RussiaToday 12/2/2013 - 'Survival of N. Korea regime depends on nuclear weapons' , State of Denial: Pockets not rockets dominate Obama's 2013 SOTU speech

'Survival of N. Korea regime depends on nuclear weapons' The UN Security Council has issued a stern rebuke to North Korea over its third nuclear test - as it held an emergency meeting in response to the test, which was in defiance of international regulations. The organisation says it plans to beef-up the sanctions already in place for the country's previous atomic exercises. China was among those who criticised North Korea's nuclear test. However, war correspondent and columnist Eric Margolis thinks the relations between the two allies are unlikely to sour. State of Denial: Pockets not rockets dominate Obama's 2013 SOTU speech Barack Obama devoted his first State of the Union address of his second term to trying to appease lawmakers and taxpayers, with fresh promises to boost the economy and slash debt and deficit. A further reduction of the occupation force in Afghanistan was also announced, with 34 thousand troops due to leave by next February. But certain sticky issues were notably left out of the speech, as RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports.