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North Korea fires a short-range missile
AP by way of The China Post (Taiwan) ^ | 20JUN07 | Kwang-Tae Kim
Posted on 06/20/2007 1:51:30 AM PDT by familyop
North Korea fired a short-range missile toward waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, a South Korean intelligence official said Tuesday, amid signs of progress in ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The North “fired the short-range missile around 3:30 p.m. (0630 GMT),” the South Korean official said, asking not to be named, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
He said the range of the missile is about 100 kilometers (62 miles) but did not give further details.
The missile launch, the second in as many weeks, came as the United States and South Korea and their regional partners explore ways on how to persuade Pyongyang to quickly shut down its bomb-making reactor. The U.N. nuclear inspectors plan to visit the communist nation next week to discuss how to monitor and verify the shutdown of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, as agreed to by Pyongyang under a February agreement.
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“Christian Monastery Attacked in Gaza”
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Palestinian Media Watch | June 20, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “During the recent fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Fatah, the Christian community in Gaza was also targeted. The Palestinian paper Al-Ayyam reported that “Armed masked men… stole, destroyed and burned down a monastery and a church school in Gaza, after they bombed the main gate with RPG shells… they destroyed the main gate of the monastery with an RPG shell, and then entered the church and destroyed everything in the monastery: The crosses, the holy books, computers and photocopy machines.” They appeared to be members of Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, however, the Hamas has directed the blame at the Palestinian Authority police.
It should be noted that while this may have been a Hamas attack on the church, the Christian community has been suffering under Fatah rule as well. Ever since the West Bank cities were given over from Israel to the Palestinian Authority the Christian population has been living under very difficult conditions.
Palestinian writer Khaled Abu Toameh recently reported in The Jerusalem Post on the ruin of the Christian community of Bethlehem:
“The conditions of Christians in Bethlehem and its surroundings had deteriorated ever since the area was handed over [from Israel] to the PA in 1995…. ‘Every day we hear of another Christian family that has immigrated to the US, Canada or Latin America… The Christians today make up less than 15 percent of the population’… “Samir Qumsiyeh [said]: “I believe that 15 years from now there will be no Christians left in Bethlehem.”
When the West Bank was under Israeli administration the Christian population of Bethlehem was over 60%.”