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President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that he is allowing Japan and South Korea to buy “a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States.”

TEL AVIV – Iran will be closely observing the world’s reaction to North Korea’s latest nuclear test and will dictate how the Islamic Republic will move forward with its own nuclear program, former Israeli defense minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon said.

North Korean authorities sent a delegation to Russia on Monday to participate in a regional forum led by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Long before North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons test, Steve Bannon has spoken about the critical economic war with China.

The Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear test and hydrogen bomb claim and called for a “firm international response” to curb Pyongyang’s rogue weapons programs.

When President Trump said on Sunday that America would consider stopping all trading with countries doing business with North Korea, critics responded by saying this would mean economic ruin for the United States.

China’s state-run Xinhua news service reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the BRICS economic summit on Sunday and “agreed to appropriately deal with the latest nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” For the moment, the nature of that appropriate response can only be left to the imagination.

President Donald Trump has alarmed the Chinese government again with a threat to cut economic ties to nations that do business with North Korea.

China has responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off trade with countries that deal with North Korea as “unfair,” while claiming they are making “arduous efforts” to de-escalate tensions in the region.

North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has continued publishing a stream of violent invective, on Monday threatening a “horrible disaster” for South Korea should they continue their civil and military alliance with America.

Nikki Haley, in an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council Monday, called for the ‘strongest possible measures’ against North Korea.

Center for Security Policy President for Research and Analysis Clare Lopez blamed political mismanagement stretching back for decades, rather than a failure of intelligence-gathering, for the shock of North Korea’s latest nuclear test on Monday’s special Labor Day edition of Breitbart News Daily.

North Korea’s increased belligerence in the face of new administrations in Washington and Seoul has culminated in a sixth nuclear test this weekend, an event President Donald Trump took as an opportunity to challenge his leftist South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, on his policy of dialogue with the communist regime.

When Barack Obama handed off to his successor the presidency of the United States, he impressed upon Donald Trump that his greatest worry was North Korea.

Contents: Will we have to accept a world in which North Korea is a nuclear power?; World leaders express outrage and call nuclear test ‘unacceptable’; Will the United States take some military action against North Korea?

Sunday’s North Korean nuclear test makes it all too clear that U.S. sanctions on North Korea and pleas with China for assistance have failed to rein in the rogue regime.

Sunday on “AM Joy,” MSNBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance touted North Korea’s “nuclear power” on the international stage, saying the country no longer has to be wary of President Donald Trump’s threats. “North Korea is now on the international stage as a

On this weekend’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” former U.N. ambassador John Bolton argued the only remaining diplomatic solution to the nuclear threat from North Korea was through the unification of the Korean peninsula, which he argued

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary James Mattis warned North Korea that any major threat to the U.S. or its allies would be met with a “massive military response” that would be “overwhelming” following Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test Sunday.

The United Nations Security Council will meet in an emergency session to discuss the latest nuclear test by North Korea.

Sunday while leaving church after attending the National Day of Prayer service for Hurricane Harvey victims, President Donald Trump was asked if he planned on attacking North Korea in response to last night’s Nuclear test escalation by Kim Jong-un. Trump

United States President Donald Trump “should attack North Korea preemptively,” Former IDF intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said in an interview on Israeli radio on Sunday.

“The U.S. is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea,” Trump said.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he “wouldn’t speak” the way President Donald Trump has about North Korea. When asked about Trump’s “fire and fury” tweet, Cruz said, “The president speaks in ways that I wouldn’t

President Donald Trump said “appeasement will not work” with the “rogue nation” of North Korea, because “they only understand one thing,” after dictator Kim Jong-un conducted the Communist nation’s sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb test.

President Donald Trump famously enforced the “red line” against Syria’s use of chemical weapons that President Barack Obama would not. Now he faces his own challenge, as North Korea has crossed all of his own “red lines.”

South Korean officials have confirmed a blast at a nuclear testing site in North Korea that the nation appears to be claiming was a test of a hydrogen bomb.

In a post on the Kremlin’s website on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin restated his country’s position that further pressure against the North Korean regime is likely to provoke a devastating war on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea’s state media announced Friday that the country has issued a new set of stamps to commemorate the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in July, yet another sign the nation’s communist regime remains unapologetic about its belligerent threats to its neighbors and the United States.

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor released a report on the “Prisons of North Korea” this week. As one might imagine, there is precious little democracy or human rights to be found in the report, but plenty of labor.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday slammed news reports suggesting he was breaking with the president on North Korea a day earlier.

In a phone call on Wednesday evening, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that applying further sanctions against North Korea would be “counterproductive and dangerous.”

In the face of more aggression from North Korea, the United Nations Security Council is mulling its next step.

North Korea has dismissed protests against its increasingly belligerent use of missile testing from the United States, calling America a “nuclear criminal” and threatening “final doom” in a state newspaper column published Thursday.

TOKYO (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassure Japanese business leaders about Brexit on Thursday, while also joining Japan in calling on China to use its influence to pressure North Korea to halt its nuclear weapons and missile development.

A majority of South Koreans now support acquiring nuclear weapons, and the leader of a left-wing opposition party broke ranks to call for just such an investment on Wednesday.