south. they held a similar launch in april that ended in failure. south korean government sources say they believe the missile s first-stage booster has been moved on to a launch pad at a facility in the northwestern part of the country. south korean officials discussed the planned launch with ambassadors from japan and three other countries. south korean foreign ministry officials met separately with envoys from japan, the united states, china, and russia, all members of the six-party talks on north korea s nuclear program. details of the meetings haven t been released, but it s believed the five nations discussed ways to convince officials in pyongyang to cancel the launch. south korea plans to send two aegis vessels capable of tracking missiles to the yellow sea to observe the launch. the monitoring will be done in coordination with u.s. forces. defense officials in seoul are also considering raising the country s alerstatus by one notch. japan s self-defense forces are on
on north korea if they detected signs the country was about to initiate a nuclear attack. and it happens just once every 20 years, but when one of shi o shinto s most important goddesses moves house it s spectacular. republican and democratic law maeks in the u.s. are blaming each other for a partial government shutdown. they failed to agree on a spending plan for the fiscal year that began tuesday. hundreds of thousands of federal employees are facing unpaid leave. president obama is blaming the republican-led house of representatives. legislators there are demanding that the budget bill includes a delay in immreming obama s health care reforms. they ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of americans. obama warned the longer the shutdown goes on, the worse the impact will be. house lawmakers on tuesday proposed legislation to restart some government functions including national parks. but democrats in the
and fewer and fewer young japanese are exercising their right to vote, so some young activists here are looking for inspiration from a young american. engineers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant have resumed testing of filtration systems after operations were suspended for half a day. they say a glitch in the control system of a holding tank caused the decontamination system to automatically shut down. an alarm went off on friday morning indicating something was wrong with the advanced liquid processing system. the engineers found the control system of the holding tank was sending out two contradictory signals about whether it could contain more water or not. they will suspend operations from saturday to check the system and make any adjustments. an estimated 400 tons of groundwater is seeping into the damaged facilities at the plant every day, and is becoming contaminated. the top official of japan s nuclear regulation authority secretary has some harsh words for the
the first time the two sides to the negotiating table since the conflict began more than two and a half years ago. more than one hundred thousand people and been killed in fighting two million have fled the country find even says he expects all regional and international partners to support the negotiations. anti government protests in thailand had spread to key locations in the capital rose to one double bali and bangkok is following the story. political tensions and thailand are escalating once again anti government protesters on monday forced entry into high profile government buildings some other locations were also targeted by people demanding that resignation of prime minister yoon optionally a canister of being under the control of her breath a taxi protesters swarmed into the compound of the finance ministry as well as the foreign ministry the government has extended the internal security act in place in parts of bangkok. as in a massive anti government protests trigg
parliament. but her opponent about to carry on until she wins. and competition is heating up the japan trip and orchards with duty free shopping. as the country welcomes a record number of visitors this season. chinese leaders are standing their ground in the face of more complaints over their newly established air defense identification zone. they ve rejected a request by south korea to revise the zone which is over the east china sea. the airspace overlaps areas claimed by japan taiwan and south korea. senior government officials from china and south korea. talk about those only in seoul south korean officials say vice defense minister pics on to our pics soon june expressed regret that authorities in beijing said it out without prior consultation. but his chinese counterpart one one jong reportedly project it s a request to redraw the zone when his deputy chief of the general staff of the people s liberation army that this was it packed away and that south korea is conside