Foreign Desk
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S. Korea Balks at Some Sanctions on North
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea balked Monday at Washington’s demand that it fully join a U.S.-led effort to intercept North Korean ships suspected of carrying supplies for the North’s nuclear and missile weapons programs. The South insisted that it was already doing enough to stem possible weapons proliferation from North Korea — which detonated a nuclear bomb on October 9 — and announced no new measures to sanction the North under a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the test. The decision underscored Seoul’s reluctance to anger Pyongyang and complicated efforts to resolve the standoff over the North’s nuclear program now that the communist regime has agreed to return to long-stalled international nuclear disarmament talks.
—Associated Press
India Seeks Pakistan’s Help To Fight Islamist Extremists
India is facing a growing threat from Islamist terror cells determined to strike at economic targets such as the tech-city of Bangalore and the commercial capital, Bombay, according to analysts and diplomats. The warning comes after three major attacks in the past year, which culminated in July with the death of 209 people on Bombay’s commuter train network. On Tuesday, India and Pakistan will resume high-level diplomatic talks that were suspended after the Bombay attacks when India said that it had evidence that a Pakistani-based terror group, Lashkar-e-Toiba, was behind the bombings.
— The Daily Telegraph
Afghan Insurgent Attacks Increase Fourfold
KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report released Sunday found. Yesterday, a provincal police chief said American and Afghan forces have arrested a senior Al Qaeda member in southeastern Afghanistan, a provincial police chief. The troops detained six people — four Afghans, an Arab, and a Pakistani — on Thursday in the city of Khost, said Mohammad Ayub, the provincial police chief. He said the detainees are under the custody of American forces.
— Associated Press