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North Korean new leader Kim Jong-un has made his first televised public speech, as Pyongyang marks the centenary of the birth of the country's founder.He offered respects to grandfather Kim Il-sung and late father Kim Jong-il.Mr Kim praised the "military first" doctrine and said the time his nation could be threatened was "forever over".There was also a huge military parade in the main square which unveiled what appeared to be a large new missile - two days after a failed rocket launch.   The launch was condemned by the international community, amid concern that it was a covert test of long-range missile technology. During Sunday's military parade, North Korea showed what appeared to be a large new missile. The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says the missile was camouflaged and carried on a 16-wheel truck, far bigger than the other trucks in the parade. Such a missile would be larger than the nation's current weap...

This is the surprise video. Really it is awesome.This video has surfaced that some claim shows a saucer-shaped UFO zooming past the window of a passenger airplane flying over Seoul, South Korea. In the video, the unidentified passenger is filming the otherwise uneventful view from the plane's window. Suddenly he makes a startled sound as the white saucer-like image comes into view. Later in the video, the purported UFO image is magnified. Ultimately, it looks more like an ivory colored bowler hat than a piece of futuristic flying technology. Is this just bad computer-generated imagery (CGI) and a cheap hoax from a prankster or a genuine unidentified object caught on film? The same writer who speculates on the origin of this object also recently wrote about video taken from one of NASA's live video feeds. In that video, three objects in a triangle formation appear on screen about five minutes into the video. Someone from NASA chimes in to say the object is actually a ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is on his way to South Korea for next week's Nuclear Security Summit.  He flew out of the Washington area on Air Force One in the early Saturday morning darkness.Obama will join more than 50 world leaders for the high profile summit in South Korea's capital, Seoul.  The meeting comes as North Korea threatens to stop the progress made toward nuclear disarmament, with plans to launch a long-range rocket next month. The United States said last week the rocket launch would cancel an earlier agreement with North Korea for food aid in exchange for halting its nuclear and long-range missile programs. The White House says Obama will hold various bilateral meetings, including talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao.  Obama also plans to meet with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea and Turkey on the sidelines of the summit. A White House statement Friday said President Obama will meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to re...