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Monday, April 8, 2013

North Korea shows signs of preparing a new nuclear test


North Korea  gives "signs"of preparing a  fourth nuclear test , two months after the previous test that cost him a new set of international sanctions, said Monday the South Korean Unification Minister. Yes there are signs "of unusual activity around North Korea's main nuclear test site, said Ryoo Kihl-jae told a parliamentary committee, and confirmed press reports. We have detected an increase in staff and transport activity in the southern tunnel nuclear test Punggye-ri, where the regime has worked in the maintenance of the facility from its third nuclear test in February , "said the official. The activities appear to be similar to those that preceded the third test, and we are closely monitoring the site , "he added. According to news agency Yonhap , South Korea also believes that its northern neighborcould take provocative actions , including the testing of a missile attack, possibly onWednesday April 10On 12 February, North Korea successfully conducted its third nuclear test, during which detonated an atomic device compact great destructive powerThe previous two trials were conducted in 2006 and 2009. For its part, Japan on Sunday ordered their armed forces to shoot down North Korean missile all point to its territory, said Monday a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence, while, according to Seoul, Pyongyang is preparing a new nuclear test. The order of the Japanese defense minister, Itsunori Onodera, mainly involve the deployment in the Japan Sea destroyers equipped with Aegis interceptor system , the spokesperson said. "There is no news conference will convene special because we do not want to be depending on North Korean provocations , and North Korea would have directed our strategy if we gave details in public, "added the spokesman, who requested anonymity. "There is a high probability that this missile point to Japan, but we have decided to prepare for every eventuality , "a government source said the agency KyodoThe Korean peninsula is experiencing a new moment of tension from the successful launch of a North Korean rocket last December, regarded by Westerners and Japan as a shot of ballistic missile tests and a third nuclear test in February. In another order, the United States and South Korea made ​​plans to respond accordingly, but as to the actions of North Korea to avoid escalation into open warfare, reported late on Sunday the newspaper The New York TimesCiting unnamed officials, the newspaper said the plan to counter provocations but provides an immediate response proportional to North Korea, if it decides to launch a ground attack or a missile. According to the plan, any attack by Pyongyang will respond with similar weapons, the report said. If the North Koreans would bomb a South Korean island military facilities, the plan calls for a quick response with a similar intensity discharge. Kim Jang-soo, national security adviser to the South Korean president Park Geun-Hye, said Sunday that North Korea could make a test launch this week. Kim said this or other provocation could occur before or after Wednesday, the day for which North Korea diplomats suggested that Pyongyang abandon. If the North launched one of its new missiles Musudan , Pentagon officials said they would be ready to calculate its trajectory within seconds and try to tear it down if it barreled into South Korea, Japan and Guam, said the TimesBut they have no plans to do anything if the missile is launched towards the open sea , even if it passed over Japan, he added, noting that officials doubt that the regime leader of North Korea, Kim Jung-un, would risk throwing a missile against the United States or its allies. U.S. President Barack Obamaruled missile attack while on their launchers , unless there is evidence that they are loaded with nuclear warheads, which intelligence officials doubt that Pyongyang possesses, the newspaper said.

Premier League l is Manchester's classic juga....


Today will be played the most anticipated game of the day in the Premier LeagueIn the stadium of Manchester United, the premises will be visited by its neighbors in the City. No doubt, it will be a party with all the condiments. The "Red Devils" are ahead of the championship with 77 units . While locally arrive after 25 wins, two draws and three losses, and add 18 games unbeaten, internationally things did not go well lately .Eliminated from the Champions League - Real Madrid lost to - and the FA Cup, losing to Chelsea-, the only goal that remains standing is crowned in the PremiershipFor its part, the City is 15 points behind the leader (total 62 units) and practically a miracle will bicampeonato can achieve . Likewise, if you wish to do this, you must win as MondayThe Argentine Pablo Zabaleta, Carlos Tevez and Sergio Aguero would hold  a visitor cast, and seek to fight to the bitter end, intended to take revenge for the agony falling 3-2 in the first round. Meanwhile, United boss Alex Ferguson,  will feature the return of Wayne Rooney  after overcoming some physical pain. 

Tension between Merkel and Putin


"A tense meeting" and qualify sources Berlin Chancellery meeting between Merkel and Putin that the Russian president arrived late and was cheered outside the enclosure by protests from civic organizations and ecopacifistas. "Go back to hell," one banner called the police left no closer than two kilometers from the building protected by armored vehicles, reconnaissance helicopters and snipers on rooftops. While it is true that economic relations between Germany and Russia have maintained a good pace throughout the two legislatures Merkel, so is there gaps between the two heads of government, for example regarding the Syrian conflict, and respect for the rights Human has opened a gap between them that has become evident in Hannover. In a speech to the fair that came to display Putin Russian industrial potential, Putin publicly encouraged Merkel to allow the development of civil society in their country and especially made ​​a defense of the importance of NGOs as "engine innovation and motivation, "he said, to applause from the audience. These words were responding to searches and interrogations that have undergone employees and managers of German NGOs in Russia, accused the authorities there for spying and between which lies the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, akin to the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU) Chancellor presiding, and its equivalent Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The direct reference to the treatment received by these organizations raises the tension that has grown in recent weeks and coincided with European bailout to Cyprus, where Russian fortunes have been seriously affected by the deposits removes over 100,000 euros and has generated a quiet unease in Moscow. Putin, for his part, made ​​no express reference to the case, but merely, as a veiled threat, mentioning "the need to strengthen bilateral relations in economic times that the European economy is showing unfortunately very fragile." Putin knows what he says. While trade with the rest of Europe barely survives the crisis, east German exports rose 10.4% in 2012, with a volume of 38,000 million euros. Germany and Russia exchanged goods worth 80,000 million euros annually and geopolitical partners have become thanks to Russian gas pipeline to Germany provided directly through the North Sea, a strategic energy supply. From this position, Putin does not feel forced to endure pulling ears and German Chancellor on Friday, at the public television station ARD in Berlin, defended the measures taken in Moscow against the German NGO, citing the "need to maintain control ". The meeting between the two have kept in Hannover, where Merkel unfolded in perfect Russian, served only to confirm their huge differences and their common destiny understood.

Barack Obama wants to capture an asteroid


Barak Obama presented the 2014 budget on Wednesday, which includes $ 105 millionfor the NASA investigate the feasibility of developing a robotic spacecraft that willcapture an asteroid mission. Florida Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson , who is also chairman of the Subcommittee onScience and Space of the Senate , told reporters that the project will be divided into two stages , the final part will be developed from 2017That asteroid would then dragged to the moon for a group of astronauts begin to study, which was expected around 2021. Nelson also explained that investigate the composition of celestial object  and develop a  technology to divert, if they are a threat to Earth .  NASA should study in the coming months if the project is viable. The president marked as next targets for space exploration one asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in 2030. The fall of the meteorite on Chelyabinsk, Russia , on February 15 last, which damaged buildings and injured more than 1,000 people, renewed interest in space exploration and the development of technology to avoid a collision.

Several cases pending with Justice l Former Pakistani President Musharraf can contest elections


Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's coup may be submitted to the general elections of May 11 in Pakistan, after his nomination was accepted Jitral City, on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, officials said. Earlier, the former general attempted to file his candidacy in Kasur and in the port city of Karachi in the south, but was rejected for legal reasons.The former dictator has several cases pending with the law , but wait at least get enough support to win a seat in the General Assembly composed of 342 deputies. His papers are in order . Sentenced not right now, so you can not disqualify "said Jamal Khan electoral adviser, who has admitted his candidacy. Pakistani justice has temporarily frozen the arrest warrants against him for the murder of the head of the breakaway province of Baluchistan (southwest) Akbar Bugti in 2006, Benazir Bhutto in 2007. The Supreme Court, however, has scheduled a hearing Monday on a complaint filed by a Pakistani lawyer who argues for the opening of proceedings against Musharraf for "betraying" the Constitution by imposing a state of emergency in 2007 . According to the system of Pakistan, a person may be a candidate in various constituencies for the elections. Musharraf returned to the country last month after a four-year exile self-imposed. He was head of the country after a coup that brought him to power in the fall of 1999 and resigned in the summer of 2008.

Syria l Hamas city meets 300 days of siege


The city of Hamas in the center of Syria is facing a siege that has lasted 300 daysarmy led by Bashar al-Assad regime carrying out a campaign of " genocide and wild destruction ", the opposition denounced Sunday. "It has been 300 days since the siege of Homs, heroic city, the capital and heart of the Syrian revolution," said the Syrian National Council (CNS), the leading member of the opposition coalition. Currently, the Army, which performs daily bombings against pockets of rebel resistance,controls 80% of Homs , the third largest city and one of the first to revolt two years ago at the beginning of the revolt against the regime, which has resulted in open armed confrontation. Since June 2012, the regime troops besieging neighborhoods with large rebel control of the city center, at the edges develop fierce fighting. This Sunday, pro-regime forces shelled Jaldiye, Qarabis, Qusur and Juret to Shiyah. "It has been 300 days while the world watches idly all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in this city, "continued the CNS in a statement. "The schools and hospitals were destroyed , water and electricity cut, as well as communications and food supply (...), civilians lack of medicines and treatments, "added the opponents.