North Korea's military Tuesday threatened "strong physical retaliation" against a South Korean naval exercise set to start this week in the Yellow Sea.
The South is staging the anti-submarine drill from August 5-9, involving the army, navy, air force and marines, in response to what it says was a deadly North Korean torpedo attack on a warship.
It follows a major US-South Korean naval and air exercise held last week in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) as a warning to the North.
Pyongyang threatened nuclear retaliation for last week's drill but it passed without incident. The military's western command, in a notice quoted by the official news agency Tuesday, described this week's South Korean exercise as a "direct military invasion".
"In view of the prevailing situation, the (western command) made a decisive resolution to counter the reckless naval firing projected by the group of traitors with strong physical retaliation," it said in a reference to South Korea.
The disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea has been the scene of several naval clashes. In March, a South Korean corvette sank in the area with the loss of 46 lives.
South Korea, the United States and other countries, citing findings of a multinational investigation, said a North Korean submarine had fired a heavy torpedo in an attack which broke the warship in two.
The North vehemently denies responsibility, calling the allegations a "smear campaign" to provide a pretext for aggression. It refuses to recognise the sea border drawn by United Nations forces after the 1950-53 war, insisting it should run further to the south, and repeated this stance Tuesday.
The North's military warned civilian ships including fishing boats not to enter the area of naval firing fixed by the South, which it said would be close to five islands near the border. "It is the unshakable will and steadfast resolution of the army and people of the DPRK to return fire for fire," it said.
The South's Joint Chief of Staff said marines stationed on islands near the border would stage live-fire exercises but naval ships would stay far south of the line. The North routinely denounces joint military exercises south of the border as a rehearsal for war, while the United States and South Korea say they are purely defensive. Some 28,500 US troops are based in the South.
Comment on the Chatbox
Monday, August 2, 2010
Devil may wear Prada, but Virgin Mary dons Louis Vuitton
The devil may well wear Prada, but at a biennial exhibition of sacred art in Italy, a statue of the Virgin Mary is donning Louis Vuitton, local newspaper Il Centro reported on Thursday.
The veil traditionally covering the Virgin's head bears the French luxury brand's trademark "LV" logo in golden letters decorating bags -- many of them counterfeit -- around the world. Francesco De Molfetta, 31, said he created the work to "denounce a society based on the cult of appearance through the use of a brand that represents the search for ephemeral happiness." "This new way of interpreting sacred art is along the lines of the famous work presented (in 1999 in Venice by Maurizio) Cattelan that showed a wax icon depicting Pope John Paul II being crushed by a meteor," the curator of the biennial Giuseppe Bacci told Il Centro. "It is a way to hit the visitors' unconscious," he added. The biennial is held at Isola del Gran Sasso in the central region of Abruzzo. Milan native De Molfetta's works have been on show in Tokyo, at the T20 contemporary art gallery of Murcia Spain and at the museum of Besancon in France.
Comment on the Chatbox
Saturday, June 12, 2010
2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa!!!! 대한민국!!! 화이팅~ㅋㅋㅋ GO KOREA! VICTORY KOREA!
The events of Friday 11 June in Johannesburg are set to write a new chapter in football history, in the shape of South Africa versus Mexico: the Opening Match of the first ever FIFA World Cup™ finals to be held on African soil and the 19th overall.
Support South Korea! GroupB South Korea VS Greece!!! 12 Jun 2010
SOUTH KOREA you must win! Be proud for ASIA!!!
Comment on the Chatbox
S.Korea, Russia probe rocket failure
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean and Russian experts launched an investigation Friday after the fiery failure of the Asian country's latest rocket launch, which some researchers blamed on inadequate testing.
The Naro-1 rocket, which was Russian-made but assembled in South Korea, veered off course and exploded 137 seconds after blast-off on Thursday. The mishap came after a first rocket failure last year, thwarting South Korea's plans to launch a scientific satellite and setting back its dreams of joining Asia's space race. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said the debris fell into the sea, some 470 kilometres (295 miles) south of the Naro Space Centre's launch pad off the southern coast.
Under its contract with South Korea, Russia is supposed to provide another rocket in case of a failed launch, officials in Seoul said.
South Korea's biggest-selling daily, the Chosun Ilbo, said the country must take heart from the way it rapidly industrialised from modest beginnings. "We have a long road ahead and the Naro-1 launch is only the first step, " it said in an editorial. "When we started shipbuilding and the IT industry, we were also behind others." South Korea, despite its status as an international economic powerhouse, entered Asia's space race relatively late. It has previously sent 10 satellites into space using launch vehicles from other countries. In 2007 the country announced a plan to launch a lunar orbiter by 2020 and to send a probe to the Moon five years after that.
Comment on the Chatbox
Friday, May 14, 2010
ARE THEY CRAZY! CHINA MAN??!! The sparking copycat attacks. What the hell is going on? 아이고,AIYOYOYO~!
Man stabs children at Chinese nursery school on Thursday 29 April 2010 25 pupils injured in knife attack in Jiangsu province, the third targeting children in just over a month.
Chinese residents stand outside the kindergarten where a man injured 25 children and three adults in a knife attack in Taixing, Jiangsu province.
Two young children and three adults are critically ill and 23 other pupils injured after a man burst into a nursery in east China and stabbed them this morning in the third such attack in just over a month.
Most of the victims were four years old, said officials in Jiangsu province. A security guard was badly hurt as he attempted to stop the man, and two teachers were injured. Parents whose children attended the kindergarten in Taixing city are understood to fear that some pupils died in the attack.
Officials in Taixing told a press conference earlier that police had detained a 47-year-old suspect, Xu Yuyuan. They said his motive was unclear.
The education ministry ordered kindergartens, primary and high schools to upgrade security in the wake of the first attack in Fujian. It told schools to include safety awareness in the curriculum, teach children self-defence, hire security guards and ensure younger pupils were escorted home.
OTHERS SIMILAR CASE: "POOR THING):"
Hammer-Wielding Man Attacks Chinese Kindergarten, Sets Himself on Fire
A man injured five kindergartners with an iron hammer before grabbing two of the children and setting himself on fire— the third attack on a Chinese school in as many days.
The attacker—a farmer named Wang Yonglai—was the only fatality, thanks to the teachers who were able to pull his two intended victims away from him before they were burned. But that's small comfort to the country, which has now seen three violent attacks on its schools in three successive days, and four this month.
My comment: Would airlifting shrinks into China prevent every single one of these horrible incidents from occurring? Of course not. But when some huge portion of the population isn't getting the mental care they need, it seems odd to focus on school security as the problem.
Comment on the Chatbox
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Ash cloud returns, disrupts European flights!!! AGAIN~
Ash billows from the Eyjafjoell volcano on May 8. Hundreds of flights at airports from Lisbon to Munich were cancelled and some European airspace was closed because of a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that caused air travel chaos last month. I am here to save the world !!!!!!! -Iron man ㅅㅇㅅ"
Comment on the Chatbox
Friday, April 30, 2010
Expo 2010, officially Expo 2010 Shanghai China (simplified Chinese: 中国2010年上海世界博览会) will be held in the city of Shanghai, China from May 1 to October 31, 2010 and is a scheduled World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition will be "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as the "next great world city". It is the most expensive Expo in the history of the world's fairs. The expo Logo features the Chinese character 世 ('world', Chinese "shì") modified to represent three people together with the 2010 date. It is also the largest World's Fair site ever at 5.28 square km. More than 190 countries and more than 50 international organizations have registered to participate in the Shanghai World Expo, the largest ever. China expects to receive almost 100 foreign leaders and millions of people from across the world to come and visit the World Expo. More than 70-100 million visitors are expected to visit the expo, the largest in history.
Opening ceremony A dramatic opening ceremony will be held in the evening of April 30, 2010 with the attendance of dozens of world leaders. After the ceremony, the world leaders will attend a reception hosted by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Twenty heads of state or government would attend the opening ceremony including French President Nicolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, South Korean PresidentLee Myung-bak, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan, Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Kim Yong Nam, President of Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika, Malian President Amadou Toumany Toure, Malta President George Abela, President of Micronesia Emanuel Mori, Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdoj, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, President of Seychelles James Alix Michel, and President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Heads of government to be present at the opening ceremony are Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung In addition, speakers of legislative bodies, deputy heads and ministers of over 20 other countries will also attend the opening ceremony.
Singapore Pavilion Pavilion Features
The music-box-like Singapore Pavilion is a two-story structure with an "Urban Symphony" theme. The theme is inspired by the harmony of unique elements in Singapore: progress and sustainability, urbanization and greenery, tradition and modernity and a cosmopolitan mix of residents of different races living peacefully together.
Singapore unveils pavilion mascot Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore's Minister of Health and Wu Yunfei, counselor of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, press buttons to start the ceremony. Singapore has picked an Expo mascot called Liu Lian Xiao Xing, or "Durian Star," with a spiny head resembling a durian fruit and wearing the iconic Merlion image on his clothes. Described as a curious and vigorous Singaporean boy who has a strong preference for durian, "Durian Star" will be printed on all souvenirs to be sold or given to visitors. The mascot was introduced to the public yesterday as the city-state celebrated the completion of the steel structure for its exhibition hall.
Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore's Minister of Health, delivers a speech.
Liu Lian Xiao Xing, or "Durian Star," poses with Haibao.
Call me , it's simple. My birthday falls on 11 December "winter season".
I am a typical schoolgirl just like you and loves to laugh. I love webdesigning, blogshopping, fashion thingy!
Not forgetting my lovely korean and s'pore friends. I am a great fan of korean pop,drama,people and fashion too!
& what I detest most are copycats But of course, I don't blame those who take inspirations from my blog.
Just for your information, I do not make really nice skins and I am not a famous blogger. Laugh out loud.
Full profile
이름Name:Xue Ting (오설정) 나이Age: 19+ 학교School: NYP 언어Language: Korean,English and Chinese 좋아화장품Cosmetic: Etude house, Tony Moly
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
N.Korea warns of retaliation for S.Korea exercise
North Korea's military Tuesday threatened "strong physical retaliation" against a South Korean naval exercise set to start this week in the Yellow Sea.
The South is staging the anti-submarine drill from August 5-9, involving the army, navy, air force and marines, in response to what it says was a deadly North Korean torpedo attack on a warship.
It follows a major US-South Korean naval and air exercise held last week in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) as a warning to the North.
Pyongyang threatened nuclear retaliation for last week's drill but it passed without incident. The military's western command, in a notice quoted by the official news agency Tuesday, described this week's South Korean exercise as a "direct military invasion".
"In view of the prevailing situation, the (western command) made a decisive resolution to counter the reckless naval firing projected by the group of traitors with strong physical retaliation," it said in a reference to South Korea.
The disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea has been the scene of several naval clashes. In March, a South Korean corvette sank in the area with the loss of 46 lives.
South Korea, the United States and other countries, citing findings of a multinational investigation, said a North Korean submarine had fired a heavy torpedo in an attack which broke the warship in two.
The North vehemently denies responsibility, calling the allegations a "smear campaign" to provide a pretext for aggression. It refuses to recognise the sea border drawn by United Nations forces after the 1950-53 war, insisting it should run further to the south, and repeated this stance Tuesday.
The North's military warned civilian ships including fishing boats not to enter the area of naval firing fixed by the South, which it said would be close to five islands near the border. "It is the unshakable will and steadfast resolution of the army and people of the DPRK to return fire for fire," it said.
The South's Joint Chief of Staff said marines stationed on islands near the border would stage live-fire exercises but naval ships would stay far south of the line. The North routinely denounces joint military exercises south of the border as a rehearsal for war, while the United States and South Korea say they are purely defensive. Some 28,500 US troops are based in the South.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Devil may wear Prada, but Virgin Mary dons Louis Vuitton
The devil may well wear Prada, but at a biennial exhibition of sacred art in Italy, a statue of the Virgin Mary is donning Louis Vuitton, local newspaper Il Centro reported on Thursday.
The veil traditionally covering the Virgin's head bears the French luxury brand's trademark "LV" logo in golden letters decorating bags -- many of them counterfeit -- around the world. Francesco De Molfetta, 31, said he created the work to "denounce a society based on the cult of appearance through the use of a brand that represents the search for ephemeral happiness." "This new way of interpreting sacred art is along the lines of the famous work presented (in 1999 in Venice by Maurizio) Cattelan that showed a wax icon depicting Pope John Paul II being crushed by a meteor," the curator of the biennial Giuseppe Bacci told Il Centro. "It is a way to hit the visitors' unconscious," he added. The biennial is held at Isola del Gran Sasso in the central region of Abruzzo. Milan native De Molfetta's works have been on show in Tokyo, at the T20 contemporary art gallery of Murcia Spain and at the museum of Besancon in France.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa!!!! 대한민국!!! 화이팅~ㅋㅋㅋ GO KOREA! VICTORY KOREA!
The events of Friday 11 June in Johannesburg are set to write a new chapter in football history, in the shape of South Africa versus Mexico: the Opening Match of the first ever FIFA World Cup™ finals to be held on African soil and the 19th overall.
Support South Korea! GroupB South Korea VS Greece!!! 12 Jun 2010
SOUTH KOREA you must win! Be proud for ASIA!!!
S.Korea, Russia probe rocket failure
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean and Russian experts launched an investigation Friday after the fiery failure of the Asian country's latest rocket launch, which some researchers blamed on inadequate testing.
The Naro-1 rocket, which was Russian-made but assembled in South Korea, veered off course and exploded 137 seconds after blast-off on Thursday. The mishap came after a first rocket failure last year, thwarting South Korea's plans to launch a scientific satellite and setting back its dreams of joining Asia's space race. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said the debris fell into the sea, some 470 kilometres (295 miles) south of the Naro Space Centre's launch pad off the southern coast.
Under its contract with South Korea, Russia is supposed to provide another rocket in case of a failed launch, officials in Seoul said.
South Korea's biggest-selling daily, the Chosun Ilbo, said the country must take heart from the way it rapidly industrialised from modest beginnings. "We have a long road ahead and the Naro-1 launch is only the first step, " it said in an editorial. "When we started shipbuilding and the IT industry, we were also behind others." South Korea, despite its status as an international economic powerhouse, entered Asia's space race relatively late. It has previously sent 10 satellites into space using launch vehicles from other countries. In 2007 the country announced a plan to launch a lunar orbiter by 2020 and to send a probe to the Moon five years after that.
Friday, May 14, 2010
ARE THEY CRAZY! CHINA MAN??!! The sparking copycat attacks. What the hell is going on? 아이고,AIYOYOYO~!
Man stabs children at Chinese nursery school on Thursday 29 April 2010 25 pupils injured in knife attack in Jiangsu province, the third targeting children in just over a month.
Chinese residents stand outside the kindergarten where a man injured 25 children and three adults in a knife attack in Taixing, Jiangsu province.
Two young children and three adults are critically ill and 23 other pupils injured after a man burst into a nursery in east China and stabbed them this morning in the third such attack in just over a month.
Most of the victims were four years old, said officials in Jiangsu province. A security guard was badly hurt as he attempted to stop the man, and two teachers were injured. Parents whose children attended the kindergarten in Taixing city are understood to fear that some pupils died in the attack.
Officials in Taixing told a press conference earlier that police had detained a 47-year-old suspect, Xu Yuyuan. They said his motive was unclear.
The education ministry ordered kindergartens, primary and high schools to upgrade security in the wake of the first attack in Fujian. It told schools to include safety awareness in the curriculum, teach children self-defence, hire security guards and ensure younger pupils were escorted home.
OTHERS SIMILAR CASE: "POOR THING):"
Hammer-Wielding Man Attacks Chinese Kindergarten, Sets Himself on Fire
A man injured five kindergartners with an iron hammer before grabbing two of the children and setting himself on fire— the third attack on a Chinese school in as many days.
The attacker—a farmer named Wang Yonglai—was the only fatality, thanks to the teachers who were able to pull his two intended victims away from him before they were burned. But that's small comfort to the country, which has now seen three violent attacks on its schools in three successive days, and four this month.
My comment: Would airlifting shrinks into China prevent every single one of these horrible incidents from occurring? Of course not. But when some huge portion of the population isn't getting the mental care they need, it seems odd to focus on school security as the problem.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Ash cloud returns, disrupts European flights!!! AGAIN~
Ash billows from the Eyjafjoell volcano on May 8. Hundreds of flights at airports from Lisbon to Munich were cancelled and some European airspace was closed because of a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that caused air travel chaos last month. I am here to save the world !!!!!!! -Iron man ㅅㅇㅅ"
Friday, April 30, 2010
Expo 2010, officially Expo 2010 Shanghai China (simplified Chinese: 中国2010年上海世界博览会) will be held in the city of Shanghai, China from May 1 to October 31, 2010 and is a scheduled World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition will be "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as the "next great world city". It is the most expensive Expo in the history of the world's fairs. The expo Logo features the Chinese character 世 ('world', Chinese "shì") modified to represent three people together with the 2010 date. It is also the largest World's Fair site ever at 5.28 square km. More than 190 countries and more than 50 international organizations have registered to participate in the Shanghai World Expo, the largest ever. China expects to receive almost 100 foreign leaders and millions of people from across the world to come and visit the World Expo. More than 70-100 million visitors are expected to visit the expo, the largest in history.
Opening ceremony A dramatic opening ceremony will be held in the evening of April 30, 2010 with the attendance of dozens of world leaders. After the ceremony, the world leaders will attend a reception hosted by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Twenty heads of state or government would attend the opening ceremony including French President Nicolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, South Korean PresidentLee Myung-bak, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan, Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Kim Yong Nam, President of Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika, Malian President Amadou Toumany Toure, Malta President George Abela, President of Micronesia Emanuel Mori, Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdoj, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, President of Seychelles James Alix Michel, and President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Heads of government to be present at the opening ceremony are Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung In addition, speakers of legislative bodies, deputy heads and ministers of over 20 other countries will also attend the opening ceremony.
Singapore Pavilion Pavilion Features
The music-box-like Singapore Pavilion is a two-story structure with an "Urban Symphony" theme. The theme is inspired by the harmony of unique elements in Singapore: progress and sustainability, urbanization and greenery, tradition and modernity and a cosmopolitan mix of residents of different races living peacefully together.
Singapore unveils pavilion mascot Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore's Minister of Health and Wu Yunfei, counselor of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, press buttons to start the ceremony. Singapore has picked an Expo mascot called Liu Lian Xiao Xing, or "Durian Star," with a spiny head resembling a durian fruit and wearing the iconic Merlion image on his clothes. Described as a curious and vigorous Singaporean boy who has a strong preference for durian, "Durian Star" will be printed on all souvenirs to be sold or given to visitors. The mascot was introduced to the public yesterday as the city-state celebrated the completion of the steel structure for its exhibition hall.
Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore's Minister of Health, delivers a speech.
Liu Lian Xiao Xing, or "Durian Star," poses with Haibao.
April 2010
Call me , it's simple. My birthday falls on 11 December "winter season".
I am a typical schoolgirl just like you and loves to laugh. 
I love webdesigning, blogshopping, fashion thingy!
Not forgetting my lovely korean and s'pore friends. 
I am a great fan of korean pop,drama,people and fashion too! 
& what I detest most are copycats
But of course, I don't blame those who take inspirations from my blog.
Just for your information, I do not make really nice skins and I am not a famous blogger. Laugh out loud. 
이름Name:Xue Ting (오설정)
