11.10 Another piece we did yesterday - worth a read if you haven't seen it - Harriet Alexander has profiled South Korea's president Park Geun-hye - the woman facing Kim's nuclear threat head on.
As leader of the world's 12th largest economy, the unmarried and childless Ms Park planned to turn the page on this bitter inheritance, and devote herself to peaceful progression.
That now looks an increasingly unachievable aim.
[SUB]A North Korean missile on parade in Pyongyang (AP)[/SUB]
11.05 Malcolm Moore on Kurt Campbell, the former head of the US State Department in Asia stating there are clear signs that China is losing patience with North Korea:
For several decades, China has been North Korea's closest ally, largest trade partner and primary source of aid.
However, Kurt Campbell, the former head of the State department in Asia, said there are signs that a relationship once described by Chairman Mao to be "as close as lips and teeth" is wearing thin.
"There is a subtle shift in Chinese foreign policy. Over the short to medium term, that has the potential to affect the calculus in north east Asia," Mr Campbell said at a forum at John Hopkins university.
"You have seen it at the United Nations (Security Council). We have seen it in our private discussions and you see it in statements in Beijing," he added.
11.04 Some analysis from Chief Foreign Correspondent David Blair on whether there is a 'real threat' posed by North Korea to the South and the United States:
11.03 North Korea has placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them on the east coast of the country in a move that could threaten Japan or US Pacific bases, South Korean media reported on Friday.
The report could not be confirmed. But any such movement may be intended to demonstrate that the North, angry about joint US-South Korean military exercises and the imposition of UN. sanctions, is prepared to demonstrate its ability to mount an attack.
11.00 (03.00 Washington 19.00 Pyongyang) Good morning (good evening to our North Korean readers) and welcome to our live rolling coverage as North Korea moves a second missile to its east coast.
As leader of the world's 12th largest economy, the unmarried and childless Ms Park planned to turn the page on this bitter inheritance, and devote herself to peaceful progression.
That now looks an increasingly unachievable aim.
[SUB]A North Korean missile on parade in Pyongyang (AP)[/SUB]
11.05 Malcolm Moore on Kurt Campbell, the former head of the US State Department in Asia stating there are clear signs that China is losing patience with North Korea:
For several decades, China has been North Korea's closest ally, largest trade partner and primary source of aid.
However, Kurt Campbell, the former head of the State department in Asia, said there are signs that a relationship once described by Chairman Mao to be "as close as lips and teeth" is wearing thin.
"There is a subtle shift in Chinese foreign policy. Over the short to medium term, that has the potential to affect the calculus in north east Asia," Mr Campbell said at a forum at John Hopkins university.
"You have seen it at the United Nations (Security Council). We have seen it in our private discussions and you see it in statements in Beijing," he added.
11.04 Some analysis from Chief Foreign Correspondent David Blair on whether there is a 'real threat' posed by North Korea to the South and the United States:
11.03 North Korea has placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them on the east coast of the country in a move that could threaten Japan or US Pacific bases, South Korean media reported on Friday.
The report could not be confirmed. But any such movement may be intended to demonstrate that the North, angry about joint US-South Korean military exercises and the imposition of UN. sanctions, is prepared to demonstrate its ability to mount an attack.
11.00 (03.00 Washington 19.00 Pyongyang) Good morning (good evening to our North Korean readers) and welcome to our live rolling coverage as North Korea moves a second missile to its east coast.