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successful missile strike on U.S. targets would be suicide for the outnumbered, out-powered North Korean regime.
• Despite the hastening drumbeat of warfare -- seemingly bringing the region to the very brink of conflict with threats and provocations -- Pyongyang aims to force Washington to the negotiating table, pressure the new president in Seoul to change policy on North Korea, and build unity inside the country without triggering a full-blown war.
• North Korea wants to draw attention to the tenuousness of the armistice designed to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula, a truce Pyongyang recently announced it would no longer honor as it warned that war could break out at any time.
• In July, it will be 60 years since North Korea and China signed an armistice with the U.S. and the United Nations to bring an end to three years of fighting that cost millions of lives. The designated Demilitarized Zone has evolved into the most heavily guarded border in the world.
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Ex-addict called hero for aiding fallen man on Philly tracks says he just did the right thing
• PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The recovering drug addict with a long rap sheet who had just sat down on the bench at a north Philadelphia train station often wondered if he was a good person, and perhaps never considered that anyone thought he was a hero to anybody.
• But there was no self-doubt when Christopher Knafelc's instincts kicked in Thursday afternoon and he leaped onto the tracks to help a complete stranger he'd just seen flail and fall off the platform.
• Now, Knafelc, 32, is being hailed as a hero and he's holding his head a little higher, viewing the good deed he did, and the praise that followed, as another sign that he is on the right path in life.
• "It did help reinforce that I'm a good person," Knafelc told The Associated Press in a Friday interview at his mother's south Philadelphia apartment. "I questioned that a lot because of my colorful past."
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