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First Lady Melania Trump made an entrance in Seoul, South Korea Tuesday as she donned a sculptural coat and all-American style ponytail as she landed overseas with President Donald Trump. Melania chose the burgundy virgin wool and linen blend structured, long

President Donald Trump dismissed another question about gun control from the American press, during his visit to South Korea.

President Donald Trump, in an interview with Sharyl Attkisson published on Sunday, said, “I would sit with anybody I feel,” responding to a question about whether he would engage in dialogue with “dictators.”

The U.S. Air Force conducted another flight of B-1B long-range bombers near the Korean peninsula on Thursday, escorted by fighters from South Korea and Japan. North Korea responded with predictable outrage, accusing the “gangster-like U.S. imperialists” of practicing for a nuclear surprise attack.

North Korea’s state-run KCNA news service on Thursday denied this week’s Japanese television report of a deadly tunnel collapse at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, calling it a “false report” and “misinformation” intended to slander the North Korean government.

A senior State Department official told Reuters on Tuesday that the United States is “quietly pursuing direct diplomacy with North Korea,” despite President Trump’s dismissal of such talks as a “waste of time.”

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On Sunday, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford hosted a meeting with South Korean and Japanese military officials at the U.S. Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii. The three powers produced a joint statement calling on North Korea to “refrain from irresponsible provocations that aggravate regional tensions, and to walk away from its destructive and reckless path of development.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis is traveling in East Asia to meet with his counterparts to discuss shared security challenges such as North Korea, terrorism in the region, and maritime disputes, and to reassure them of U.S. commitment.

A new report from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School states that North Korea is building up its inventory of biological weapons, including weaponized strains of anthrax and smallpox designed to cause mass casualties in civilian populations.

Diplomats in both Japan and South Korea have warned that North Korea’s capacity to use nuclear weapons is “imminent” amid escalating tensions in the region.

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The U.S. military has announced that it will carry out evacuation drills for Americans based in South Korea in preparation for any sort of military attack.

In an interview with Russia’s state-run media, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly in September “lit the wick of war.”

American B-1B bombers made another “show of force” flight over South Korea on Tuesday, escorted by F-15 fighters from the South Korean military.

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a visit to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea during his trip to South Korea next month. A defense source told South Korea’s Yonhap News that a White House advance team checked out Panmunjom and Observation Post Ouellette in late September.

According to South Korean lawmaker Rhee Cheol-hee, North Korean hackers penetrated South Korea’s defense ministry in September 2016, pilfering documents that included both U.S. and South Korean war plans, reports to senior commanders, special forces deployment plans, and data about power plants and military facilities.

A recent survey commissioned by the New York Times found that people who could find North Korea on a map were more likely to favor talks over military action. A glance at North Asia’s geography explains why.

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.

South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong said on Thursday that North Korea can be expected to conduct more provocative actions in October, due to the impending anniversary of the foundation of the North Korean Communist party.

President Donald Trump together with First Lady Melania Trump plans to visit Asia in November. He will take in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Hawaii.

Contents: North Korea threatens to shoot down US warplanes; Is there a strategic explanation for Trump’s statements and tweets?

Female political detainees have suffered atrocities at prison camps in communist North Korea where they often fall victim to rape, brutal executions, and have their babies fed to dogs, a South Korean newspaper has learned from defectors.

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.

U.S. jets, along with aircraft from Japan and South Korea, dropped live ammunition in the Korean Peninsula as part of a show of force against North Korea Sunday in response to North Korea’s missile launch over Japan last week.

North Korea has lashed out at recent sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council, accusing the body of trying to “physically exterminate” the country and its governing dictatorship.

While officials in Seoul try to figure out how to deal with their erratic, missile-launching neighbor to the north, the key to the puzzle may be 5,000 miles away — in Jerusalem.

Responding to North Korea’s latest missile launch, which once again sent an ICBM soaring over Japan, White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Friday: “We’ve been kicking the can down the road, and we’re out of road. So for those who have said and have been commenting about the lack of a military option, there is a military option.”

South Korea has announced that it is setting up a “decapitation unit” to deal with the threat from North Korea.

South Korea’s defense minister assured legislators this week that his government would complete the creation and training of a “decapitation brigade” to attack North Korea if necessary by the end of the year. While Seoul has referenced the plan in the past, officials appear to be expediting it in response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test.

A one-way deal that nearly doubled South Korean exports to U.S. while doing nothing to raise imports.

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.

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.

President Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, revealing to reporters that China claims to want to help reduce North Korea’s increasingly hostile actions.

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha claimed following a chat with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Tuesday that China could potentially support harsher sanctions on North Korea following its sixth illegal nuclear test on Sunday.