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1. Now, since three days consecutive N.K.'s activities are leading the headlines in the int'l media (slowly the Dear Leader should be satisfied with his efforts to get international attention..)!

"The Terror-Dwarf

Blackmails the World"

Frontpage(5.26) of Berliner Kurier
(German mass-circulation newspaper)

2. S.K. announced y'day its full-scale participation in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and - promptly - Pyeongyang's answer followed:

Korean Peninsula in State of War 

(as today's KCNA has been quoted)

S.K.'s Yonhap news agency reported today in the morning following:

 
North Korea said Wednesday it was nullifying the Korean War armistice and warned of an immediate military strike should South Korea attempt to interdict any of its ships, blasting Seoul's participation in a U.S.-led security campaign as a "declaration of war."

The statement, issued by the North's permanent military mission to the joint security area, also said the country can no longer guarantee the safety of South Korean and U.S. military ships and private vessels moving along the western sea border.

"As declared to the world, our revolutionary forces will consider the full participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative by the Lee Myung-bak group of traitors as a declaration of war against us," the North Korean military mission said, referring to the South Korean president, in a statement carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)...

Related news reports:
☞ Military on High Alert for N. Korean Provocations (K. Times)  

☞ Russia fears N.K. conflict could turn nuclear (Haaretz/Reuters)  

3. Meanwhile N.K.'s recent activities are attracting attention in another troubled region - the Middle East:
Israel, via Yedioth Ahronoth:
☞ The North Korean lesson