Friends of the accused killer, Jared Lee Loughner, stay using the same words to guess at his reasons for gunning downward a congresswoman, several retirees and a nine-year-old girl in a Safeway parking lot. "He loves causing chaos," a former target-shooting buddy told one reporter. "Mainly to just encourage chaos," echoed another high school pal.
On Wednesday night President Obama addressed Loughner's alleged misdeed previous to a crowd of 14,000 in Tucson, Arizona. The speech was watched by millions of Americans, whose primetime network reality dramas had been preempted by a jarring certainty far more consequential. In the living rooms of the nation, the president's message boiled down to this: Loughner had failed.
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South Korea on Friday threatened to bomb North Korea if it tries a repeat of last week's attack, raising its rhetoric after the United States warned of an "immediate threat" from Pyongyang.Kim Kwan-jin, a retired general, was speaking at a parliamentary meeting confirming him as new defense minister, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said North Korea threatened the region and the world.
"If there are further provocations, we will definitely use aircraft to bomb North Korea," Kim said when asked how he would respond to another attack after last week's North Korean bombardment of an island near their disputed border, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.The North alone has more than 5,000 multiple-launch rockets pointed at the capital Seoul which, with its satellite cities, is home to some 25 million people. South Korea has about 490 combat aircraft.For nearly 60 years, the two Koreas have faced each other across one of the world's most heavily armed borders. They have never signed a peace treaty to end the 1950-53 Korean War.
