South Korean military officials announced that they would be deploying two war ships, one on the east coast and one on the west coast of the country. The ships are equipped with missile defense systems and were the latest response to North Korea's increasingly hostile actions and statements.

At least seven people have died after militants attacked the U.S. consulate in Peshawar. Several explosions were reported near the consulate, and some of the area's other buildings collapsed. A susequent gun battle between the police and attackers occured after the explosions, and eleven people were killed in those. One of Pakistan's main Taliban factions has said it carried out the attack. The raid came a few hours after forty-three people had been killed in a suicide attack about fifty miles north-east of Peshawar. That bomber had targeted a crowded rally that was being held by a Pashtun nationalist party in Timergara.