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South Korea Freezes Trade With North Over Warship Sinking – BBC News
South Korea has suspended trade with the North and demanded an apology, after a report blamed Pyongyang for sinking a Southern warship.
President Lee Myung-bak said those who carried out the attack, which killed 46 sailors, must be punished. North Korea’s main newspaper called the investigation an “intolerable, grave provocation”.
The White House endorsed the South’s move, and pledged its co-operation “to deter future aggression”. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged China to co-operate with the US on North Korea. Mrs Clinton told a US-China summit in Beijing that Pyongyang must be held to account for the attack on the Cheonan.
“We ask North Korea to stop its provocative behaviour… and comply with international law,” she added.
China is North Korea’s closest trading partner and has in the past been reluctant to take tough measures against the communist state.
The North depends on South Korea and China for up to 80% of its external trade and 35% of its GDP. In 2009, inter-Korean trade stood at $1.68bn (£1.11bn) – 13% of the North’s GDP.
In a strongly worded televised address, Mr Lee said that the South was forgetting that it shared a border “with one of the most war-mongering nations on Earth”.
“From now on, the Republic of Korea will not tolerate any provocative act by the North and will maintain a principle of proactive deterrence,” the president said.
“If our territorial waters, airspace or territory are militarily violated, we will immediately exercise our right of self-defence.
“Under these circumstances, any inter-Korean trade or other co-operative activity is meaningless,: Mr Lee said, adding that North Korean ships would no longer be allowed to use South Korean water.
And he added: “I solemnly urge North Korean authorities to do the following: Apologise immediately to the Republic of Korea and the international community. Immediately punish those who are responsible for and those who are involved in the incident.”
Mr Lee added that South Korea would refer the North to the UN Security Council in response to the sinking of the Cheonan.
But South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek said Seoul would still maintain the joint economic project in Kaesong, even though it would “respond with resolute measures” to possible attempts by the North to undermine the safety of its workers.
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Republican Wins Obama’s Home District – Sweetness & Light
Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou has won the special election in Honolulu’s 1st Congressional District, the first Republican sent to Washington, D.C., to represent the Islands in two decades.
According to final count from the state Office of Elections, Djou had 39.4 percent of the vote, followed by 30.8 percent for state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa and 27.6 percent for former congressman Ed Case.
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Obama Approval Rating Sinks To 44% – Rasmussen Reports
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president.
43% Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18. The Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve.
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Sestak Repeats Job Offer Allegation, Issa Seeks Details Of Alleged ‘Bribe’ – Fox News
Rep. Issa over the weekend accused the White House of bribing Rep. Sestak, as the congressman held firm to his claim that the administration offered him a job to sit out a Pennsylvania Senate race.
The ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is threatening to file an ethics complaint if Sestak doesn’t provide more details about the alleged job offer.
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Obama Seeks Line Item Veto That He Voted Against In 2007 – First Things
Barack Obama wants Congress to pass line item veto legislation that would allow him to cut wasteful programs from spending bills without vetoing the entire bill.
This way he can pretend to be concerned about his party’s record spending. Obama and the Democrats tripled the national deficit last year by nearly a trillion dollars – something unheard of in our nation’s history.
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Mark Twain To Tell All… 100 Years After Death – Hindustan Times
Mark Twain’s autobiography is finally to be published later this year, and a section is on his scandalous relationship with a woman who became his secretary after his wife died.
The writer, who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, had instructed that his autobiography should not to be published till 100 years after his death. Mark Twain died April 21, 1910.
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Obama Announces U.S. Military Secrets To The World – Fox Nation
President Obama has decided to pre-announce once-secret U.S. ballistic missile tests and satellite launches. His goal is to show a friendlier face to other countries and to coax Russia to do the same.
It’s part of a confidence-boosting initiative launched, so to speak, last fall when Obama suddenly abandoned the U.S. missile-defense system in Eastern Europe that had exercised the Russians.
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U.S. Boy, 13, Conquers Everest – News 24
A 13-year-old American boy on Saturday became the youngest ever climber to conquer Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, a climbing website said.
Jordan Romero from Big Bear, California, scaled the 8 850 metre summit from the Tibetan side, on the same day a Nepali man broke his own world record for the most number of successful Everest attempts.
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Nuns Set Up Massage Service – Orange News
A group of nuns have set up a massage service as a new way of making ends meet after their chicken breeding business fell flat.
The sisters at Marienkron Abbey in Monchhof, Austria, are making a fortune after converting their convent into a health spa. The five star spa offers therapies with high pressure jets of mineral water, massage, and fitness classes.
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Volcano Erupts For 10,000 Days – Stuff
The world’s longest continuously erupting volcano, which has become a major attraction for scientists and tourists since it became active in 1983, has marked a milestone.
It was 10,000 days ago Friday that Kilauea Volcano began erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island. The superintendent of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Cindy Orlando, calls it “a biological and geological wonder.”
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Nevada Woman Accused Of Stealing Wine While Topless – First Coast News
A Nevada woman is accused of stealing a bottle of wine from a store while she was topless and intoxicated.
Brandi Smith acknowledged her behavior was “mind-boggling” during an appearance Wednesday before a judge to face charges of indecent exposure, felony drunken driving and burglary. Authorities say the 41-year-old was arrested May 10 after stealing a $20 bottle of wine.
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Man In Room 119 Arrested After Mistaken 911 Call – Yahoo News
A wrong number led police to make a drug bust at a motel in Wenatchee. The Wenatchee World reported a man staying at one room attempted to call someone staying in Room 119 – but dialed 911 instead.
Officers arrived to see if there was a problem and discovered there was an arrest warrant for the man in Room 119. They arrested the man and seized heroin and other drugs.
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