North Korea To Cut All Channels With South As "War May Break Out Any Time" -- Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) - Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at "any moment", it said on Wednesday, days of after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack.
The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and to "hostile" military drills under way joining the United States and South Korea.
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MIDDLE EAST
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Blunt sanctions fail to deter Iran.
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ASIA
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Chinese military denies damaging Vietnamese fishing boat in South China Sea clash.
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AFRICA
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Pockets of resistance still in Central African Republic.
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UN Ban Ki-moon: Mali needs 11,000 peacekeepers.
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US eyes anti-piracy effort along west Africa coast.
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EUROPE
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AMERICAS
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Argentina says UN must 'wear down' Britain over Falkland Islands.
Pope Francis’ ‘dirty war’ past remains opaque.
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