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WORLD NEWSFriday 11 March 2016

North Korea to liquidate South Korean assets; fires missiles

FOSTER KLUG between the Koreas that rea and the U.S. mainland. a scrapped tourism resort The North Korean state-
HYUNG-JIN KIM began in January when The missile firing Thursday at Diamond Mountain. In ment called the new South
Associated Press NorthKorea detonated came a day after North Ko- a continuation of bellicose Korean sanctions “laugh-
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) what it said was an “H- rean media printed photos rhetoric that has spiked able, unsightly,” and re-
— North Korea responded bomb of justice,” its fourth of what appeared to be a in recent weeks, it said ferred to South Korea’s fe-
Thursday to new sanctions nuclear test. Since then, mock-up of a nuclear war- North Korea will also im- male president, Park Geun-
from South Korea by firing the North has launched head. pose “lethal” military, po- hye, as an “American pros-
short-range ballistic mis- a long-range rocket and The North’s Committee litical and economic blows titute,” the latest in a series
siles into the sea in a show the South has shut a jointly for the Peaceful Reunifi- on the South Korean gov- of sexist attacks on her.
of defiance and vowing to run factory park, slapped cation of Korea said in a ernment to accelerate its All of this has ratcheted up
“pitiable demise.” hostility on the already anx-
A South Korean Army K-1 tank moves during the annual exercise with their U.S. counterparts in South Korea’s government ious Korean Peninsula. But,
Paju, near the border with North Korea, Thursday, March 10, 2016. North Korea fired two short- called the North Korean so far, analysts don’t see
range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a likely show of anger statement a “provocative the possibility of things spin-
at continuing springtime war games by rivals Washington and Seoul and another ratcheting up of act” and warned the North ning out of control. Some
hostility on the already anxious Korean Peninsula. not to damage any South of the North’s rhetoric is in-
Korean assets. tended for a domestic au-
(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) North Korea didn’t say dience to display govern-
what exactly it would do ment strength ahead of a
“liquidate” all remaining sanctions on the North, statement Thursday that with the South Korean as- major meeting of the ruling
South Korean assets at for- and begun large-scale North Koreawill “liquidate” sets. Observers said it could party in May.
mer cooperative projects war games with the Unit- South Korean assets at move the remaining man- A spokesman said U.N.
in the North. ed States. North Korea re- the closed factory park in ufacturing equipment at Secretary-General Ban Ki-
The moves are the latest sponded by threatening the North Korean border Kaesong to other industrial moon was “gravely con-
in an escalating standoff nuclear strikes on South Ko- town of Kaesong and at areas or convert it to mili- cerned” and called on
tary use, and use the South North Korea to cease de-
Korean-owned facilities at stabilizing acts like the mis-
Diamond Mountain for its sile launch. “We reaffirm
own tourism project. the Secretary-General’s
The South Korean assets at commitment to work for
Kaesong include buildings, peace and stability on the
manufacturing equipment Korean Peninsula,” Stepha-
and finished products. The ne Dujarric said. The missiles
assets at the resort are a fired by North Korea on
hotel, a spa, a golf course Thursday flew about 500 ki-
and a building used for lometers (310 miles) before
occasional reunions of Ko- falling into the ocean off
rean families separated by the country’s east coast,
war. The assets are worth Seoul’s Defense Ministry
about 1.4 trillion won ($1.2 said. They were believed
billion) in total, according to be Scud-type missiles,
to Seoul’s Unification Min- ministry spokesman Moon
istry. Sang Gyun said.

India to launch heat wave programs in vulnerable cities

KATY DAIGLE temperatures, the country Natural Resources Defense enheit), the NDRC said this But altogether, the cities in-
Associated Press and its 1.25 billion people Council, which is helping week. volved cover only about 11
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian are bracing for even more local leaders and officials It was rolled out in Ahmad- million people — not even
officials are launching a challenging summers that adopt the program. abad in 2013, three years 1 percent of the country’s
program to protect peo- will dry up forests, destroy It will be launched over the after some 1,200 people population.
ple from extreme heat in crops, next week in Bhubanesh- died from heat-related “If you want to save lives
two high-risk regions, after wipe out farm animals and war and three other cit- causes in the western city. you have to be prepared,”
a devastating heat wave kill hundreds if not thou- ies in the eastern state of Last year, Jaiswal said, calling on oth-
killed at least 2,500 people sands of people if they are Orissa, as well as in the after introducing seven- er Indian cities and regions
across the country last year. not prepared. western temple town of day weather forecasts, to also adopt heat wave
Already, India experiences “India is getting hotter, and Nagpur and four nearby extra water supplies and plans.
severe heat waves almost it is killing people,” said An- cities where temperatures cool-air shelters, only 20 “When it comes to protect-
every year. With climate jali Jaiswal, India director last year hit a sweltering 47 people died in the city from ing communities and peo-
change bringing higher for the New York-based degrees Celsius (117 Fahr- the heat. ple, it takes leadership.”