By Korea News Service KNS" - The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released the following statement on Tuesday. The U.S. anti-DPRK hostile acts being intensified over its satellite launch for peaceful purposes have reached the eve of nuclear war. On Monday U.S. B-52 strategic bombers flied to the sky above south Korea by stealth again to stage a nuclear bomb dropping drill aimed at a surprise nuclear preemptive ...

In an unprecedented action, the Army is going to court martial as many as 168 personnel, including a colonel, two majors, a captain and 17 JCOs (junior commissioned officers), for the violent clash between officers and jawans of an artillery regiment in Nyoma sector of eastern Ladakh on May, 2012. There are 15 officers and over 200 other ranks in the dock in the four cases of officer-jawan face-offs in armo ...

By CHOE SANG-HUN North Korea cut off the last remaining military hot lines with South Korea on Wednesday, accusing President Park Geun-hye of South Korea of pursuing the same hard-line policy of her predecessor that the North blamed for a prolonged chill in inter-Korean relations. Amid tensions over the North’s third nuclear test last month and ensuing United Nations sanctions, North Korea had already shut ...

A heavily armed border crossing between North and South Korea that allows the North access to $2 billion in trade a year, one of its few avenues to foreign currency, remained open on Thursday despite Pyongyang's move to cut communications. North Korea on Wednesday severed the last of three telephone hotlines with South Korea as it readied its troops to face what it believes to be "hostile" action from Seoul ...

China has agreed to buy 24 fighter jets and four submarines from Russia, Chinese state media report. It is reported to be the first time in a decade that China has made a large-scale military purchase from Russia. Two of the submarines will be built in Russia and two in China. The deal, signed just before last weekend's visit to Moscow by the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, comes as both sides increase milit ...

[caption id="attachment_6418" align="alignright" width="411"] A Russian soldier in Chechnya, November 1999 (Courtesy Reuters)[/caption] Mistaking Syria for Chechnya. Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration’s “reset” with Russia than the crisis in Syria. For more than a year, the United States has tried, and failed, to work with Russia to find a solution to end the violence. Mosco ...

Salman Khan, who returned from The US recently, went straight to actor Sanjay Dutt’s Pali Hills residence in Mumbai to give moral support to the former, who has been sentenced to five years in jail in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts, that claimed 257 lives. Salman visited the US for a medical review on his nerve disorder – trigeminal neuralgia. Khan himself is in deep trouble following the 1998 black ...

By Caitlin Dewey The team at bit.ly, a popular link-tracking service, has come out with an interesting new analysis on how people use social media around the world. To make the report, bit.ly tracked clicks on its links from 220 countries over the course of 12 months. (To give you an idea of how many clicks that is, the site has logged more than 100 billion since January 2011.) Bit.ly then analyzed which so ...