush hour, were policemen, the sources added. The bombing comes ahead of provincial elections scheduled for April 20, due to be held in 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces. — AFP
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