Breaking North Korea threatens imminent strikes against South, warns US

North Korea on Saturday threatened South Korea with “indiscriminate” military strikes unless it halts cross-border propaganda broadcasts, and issued fresh nuclear weapons warnings against the United States.

The threats came amid escalating military tensions on the Korean peninsula following a landmine attack South Korea blamed on the North and ahead of a major South Korea-US joint military exercise condemned by Pyongyang.

They also coincided with celebrations in both Koreas to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule.

Initially there were hopes the anniversary might be an opportunity for some sort of inter-Korean rapprochement, but instead ties have spiralled downwards to the familiar accompaniment of angry rhetoric and mutual recrimination.

After three landmine blasts maimed two South Korean soldiers on border patrol, Seoul this week resumed high-decibel propaganda broadcasts across the heavily-militarised frontier, using batteries of loudspeakers that had lain silent for more than a decade.

Pyongyang rejected accusations that it was behind the mine incident as “absurd”, and its frontline army border command on Saturday demanded the broadcasts be halted immediately.

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Breaking North Korea threatens imminent strikes against South, warns US

Russia Will Take War To US,’ Former Fox News Producer Warns

Former Fox News producer Jack Hanick warned Russia will come to the U.S. territory if war takes place this time. He also criticized U.S. reporters for failing to offer critical analysis of U.S.-Russian relations, preventing Americans from understanding the Russian side of the argument.

“If new hostilities start, Russia will not let the war be a proxy war where the U.S. supplies weapons and advisers and lets others do the “boots on the ground” combat,” Hanick wrote for the Observer. “Russia will take the war to the U.S.” Hanick said Russian bombers flying off the California coast on July 4 clearly demonstrated the point.

Russia has been under pressure from the West since it seized Crimea from Ukraine, and the International Monetary Fund has said the sanctions that have resulted could shrink its economy up to 9 percent.

Hanick said the American notion that Russians were allowed to hear only their government’s version of events via state-controlled media is not true. He said only six of 300 TV stations in the country are controlled by the government. He added Russia, unlike North Korea, does not censor news.

Russia will come to the U.S. territory if war takes place this time, Hanick warned. “If new hostilities start, Russia will not let the war be a proxy war where the U.S. supplies weapons and advisers and lets others do the “boots on the ground” combat,” Hanick wrote for the Observer. “Russia will take the war to the U.S.”

The Hollywood Reporter earlier reported Hanick, a longtime Fox News producer, had served as the general producer of the Orthodox Christian network Tsargrad TV in Russia. Even though reports suggest Hanick no longer holds the position, he works with the network as a consultant.

Hanick said that he had come back home after spending 2 1/2 years in Moscow. He said he had gone to Russia to build a nongovernment funded news channel and his ideas were welcomed in Russia despite his U.S. nationality. http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-will-take-war-us-former-fox-news-producer-warns-2037988

Russia Will Take War To US,’ Former Fox News Producer Warns