Because the specter of North Korea's collapse could potentially destabilize the Korea peninsula, Beijing may continue to shield Pyongyang.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of people filled a stadium in North Korea's capital on Friday, calling for reunification of the Korea Peninsula.
South Korea's success comes amid increased tension on the Korean Peninsula over North Korea's threat to explode its third nuclear device.
The existence and risk of proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula, and the actions and policies of the Government of North Korea that destabilize the Korean Peninsula and imperil U.S. Armed Forces, allies, and trading partners in the region continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.
Tension is high on the Korean peninsula following North Korea's third nuclear test on 12 February.
On the Korean peninsula, North Korea just upended eight years of State Department obfuscation by showing a team of US nuclear scientists its collection of thousands of state-of-the-art centrifuges installed in its Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
In recent weeks, North Korea has ratcheted up tension on the divided peninsula, threatening to attack the U.S. and South Korea over the military drills and sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test.
"North Korea must understand that the hostile situation on the peninsula will escalate once it possesses nuclear weapons, and North Korea will be more isolated both politically and economically, " Ding wrote in a commentary in Global Times.
Those experts calculate that North Korea is unlikely to provoke a war on the peninsula as it would almost certainly lose, and a nuclear-armed North Korea is preferable to a hostile leadership there, a complete regime collapse or rapprochement with the South.
Only the unification of a divided peninsula might bring South Korea the standing it craves.
Japan officially annexed Korea in 1910 and occupied the peninsula until the end of World War II in 1945.
The probe comes at a time of heightened tensions in the Korean peninsula, following North Korea's third nuclear test in February and the subsequent tightening of UN sanctions.
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Tensions in the Korean peninsula are high following North Korea's third nuclear test on 12 February, which led to the imposition of a fresh raft of sanctions.
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Kerry and the Chinese foreign policy chief, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, said the two nations would work together to create a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, effectively forcing North Korea to give up its arsenal.
And without a lessening of hostility across the world's most heavily fortified border, efforts to negotiate a peace treaty for the peninsula and to bribe North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons ambitions may come to naught.
The sentence for Mr. Bae complicates efforts by the U.S. and South Korea to lower tensions on the Korean peninsula as Pyongyang is thought to be preparing for a possible missile test from its east coast and has shut down a joint industrial zone with the South.
Tensions remain high on the Korean peninsula in the wake of North Korea's third nuclear test on 12 February.
The U.S. keeps 30, 000 troops in Korea to deal with the threats on that peninsula, which are of direct interest to Japan.
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Tensions have run high on the Korean Peninsula for months, with North Korea testing a nuclear device and its intercontinental ballistic missile technology.
Tensions in the Korean peninsula have been high since North Korea's third nuclear test on 12 February, which led to the imposition of fresh sanctions.
Tensions in the Korean peninsula have been high since North Korea's third nuclear test on 12 February, which led to the imposition of a fresh raft of sanctions.
The timing of the test, less than two months after the last one, matched the concern among some analysts in Seoul that North Korea would ratchet up tensions on the Korean Peninsula and that it would do so step by step.
South Korea's defense ministry said North Korea fired three missiles into waters off the Korean peninsula on Saturday, followed by a fourth Sunday.
If a U.S. strike against North Korea's nuclear sites means that the Korean peninsula blows up, Japan is going to be the big loser.
South Korea's defense ministry said North Korea fired three missiles into waters off the Korean peninsula on Saturday, followed by a fourth missile Sunday.
The international community stands united in its commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and in its demand that North Korea comply with its international obligations.
The U.S. has been irritated too by the EU's agreement that Persson should make an official visit to North and South Korea seeking to aid the reconciliation process on the peninsula.
In Global Times, Zhang Liangui, a North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, foresees a "70- 80% likelihood of war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula", and believes that North Korea's aim is reunification with the South by armed force.
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