Russia recognizes Georgian rebel regions
Posted by: admin in North Korea, Police State, UK, USA, Uncategorized, Wars and Rumors of Wars, israel, russiaThis, from: CNN.com
North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring them because the United States has not removed it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
N. Korea demolished the cooling tower at its main reactor complex in Yongbyon in June.
The North “will consider soon a step to restore the nuclear facilities in (Yongbyon) to their original state,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement that KCNA carried.
North Korea agreed to a complete dismantling of its Yongbyon nuclear complex by October. In return, U.S. President George W. Bush said he would lift some U.S. sanctions against North Korea and remove it from a State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism.
And this also, via: CNN.com
Russia’s president said Tuesday he has signed an order recognizing the independence of two Georgian breakaway provinces, a move likely to increase tensions with the West over the conflict in the region.
Russia President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and S. Ossetia.Dmitry Medvedev blamed Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, for forcing his hand by launching a military assault South Ossetia rebels, triggering a major invasion by Russia’s military.
“This is not an easy choice but this is the only opportunity to preserve the lives of the people,” Medvedev said, according to a translation from Russia Today.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the decision “regrettable,” echoing comments a day earlier by President Bush.
Medvedev called on other countries to follow Russia’s lead. The Russian president signed the order to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and another breakaway province, Abkhazia, a day after it was overwhelmingly approved by both houses of Russia’s parliament.
That vote was rejected by Saakashvili, who called it an attempt by Russia to “justify the occupation” by its forces, which remain in parts of Georgia.
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