Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said President Trump wants him to continue diplomatic efforts with North Korea until the last possible moment – or, as Tillerson memorably put it, “until the first bomb drops.”
Reuters cites a report from Russian media on Tuesday that North Korea has informed Russia its ballistic missiles require only a bit of “modernization” to strike the continental United States.
A North Korean representative to the United Nations claimed in a state media article this week that Pyongyang successfully prevented the CIA from executing “a state-sponsored terrorism against our supreme headquarters using biological and chemical substance[s].”
On Tuesday’s “MSNBC Live,” anchor Stephanie Ruhle stated Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) tweets about President Trump’s golf score are “Kim Jong-un type of antics.” Ruhle said, “He has been one of the Senate Republicans most outspoken when it comes to criticizing President
Kim Yo-jong, the 28-year-old sister of dictator Kim Jong-un, has become only the second woman in Communist North Korean history to join the Politburo. The first was Kim Kyong-hui, who was likewise the sister of the dictator at the time, Kim Jong-il.
President Donald Trump blamed previous White House administrations for failing to effectively deal with the issue of North Korea, describing the situation as a “total mess,” in an interview Saturday.
After taking a great deal of heat for social media posts from North Korea, which he defended on the grounds that he was worried for his safety and that of his family, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a full-length account of his experience entitled “Inside North Korea, and Feeling the Drums of War.”
CIA officials assess that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a rational actor who wants to avoid a military conflict with the U.S., they said at an intelligence conference on Wednesday.
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, assessing South Korean opposition to his aggressive nuclear and missile programs, must believe his predecessors — father Kim Jong-il and grandfather Kim Il-sung — are out there working in the netherworld to do what they can to influence acceptance by the world community of Pyongyang as a nuclear-armed power.
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has published the results of an alleged white paper by a government agency that found that President Donald Trump was “hell-bent on inflicting a nuclear holocaust” and claiming that he is referred to in America as “Hitler in the 21st century.”
President Trump tweeted Sunday morning that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was wasting his time trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korea’s state newspaper claimed on Friday that nearly five million citizens “volunteered to join or rejoin in the Korean People’s Army” in the past week, looking to fight against President Donald Trump.
A poll from YouGov and The Economist finds Americans are concerned about the possibility of full-scale war with North Korea, but about half of respondents support military action if necessary.
North Korea, through its media outlet the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), denied on Thursday that it tortured late American Otto Warmbier during his time in prison, dismissing Warmbier as a “criminal” and American President Donald Trump as an “old lunatic” for accusing Pyongyang of torturing and killing him.
President Donald Trump continued to highlight the ongoing diplomatic disaster in North Korea, promising to do something different than previous administrations.
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster “chuckled dismissively” at a recent event when addressing President Trump’s tweets about North Korea, according to an eyewitness.
Contents: North Korea threatens to shoot down US warplanes; Is there a strategic explanation for Trump’s statements and tweets?
In a briefing to reporters outside the U.N. Millennium Plaza Hotel in New York City on Monday, North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho threatened to shoot down U.S. strategic bombers even when they are flying outside of North Korean airspace.
On Thursday, North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said his nation may soon conduct a hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean.
The verbal animosity between U.S. President Donald Trump and communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has intensified as the two leaders exchange jibes publicly for the world to see.
Some pejoratives insult the speaker rather than the spoken about.
Comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler praised North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s warning letter to President Donald Trump this week, writing on her social media account that the threatening letter sounded “a little bit more sane” than Trump — and suggesting the two countries trade leaders.
President Donald Trump answered an inflammatory statement from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, calling him a “madman.”
During a segment on Thursday regarding North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un’s response to President Trump’s announcement of new sanctions against North Korea, Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” referred to Kim and Trump as the two most unpredictable
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis confirmed on Monday that the United States has discussed with South Korea the option of employing tactical nuclear weapons to defend against North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” while reacting to President Donald Trump’s speech at United Nations, former White House press secretary for the Obama administration Josh Earnest said the overall speech lacked “coherence,” and Trump mocking North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un was
Passenger jets flying over North Korean territory are currently “at risk” of becoming a casualty of a potentially disastrous wayward missile launched by dictator Kim Jong-un during one of his surprise tests, analysts have reportedly warned amid fears of a miscalculation by Pyongyang.
U.S. public health and first responders in California and throughout the West Coast have begun preparing for the impact of a potential nuclear war after North Korea fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) over Japan last week in the anniversary of America’s triumphant Inchon Landing in the Korean War.
South Korea has announced that it is setting up a “decapitation unit” to deal with the threat from North Korea.
North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations railed against the latest sanctions passed by the Security Council on Monday, which cut off part of the nation’s oil industry and bans North Korean citizens who have not defected from working abroad.
North Korea’s foreign ministry threatened the United States with “the greatest pain and suffering it had ever gone through in its entire history” on Monday, the 16th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001.
During a Thursday joint White House press conference with the Amir of Kuwait, President Donald Trump responded to a reporter’s question on North Korea’s nuclear program, stating that military action against North Korea “would certainly be an option,” but he “would prefer not going the route of the military.”
The government of New Zealand has proposed an intelligence-sharing initiative, approved on Friday, with small Pacific island states meant to catch North Korean cargo ships disguised with flags from Vanuatu, Tuvalu, and other regional powers.
In a Friday editorial, North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency described America’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, as a “political prostitute” who threw a “hysteric fit” when she said Pyongyang was “begging for war.”
The communist government of North Korea staged a massive parade in its capital, Pyongyang, on Wednesday, in celebration of its allegedly “perfect” hydrogen bomb test on Sunday.
North Korea has, for the first time, threatened to wage an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack against the United States. Such an attack has the potential to cause catastrophic damage to North America, Canada, the West, and many of its neighbors.
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton warned on Breitbart News Daily Thursday that a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack from North Korea “absolutely is a threat” and suggested considering military action against Pyongyang.
South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has warned that North Korea may be planning to test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly belligerent military actions that culminated in the nation’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test last weekend.
North Korea flying missiles over Japan and detonating a potential 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb just turbo-charged what was already the beginning of a Southern California “Star Wars” defense boom.
The government of South Korea confirmed Wednesday that it would allow for the installation of four new missile defense launchers, part of a larger U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system designed to protect from a North Korean attack.
