Posted by uspostWorldWednesday, December 8th, 2010
With just two days to go before the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, India is still in a fix whether to attend or not. We at NDTV debate should India heed to China’s boycott call or not? It’s been a tough month for China’s PR machine. First Beijing had to figure out what to [...]
South Korea laid to rest two marines killed in North Korea’s artillery strikes, on the eve of massive naval war games with the United States that have angered Pyongyang and its ally Beijing. At a sombre funeral attended by political leaders, top military brass and tearful relatives, hundreds of uniformed troops commemorated the marines killed [...]
South Korea says the sound of artillery fire has been heard near one of its Islands in the Yellow Sea, but it’s not clear where it’s coming from. The reports come as North Korea warned that U.S. – South Korean naval drills planned for this weekend are pushing the peninsula to the brink or war. [...]
President Lee Myung-bak accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Kim Tae-young on Thursday amid intense criticism over the South’s response to an artillery attack by North Korea two days earlier and the sinking of a warship in March. “There was a need to revamp the military landscape,” a senior government official said Thursday night. “It [...]
Posted by uspostAsiaWednesday, November 24th, 2010
The US aircraft carrier George Washington has left Yokosuka US Navy port in Japan to join exercises with the South Korean naval force planned for next week. A US Navy press release said the exercise was planned before North Korea’s artillery attack on a South Korean island. South Korea’s troops are on high alert following [...]