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12:52 am Aug 22, 2010
“N Korea devastated by flood: state media”
China • North Korea

“North Korea has been hit by a ‘devastating flood’ along its border with China, Pyongyang’s state media said, as heavy rain swelled the Yalu river.   Nearby Sinuiju City and its vicinity have been ‘severely affected by [the] flood’, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.   The agency said floodwaters had inundated all housing, public buildings and farmland in three sectors of Sinuiju as well as in several rural communities surrounding the city, without giving a figure for the number affected.  More than 300mm of rain fell around Lake Suphung from midnight to 9:00am (local time), according to the report.   ‘Officials and people of North Phyongan province, including those of the city, and servicepersons have turned out in rescue work’, KCNA said.   Across the border in north-eastern China, three people were missing and more than 50,000 others evacuated along the Yalu, which forms the border with North Korea, officials and state media said.   About 230 homes collapsed in the city of Dandong and some transport, power and communication links were cut off but no fatalities were reported, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing local government.   In North Korea, widespread flooding this summer has washed away homes, roads, railways and farmland, causing an unspecified number of fatalities, according to state media reports from Pyongyang”

1:27 pm Aug 16, 2010
“Chinese admiral says US drill courts confrontation”
China • North Korea • South Korea • United States

“A senior Chinese military strategist called planned U.S. naval exercises in the region a provocation and accused the Obama administration of seeking to encircle China and pursuing a “chaotic” approach toward Beijing.  The commentary in the top paper of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was China’s latest verbal broadside against Washington, which Beijing has accused of stirring tension in the region with a series of military drills near its borders.  ’On the one hand, it wants China to play a role in regional security issues. On the other hand, it is engaging in an increasingly tight encirclement of China and constantly challenging China’s core interests’, Rear Admiral Yang Yi wrote in the Liberation Army Daily.  The Pentagon plans new joint naval exercises with ally South Korea that will send a US. aircraft carrier into the Yellow Sea, between China and the Korean peninsula.  Those exercises are intended to provoke ‘enmity and confrontation in the Asia-Pacific region’, Yang wrote.  Yang, who works at China’s National Defense University, warned that friction over the planned US-South Korea naval exercise reflected broader instability in relations with Beijing, and he placed the blame at Washington’s doorstep.  ’Rarely has there been such wavering and chaos in US policy toward China’…  Yang’s commentary came out a day after a similarly angry warning in the paper, suggesting expectations from the PLA for a firm response from Beijing.  ’Washington will inevitably pay a costly price for its muddled decision’, Yang wrote in a separate commentary in the China Daily, the country’s main English-language paper”

10:10 pm Aug 15, 2010
“US-South Korea drills anger North, worry China”
China • North Korea • South Korea • United States

“The US and South Korean militaries will stage their second joint exercise in less than a month from today, fuelling tensions with the prickly North and angering regional power China.  The annual exercise comes a week after Seoul completed its own drills near a disputed maritime border off the west coast that prompted the North to retaliate by firing a barrage of artillery shells in the same area.  Responding with the same rhetoric as it has in the past, the reclusive North said the latest exercise was a ‘dangerous act to light the fuse of a new war’.  Pyongyang has often turned to saber-rattling to make a point but analysts say it is unlikely to risk a full-blown war which would pit it against the combined might of the US and South Korean militaries.  But US officials have said further provocations by the North are possible in coming months, especially as Pyongyang tries to build political momentum for the succession to leader Kim Jong-il, expected to hand power to his youngest son.  Unlike the show-of-force drills in July which involved a US aircraft carrier, this month’s exercises are lower key.  Washington and South Korea say the exercises are defensive and designed to send a message to Pyongyang that its behavior is aggressive and must stop.  Last week’s tit-for-tat military actions occurred near the Northern Limit Line, the site of several deadly clashes since the 1950-53 Korean war, and the location of the torpedoing of a South Korean warship earlier this year.  Seoul blames the sinking of the Cheonan corvette, which cost 46 lives, on Pyongyang.  The North denies responsibility”

9:21 pm Aug 13, 2010
“International community offers condolences to China over deadly mudslides”
China • Germany • Japan • Mexico • North Korea • Russia • Singapore • Timor-Leste • United Nations

“Leaders of international organizations and countries including Russia, Japan, Singapore, Germany and Mexico have offered condolences to China over its deadly mudslides.   Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin extended their sincere condolences to China over the loss of life caused by the rain-triggered mudslides in Zhouqu County in China’s northwestern Gansu Province.  They voiced hope those injured would recover as early as possible and the mudslide-hit area would return to normal soon.  A devastating mudslide hit Zhouqu County  following torrential rain overnight, burying houses and crushing buildings.  As of Thursday, the death toll has risen to 1,117, with another 627 people missing. But hopes of finding them alive were most gone as overnight downpours brought new disaster to Zhouqu, local authorities said.  Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and Choe Yong Rim, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, also sent their deep sympathies and condolences to China, hoping the people affected would overcome the natural diaster and resume a normal life.   Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos Horta voiced his deep grief and regret over China’s heavy loss of life, saying he firmly believed the Chinese government and people possessed enough wisdom, will and power to overcome any kind of disaster with bravery and dignity.  UN  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also said in a statement he was ‘saddened by the loss of life and devastation caused by the severe flooding that has affected considerable portions of China.   He extends his deepest condolences to the families of those who have died or been injured or lost their homes and possessions’  “

10:03 pm Jul 11, 2010
“North Korea shrugs off ship and calls for nuclear talks”
China • Japan • North Korea • Russia • South Korea • United Nations

 ”North Korea said  it was willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks and signaled satisfaction that a UN Security Council statement did not directly blame it for the sinking of a South Korean warship.   China, the North’s sole key ally, urged regional powers to put the navy ship sinking behind them and return to the negotiating table to end a cycle of confrontation that has raised security tensions to new heights since late March.  On Friday, the Security Council condemned the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan in March that killed 46 sailors but stopped short of directly blaming North Korea, an outcome hailed by Pyongyang’s UN  ambassador as ‘a great diplomatic victory’.   Six-way nuclear talks involving North and South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China have been in limbo since 2007 and a 2005 disarmament deal appeared to lose relevance when Pyongyang tested a long-range missile and a nuclear device.  ‘The DPRK will make consistent efforts for the conclusion of a peace treaty and the denuclearization through the six-party talks conducted on equal footing,” the North’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said in comments carried by the KCNA news agency…  A South Korea-led investigation concluded that a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan. Pyongyang has denied any involvement in the incident, saying it was a fabrication by the South aimed at politically damaging Pyongyang’s leaders”

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