North Korea Says Nuclear Test Aims at U.S. Concessions
IN THIS ISSUE: N. Korea says nuclear test aims at US concession, Egypt in talks with world powers to host Iran nuclear talks, Netanyahu in weaker position after election battering, US military could redefine global-strike weapons, N. Korea's Juche rocket, missile-defense test set for Saturday.
North Korea Says Nuclear Test Aims at U.S. Concessions Kim Young-jin | Korea Times
North Korea said Tuesday that its threatened nuclear test is directed at the United States. We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched (by the North) one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out in the upcoming all-out action...will target the U.S.," the NDC said in a dispatch carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency. Full Article
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Tehran Times
Egypt is holding talks with the six major powers to host a new round of talks between Iran and the powers over Tehran’s nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday. Full Article
Harriet Sherwood | Guardian
Binyamin Netanyahu cited "five central principles" for his new coalition government when he addressed subdued campaign activists shortly after it became clear that his party had taken a battering in the election. Number one was "to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons". Full Article
Elaine M. Grossman | Global Security Newswire
The U.S. military is weighing a redefinition of what constitutes a “prompt global strike” weapon, and the result could be to expand the kinds of conventional arms available to hit targets on short notice virtually anywhere around the world, according to defense sources. Full Article
Jeffrey Lewis | Arms Control Wonk
A multinational team of experts has picked apart the pieces of the Unha-3 first stage that South Korea's Navy had hoisted from the watery deep and made determinations about where they come from. Their answer, for the most part: North Korea. Full Article
Janene Scully | Lompoc Record
A missile-defense test is in line to become Vandenberg Air Force Base’s first launch of 2013, an attempt to prove that recent upgrades have fixed flaws in a key component. Liftoff from an underground silo on North Base had been planned for late 2012, then for Jan. 24, officials announced. Full Article
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