North Korea made an announcement today, and Ryoo Kihl-jae, South Korea's Unification Minister, was handed a note with the content of that announcement as he was giving testimony before South Korea's National Assembly Committee.
Looking for compromise, President Obama's proposed budget, which which was leaked today, but will be officially released next Wednesday, calls for significant reductions to the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs in exchange for further tax hikes.
Russian embassy staff in the North Korean capital of pyongyang has been told by officials in that city that they should consider evacuating their people. This because of the continuing rising tensions according to Embassy official Denis Samsonov.
Nine Taliban militants stormed a government compound in the western Afghanistan province of Fafah on Wednesday in an attempt to free prisoners there.