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Cold War lives in NKorea, which dredges up decades-old US threats as nuke justification
• SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The Cold War still rages in North Korea, and enemy No. 1 is the United States, which Pyongyang blames for making its much-condemned drive to develop nuclear weapons necessary.
• A rich vein of propaganda fueled by decades-old American threats holds that North Korea remains at risk of an unprovoked nuclear attack, though Washington and others say brinksmanship is the North's true motive.
• North Korea's latest nuclear test in February -- its third -- has led even China, its only major ally, to support another round of punishing U.N. Security Council sanctions. Washington and Beijing have approved a draft resolution that is expected to be circulated this week.
• North Korea's neighbors and the West condemn the North's efforts to develop nuclear missiles capable of hitting America as a serious threat to Northeast Asia's delicate security and a drain on the precious resources that could go to North Korea's largely destitute people.
• But in Pyongyang, the propaganda spotlight shines on a long list of perceived wrongs from Washington and, in particular, on high-level American nuclear threats from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Secrecy's the operating rule when cardinals vote behind locked doors for new pope
• VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Ritual words, uttered in Latin, open and close the secret selection process of the new pope. It starts with "Extra omnes" -- or "Everyone out" -- expelling all but voting cardinals from the Sistine Chapel where conclave balloting takes place. It ends with "Accepto" -- "I accept" -- the solemn word the victorious cardinal utters to confirm the judgment of peers who have given him the two-thirds majority needed to become pope.
• Here is a look at what happens between those two moments:
• WHO'S INSIDE:
• Under a rule change by Pope Paul VI in 1970, cardinals who are younger than 80 at the time the papacy become vacant are eligible to vote. This time, two cardinals squeaked under the age limit, since their 80th birthday comes just after Benedict XVI's Feb. 28 resignation. As electing pontiffs is considered their most important (Continued on page 24)
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