Navies of 2 Koreas exchange fire near border
AP - 58 minutes agoA badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said.
A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said.
SEOUL, South Korea — A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said.
One person was killed in fighting that erupted when a North Korean navy boat ventured into disputed waters.
First naval clash between the two countries in seven years comes one week before Obama visits Seoul.
President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
Vitaly Ginzburg
As the letters show, Reagan and Gorbachev were instead discussing how to minimize the threat of nuclear war by first reducing and then eliminating all nuclear weapons.
Posted: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:55 am | Updated: 8:59 am, Tue Nov 10, 2009. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said.
The first naval clash in seven years broke out just a week before President Barack Obama is due to visit Seoul.
US President Barack Obama is willing to visit the nuclear-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while in office but won't go there during a Japan trip this week, he said in an NHK TV interview Tuesday.
TOKYO -- President Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, died Sunday. He was 93.
DEAL DENIED A report in the New Yorker magazine sent U.S. and Pakistani diplomats into a frenzy over the weekend, as they scrambled to deny that Washington is making secret plans to take over Pakistan's nuclear weapons in case of an emergency. "The United States has no intention to seize Pakistani nuclear weapons or material," U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson said Sunday. "Pakistan is a key ally ...
Mr. Ginzburg, a Russian physicist, helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb and went on to win the Nobel Prize.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. wants a “civil, diplomatic relationship” with Iran and has told the regime that possessing a nuclear weapon isn’t in the nation’s best interests, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
SEOUL, South Korea - A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast,...