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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is ready to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, according to multiple South Korean sources.

During his flight from Rome to Chile Monday, Pope Francis distributed anti-war postcards to journalists featuring the photo of a Japanese boy and his brother after the 1945 U.S. bombing of Nagasaki, with his personal message: “the fruit of war.”

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.

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.

U.S. military forces reportedly began training this month for a mission involving a ground invasion of North Korea, with the objective of deactivating all their nuclear weapons.

Jilin Daily, a local Chinese state newspaper from the Jilin border region with North Korea, published a guide on Wednesday on how to behave in the event of a nuclear attack.

North Korea’s foreign ministry described President Donald Trump as a “nuclear demon” who is “begging for war” in a column Tuesday as tensions continue to escalate between Pyongyang and Washington.

North Korea state media declared that President Donald Trump had been “sentenced to death by the Korean people” on Wednesday following Trump’s latest attack on North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Twitter.

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Guam is suddenly the focus of intense media attention after North Korea ostentatiously threatened to attack it with missiles. The governor of Guam, Eddie Calvo, backed President Donald Trump’s warning to rain “fire and fury” on North Korea in a Fox News interview on Wednesday night.

North Korea is a bottomless fountain of apocalyptic threats against the U.S. and its allies, but on Wednesday, its state-run media lashed out against China with unprecedented fury, accusing the Chinese of “dancing to the tune of the U.S.” with “absurd and reckless remarks” about Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

The British government has handed around £4 million in foreign aid to the brutal Communist regime in North Korea since the Tories came to power in 2010, and, despite Kim Jong-un threatening “all-out war”, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it has “no plans” to terminate payments.

Channel 4, a British public-service broadcaster, has run a documentary about the “Trumpian brave new world of ‘America first'”, claiming that “we should all be worried”, because “with nuclear weapons at play, it may decide the future of the entire world”.

Hillary Clinton specifically referred to the Civil War, suggesting that the country faced a similar threat of divisiveness from Donald Trump.

While Russia enhances Cold War-era Soviet Union survival measures, nearly 330 American Marines prepare to deploy to Norway in January, boosting the U.S. military footprint in Europe, reportedly marking the first time a foreign military has been posted in the European country since World War II amid heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow.

Russia flexed its muscles on the world stage this week by announcing increased cooperation with Iran on Syria, dispatching a new warship to the Mediterranean coast, and floating the idea of an “indefinite” military presence in Syria.

A South Korean military source told the national outlet Yonhap that his government is ready to reduce Pyongyang “to ashes” after the latest North Korean nuclear test, with “every Pyongyang district… completely destroyed.”

Two venerable annual events are currently in progress on the Korean peninsula: the annual U.S.-South Korean joint military exercise and North Korea threatening to launch a nuclear war because of said exercise.

President Barack Obama delivered a pious anti-war address in Hiroshima highlighting “humanity’s core contradiction” of war, lamenting that humanity tried to justify war because of religion.

Secretary of State John Kerry described his visit to Hiroshima on Monday as “gut-wrenching.” After laying a wreath at the Atomic Bomb Museum, he called it “a stark, harsh, compelling reminder not only of our obligation to end the threat of nuclear weapons, but to re-dedicate all our effort to avoid war itself.”

TEL AVIV – Israel has detected “signs” that Arab states are seeking to develop nuclear weapons in order to counter the growing threat of Iran, Israel’s defense minister warned.

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.

On Wednesday night, Governor Jerry Brown, in a hyperbolic rant, informed students and faculty at the Ecole Normale Superieure University in Paris that climate change could be compared to nuclear war.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who also happens to be vice-chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, expressed concern that President Barack Obama’s approach to the civil war in Syria may lead to nuclear war during an exchange with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at a House Armed Services hearing on Tuesday.