A hundred thousand (100,000) people gathered today in Pyongyang, North Korea, to condemn the United States and South Korea’s behavior against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) concerning the sinking in March of a South Korean warship. Also at a summit in South Korea today, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama exchanged views on the Cheonan warship incident and offered condolences over the deaths of 46 sailors in that incident. The Chinese and Japanese leaders further stated that “they attached importance to the joint investigation by South Korea and some other countries into the incident and have noted the responses from concerned parties.”
At the rally held on the Kim Il Sung Square, Choe Yong Rim, chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, said the “inter-Korean relations have been driven into a situation, in which a war may break out anytime.”… Other speakers at the rally expressed the “determination to react with a rapid retaliatory strike if South Korea shows the slightest sign of ‘punishment’ and ‘retaliation’ together with foreign forces.” The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), state news agency of North Korea, reported a bulletin released by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea denouncing South Korea for “persistently linking the warship sinking with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).”
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Russia (the Russian Federation) extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40 percent of Europe, spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments, and is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of Earth’s land area. Russia is the ninth most populous nation in the world, with 142 million people. Russia has the world’s largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world’s fresh water. This country possesses the world’s largest reserves of mineral and energy resources and is an energy superpower.
Friday May 28 (AFP) ─ “Russia will not support efforts to punish North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship until it is fully convinced Pyongyang was behind the incident, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday. ‘We need to receive 100 percent proof of North Korea’s role in the sinking of the corvette.’” Russia has a short land border with North Korea. As a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council, it has the power to veto any new sanctions against North Korea in the warship incident. In June, Russia will hold “major naval exercises in the Sea of Japan, close to the Korean Peninsula”; these exercises “had been planned before the current tensions broke out.”
Diplomats from Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) also confirmed their continuing consultations in search of ways out of the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula.People’s Republic of China: export powerhouse, most peopled
China (The People’s Republic of China or PRC) lies in East Asia and is the most populous state in the world with more than 1.3 billion people. Under a single-party system, China is ruled by the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Sunday May 30 ─ Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called for the proper handling of the serious consequences of the March sinking of a South Korean warship and efforts to gradually ease tensions in the region over the incident.Koreas: China, Russia neighbors
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, capital is Seoul) lies in East Asia on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its western neighbor is China, eastern Japan, and northern North Korea.
North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, capital and largest city Pyongyang) lies in East Asia and occupies the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Demilitarized Zone is the buffer zone between North and South Korea.
Sunday May 30 ─ South Korea’s military suspended a plan to fly “anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Sources and notes
“100,000 people gather in Pyongyang to protest against U.S., S. Korea over warship sinking,” English.news.cn May 30, 2010, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/30/c_13323973.htm
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA, December 5, 1946-) is the state news agency of North Korea headquartered in the capital city of Pyongyang.
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