SKorea Won’t Let North Korea Use Nuclear Test To Win Concessions

South Korea’s president said Saturday his country won’t give in to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, while Pyongyang accused Seoul of sending patrol boats into its territorial waters — the scene of past bloody naval clashes.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency alleged the patrol boats were sailing into North Korean waters daily around the rivals’ disputed western sea border. The Korean-language report warned that aggressors would be dealt “merciless punishment that will be beyond imagination.”

The claim was rejected by Seoul, which two days ago alleged one of the North’s patrol boats violated its sea border in the same area. The boat turned back without incident after a 50-minute standoff with the South’s naval ships, the South Korean military said.

The disputed waters — where deadly clashes occurred in 1999 and 2002 — are a potential flash point for the rivals. Many fear a minor dispute could quickly escalate into a major confrontation, especially with tensions soaring after the North’s May 25 nuclear blast and recent missile tests.

Earlier Saturday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak delivered a stern warning to the North in a nationally televised Memorial Day speech honoring the country’s war dead at Seoul’s National Cemetery.

“I would like to make it clear that there will be no compromise against things that threaten our people and security,” Lee said.

Lee’s words echoed those of U.S. officials, who have also said the North’s former tactics of using military threats to win much-needed food and energy aid would no longer work. Washington is considering punishing North Korea with its own financial sanctions, apart from whatever the U.N. might decide to adopt.

At the U.N., lengthy closed-door negotiations about sanctions appeared to be close to an end. The measure was being worked out by five veto-wielding Security Council nations — the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France — along with Japan and South Korea.

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Cardiovascular Fitness

Cancer patients can keep their overall fitness while going through many treatments, researchers from the Georgetown University Medical Center said in a new report. Knowing that can help people live longer, one study author said. “We know physical activity is a critical component of cancer survivorship, both during and after cancer treatment,” Jennifer LeMoine said. “In order to prescribe an exercise program, it’s critical that we understand our patient’s fitness level and whether or not treatment has had an impact on their cardiovascular health.” The research was not a controlled, double-blind experiment, but instead reviewed the records of 49 women who were sent to a fitness clinic. There were a variety of body and cancer types, according to a news release on the work. At the start, one-third of the patients were considered sedentary.

All were asked to do a three-minute test to gauge fitness. “What’s really exciting to us was that we found that cardiovascular fitness was not affected by the expected culprits — cancer treatment, type, duration or time since treatment,” LeMoine said. “That isn’t to say there aren’t side effects of some treatments that may hinder physical activity, but when it comes to actual cardiovascular fitness as measured in our clinic, many of the standard treatments didn’t have a role.” A news release on the study did not indicate if the study was long enough to determine if fitness levels had an effect on recovery or survival times. The results were presented at the American College of Sports Medicine in Seattle.