Russia and China have agreed on a joint approach to North Korea, slamming the...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China joined diplomatic forces on Tuesday and called on North Korea, South Korea and the United States to sign up to a Chinese de-escalation plan designed to defuse...
View ArticleNorth Korea vowed to send the US more 'gift packages' of missile tests
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Grinning broadly, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delighted in the global furor created by his nation's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, vowing Wednesday...
View ArticleUS GENERAL: 'Self-restraint' is all that holds the US and North Korea from war
After North Korea demonstrated for the first time its ability to build a nuclear-capable missile capable of striking the US, US and South Korean forces responded with a show of force by firing...
View ArticleWhat intercontinental ballistic missiles are, how they work, and why the...
North Korea successfully launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, on Tuesday.ICBMs travel in a wide arc and can strike a target thousands of miles away with nuclear weapons.The...
View ArticleNorth Korea: It would be a 'piece of cake' to destroy South Korea
Seoul (AFP) - Pyongyang warned it would be a "piece of cake" to destroy "gangster" South Korea, state media reported Thursday, as it raged against Seoul for a joint missile drill with the US following...
View ArticleTrump wants to confront North Korea 'very strongly' — but there's nothing...
After North Korea's decades-old missile program on Tuesday finally bore out a nuclear-capable weapon able to reach the US, President Donald Trump vowed to confront the country "very...
View ArticleNorth Korea needs nukes because of its religion
Another missile test, another step forward for North Korea's ambition to successfully deliver a nuclear weapon, another round of hand-wringing, anger, and editorials globally.It's all become rather...
View ArticleThe idea that there are 'no good options' on North Korea is a myth
It is now a commonplace to argue that there are no good options on North Korea — common perhaps, but wrong.In fact, it is Pyongyang that faces militarily and economically dominant adversaries, and dim...
View ArticleThe many failed attempts to kill the leaders of North Korea
(Foreign Policy) — The two dozen commandos trained to kill North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung on a remote island off the coast of South Korea never made it to Pyongyang.The men of the 2325th Group’s...
View ArticleThe US had a clear shot at killing Kim Jong Un on July 4 — here's why it...
When North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile in the early-morning hours of July 4, US military and intelligence personnel watched leader Kim Jong Un smoke cigarettes and...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Kim Jong Un is more bold and uncompromising than his...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ruthless dictator? Economic reformer? Shrewd master of nuclear brinksmanship?When Kim Jong Un took the helm of North Korea in late 2011, speculation swirled around the young,...
View ArticleHere's how South Korea's progressive new president hopes to smooth things...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Less than two weeks after North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile test, South Korea's new president has offered to hold talks at the tense border separating the...
View ArticleNorth Korea may be gearing up for another ICBM test launch
North Korea may be gearing up to test an intercontinental or intermediate-range ballistic missile, US intelligence sources told CNN on Wednesday.Officials who viewed new satellite imagery and studied...
View ArticleWhy the US's 1994 deal with North Korea failed – and what Trump can learn...
After more than two decades of testing, North Korea finally has a missile that is powerful enough to deliver a nuclear warhead to US territory – that is, to Alaska and/or Hawaii, if estimates are to be...
View ArticleNorth Korea has not responded to South Korea’s offer to hold military talks
Seoul (AFP) - North Korea has not responded to South Korea's offer to hold military talks Friday, Seoul said, dimming prospects of any ease in tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental...
View ArticleHere's how a North Korean nuclear attack on the US would play out
After North Korea shocked the world on July 4 by launching an intercontinental ballistic missile, the US has picked up the pace and urgency of ballistic missile defense despite major flaws in existing...
View ArticleTour operators say the US is about to bar citizens from traveling to North Korea
BEIJING — The US will bar Americans from traveling to North Korea in the coming weeks, two travel agencies said Friday, a month after a US tourist, student Otto Warmbier, died following his...
View ArticleNorth Korea has been silent after South Korea offered rare face-to-face talks...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Is North Korea agonizing? Just not interested? Something else?At the start of the week, South Korea offered to hold rare face-to-face talks with North Korea at their shared...
View ArticleThe CIA director just dropped some heavy hints that the US is looking into...
CIA Director Mike Pompeo dropped hints at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday that the US was looking into regime change in Kim Jong Un's North Korea."It would be a great thing to denuclearize the...
View ArticleUS tourists use their last chance to see North Korea before Trump bans travel...
Pyongyang (AFP) - The Westerners lined up on Sunday before giant statues of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-Il and, on command from their guide, bowed deeply.It is...
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