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Showing posts with label North. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North. Show all posts
Monday, January 3, 2011
DECATUR, Ga. — The remains of a woman who vanished while out for a walk more than a year ago have been found in north Georgia, authorities said Monday.
Kristi Cornwell, a 38-year former probation officer, disappeared in August 2009 while walking near her parents' home. Her boyfriend, who was talking to her on her cell phone at the time, told police she said a vehicle appeared to be following her and he overheard a struggle moments laterThe remains were found over the weekend about nine miles from where Cornwell disappeared, said John Bankhead, spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. A state forensic pathologist used dental records to identify them as Cornwell's.
Read More: Bones found in north Ga. belong to missing woman
Kristi Cornwell, a 38-year former probation officer, disappeared in August 2009 while walking near her parents' home. Her boyfriend, who was talking to her on her cell phone at the time, told police she said a vehicle appeared to be following her and he overheard a struggle moments laterThe remains were found over the weekend about nine miles from where Cornwell disappeared, said John Bankhead, spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. A state forensic pathologist used dental records to identify them as Cornwell's.
Read More: Bones found in north Ga. belong to missing woman
Saturday, November 27, 2010
North Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, as the United States and South Korea began joint military exercises.
The agency said also that Pyongyang had moved surface-to-air missiles to frontline areas. The North’s offical KCNA news agency warned of retaliatory action if its territory was violated.
Read More: North Korea readies missiles as U.S., South Korea begin drill
Friday, November 26, 2010
MIR ALI: Pakistani intelligence officials said a suspected US missile strike killed four alleged militants in the country’s northwest.
It’s the latest in a barrage of attacks by unmanned drones on the stronghold of Taliban fighters targeting American and Nato forces in Afghanistan.
The officials said a pair of missiles hit a moving vehicle in Pir Kali village in North Waziristan. The area is home to a mix of Afghan and Pakistani Taliban.
The two Pakistani officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The US has ramped up its officially unacknowledged drone attacks in Pakistan’s lawless border region, launching more than 100 missile strikes this year.
Read More: US drone strike kills four in North Waziristan
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
NORTH KOREA has burnished the leadership credentials of its 26-year-old dictator-in-waiting with a deadly artillery attack on South Korean territory, causing its neighbour to return fire and scramble F-16 fighters.
Two South Korean marines died, and at least 12 were wounded. There were reports of civilian injuries and houses were set ablaze as scores of shells fell on Yeonpyeong island.
A North Korea expert at Beijing's Central Party School, Zhang Liangui, told the Herald that Kim Jong-un was deliberately destabilising the environment in order to mobilise the military and consolidate his power.The South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, held an emergency meeting and told officials to ''respond sternly'' but to avoid aggravating the situation. The military were placed on high alert.
North Korea accused South Korea of firing first. ''The South Korean enemy, despite our repeated warnings, committed reckless military provocations of firing artillery shells into our maritime territory near Yeonpyeong island,'' the military supreme command said.
The north's military ''will continue to make merciless military attacks with no hesitation if the South Korean enemy dares to invade our sea territory by 0.001 mm'', it said in the statement carried by the official news agency. ''It is our military's traditional response to quell provocative actions with a merciless thunderbolt.''
Read more:North Korean dictator-in-waiting linked to deadly artillery attack
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
It is now clear, if it wasn’t before, that Kim Jong-un’s ascension to follow his father as North Korea’s supreme leader is going to be a turbulent time on the Korean Peninsula. How dangerous it gets in the region may depend on how much aggressive behaviour South Korea is willing to tolerate from its neighbour without pushing back hard.
After a brief period of calm following the 20-something’s introduction as the heir apparent to an ailing Kim Jong-il, the North Korean regime has shocked the outside world twice in a matter of days. First by unveiling a uranium-enrichment facility – described as “stunning” by a U.S. scientist who was invited to see it – that could be used to produce more nuclear weapons for a regime that has already defied the world by detonating two of them. Then, on Tuesday, it shelled an inhabited South Korean island, killing two soldiers and wounding dozens of others, prompting a heavy retort from South Korea’s own artillery.
Read More: North Korean actions tied to domestic agenda
After a brief period of calm following the 20-something’s introduction as the heir apparent to an ailing Kim Jong-il, the North Korean regime has shocked the outside world twice in a matter of days. First by unveiling a uranium-enrichment facility – described as “stunning” by a U.S. scientist who was invited to see it – that could be used to produce more nuclear weapons for a regime that has already defied the world by detonating two of them. Then, on Tuesday, it shelled an inhabited South Korean island, killing two soldiers and wounding dozens of others, prompting a heavy retort from South Korea’s own artillery.
Read More: North Korean actions tied to domestic agenda
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