North Korea FM appeals to US to launch bilateral talks.

PYONGYANG, November 2 (Itar-Tass) -- The North Korean Foreign Ministry
appealed to the United States Monday to launch bilateral negotiations "to
eliminate hostility" in the relations between Washington and Pyongyang and
to discuss the ways for the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.

"We expressed readiness earlier depending from the results of the
consultations with the U.S. to participate in multipartite negotiations,
including in the Group of Six format," the North Korean Foreign Ministry
said in a statement. "It is the U.S. that should take a bold decision. If
the U.S. is not ready for negotiations with North Korea yet, we will go
our way," the Foreign Ministry said.

.Rocket troops command to supervise drill of missile units,spy jets.

MOSCOW, November 2 (Itar-Tass) -- The Command Staff of the Russian
Rocket Troops and Artillery will begin an assembly at the Capustin Yar
testing ground in the Astrakhan Region on Monday. The generals and senior
officers of the troops will have methodical and practical drills, a
spokesman for the Russian Ground Troops told Itar-Tass.
"At one of the practical drills a rocket division and a missile
artillery brigade will test-launch tactical missiles and rocket
projectiles on the targets separated with the assistance of unmanned
aircraft," he said.
"Such drills of reconnaissance means and weapons of the Rocket Troops
and Artillery became possible upon the practical build-up of the potential
of reconnaissance forces and means designed to hit sites and groupings of
the troops of the enemy," the spokesman said.
Commander of the Rocket Troops and Artillery Lieutenant-General Sergei
Bogatinov, who heads the assembly, will sum up the results of the
transition of the troops to a new image, will set tasks for the next year
and will inform about the prospects for development of the Rocket Troops
and Artillery until 2016.
The Rocket Troops and Artillery commanders of military districts,
fleets, armies, the Caspian Flotilla, the Airborne Troops, the chiefs of
staffs of the foresaid troops, commanders of missile units and
representatives of the defence and industrial complex will participate in
the assembly.

.Khasavyurt warlord destroyed in Dagestan.

MAKHACHKALA, November 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Local warlord Arslan Egilbayev,
30, was destroyed in a special operation in the city of Khasavyurt,
Dagestan, on Monday. Another Khasavyurt gunman Amir Sailmgereyev, 27, was
also killed, a source in the public relations group in the Federal
Security Service department in Dagestan told Itar-Tass on Monday.
According to the source, the operatives have found a dead woman, under
which a grenade was hidden, in a flat, where the gunmen were blocked. The
passport for Ashura Magomedova, 27, was found.
The commandoes of the Federal Security Service and the police have
blocked several gunmen in a two-room flat on the first floor of the
five-storey apartment block in Shchorsa Street in the small hours on
Monday. In reply to the surrender demands the gunmen opened fire. The
anti-terrorist operation regime was introduced at 01.20 a.m. Moscow time
in the area of the three streets of the city.
In the clash two gunmen removed the bars on the windows that were cut
in advance and were attempting to escape returning the fire. However, they
were destroyed in the shootout. The anti-terror operation regime was
cancelled at 05.50 a.m. Moscow time. The evacuated dwellers returned in
their flats. Two submachine guns, grenades, a big amount of ammunition, as
well as the religious literature were found in the flat, where the gunmen
had entrenched. Investigative measures are underway at the operation site.
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