A South Korean diplomat told reporters Wednesday that the leftist government of President Moon Jae-in believes “now is the best time” for dialogue between the United States and the rogue communist regime in North Korea.
Despite the diplomatic “thaw” that made North Korean participation in the Winter Olympics possible and a general media atmosphere of excitement around Pyongyang’s relative openness after years of defiant isolation, South Korean officials say North Korea has not responded to their call for military talks.
Multiple polls of South Korean citizens taken this week have found a drop in approval ratings for President Moon Jae-in, who has risked his legacy on a scheme to include North Korea in next month’s Winter Olympics that may come at the price of some South Korean athletes’ lifelong dream.
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“Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,” President Donald Trump said during an Oval Office interview.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Presidential Historian and former Nixon Presidential Library Director Tim Naftali argued that President Trump has made North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “look reasonable.” Naftali said, “[H]e is so good at the game of
There is a tragically disturbing trend underway in Asia with evidence of it continuing to reach the shores of Japan.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made clear on Tuesday that America and its allies would reject the Chinese “freeze-for-freeze” plan to convince the U.S. military to diminish its presence in Asia allegedly in exchange for North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters in Moscow Thursday that he believed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un had “obviously won this round” against the West and that Kim was a “shrewd and mature” politician.
The United States, Canada, and other nations invited to multilateral talks on North Korea’s nuclear crisis will discuss the potential of taking proactive actions against ships believed to be aiding trade between Pyongyang and foreign nations to enforce sanctions, the State Department confirmed on Thursday.
President Donald Trump said he ‘probably’ had a great relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, despite ridiculing him on Twitter.
The North Korea monitor site 38North published a report on Wednesday citing officials within the communist government suggesting that Pyongyang is “extremely serious” about the possibility of war with the United States, considering an American attack an existential threat to the country.
South Korea’s Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon announced Wednesday that Seoul had agreed to allow a “massive delegation totaling between 400-500 people” from North Korea to attend this year’s Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold a training and information session this month to help professionals prepare for the prospects of nuclear war.
Delegations from North and South Korea met at the border village of Panmunjom on Tuesday to discuss North Korea’s participation at the Winter Olympics and generally improving the tense situation on the peninsula. At the meeting, North Korea made an obvious play to fracture the international coalition aligned against its nuclear missile program and weaken South Korean resolve.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have responded to the growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea by scheduling a nuclear war preparation briefing.
North and South Korea will hold high-level talks next week in the border village of Panmunjom to discuss both the upcoming Winter Olympics and how to “improve the two Koreas’ relations” more broadly, according to a statement from the South Korean Ministry of Unification on Friday.
CNN’s Brian Stelter asked Twitter on Tuesday whether President Donald Trump’s tweet threatening North Korea with his “much bigger & more powerful” nuclear button violated the social media network’s terms of service.
President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in decided in a phone conversation on Thursday to suspend joint U.S.-South Korean military drills during the 2018 Winter Olympics in a diplomatic overture to North Korea, which constantly complains about such exercises.
North Korea accidentally crashed a missile into a town outside Pyongyang, possibly causing an explosion and casualties while testing weapons for their nuclear program, U.S. government sources claimed.
South Korea’s special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs is scheduled to meet Chinese nuclear envoy Kong Xuanyou on Friday to discuss de-escalating tensions with North Korea.
Left-wing commentators think that mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could be an example of “hateful content” on Twitter.
Green Day guitarist and lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump this week over his tweet mocking Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s speech in which the North Korean dictator threatened to vaporize ‘the entire mainland of the U.S.’
President Donald Trump taunted Kim Jong-un on Tuesday, tweeting that his own nuclear button was “much bigger,” more powerful, and fully functional.
South Korea’s Yonhap News reported on Tuesday that Seoul has proposed high-level talks with North Korea next week, ostensibly to discuss North Korean participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The offer came after North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s intriguingly “conciliatory” annual address on New Year’s Day.
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Despite suggestions that recent UN sanctions against North Korea will bring Pyongyang to the negotiating table in 2018, U.S. and Chinese war preparations continue. China has plans to establish five refugee centers along the border, while the U.S. is positioning naval and other forces near and on the peninsula.
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un delivered a New Year’s Eve speech, saying the United States is within range of the country’s nuclear weapons.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday denied claims that UN sanctions against North Korea had been breached by Russian tankers transferring fuel to North Korean tankers at sea.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry asserted that its efforts to contain North Korea are “earnest and serious,” while Chinese state media called President Donald Trump’s accusations of illicit oil trade with Pyongyang “absurd” and “irresponsible” on Friday.
North Korea’s communist regime has finally responded to President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) with a statement from its Foreign Ministry condemning the document as “a typical outcome of the Yankee-style arrogance” and dismissing all of America as “a corpse.”
The Trump administration does not have “a lot of room left here to apply pressure” to prevent North Korea from inching closer to a nuclear weapon that could strike anywhere on the United States, a homeland security advisor to the U.S. president said on Tuesday.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday to meet with Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and other high-ranking officials to discuss, among other issues, a multilateral approach to the North Korean nuclear crisis.
North Korea’s state media have finally responded to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s call for bilateral talks with “no precondition,” rejecting the offer and claiming that the United States is “sneered at by the international community.”
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Wednesday on “The Late Show,” NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman opened up about his visits with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, saying the dictator has “changed” and does not want war. “He said, ‘I don’t want war,’” Rodman recalled from
In an appearance Wednesday on CBS’s “The Late Show,” NBA Hall of Fame’s Dennis Rodman discussed his relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Stephen Colbert asked Rodman why he continues to visit the “madman, murderous dictator, which Rodman responded that
America’s chief of naval operations said in an interview published Friday that U.S. options for a military response to North Korea’s routine belligerence are not “empty words” and that the military is “prepared” to act against Pyongyang if necessary.
