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June 8, 2009
“N.Korea closing eastern port”
SNIPPET: “TOKYO - NORTH Korea is warning ships to stay out of waters off its eastern port of Wonsan for three weeks from Wednesday, the Japan Coast Guard said, raising concerns Pyongyang is planning more missile tests.
North Korea is alerting vessels by radio not to enter an area that measures 100 by 263 kilometres at its widest points from June 10 to 30 between 8am and 8pm, a coast guard spokesman said on Monday.
‘We have acknowledged the information and soon afterward issued the same warning to those who may travel in this region,’ the spokesman said.
The news came amid increasing speculation that North Korea is preparing to test-fire several medium-range missiles from its southeast coast.
At least three missiles are apparently being prepared for launch from a missile base in Anbyon County, near Wonsan, a port city about 100 kilometres northeast of Seoul, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.
The report said that several vehicles mounted with mobile launch pads were spotted at the base.”
38 posted on June 7, 2009 8:35:33 PM PDT by Cindy
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“NKorea sentences 2 US journalists to 12 years jail”
By VIJAY JOSHI – 32 minutes ago
SNIPPET: “SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said its top court convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison Monday, intensifying the reclusive nation’s confrontation with the United States.
The North’s Central Court tried American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee during proceedings running from last Thursday to Monday and found them guilty of a “grave crime” against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea, the country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said.
It said the court “sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor.” The KCNA report gave no other details.
Ling and Lee — who were working for former Vice President Al Gore’s California-based Current TV — cannot appeal because they were tried in North Korea’s highest court, where decisions are final.”