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The United States has deployed anti-missile defenses around Hawaii amid reports that North Korea may fire its most advanced ballistic missile toward the U.S. islands early next month, adding to already high tensions in the region.

North Korea state media said the country's military conducted a successful underground nuclear test early Monday, confirming earlier reports of a suspected test based on seismic data.
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is traveling to the United States for talks with President Obama, as tensions on the Korean Peninsula reached a new high today.

North Korea announced Tuesday it has produced more plutonium for its atomic weapons programme, putting further pressure on the United States to start direct talks.

A missile launch by North Korea isn’t likely to lead to a “confrontation” in the region and Japan would be within its rights to shoot down any missile violating its airspace, U.S. Senator Jim Webb said.“I don’t see a high probability that there will be an international confrontation,” Webb, a Virginia Democrat and chairman of a Senate subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific affairs, said yesterday in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt.”

Japan today threatened to shoot down a satellite that North Korea plans to launch early next month if it shows any signs of striking its territory.Tokyo's warning that it would deploy its multibillion-dollar missile defence system raised tensions in the region after North Korea said that it had identified a potential "danger area" near Japanese territory along the rocket's flight path.

We know that we are negotiating with Russia using our missile defense as the bait for it's help in convincing Iran to end it's nuclear ambitions. Good luck with that one. What are our plans for another situation that is always on the front burner: North Korea.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee are convicted a 'grave crime' against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea, and sentenced to 12 years in labor prison.

A top U.S. diplomat said the Obama administration is willing to engage North Korea directly to restart stalled nuclear disarmament talks, while the communist state warned South Korea not to interfere.