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The Pentagon will request $7.5 billion to fund America’s war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in 2017, marking a 50 percent increase in spending on the conflict this year, revealed Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

U.S. officials believe North Korea might launch a rocket soon due to increased activity at the missile site Sohae Satellite Launching Station.

China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reports that Foreign Minister Wang Yi has agreed to a new United Nations resolution against North Korean nuclear testing.

On Tuesday, scientists in charge of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock” will reveal whether the minute hand on the has moved closer to midnight, signifying the degree and likelihood of a global catastrophe.

“Clearly there is more that they can do,” a source described as “a senior official of the U.S. State Department” by Reuters says of China’s role in curbing North Korean belligerence, particularly following the rogue nation’s claim it had detonated a hydrogen bomb.

On Friday, North Korea announced the arrest of University of Virginia student Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, for “perpetrating a hostile act” against the Communist state, with the “tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation.”

The Daily Express reports: An expert on the Middle East said that North Korea’s history of working with Iran means the risk of nuclear co-operation is real. It comes just after North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, reawakening

Media in North Korea are reporting that a national company has invented a liquor that “causes no hangover,” the latest claim of scientific achievement following the military’s claim of having successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.

The South Korean government revealed Wednesday that it had fired 20 machine gun shots at an unidentified drone widely believed to have come from North Korea that had entered South Korean territory. The incident follows international condemnation of a weapons test Pyongyang claims was the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb.

Christian persecution is at an historic high thanks to global rise of religious fundamentalism, most notably by radical Islam, Christian charity Open Doors has found. Persecution has seen the biggest rise in countries such as Pakistan and Eritrea where radical

In a commentary feature on its website, North Korea’s state media outlet boasted that its nation’s scientists are in “high spirits” to detonate nuclear weapons capable of destroying America “all at once.”

North Korea’s state-controlled media appear to have begun a purge of high-ranking Chinese officials from their records, in a sign that relations between the two communist countries are at an all-time low.

North Korea has begun its media victory lap over its alleged hydrogen bomb detonation last week, publishing an avalanche of exultant editorials praising dictator Kim Jong-un and publishing a photo of Kim with the nation’s leading nuclear scientists.

CNN has published an interview this morning with Kim Dong Chul, a North Korean prisoner who claims to have U.S. citizenship and is pleading for the White House to help free him.

TEL AVIV – Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published an editorial claiming that the Iran nuclear deal shows the West is repeating the mistakes it made with North Korea.

Contents: North Korea’s explosion was probably not a ‘hydrogen bomb’; South Korea resumes broadcasting propaganda via loudspeakers; North Korea’s nuclear test revives memories of the 2010 Cheonan attack; China faces limited influence and high frustration dealing with North Korea

The United Nations is vowing a “significant” response to North Korea’s claim that it successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb earlier this week, despite years of economic sanctions and arm sales bans doing little to deter the rogue nation’s aggressive behavior.

The Chinese government has dispatched diplomats to begin discussions with high-level officials in both South Korea and the United States regarding how to approach North Korea’s belligerent activity this week, including the detonation of a nuclear weapon the rogue state claims was a hydrogen bomb.

North Korea’s rogue regime recently conducted its fourth and most powerful underground nuclear test, with independent sensors detecting a 5.1 magnitude seismic event.

The U.S. Air Force and Japanese Defense Ministry have both dispatched nuclear-sniffer planes to investigate North Korea’s latest nuclear test.

South Korea will resume propaganda broadcasts into North Korea on noon Friday – dictator Kim Jong-un’s birthday – likely to feature both criticism of the Kim regime and the South Korean genre of electro-pop known as K-pop.

A.B. Stoddard, Associate Editor of The Hill, argued that President Obama’s foreign policy is “a liability for Hillary Clinton” and she will “abandon him” once she secures the nomination on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer explained how he thought the United States could get China to act against the North Koreans for their nuclear ambitions. According to Krauthammer, if China had to deal

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is trying to talk tough on North Korea despite repeatedly stating as Secretary of State that the regime was moving in the right direction with regard to its nuclear ambitions.

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he hopes the reported testing of a hydrogen bomb by North Korea turns out to be nothing more than a “hollow boast” from the country’s dictator.

North Korea claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb – as they described it, an “H-bomb of justice” – that would represent a massive escalation in the Communist dictatorship’s nuclear capability, putting them one major step closer to having weapons that can hit the continental United States.

Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to North Korea’s possible successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb the day before. Paul acknowledged there were no easy solutions to North Korea’s aggressive actions, but insisted

Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) reacted to North Korea’s claim that they successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb. Rubio said, “We now have the news this morning that this lunatic in North Korea has potentially  tested a hydrogen

While serving as President Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had a solution to deal with North Korea’s nuclear provocations: Ignore them.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he would like to see fellow candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz “get some kind of order” regarding his eligibility for president because he wouldn’t like to see Cruz’s eligibility challenged by Democrats and

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Republican presidential hopeful Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) took aim at the Obama administration in the wake of the news of a North Korea nuclear test on Tuesday. Christie pinned the blame President

Billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump argues that South Korea and China should start addressing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, after the dictator nation claimed that it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.

China has summoned the North Korean ambassador in ire over reports circulating last night that North Korea had detonated a hydrogen bomb, flagrantly violating international law.

Chris Christie is blaming Hillary Clinton after North Korea’s claim it tested a hydrogen bomb. The New Jersey Governor says the former Secretary of State failed to properly respond to the dictatorship’s nuclear activity when she was in office.

“I have been warning throughout this campaign that North Korea is run by a lunatic who has been expanding his nuclear arsenal while President Obama has stood idly by,” Rubio said in a statement issued moments after the news of a nuclear test broke last night.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina calls North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test “another Hillary Clinton foreign policy failure.”