Wars and Rumors | Nuclear Proliferation

When the Soviet Union broke up, the Ukraine was one of the most powerful nuclear countries in the world. The year was 1989 and the Ukraine had just inherited one out of every three nuclear weapons in the Soviet arsenal. In 1994 Russia, Great Britain and the United States coerced the Ukraine into giving up its nukes for reassurances (The Budapest Memorandum) that none of these countries would ever violate the territorial integrity of the Ukraine.

N.K. army's reconnaissance chief leads saber-rattling: source

The Yonhap South Korean news agency says that this general is the apparent leader in North Korea's recent brinksmanship.   J

"SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- A hard-line North Korean general suspected of masterminding the sinking of a South Korean warship three years ago seems to be behind the North's recent brinkmanship, a government source said Thursday.

Kim Yong-chol, a four-star general who heads the powerful Reconnaissance General Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA), appears to be playing a leading role in ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, said the source, requesting anonymity."
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2013/04/25/43/0401000000AEN20130425011100315F.HTML

More articles on North Korea's recent threats can be found at:
http://www.dtto-news.com/showthread.php?395-North-Korea&p=111000#post111000

"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.  All these are the beginning of sorrows." Matt 24:6-8 (KJV)