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Travel ban added to N. Korea resolution
Oct 11 2006 11:59PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States circulated a new draft U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea Wednesday night that softens language on cargo inspections and financial sanctions to try to get Russian and Chinese support.
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No abnormal radioactivity at test site
Oct 11 2006 10:27PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's Science and Technology Ministry said Thursday it has detected no abnormal radioactivity levels at the suspected site of North Korea's nuclear test blast earlier this week.
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Bush rejects idea of talks with N. Korea
Oct 11 2006 10:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush unapologetically defended his approach to North Korea's nuclear weapons program Wednesday, pledging he would not change course despite contentions that Pyongyang's apparent atomic test proved the failure of his nearly six years of effort.
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U.N. to appoint Ban as secretary-general
Oct 11 2006 7:45PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The General Assembly will appoint South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next U.N. secretary-general on Friday, giving him a 2 1/2-month transition before taking over from Kofi Annan on Jan. 1.
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Suspects said nabbed in Pakistan attacks
Oct 11 2006 5:53PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf announced Wednesday that authorities had captured suspects allegedly behind an attempt on his life and said Pakistan had to win its battle with extremists.
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North Korea threatens more nuclear tests
Oct 11 2006 4:59PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea threatened more nuclear tests and said Wednesday it would consider additional sanctions an act of war, stoking tensions in an already jittery Asia.
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China holds key to N. Korea sanctions
Oct 11 2006 3:37PM (CT)
DANDONG, China (AP) - Scores of Chinese trucks rumbled across the Friendship Bridge into North Korea on Wednesday, part of a stream of subsidized food and fuel from China that keeps leader Kim Jong Il's regime afloat.
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France: Claimed N.Korea nuke test failed
Oct 11 2006 3:02PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - France said outright for the first time Wednesday that North Korea's proclaimed nuclear test produced such a small blast that it must have failed, and analysts warned such challenging talk could lead Pyongyang to try again.
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North Korea soldiers at DMZ taunt guards
Oct 11 2006 2:45PM (CT)
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) - Spitting across the demarcation line that separates the two armies. Making throat-slashing hand gestures. Flashing their middle fingers. Trying to talk to the South Korean troops. North Korean troops in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas have been more boldly trying to provoke guards on the other side since the North claimed to have detonated a nuclear bomb Monday, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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Many troops, rebels killed in Sri Lanka
Oct 11 2006 2:36PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Fighter jets pounded Tamil Tiger positions Wednesday in northern Sri Lanka as fierce clashes left dozens of government troops and rebel fighters dead and scores more injured.
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World ponders N.Korea proliferation risk
Oct 11 2006 2:32PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - North Korea's claim to have successfully tested a nuclear bomb has raised a terrifying question: How long will it be before a desperate Pyongyang decides to earn some hard cash by selling its bomb technology?
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Execution order stirs debate in India
Oct 11 2006 2:18PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - The execution order for a man convicted of involvement in an attack on India's Parliament has sparked bitter protests in his native Kashmir and touched off raw debates along this country's fraught Muslim-Hindu divide.
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U.N. chief urges U.S.: Talk to N. Korea
Oct 11 2006 1:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the United States on Wednesday to hold bilateral talks with North Korea and called on the communist nation not to escalate an "extremely difficult" situation.
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U.S. plans U.N. resolution on N. Korea
Oct 11 2006 12:10PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States said Wednesday it hopes to circulate a revised U.N. resolution on North Korea soon, with the U.S. still at odds with China over how strong sanctions against North Korea should be for conducting a nuclear test.
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Japan bans North Korean imports
Oct 11 2006 11:20AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Saying the country was "in gravest danger," Japan ordered a total ban on North Korean imports late Wednesday and declared that ships from the impoverished nation were prohibited from entering Japanese ports as punishment for its apparent nuclear test.
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Top Chinese envoy to visit U.S., Russia
Oct 11 2006 11:04AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A special envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao left Wednesday for a visit to the United States and Russia amid regional tensions over North Korea's claims of a nuclear test this week, China's foreign ministry said.
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Report of 2nd nuke test is retracted
Oct 11 2006 8:49AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese television reports on Wednesday that North Korea may have conducted a second nuclear test stirred new anxieties, but one of the networks later issued a retraction and officials said it was most likely a false alarm.
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S.Korea may bolster conventional arsenal
Oct 11 2006 4:06AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's defense minister said Wednesday that Seoul could enlarge its conventional arsenal to deal with a potentially nuclear-armed North Korea.
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Report: NKorea threatens more nuke tests
Oct 11 2006 2:42AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - North Korea's No. 2 leader threatened further nuclear tests if the United States continues its "hostile attitude" toward the communist regime, a news report said Wednesday.
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Japan: No data confirming 2nd N.Korea test
Oct 11 2006 1:09AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Reports Wednesday that North Korea may have conducted a second nuclear test stirred new anxieties in Japan, but Japanese officials said a review of data gave no indication that such a test had taken place.
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Thai general casts doubt on martial law
Oct 11 2006 12:07AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The army chief who staged Thailand's coup said Wednesday that martial law is not harmful and lifting it would make it difficult to resolve the country's problems.
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Group: Food aid to N.Korea must continue
Oct 11 2006 12:05AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The international community should not punish North Korea for its alleged nuclear test by suspending emergency food aid, a human rights group said Wednesday.
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