http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-idUSKBN18113D
North Korea on Friday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea's intelligence service of a plot to attack its "supreme leadership" with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a "pipe-dream" could never succeed.
Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks, driven by concern that North Korea might conduct its sixth nuclear test or test-launch another ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Reclusive North Korea warned this week that U.S. hostility had brought the region to the brink of nuclear war.
The North's Ministry of State Security released a statement saying "the last-ditch effort" of U.S. "imperialists" and the South had gone "beyond the limits".
"The Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S. and the Intelligence Service (IS) of south Korea, hotbed of evils in the world, hatched a vicious plot to hurt the supreme leadership of the DPRK and those acts have been put into the extremely serious phase of implementation after crossing the threshold of the DPRK," the North's KCNA news agency quoted the statement as saying, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"A hideous terrorists' group, which the CIA and the IS infiltrated into the DPRK on the basis of covert and meticulous preparations to commit state-sponsored terrorism against the supreme leadership of the DPRK by use of bio-chemical substance, has been recently detected."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @10:09PM (3 children)
Glad somebody else has been paying attention to BRICS. I'd guess they'll still move away from the US dollar in 2018, though it could be a little later in 2019. After this fall, stay away from major cities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @12:57AM (2 children)
> After this fall, stay away from major cities.
People have been saying that for centuries,
If you keep saying it, maybe one year you'll get it right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:27AM
If it hasn't happened to the US, it hasn't happened elsewhere, ever.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:44AM
People have been saying that for centuries,
And before the 20th Century, they would have been right too. Cities have historically been population sinks, particularly when hit by disease, war, or famine.