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annie
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Why do you suppose that N. Korea is trying to provoke us into war;or am I looking at this wrong. It just seems to me that they want to start something with us.
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Kindgo
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Hey Tracy,
If you don't hurry it will be to late ![[thumbsup]](graemlins/thumbsup2.gif)
Its hard to find time I know, seems I spend more time here and enjoy it less ![[hmm]](graemlins/icon14.gif)
Let me know when... ![[Kiss]](graemlins/Kiss.gif)
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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Trafield
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Kindgo, things are moving along so fast prophetically! I need to get to organizing that prophecy fellowship group, eh?
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Kindgo
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.Korea Fires Missile Ahead of Roh Inauguration
Mon February 24, 2003 08:04 PM ET
By Paul Eckert
SEOUL (Reuters) - In a provocative move ahead of the inauguration on Tuesday of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, North Korea fired a missile into the sea near the peninsula, Seoul defense officials said.
The land-to-ship missile was fired on Monday, as Secretary of State Colin Powell, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and other dignitaries arrived in Seoul for the swearing in ceremony of the untested 56-year-old leader.
It sparked jitters in regional financial markets, already spooked by a prolonged nuclear crisis with the North and wary of the incoming Roh, who brings sharp differences with Washington on how to cope with security threats from North Korea.
"A missile was fired into the East Sea yesterday," a defense ministry official told Reuters shortly before Roh was to take office. Later, he described it as a land-to-ship missile.
"We're looking into the report," a Bush administration official said in Washington. "We believe that this was a launch of a shorter range tactical missile into the ocean."
North Korea -- which shocked the region when it launched a long-range ballistic missile over Japan in August 1998 -- is deadlocked with the United States over Pyongyang's suspected nuclear weapons program.
NUCLEAR CRISIS, U.S. TIES
Pyongyang demands direct talks with Washington to defuse the crisis and has escalated tensions in a series of provocative steps since December.
The crisis began in October, when U.S. officials said North Korea had admitted pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program.
The North then expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, pulled out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and threatened to resume missile testing and abandon the 1953 Korean War armistice.
Last week, a North Korean MiG-19 fighter plane intruded into South Korean air space and the North's military threatened to walk away from the truce which ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
Roh is seen as taking Seoul's ties with key ally the United States into uncharted waters at a time of rising tension over the North's suspected nuclear weapons program.
Roh has vowed to continue predecessor Kim Dae-jung's unconditional engagement with North Korea despite the communist state's suspected nuclear ambitions.
He pledges never to kow-tow to Washington and to forge more equal ties with the United States, South Korea's main ally and trade partner for half a century.
The swearing-in will be around 0210 GMT and Roh will then make a half-hour speech outlining his main policy aims.
Roh's new policy slogan for North Korea is "peace and prosperity." Despite Kim's reconciliation drive, peace has eluded the prosperous South as the heavily armed communist North has fallen decades behind its southern neighbor economically.
Among the more than 200 foreign dignitaries attending Roh's inauguration are senior representatives from major powers with a keen interest in defusing the North Korean nuclear crisis,
The inauguration ceremony has been shortened to pay respect to the dozens who died in a subway fire a week ago.
DIPLOMACY FIRST
Roh's first task will be diplomatic talks on North Korea with Powell, Koizumi and China's foreign policy Czar Qian Qichen. He may also meet Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov.
Ties between the United States and South Korea are set to enter unknown territory under Roh, who won election in December on the back of surging anti-U.S. street demonstrations and the vote of a nationalistic younger generation.
Roh is the first Seoul leader without a strong pro-U.S. orientation or clear memories of the U.S. role in the Korean War -- like the more than two-thirds of South Koreans who were born after the 1950-53 conflict that divided the peninsula.
"First of all, President Roh must get rid of insecure factors in security and the first step for this should be to put the Korea-U.S. alliance back on track," said the conservative Chosun Ilbo, the country's largest daily newspaper.
Roh has never visited the United States, and he won election vowing to seek more autonomy from Washington.
The United States faced growing pressure this week to hold direct talks with North Korea as the only way to defuse a crisis over the communist state's nuclear intentions.
With the Bush administration focusing on Iraq and Powell touring Asia, South Korea's outgoing president, staunch U.S. ally Australia and U.N. Security Council member China all backed one-on-one talks as the best way to resolve the nuclear crisis.
The United States is seeking a consensus to urge North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to scrap any nuclear ambitions and, if he refuses, to crack down on his impoverished country economically.
Roh, however, opposes sanctions and says he would rule out the use of force, because both war or North Korea's collapse would have devastating consequences on South Korea.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....storyID=2280233
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Kindgo
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2796067.stm
North Korea has fired a missile into the Sea of Japan, between Japan and the Korean peninsula, reports say.
South Korea's military has gone on alert as a result of the incident, the AFP news agency said, citing military officials in Seoul.
The missile incident comes just hours before South Korea's new President, Roh Moo-hyun, is due formally to take office.
President-elect Roh, who wants to engage his country's northern neighbour in dialogue, has expressed concern at tough US rhetoric against Pyongyang.
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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