A Reuters exclusive on Thursday quoted three sources inside Western European intelligence agencies who said North Korea shipped coal to Russia in 2017 in a probable violation of U.N. sanctions.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly promoted his sister to a role running the country’s state security apparatus.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) claims that ending North Korea’s nuclear capabilities requires confronting nation-states that enable the regime.
North Korea has called for unification with South Korea on a number of issues despite the build-up of tensions between both countries and their allies.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions against nine entities, 16 individuals, and six ocean vessels related to North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction, and efforts to circumvent sanctions imposed by the United Nations against that program.
Senior officials from President Donald Trump’s administration are still considering a “limited,” pre-emptive “bloody nose” military strike against North Korea to demonstrate to Kim Jong-un “American’s resolve and willpower,” according to an expert at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) think tank.
North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Han Tae Song claimed on Tuesday that the United States is using the Winter Olympics as an excuse for provocative military maneuvers, and boasted North Korea has a “powerful and reliable” nuclear deterrent ready to thwart foreign invaders.
Although he provided few details, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told his parliament on Monday that Japan’s forces acted to defend American military aircraft for the first time during a recent mission. His remarks strongly implied the mission had something to do with North Korea.
Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute forum on the future of U.S. intelligence operations, CIA Director Mike Pompeo warned that North Korea could be a “handful of months” away from plausibly threatening the continental United States with nuclear weapons.
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.
In a Sunday appearance on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable, Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers, called on United States officials to leak any top-secret documents that would prevent a war with North Korea. “I would
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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.
U.S. officials say they have satellite photographs showing Chinese cargo ships loading North Korean coal in defiance of U.N. sanctions, beginning just days after the sanctions were imposed.
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The annual World Economic Forum meeting – widely referred to as simply “Davos” after its traditional venue in Davos-Kosters, Switzerland – is scheduled to begin on January 23. A week ahead of the meeting, the WEF has released its Global Risks Report 2018, warning that the chance of a major war breaking out is increasing.
“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
The United States and Canada hosted a 20-nation gathering in Vancouver on Tuesday, leading to a consensus that even tougher sanctions could be applied against North Korea to make it give up on developing nuclear missiles. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said military options are still on the table if these sanctions fail.
North Korea plans to send an “army of beauties” in the form of a cheerleading squad to the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Days after Hawaiian officials issued a false alert that a ballistic missile was heading to the islands, Japanese officials made the same error.
There is a tragically disturbing trend underway in Asia with evidence of it continuing to reach the shores of Japan.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says rival Koreas have agreed to form their first joint Olympic team and march together in opening ceremony.
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.
North Korea’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun published an editorial on Tuesday sneering that President Donald Trump’s nuclear button tweet was the “spasm of a lunatic” and the “bark of a rabid dog.”
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis plans to take his first official visit to China in the spring, to seek further cooperation on North Korea, according to the South China Morning Post.
President Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping about trade issues, according to a White House readout of the conversation.
Across Hawaii, residents got an ominous message on their phones’ Emergency Alert System (EAS) telling them to “seek immediate shelter” from a “ballistic missile threat.”
In a news cycle full of poverty, war, political intrigue, and all the usual torment, America’s media have wasted valuable time this week debating the value of President Donald Trump’s use of a bad word.
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.
North Korea stands at the top of a list of 50 countries where at least 215 million Christians faced the most severe persecution in 2017, resulting in 3,066 deaths and 1,020 rapes mainly targeting women, revealed Open Doors, an organization that monitors ill-treated Christians worldwide.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has found good material to attack U.S. President Donald Trump: Michael Wolff’s bombshell new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”
The State Department has approved the sale of $133 million worth of missiles to Japan in an effort to shore up its military defense as tensions with North Korea continue to escalate.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in gave a press conference on Wednesday in which he said President Donald Trump “deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks” that were held this week.
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.
