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A U.S. Military Satellite spotted a strange new facility that near the shipyards of Shinpo, in the province of Ham-Gyeongdo in North Korea. The U.S. military estimated that the facility looked like a small launch pad that could potentially be used to test-fire smaller sized ballistic missiles. Many experts have brought up the possibility that North Korea is currently developing a new class of submarine with SLBM (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile) capabilities. READ MORE
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NHK and Yonhap News reported that North Korean and Japanese ambassadors are scheduled to meet in Pyongyang on the 28th to begin negotiations and discussions regarding North Korea’s past abductions of Japanese citizens. Dae-Ha Seo, and Japan’s Ministry of Asia Pacific Affairs, Junichi Ihara will be talking in Pyongyang over these atrocious acts and other crucial issues. READ MORE
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AP reported that the second U.S. Ebola patient, who was the second American citizen to be contaminated by the epidemic, was scheduled to be released from hospital today after being fully treated from the virus. It is reported that the patient in question, Amber Vinson left that Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia at 1 pm. READ MORE
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Despite their rather disastrous performance in the MLB (Major League Baseball) playoffs, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that Don Mattingly will be managing the team during the upcoming 2015 season, reports the L.A. Times. READ MORE
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It has been 3 years and 7 months since the tsunami in Japan that caused a nuclear power plant in Fukushima to let out radiation. On March of 2011 when the incident took place, the Japanese government declared an emergency and ordered all residents of Fukushima to move to the surrounding areas until the situation was taken care of. Only recently, the government allowed Fukushima residents to move back into some parts of the area that were least effected by the nuclear reactor. READ MORE
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that if all goes according to plan, they will be able to test its Ebola vaccine in West Africa by December this year. The announcement was given at a WHO council where Margaret Chan the head of WHO, representatives from pharmaceutical companies, medical experts as well as representatives from nations where the epidemic is most active, were present.READ MORE
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General Philip Mark Breedlove, who is the leader of the U.S. European Command, and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) of NATO Allied Command Operations, has reported that Russian troops are still stationed in the Ukraine while at a press conference held in Belgium. READ MORE
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has announced that the administration and the United States have agreed to postpone the transfer of war time operations command to the year 2023. This is the 4th time the transfer has been postponed, but the Ministry of Defense announced that they had come to the conclusion there are too many factors to consider before deciding whether South Korea will not only be capable of defending itself in the case of a full-scale North Korean invasion but also lead the U.S. coalition to victory. READ MORE
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On the 24th, the latest episode of “Super Star K6” was released live with its remaining top 8 contestants, Jin Eon Kwak, Feel Kim, Yu Bin Song, Woo Ram Jang, Bustered, Do Hyeok Lim, Jun Hee Lee, and Mica. The theme of this latest episode was dubbed the “Se Tai Ji Mission” with a surprise guest appearance of the legendary Korean pop star Seo Tai Ji, a former member and leader of “Seo Tai Ji & the Boys”. The panel of judges also announced that 2 of the contestants will no longer be able to continue in the tournament. READ MORE
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Yonhap News reported on the 21st that there have been several cases in which Ebola patients have been completely treated from the epidemic in West African countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leone. Hope has sparked in West Africa after researchers had managed to obtain blood samples from people who were immune to the virus. READ MORE
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Yonhap News reported that after 24 days of protest, the government of Hong Kong and the protestors will be officially meeting for the first time. READ MORE
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On the 19th it is reported that North and South Korean soldiers clashed in a fire fight at the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) near the city of Paju, South Korea. The exchange lasted approximately 10 minutes. While there were no casualties on either side, military experts expressed that the conflict could have led to both sides of the DMZ to start firing artillery shells at each other. This is the first clash between the South Korean forces and the Korean People’s Army (KPA) after the naval conflict last Friday. READ MORE
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Japan’s Nihon Gei-Jai Newspaper reported that Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan has expressed a strong desire to amend his country’s current constitution into what he termed an “independent” or “autonomous” constitution that is written and signed and legalized by Japanese leaders and the Japanese people. Ever since his election, Prime Minister Abe has shown strong will to “re-build” Japan into a fully autonomous global power. READ MORE
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KBS and BBC News reported that the U.S. Coalition has recently started to recover some territory in the Middle East that was under the occupation of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). General Lloyd James Austin III told reporters that U.S. airstrikes have been gaining some effect and the allied forces have succeeded in winning back some Iraqi land. READ MORE
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For many years now, especially at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, nations all over the world including the United States and South Korea have been pressuring North Korea to provide their citizens with the most basic human rights. North Korea’s Korean Association For Human Rights however, has stated that their nation may respond to any form of intervention from the global community with force. READ MORE
The Sunday Assembly, also known as the “Atheist Church”, based in the United Kingdom is scheduled to have its first global assembly. The “church” is also known to have a branch and ...
World May 06, 2014 02:34 AM EDTThe leaders of the DPRK have been making very strong statements regarding human rights. A representative from the North Korean government has stated in a speech that the U.S. is a ‘living ...
World May 08, 2014 03:08 AM EDT
