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Friday 8 January 2016
South Korea to resume anti-North propaganda broadcasts
FOSTER KLUG easing animosities that had South Korean protesters with defaced photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stage a rally
HYUNG-JIN KIM the rivals threatening war. during a rally against North Korea’s announcement that it had tested a hydrogen bomb in Seoul,
Associated Press Experts, meanwhile, are try- South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. The letters reads “Punish North Korea for its threats and provo-
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ing to uncover more details cations! and denounce North Korean’s fourth nuclear test.”
— In response to North Ko- about the detonation that
rea’s latest nuclear test, drew worldwide skepticism (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
South Korea on Thursday and condemnation.
announced it would re- It may take weeks or lon- according to the state- we can take in order to ad- tary leaders also discussed
sume cross-border propa- ger to confirm or refute the ments. dress our increasing con- the deployment of U.S.
ganda broadcasts that North’s claim that it suc- U.S. Secretary of State John cerns about that nuclear “strategic assets” in the
Pyongyang considers an cessfully tested a hydrogen Kerry said he spoke with test,” Kerry said in Washing- wake of the North’s test,
act of war. bomb, which would mark Wang Yi, foreign minister ton. Seoul’s Defense Ministry
Seoul also began talks with a major and unanticipated of China, North Korea’s Park’s office said she also said Thursday.
Washington that could see advance for its still-limited main ally, about ways of spoke with Abe over the Ministry officials refused to
the arrival of nuclear-pow- nuclear arsenal. working together on the is- phone and that they elaborate about what U.S.
ered U.S. submarines and Even a test of an atomic sue. vowed cooperation to en- military assets were under
warplanes to the Korean bomb, a less sophisticated “We agree that there can- sure that the U.N. Security consideration, but they
Peninsula. and less powerful weapon, not be business as usual, Council imposes strong and likely refer to B-52 bomb-
From Seoul to Washing- would push its scientists and and we agreed that we will effective measures against ers, F-22 stealth fighters and
ton, Beijing to the United engineers closer to their work very closely together the North. nuclear-powered subma-
Nations, world powers are goal of building a nuclear to determine the steps that South Korean and U.S. mili- rines. q
looking at ways to punish warhead small enough to
Pyongyang for the test of place on a missile that can
what it called a new and reach the U.S. mainland.
powerful hydrogen bomb. Statements from the White
The loudspeaker broad- House said President
casts, which will start Fri- Barack Obama had spo-
day, believed to be the ken to South Korean Presi-
birthday of young North dent Park Geun-Hye and
Korean leader Kim Jong to Prime Minister Shinzo
Un, are certain to infuriate Abe of Japan.
authoritarian Pyongyang The statements said the
because they are meant to countries “agreed to work
raise questions in North Ko- together to forge a united
rean minds about the infal- and strong international re-
libility of the ruling Kim fam- sponse to North Korea’s lat-
ily. South Korea stopped est reckless behavior.”
earlier broadcasts after it Obama reaffirmed the
agreed with Pyongyang “unshakeable U.S. com-
in late August on a pack- mitment” to the security of
age of measures aimed at South Korea and Japan,
Young socialist hardliner will lead Venezuela’s economy
HANNAH DREIER old vice president for the sabotage the economy. “Inflation doesn’t exist in waiting in line for goods
Associated Press economy, has scant ad- He even goes further than real life,” he wrote last year. that are increasingly impos-
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ministrative experience, Maduro in arguing that He added that prices go sible to afford.
— President Nicolas Madu- but champions the same many of the country’s up not because of scarcity, After the opposition swept
ro is doubling down on his theories of price and cur- problems are the result of but because of “capitalist Dec. 6 legislative elections,
existing economic policies rency controls that have being too capitalist. economies that are driven Salas wrote an open let-
with the appointment of defined Venezuela’s left- A professor at the Bolivar- by the desire for personal ter in which he attacked
a young leftist hardliner to ist economic policy for 17 ian University, an institution gain through the exploita- as “pragmatists” those
head the country’s crater- years. created by the late presi- tion of others; by selfish- people within the socialist
ing economy, setting the Like Maduro, Salas says the dent Hugo Chavez, Salas ness.” camp who were floating
stage for confrontation be- country is suffering from was relatively unknown be- Along with shortages, infla- the possibility of a currency
tween the ruling socialist the world’s worst recession fore this week. tion has become the No. 1 devaluation, a move that
party and the newly pow- and triple-digit inflation be- Now, the country is poring concern among Venezu- outside economists agree
erful opposition. cause business interests are over his large body of pam- elan voters, many of whom is a necessary first step for
Luis Salas, the new 39-year- colluding with the U.S. to phlets and letters. spend hours each week righting the economy.q
