NorthKorea
NorthKorea
Previously the most unstable dictatorship in the world.
Wednesday 15 May 2019
...[it] appears to be a copy of an advanced Russian design that could greatly improve Pyongyang’s ability to evade U.S. missile defense systems
Monday 1 April 2019
No one from the regime will stand trial over the death of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, leading to fears it will act again
Saturday 23 March 2019
North Korea has ceaselessly urged South Korea to distance itself from the United States and to push ahead with joint economic projects that have been held back by American-led United Nations sanctions.
Friday 22 March 2019
Trump undercut his own Treasury Department on Friday by announcing that he was rolling back North Korea sanctions that it imposed just a day ago.
Thursday 21 March 2019
...imposing new sanctions on two Chinese shipping companies that it says have been helping the country evade international sanctions.
Friday 15 March 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, had created an “atmosphere of hostility and mistrust” that thwarted the top leaders’ negotiations
Thursday 14 March 2019
Huong was one of two women charged with the February 2017 murder of Kim Jong Nam, an offense punishable by hanging.
Monday 4 March 2019
Sunday 3 March 2019
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Cohen’s testimony may overshadow Trump’s high-profile diplomacy with North Korea.
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Trump faces the biggest opportunity of his presidency yet for a diplomatic breakthrough — and the stark risks of underdelivering on a signature issue after threatening “fire and fury” only months ago.
...their avowed goal of achieving a lasting peace and “complete denuclearization” remained elusive, but the once-imminent threat of war felt even more removed.
The different arrivals symbolized the wide gulf between the world’s leading economic power and a long-reclusive regime
Monday 25 February 2019
...the administration may be preparing to deliver something that Mr. Kim desperately wants: a joint political statement declaring an end to the Korean War.
Satellite images of the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center [...] indicate the main 5-megawatt reactor on the site is running
Sunday 24 February 2019
...Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
Saturday 23 February 2019
...starting a journey across China to his planned summit meeting with President Trump in Vietnam in the coming week.
Friday 22 February 2019
President Trump is excited to meet Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. Others fear he’ll give too much away.
Friday 15 February 2019
“He thought that North Korea did not have the capability to launch such missiles,” McCabe writes. “He said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so.”
Friday 8 February 2019
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Dan Coats says situation in Pyongyang and Tehran entirely different to picture painted by president in recent speeches
Thursday 24 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 34
Sunday 20 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 30
Friday 18 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 28
...renewing a high-level diplomatic dialogue that has eased tensions with a rogue nuclear state but has shown no progress in eliminating its nuclear arsenal.
Monday 7 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 17
The visit offers Mr. Kim and Mr. Xi an opportunity to coordinate strategy face to face should Mr. Kim have a second summit meeting with President Trump.
Thursday 3 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 13
Mr. Cho and his wife fled the North Korean Embassy and residence in Rome and have been in hiding since early November, about a month before his term there was due to end.
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 11
Friday 28 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 7
Regime moves millions of dollars around the world despite sanctions and pressure on international banks
Thursday 20 December 2018
"The proper definition of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is completely eliminating the American nuclear threat to North Korea before eliminating our nuclear capability"
Friday 14 December 2018
U.S.-led naval patrols have prompted North Korea to shift tactics, but smuggled oil keeps flowing to the regime despite U.N. sanctions.
Tuesday 20 November 2018
...in accordance with agreements made with South Korea earlier this year.
Monday 19 November 2018
...the defector offered a grim picture of life inside North Korea and the factors that motivated him to escape.
Thursday 15 November 2018
State media did not identify the weapon, and the test did not appear to violate the voluntary moratorium North Korea imposed on nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests this year.
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Monday 12 November 2018
North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at 16 hidden bases
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Pompeo’s meeting was scheduled for Thursday. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said it would now take place “at a later date.”
Thursday 1 November 2018
Sunday 14 October 2018
“This year I have discussed in depth with Kim for hours. These meetings have convinced me that he has taken the strategic decision to abandon his nuclear weapon”
Wednesday 10 October 2018
The two Koreas agreed to halt military drills, set up a no-fly zone near the border and gradually remove landmines and guard posts within the Demilitarised Zone
Monday 8 October 2018
Pompeo wants you to believe North Korea just gave up something big. It didn’t.
Sunday 7 October 2018
...one of the main sticking points over an earlier denuclearization pledge.
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Banks have been targeted in the U.S, Vietnam, Turkey, Mexico, India, Ecuador, Chile and Bangladesh, among other countries.
Sunday 30 September 2018
In a statement, the ministry said the two sides agreed to remove all landmines in the so-called Joint Security Area (JSA) in Panmunjom within the next 20 days
After a week of domestic political trauma in the Senate, President Trump got back to being terrible at his job.
Wednesday 26 September 2018
"If I wasn't elected, you'd be in a war," Trump declared
Friday 21 September 2018
A closer look at the agreement shows "there's really not a lot there"
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Trump called the developments encouraging but made no new commitments.
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Monday 17 September 2018
South Korean leader will hold third meeting this year with Kim
Thursday 13 September 2018
The two information technology companies are actually North Korean-controlled entities, the Treasury Department said in a statement
Sunday 9 September 2018
Woodward reveals that Mr Trump wanted to send a tweet ordering US military dependents – thousands of family members of 28,500 troops - to leave South Korea.
Thursday 6 September 2018
Only one North Korean, Park Jin-hyok, was named — charged with computer fraud and wire fraud
Wednesday 29 August 2018
He hasn’t followed through yet — and North Korea talks may have stalled because of it.
Monday 27 August 2018
Since Trump's summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un, the U.S. has called off its military exercises with South Korea while China and Russia have softened pressure on North Korea.
Sunday 26 August 2018
Friday 24 August 2018
Trump said the negotiations had been hindered by a lack of support from China
Thursday 23 August 2018
Pompeo announced on Thursday that he'll be traveling to North Korea next week along with Stephen Biegun
Friday 10 August 2018
The US has made repeated proposals to North Korea on denuclearization, all of which have been rejected
Friday 3 August 2018
...accusing its government of refusing to respect a promise to President Trump to stop, or even slow, Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.
Thursday 2 August 2018
Talks on resuming field operations, which ran for a decade before they were suspended by the Bush administration in 2005, could take place soon
Now, it’s possible you may recall the June 12 agreement a bit differently. You may have thought it had something to do with North Korea agreeing to “denuclearize”—to give up its nuclear weapons.
Wednesday 1 August 2018
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Country also did not provide other information to help forensics experts determine identities
Satellite photos and U.S. intelligence show North Korea continues to work on its missile program, even after Trump and Kim Jong Un's meeting in Singapore.
Thursday 26 July 2018
Monday 23 July 2018
Saturday 21 July 2018
The lack of immediate progress, though predicted by many analysts, has frustrated the president, who has fumed at his aides in private even as he publicly hails the success of the negotiations.
Friday 20 July 2018
Tuesday 17 July 2018
...to answer questions about Trump’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump has tried a few tactics to address the address the inconvenient fact that his showpiece summit did not accomplish the main thing it was designed to accomplish.
The preliminary details emerged after U.S. and North Korean officials held working-level talks Monday in the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone.
Sunday 15 July 2018
Thursday 12 July 2018
The two sides had been expected to meet at the Korean Peninsula’s demilitarized zone and discuss the return of U.S. troop remains from the 1950-1953 war
Tuesday 10 July 2018
Pompeo was in North Korea last week and took along a copy of the British singer's CD with the "Rocket Man" song that Trump had signed
Monday 9 July 2018
Saturday 7 July 2018
...saying the visit had been “regrettable” and that Washington’s “gangster-like” demands were aimed at forcing it to abandon nuclear weapons.
But weeks later, the North Korean nuclear threat still very much exists, and the problem of children separated from their parents has worsened
Friday 6 July 2018
North Korea’s government-run Uriminzokkiri website [...] said Washington should stop provoking the North with an “anachronistic human rights racket” at a time of diplomatic attempts to improve ties.
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Monday 2 July 2018
Trump claimed he would use his world-class dealmaking skills to convince North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, to surrender his nuclear weapons. Instead, Trump got played.
After getting hosed by Kim Jong Un in Singapore, Trump does Putin’s bidding ahead of their Helsinki summit
Sunday 1 July 2018
New satellite imagery indicates Pyongyang is pushing ahead with weapons programs even as it pursues dialogue with Washington
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Commercial satellite imagery from June 21 indicates that improvements to the infrastructure at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace.
Saturday 23 June 2018
Trump has declared that North Korea still poses an “extraordinary threat” to the United States, just days after saying that the country’s nuclear program no longer constituted a danger.
Monday 18 June 2018
“Consistent with President Trump’s commitment and in concert with our Republic of Korea ally, the United States military has suspended all planning for this August’s defensive ‘war game’”
Sunday 17 June 2018
"The summit was much more show than substance — what the Texans call 'all cattle, no hat,' " Schumer said, mixing up the common expression.
Saturday 16 June 2018
In the end, what this summit achieved was have the US president indirectly legitimise a notorious dictator.
Friday 15 June 2018
Trump on Friday morning observed that Fox & Friends was filming on the White House lawn and announced that he would make an “unannounced visit” down to speak with his favorite morning cable show.
Thursday 14 June 2018
At one point, after watching North Korean television, which is entirely state-run, the president talked about how positive the female North Korean news anchor was toward Kim, according to two people familiar with his remarks. He joked that even the administration-friendly Fox News was not as lavish in its praise as the state TV anchor, one of the people added, and that maybe she should get a job on U.S. television, instead.
“I’m not trying to be gratuitous or unfair but isn’t saluting a General from an enemy military sort of a big deal?”
“We are going to get the complete denuclearization,” Mr. Pompeo told reporters. “Only then will there be relief from sanctions.”
Wednesday 13 June 2018
“Yeah, but so have other people done some really bad things. I could go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done.”
“Barack Obama catering to the world’s dictators is literally the Neville Chamberlain of our time,” Hannity said in 2010. The conservative host, who reportedly communicates with Trump regularly, also said in 2013: “It’s not wise. It’s not in our best interest. We’re dealing with the world’s worst dictators and we’re showing a lot of weakness.”
His all-is-resolved description seemed to fly in the face of decades of hostility, unkept promises, and the widespread belief, shared by U.S. intelligence agencies, that North Korea would never give up the nuclear weapons it sought for so long.
Tuesday 12 June 2018
In a split-screen shot, Kim Jong Un waved to an adoring crowd while President Trump stood beside him with his thumb in the air. The pair appeared over and over again, like running mates in a campaign video.
Pence told Senate Republicans Tuesday that some training exchanges and readiness training with South Korea will continue
In a statement released by his office, Moon praised the summit as a "great victory achieved by both the United States and the two Koreas."
In Washington, officials at the Pentagon, State Department and White House were scrambling to figure out exactly the impact of Mr. Trump’s comments.
Kim forced the American president, through his nuclear and missile tests, to accept North Korea as a nuclear equal, to provide security guarantees to North Korea, and to cancel war games with South Korea that the North has protested for decades.
In exchange for these concessions, Trump seems to have won astonishingly little. In a joint statement, Kim merely “reaffirmed” the same commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that North Korea has repeatedly made since 1992.
Despite insisting he had given up nothing in meeting with Kim, Trump did make what could be considered a major concession by saying the US and South Korea would halt joint war games, and he did so using North Korean rhetoric.
But there were scant details on what new commitments had been secured from Kim, even as Trump announced he would end the regular military exercises the US conducts with South Korea.
Monday 11 June 2018
Secretive leader also believed to have brought his own food to historic meeting
The U.S. president lavished praise on Kim but did not secure a detailed path toward denuclearization.
Sunday 10 June 2018
“Regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators, what we are seeing right now ― this is history,” she continued.
Saturday 9 June 2018
Friday 8 June 2018
Thursday 7 June 2018
Trump signaled that a grand bargain to reverse decades of enmity is not on the table for his unprecedented meeting with Kim on Tuesday in Singapore, but the president sounded upbeat as he described the North Korean leader as sincere about remaking the future for his impoverished country.
Wednesday 6 June 2018
While the hawkish Bolton ... is expected to be in Singapore for the talks on Tuesday, Pompeo has taken the lead as the administration assumes a softer tone toward Pyongyang ahead of the summit
After years working on North Korea at the Central Intelligence Agency, Andrew Kim has been cast into the spotlight accompanying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in key meetings with Pyongyang officials.
Saturday 2 June 2018
Rather than sticking with the demand that North Korea disarm immediately, Mr. Trump opened the door to a prolonged freeze on the North’s existing nuclear capability, with vague declarations that disarmament will follow. That is essentially the deal Mr. Clinton embarked on with Mr. Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung, in 1994.
Friday 1 June 2018
...but he now anticipates a more drawn-out negotiation than once envisioned and indicated that he will stop increasing pressure on the regime while talks proceed.
Thursday 31 May 2018
It would be “nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste,” Mr. Pompeo said after two and a half hours of discussions with Kim Yong-chol
Tuesday 29 May 2018
North Korea’s top nuclear weapons negotiator was headed for New York on Tuesday and plans to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Monday 28 May 2018
A heightened level of presidential urgency is spurring discussions among American and North Korean counterparts two weeks ahead of an off-again, on-again summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.
Sunday 27 May 2018
The United States and North Korea on Sunday kicked off an urgent, behind-the-scenes effort to resurrect a summit meeting between their two leaders by June 12
Friday 25 May 2018
Thursday 24 May 2018
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan issued a conciliatory statement, saying the regime was ready to meet with the United States “at any time.”
Trump held open the possibility that he and Kim could meet at a later date to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
Wednesday 23 May 2018
The punchy statement comes a day after Trump suggested there was a “substantial chance” that he would postpone or cancel the summit
...further escalating tensions with Beijing that have spanned from trade to North Korea to the military.
Western experts do not know whether the North Koreans have already managed to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and fit in on a missile — but if they have not done so yet, they are probably not very far behind.
Tuesday 22 May 2018
Their trip comes less than two weeks after a North Korean delegation failed to show up for a similar planning meeting with U.S. officials in the island country, a failure that raised red flags at the White House
...it shows that Mr. Trump is willing to give up what for months has been his bedrock position in dealing with the North. And it demonstrates that three weeks before the June 12 meeting, the White House is still groping for a strategy to negotiate with a reclusive, suspicious nuclear-weapons state.
Its design and creation fell squarely on the White House Communications Agency, the military unit that provides global communications support to the president and his staff.
Monday 21 May 2018
But in South Korea, many say the blame for the sudden problems in the diplomatic process lies squarely at the feet of someone else: John Bolton.
An official American coin with a likeness of Kim Jong Un on it that refers to him as “Supreme Leader” feels off, to say the least
Sunday 20 May 2018
Trump, increasingly concerned that his summit meeting in Singapore next month with North Korea’s leader could turn into a political embarrassment, has begun pressing his aides and allies about whether he should take the risk of proceeding with a historic meeting that he had leapt into accepting
Wednesday 16 May 2018
North Korea is rapidly moving the goal posts for next month’s summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump, saying the United States must stop insisting that the North “unilaterally” abandon its nuclear weapons program
Tuesday 15 May 2018
North Korea has cancelled talks with South Korea scheduled for Wednesday, and threatened to cancel next month's summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un over joint U.S.-South Korean military drills
North Korea has begun to remove buildings from around its nuclear-test site in a step toward dismantling the facility, new satellite imagery shows
Sunday 13 May 2018
The promise not to invade North Korea or otherwise seek Kim’s overthrow would be incentive for him to give up his nuclear weapons.
Saturday 12 May 2018
Friday 11 May 2018
Pompeo said he insisted to Kim that a "robust verification" by inspectors would have to be part of any deal to ensure that Kim had "fully denuclearized".
China has many reasons to believe it will come out ahead in the coming talks. ...it sees the prospect of progress toward a longstanding security goal: the withdrawal of United States troops from the Korean Peninsula.
Thursday 10 May 2018
The Trump-Kim summit would be the first meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.
Wednesday 9 May 2018
North Korea released three American prisoners into the custody of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Saturday 5 May 2018
...warning the United States not to mislead public opinion.
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Monday 30 April 2018
Trump is preparing for his own summit with Kim, which he said would take place in the next three to four weeks.
Officials had privately played down the possibility of the Peace House, a three-story, gray stone edifice built by South Korea to hold meetings with officials from the North.
Sunday 29 April 2018
“There is a lot of work to do, but I am very hopeful that the conditions that have been set by President Trump give us this chance.”
Friday 27 April 2018
The Friday encounter did everything it was supposed to do to set up the next summit meeting, between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump.
The leaders of North and South Korea have committed themselves to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and pledged to bring a formal end to the Korean War, 65 years after hostilities ceased.
The two Koreas have agreed to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons but failed to provide any new specific measures how to achieve that.
Wednesday 25 April 2018
U.S. experts will be closely studying both Kim’s words and body language at his historic summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday
Mount Mantap may have “tired mountain syndrome,” experts suggested, a phrase that was applied to Soviet nuclear test sites after their repeated use fundamentally altered the rock mass around them.
Whereas Trump previously ridiculed the authoritarian leader, his newly found praise for Kim in turn belittles the suffering of the millions of people living under him, even if it may be part of a broader strategy to bring him to the negotiation table.
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Kim Jong Un -- the man he once mocked as "Little Rocket Man" -- "has really been very open and I think very honorable based on what we are seeing"
Sunday 22 April 2018
Does Trump know something the rest of us don’t? Or is he just confused about what denuclearization means and what North Korea has said?
Friday 20 April 2018
The surprising announcement comes just six days before Kim is set to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a precursor to a historic summit between Kim and President Trump.
Thursday 19 April 2018
...by no longer demanding that American troops be removed from South Korea as a condition for denuclearizing his country
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Trump declared on Wednesday that he would scrap a planned summit meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, or even walk out of the session while it was underway, if his diplomatic overture was not heading toward success.
The CIA director is facing a narrow Senate confirmation vote to be Trump's next top diplomat, and supporters say the high-stakes trip proves he can handle the job.
Mr. Abe hoped to secure Mr. Trump’s commitment on two issues: curtailing the North’s nuclear and ballistic weapons programs, and facilitating the return of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and ’80s.
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Pyongyang and Seoul have technically been at war since the 1950-1953 Korean conflict ended with a truce — and not a peace treaty.
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Sunday 8 April 2018
The message from Pyongyang offers the first reassurance that Kim is committed to meeting Trump.
Saturday 7 April 2018
...a sign that planning for the highly anticipated meeting is progressing
Friday 6 April 2018
Pyongyang’s current-account deficit with China is another sign that sanctions hurt North Korea’s economy. China has restricted North Korean imports but does not face the same constraints on most exports. As a result, North Korea’s deficit is ballooning.
Friday 30 March 2018
Thanks to his triple play — summits with Xi, Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in — Kim has taken control of the process and increased his bargaining power.
Thursday 29 March 2018
“I may hold it up until after a deal is made with North Korea”
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Through it all, the Trump administration has been largely relegated to reacting and catching up to Mr. Kim. And so it was again this week, when Mr. Kim suddenly showed up in China on an armored train and was shown beaming next to Mr. Xi
Monday 26 March 2018
Speculation about a possible visit by a high-ranking North Korean official circulated around the Chinese capital Monday, after Japan’s Kyodo News reported that a special train may have carried Kim through the northeastern border city of Dandong.
Friday 23 March 2018
During the speech, Bolton personally insulted then-North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, calling him a “tyrannical dictator” who enjoyed the high life while his citizens suffered deeply
John Bolton wants regime change in North Korea and Iran, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get it.
Tuesday 20 March 2018
South Korea announced plans to deploy “artillery killer” missiles to the border with North Korea.
Monday 19 March 2018
At a potentially pivotal moment of diplomacy with North Korea, the Pentagon said Monday that annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises that had been postponed for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will begin April 1.
Saturday 17 March 2018
The talks in Finland will add to a flurry of diplomatic activity ahead of the proposed North Korean summits with South Korea and the United States
Friday 16 March 2018
The White House’s decision to use intelligence, rather than diplomatic, channels in communicating with the North Koreans speaks to the influence of Mike Pompeo
Sunday 11 March 2018
Trump has not named an ambassador to South Korea, and the U.S. special envoy to North Korea resigned late last month.
Trump has yet to name an ambassador to the European Union.
Saturday 10 March 2018
For allies who have long looked to the United States to provide security and stability, it was a dizzying jolt of drama that injected fresh uncertainty into strategic calculations in the region, where China is seeking to supplant the United States as the major power.
Friday 9 March 2018
The approach is opportunistic rather than strategic, concerned with short-term victories rather than the unglamorous work of building something enduring and strong
At the White House press briefing room lectern, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders essentially walked back President Trump’s promise of unconditional talks with Kim Jong Un by the end of May.
The uncertainty surrounding the terms of the potential historic encounter between the U.S. president and Kim Jong Un mirrored earlier bold announcements from the Trump administration.
No sitting president has ever met — or even spoken on the phone — with a North Korean leader.
Thursday 8 March 2018
...an extraordinary development following months of heightened nuclear tension during which the two leaders exchanged frequent military threats and insults.
The senior US official said North Korea has offered to suspend their nuclear missile testing alongside their invitation for talks.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
“The North Korean side clearly stated its willingness to denuclearize,” the statement said. “It made it clear that it would have no reason to keep nuclear weapons if the military threat to the North was eliminated and its security guaranteed.”
Monday 5 March 2018
Trump incorrectly described a phone call he had with South Korean President Moon Jae-in as being with someone from North Korea, a National Security Council official said Monday.
Sunday 4 March 2018
“Now we're talking. They, by the way, called up a couple of days ago, they said 'we would like to talk,'" Trump said. “And I said, 'so would we, but you have to denuke.'”
Tuesday 27 February 2018
The supplies from North Korea include acid-resistant tiles, valves and thermometers, according to a report by United Nations investigators. North Korean missile technicians have also been spotted working at known chemical weapons and missile facilities inside Syria
Sunday 25 February 2018
South Korea’s presidential office said on Sunday that Kim is willing to hold talks with the U.S.
Friday 23 February 2018
The new measures target 56 vessels, shipping companies and other entities that Trump administration officials believe are used by North Korea to conduct trade prohibited under previous sanctions, creating an economic lifeline for the isolated regime.
Tuesday 20 February 2018
It also adds a remarkable coda to the strange tableau during the opening ceremony of Mr. Pence sitting in a reviewing stand less than 10 feet away from Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, as the two stared fixedly ahead without acknowledging each other.
Wednesday 14 February 2018
This is the third time in recent months the Rye Song Gang 1 has been caught engaging in alleged ship-to-ship transfers at sea.
Thursday 8 February 2018
Usually held in April, the parade took place this year on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics being staged in the South Korean mountain resort of Pyeongchang, just across the heavily fortified border.
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Mr. Pence’s threat, delivered in Tokyo, came two days after he had signaled openness to meeting with North Korean officials at the Games, somewhat muddying the harsh message he had been sent to project.
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Victor D. Cha ... raised his concerns with National Security Council officials over their consideration of a limited strike on the North aimed at sending a message without sparking a wider war — a risky concept known as a “bloody nose” strategy.
Friday 19 January 2017
While much of the world has celebrated the progress in talks between North Korea and South Korea ahead of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month, as well as an apparent thaw in tensions with North Korea, the US has taken steps to move heavy firepower to the region.
Sunday 14 January 2018
Friday 12 January 2018
After the analyst revealed that her parents are Korean, Trump turned to an adviser in the room and seemed to suggest her ethnicity should determine her career path, asking why the "pretty Korean lady" isn't negotiating with North Korea on his administration's behalf
Wednesday 10 January 2018
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea warned on Wednesday that North Korea would face stiffer sanctions if it resumed weapons tests, while crediting President Trump with helping force the North to resume dialogue and strike a broader agreement to improve Korean ties.
Saturday 6 January 2018
At the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, American intelligence agencies told the new administration that while North Korea had built the bomb, there was still ample time — upward of four years — to slow or stop its development of a missile capable of hitting an American city with a nuclear warhead.
Friday 5 January 2018
But clashes over trading terms could risk dividing the longstanding allies at a critical time, as North Korea seeks to drive a wedge between South Korea and the United States
Thursday 4 January 2018
In April, Pyongyang launched a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile that failed shortly after launch and ended up hitting the city of Tokchon, roughly two hours from the capital
Tuesday 2 January 2018
Monday 1 January 2018
Mr. Kim, perhaps sensing the simmering tension between President Trump and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, called for an urgent dialogue between the two Koreas before the opening of the Winter Olympics in the South next month.
Thursday 28 December 2017
Friday 22 December 2017
Wednesday 20 December 2017
China's air force engaged in exercises along "routes and areas it has never flown before" earlier this month, with surveillance aircraft over the Yellow and East seas near the Korean Peninsula
Monday 18 December 2017
The digital assault, powered by the WannaCry ransomware, locked up computers at hospitals, universities and businesses in dozens of countries. Its authors demanded ransom payments and threatened to delete victims’ data if they didn’t pay up.
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Trump and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson are once again at odds over how to deal with nuclear-armed North Korea after Mr. Tillerson declared on Tuesday that the United States was ready to open talks with the North “without precondition.”
Monday 11 December 2017
The camps are an unusual, albeit tacit, admission by China that instability in North Korea is increasingly likely
Monday 4 December 2017
A senior United Nations official will begin a four-day trip to North Korea on Tuesday for talks with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and other officials
The visit ... was arranged after the UN received an invitation from Pyongyang for policy dialogue
On Monday, the US sent 24 stealth fighter jets to South Korea for a large-scale military exercise that North Korea said “will push the already acute situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war.”
Thursday 30 November 2017
North Korea appeared to have built the Hwasong-15 by upgrading the second stage of the Hwasong-14, which carries the missile through space after the first-stage booster drops off.
Wednesday 29 November 2017
The remarks come on the heels of Pyongyang’s latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday, its first in over two months. Earlier Wednesday, the president vowed that “additional major sanctions will be imposed on North Korea today.”
“Many have expected that Pyongyang would not be ready to negotiate until it deemed it had achieved a deliverable nuclear deterrent” ... Now Kim’s regime says it has achieved that deterrent.
According to a statement from the Korean Central News Agency, the ICBM is capable of carrying a "super-large heavy warhead, which is capable of striking the whole mainland of the U.S."
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Two days after President Trump re-designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, the country responded on Wednesday by calling the decision “a serious provocation” and vowed to keep up its nuclear and missile programs as a deterrent against the “hostile” United States.
Monday 20 November 2017
'Should have happened a long time ago. Should have happened years ago,' Trump says.
Thursday 16 November 2017
Saturday 11 November 2017
But the contradictions also reflect a more fundamental disarray in the presidency’s policy toward Asia. It seems caught between the geopolitical realism of Mr. Trump’s diplomats and the economic nationalism of his political aides and, to a great extent, Mr. Trump himself.
Wednesday 8 November 2017
The official added that the U.S. will also use the trip to persuade China to fully comply with United Nations sanctions that restrict countries from doing business with North Korea.
Tuesday 7 November 2017
“I believe it makes sense for North Korea to do the right thing, not only for North Korea but for humanity all over the world”
“If we get China, we get Russia,” Trump said. “We think that things will happen and they could happen very quickly.”
Saturday 4 November 2017
Trump said he could not understand why a country of samurai warriors would not shoot down the missile.
The only way to locate and secure all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons sites “with complete certainty” is through an invasion of ground forces, and in the event of conflict, Pyongyang could use biological and chemical weapons
“I think it’s expected we’ll meet with Putin, yeah. We want Putin’s help on North Korea, and we’ll be meeting with a lot of different leaders,” Trump told reporters
Their concern is that North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, might conduct a ballistic missile test ... and that Trump would respond by escalating rather than defusing tensions.
Friday 3 November 2017
Trump’s trip — with bilateral visits to Japan, South Korea and China and stops at regional summits in Vietnam and the Philippines — could go a long way toward determining the success of his administration’s policy.
Saturday 28 October 2017
For the first time in recent memory, there is a daily argument raging in both South Korea and Japan — sometimes in public, more often in private — about the nuclear option, driven by worry that the United States might hesitate to defend the countries
Monday 23 October 2017
Trump is slated to depart for a nearly two-week trip through Asia early next month, with additional stops in China, Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Thursday 12 October 2017
But it took only one computer plugged into both the internet and the intranet for the North Koreans to break in
Wednesday 11 October 2017
"By his bellicose and insane statement in the UN arena, Trump -- it can be said -- lit the wick of the war against us," Ri is quoted as saying on TASS' English language website. "We need to settle the final score, only with a hail of fire, not words."
Sunday 8 October 2017
North Korea’s nuclear weapons are a “powerful deterrent firmly safeguarding the peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia,” Mr. Kim was quoted as saying, citing “protracted nuclear threats of the U.S. imperialists.”
Saturday 7 October 2017
Sunday 1 October 2017
A U.N. investigation uncovered a complex arrangement in which Egyptian business executives ordered millions of dollars worth of North Korean rockets for the country’s military while also taking pains to keep the transaction hidden
The tweets came the day after Tillerson, on a visit to Beijing, told reporters the administration had direct lines of communication with North Korea and was probing for a response. “We ask, ‘Would you like to talk?’” he said. “We can talk to them, we do talk to them.”
Saturday 30 September 2017
The Trump administration acknowledged on Saturday for the first time that it was in direct communication with the government of North Korea over its missile and nuclear tests
Monday 25 September 2017
Ri Yong Ho ... said President Trump’s comments at the General Assembly last week constituted a declaration of war.
“The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country,” he said. “Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country.”
Sunday 24 September 2017
“We are waiting for the right time to have a final battle with the U.S., the evil empire, and to remove the U.S. from the world,” KCNA quoted Ri Il-bae, a commanding officer of the Red Guards, as saying. “Once respected Supreme commander Kim Jong Un gives an order, we will annihilate the group of aggressors.”
Saturday 23 September 2017
US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam, escorted by Air Force F-15C Eagle fighters from Okinawa, Japan, flew in international airspace
China's Ministry of Commerce said Saturday it would limit refined petroleum exports starting Oct. 1 and ban the import of North Korean textiles immediately. It would ban exports of liquefied natural gas to the North immediately as well.
Friday 22 September 2017
Mr. Kim called Mr. Trump a “frightened dog” and a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.”
North Korea might conduct the “biggest ever hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific.”
By issuing a statement in his own name, Mr. Kim ... has turned his standoff with the United States into a personal duel with Mr. Trump
Thursday 21 September 2017
“I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the U.S. pay dearly for his speech,” Kim said in a statement released by the official Korean Central News Agency
“I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue. Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation,” Kim said, saying that he would “tame” Trump “with fire.”
Tuesday 19 September 2017
Monday 18 September 2017
“We are not aware of any long queues at the gas stations,” one foreign resident of Pyongyang said. “At least, I haven’t noticed anything. I asked a few Koreans, and they haven’t seen anything either.”
Sunday 17 September 2017
Saturday 16 September 2017
Kim Jong Un said his country is nearing its goal of "equilibrium" in military force with the United States
Friday 15 September 2017
Amid international condemnations of the test, the U.N. Security Council was to meet later in the day to discuss the launch at the request of the United States and Japan
Thursday 14 September 2017
North Korea fired another ballistic missile over Japan on Friday, a direct challenge to the United States and China just days after a new sanctions resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council
Tuesday 12 September 2017
New commercial satellite imagery confirms earlier 38 North analysis identifying numerous landslides throughout the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site on the slopes of Mt. Mantap (and beyond) resulting from North Korea’s sixth nuclear test.
...and doubled down on its warning that the United States would “suffer the greatest pain” it has ever experienced for leading the effort to ratchet up economic pressures on the reclusive nation.
Monday 11 September 2017
Russian smugglers are scurrying to the aid of North Korea with shipments of petroleum and other vital supplies that could help that country weather harsh new economic sanctions
Saturday 9 September 2017
He warned that the regime’s advances in missile technology are complicating Japan’s ability to intercept them.
Friday 8 September 2017
It’s a doctrine called “asymmetric escalation,” employed by states that are conventionally weak. France used it during the Cold War to deter the more powerful Soviet Union, and Pakistan does the same today against a more powerful India.
Thursday 7 September 2017
But out of the spotlight, he appears to be crafting a broad strategy aimed at working with China to resolve the North Korea crisis and with Russia to stabilize Syria and Ukraine.
Tuesday 5 September 2017
I was reminded of Bennett’s advisory role in the 2014 Seth Rogen comedy The Interview, about two Hollywood stoners hired by the CIA to kill Kim. ... The movie’s plot closely follows Bennett’s vision for regime change from within
They added that they could find no evidence of a surface crater that would have formed if the cavern carved out within the mountain ... had suddenly collapsed.
Monday 4 September 2017
Seoul’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that warships including a 2,500-ton frigate, a 1000-ton patrol ship and 400-ton guided-missile vessels participated in drills aimed at retaliating against potential North Korean provocations.
Earlier Monday, South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo said that he asked his American counterpart, Jim Mattis, ... for strategic assets such as U.S. aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and B-52 bombers to be sent to South Korea more regularly.
Despite years of economic sanctions and international condemnation, North Korea still conducts modest trade with a host of United States allies, including Brazil, Germany and Mexico. But the North’s biggest partner by far is China
Sunday 3 September 2017
"Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response — a response both effective and overwhelming," Mattis told reporters
Kim has timed his nuclear tests and missile launches with exquisite precision, apparently trying to create maximum embarrassment for China.
As he has done in the past, Mr. Trump placed responsibility for responding to the crisis on North Korea’s closest neighbors, China and South Korea.
Saturday 2 September 2017
The test, which the North called a “complete success,” was the first to clearly surpass the destructive power of the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
Thursday 31 August 2017
The call followed a declaration earlier Wednesday from President Donald Trump that “the U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!”
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Monday 28 August 2017
The missile flew over the northern island of Hokkaido and landed harmlessly in the sea, after a flight of nearly 1,700 miles.
Friday 25 August 2017
...two of the North's missiles failed in flight after an unspecified distance, and another appeared to have blown up immediately.
Thursday 24 August 2017
Like many of North Korea's foreign partners, Egypt's relationship with Pyongyang goes back to the Cold War, when North Korean fighter pilots helped train their Egyptian counterparts ahead of the 1973 war with Israel.
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Tuesday 22 August 2017
The new sanctions affect six individuals and 10 organizations with financial ties to Pyongyang’s weapons program.
North Korea routinely issues such warlike rhetoric or conducts weapons tests to respond to the U.S.-South Korean exercises.
Saturday 19 August 2017
“The entire mainland United States is within our range!”
Thursday 17 August 2017
...making clear that it is focused on diplomatic and economic pressure, and that American military action is currently contemplated only in response to an attack by Pyongyang.
Wednesday 16 August 2017
The sudden breakout of leaks as President Donald Trump blusters dangerously about meeting Kim’s threats with “fire and fury” has led well-intentioned observers to see echoes of the run-up to the Iraq war.
Monday 14 August 2017
North Korea’s success ... was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program
Saturday 12 August 2017
After a week of threats and counter-threats between Washington and Pyongyang, Xi urged both sides not to do anything that would aggravate tensions
Friday 11 August 2017
“The latest statements by the President of the United States of America adopt a tone almost indistinguishable from the threats emanating from North Korea. While no doubt intended to project strength and resolve, they risk taking the world yet closer to the precipice of conflict.”
China won’t come to North Korea’s help if it launches missiles threatening U.S. soil and there is retaliation, a state-owned newspaper warned on Friday, but it would intervene if Washington strikes first.
Thursday 10 August 2017
At the root of investors’ nervousness was a jump in the VIX, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index. Known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, the index measures investor expectations that stocks will experience sharp moves in the future.
“They’ve been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years, and it’s about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries. So if anything, maybe that statement wasn’t tough enough.”
Wednesday 9 August 2017
North Korea said Thursday that it was drawing up plans to launch four intermediate-range ballistic missiles into waters near Guam in the Western Pacific to teach President Trump a lesson
If America wants peace it has one option. Better journalism. Stop talking about what NK is capable of and start talking about what NK wants: the status quo.
The piece of paper, as it turned out, was a fact sheet on the opioid crisis he had come to talk about, and his ominous warning to Pyongyang was entirely improvised, according to several people with direct knowledge of what unfolded.
“I am worried those comments are not helpful when the situation is so tense, and I think you are seeing reaction from North Korea that indicates that kind of comment is more likely to escalate than to settle things" —New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English
"The President’s tweet earlier today is concerning and unhelpful and does not lay out a clear strategy on how he will address the growing threats from North Korea.” —Madeleine Bordallo, Guam’s delegate to Congress
“I think what the president was doing was sending a strong message to North Korea in language that Kim Jong-un would understand, because he doesn’t seem to understand diplomatic language,” said Tillerson.
Tuesday 8 August 2017
Trump's comments drew a counter threat from North Korea, which said it is 'carefully examining' a preemptive strike on Guam.
Trump used his harshest language yet to warn North Korea on Tuesday that it will be “met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,” if it does not stop threatening the United States.
North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power
Monday 7 August 2017
Indeed, walking away from the Iran deal ... would not only open up a now dormant nuclear crisis with Tehran, it would also close down perhaps the only option that might prevent a far more dangerous crisis with North Korea.
North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho blamed the US for the current situation on the Korean Peninsula and said Pyongyang's "possession of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles is a legitimate option for self-defence in the face of a clear and real nuclear threat posed by the US"
Sunday 6 August 2017
...the man of the moment here ... was the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, a dashing diplomat who unlike Mr. Tillerson held a news conference and direct talks with his North Korean counterpart, Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong.
Saturday 5 August 2017
Hiroshima’s appeal of “never again” on the anniversary Sunday of the world’s first atomic bomb attack has gained urgency as North Korea moves ever closer to acquiring nuclear weapons
The occasion is the annual ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean
The resolution ... could reduce the isolated country’s already meager annual export revenue by $1 billion, or about a third of its current total.
Friday 4 August 2017
The White House had been preparing for a Friday announcement in which Trump planned to urge his administration to open a trade investigation into China’s alleged violations of U.S. intellectual property rights and forced technology transfers
Thursday 3 August 2017
...the United States on Wednesday tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, sending it 4,200 miles to a target in the Marshall Islands.
Tuesday 1 August 2017
North Korea test-fires a new missile. Some of the Pentagon’s most advanced warplanes fly over South Korea in a grim display of strength. Seoul’s new government nervously starts buying new weapons. And here at home, President Donald Trump bashes China for failing to press Pyongyang to rein in its nuclear program.
Saturday 29 July 2017
Moon has persistently expressed a desire to reach out to North Korea. But in the wake of the North's latest ICBM test, a stern-looking Moon ... ordered his troops to conduct a live-fire exercise with U.S. forces and endorsed stronger pressure and sanctions against Pyongyang.
Friday 28 July 2017
"The United States will take all necessary steps to ensure the security of the American homeland and protect our allies in the region."
On July 28, North Korea launched a ballistic missile that reportedly flew for 45 minutes, reaching a peak altitude of 3,000 km, and a slightly longer range than the previous test.
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.
The abrupt announcement seemed to stun military leaders, even though Trump said in a series of tweets that he consulted with "my generals and military experts."
At the Pentagon, the first of the three tweets raised fears that the president was getting ready to announce strikes on North Korea or some other military action. Many said they were left in suspense for nine minutes, the time between the first and second tweet. Only after the second tweet did military officials receive the news the president was announcing a personnel change on Twitter.
Tuesday 25 July 2017
"Should the U.S. dare to show even the slightest sign of attempt to remove our supreme leadership, we will strike a merciless blow at the heart of the U.S. with our powerful nuclear hammer, honed and hardened over time"
Behind the new assessment, officials said, was a growing recognition that they underestimated the determination of Kim Jung-un, North Korea’s leader, to race ahead with a weapon that could reach American soil, even if it is crudely engineered and inaccurate.
China's military has been increasing the strength and number of its forces along its 880-mile border with North Korea
In response to North Korea's missile tests and military provocations, the US based its powerful Thaad missile-defense battery in South Korea, frightening Chinese military analysts who think the Thaad's powerful radar could one day effectively neuter China's ability to engage in a nuclear exchange with the US.
Saturday 8 July 2017
B-1 Lancer bombers from Guam flew over the Korean Peninsula Friday
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Even the most limited strike risks staggering casualties, because North Korea could retaliate with the thousands of artillery pieces it has positioned along its border with the South.
"Self-restraint, which is a choice, is all that separates armistice and war. As this Alliance missile live fire shows, we are able to change our choice when so ordered by our Alliance national leaders"
Tuesday 4 July 2017
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, taunted the United States, saying the launch was a Fourth of July “gift” to the Trump administration.
North Korea appeared to use a Chinese truck originally sold for hauling timber to transport and erect a ballistic missile that was successfully launched on Tuesday, highlighting the challenge of enforcing sanctions to curb its weapons program.
Monday 3 July 2017
The missile took off from the Banghyon airfield in the northwestern town of Kusong and flew 578 miles before landing in the sea between North Korea and Japan
Saturday 1 July 2017
...and reiterated that an era of "strategic patience" over North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs had ended.
Friday 30 June 2017
the White House announced two moves that could spoil the U.S.-China party: the latest round of arms sales to Taiwan and fresh sanctions on North Korea that target a Chinese bank.
Tuesday 20 June 2017
The U.S. often sends powerful warplanes in times of heightened animosities with North Korea
Monday 19 June 2017
Warmbier had gone to North Korea as a tourist on his way to Hong Kong for a study-abroad program, but was stopped when he tried to leave the country.
Wednesday 7 June 2017
This is the fourth missile test since South Korean President Moon Jae-in took office in May.
Saturday 3 June 2017
The resolution, adopted unanimously by the 15-member council, sanctions four entities, including the Koryo Bank and Strategic Rocket Force of the Korean People's Army, and 14 people, including the head of Pyongyang's overseas spying operations.
Monday 29 May 2017
Sunday 28 May 2017
Japan said the missile landed within its Exclusive Economic Zone, an area of water extended 200 nautical miles from the Japanese coast.
Wednesday 24 May 2017
“We never talk about subs!”
Tuesday 23 May 2017
South Korea was analyzing whether a North Korean drone had crossed the border.
Sunday 21 May 2017
Kim Jong Un’s regime has been pressing ahead at a relentless pace to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which would be capable of reaching the mainland United States.
Monday 15 May 2017
...new digital clues point to North Korean-linked hackers as likely suspects in the sweeping ransomware attacks
Instead of going for distance, he has stepped up the testing of missiles that fly high into space
Saturday 13 May 2017
"the missile impacting so close to Russian soil – in fact, closer to Russia than to Japan – the President cannot imagine that Russia is pleased."
The missile took off from the northwestern city of Kusong and flew more than 430 miles before landing in the sea between North Korea and Japan
Sunday 7 May 2017
Kim was arrested on suspicion of “hostile acts” against North Korea
Friday 5 May 2017
"Korean-style anti-terrorist attack will be commenced from this moment to sweep away the intelligence and plot-breeding organizations of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet clique"
Saturday 29 April 2017
The missile blew up over land in North Korean territory
Friday 28 April 2017
"He's 27 years old. His father dies, took over a regime. So say what you want but that is not easy, especially at that age."
Tillerson called Friday for new economic sanctions on North Korea and other “painful” measures over its nuclear weapons program
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Americans could be forgiven for thinking that war is about to break out. But it is not.
Monday 24 April 2017
...there are concerns that North Korea could stage a provocative missile or nuclear test Tuesday to mark the anniversary of its military’s founding.
Sunday 23 April 2017
...a former Korean-American professor was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport as he was attempting to leave the country.
Friday 21 April 2017
Sunday 16 April 2017
"America has always sought peace through strength, and my message here today standing with U.S. forces Korea, standing with courageous soldiers from the Republic of Korea, is a message of resolve."
But the slow-motion part appears to be speeding up...
...the administration would like “to take action short of armed conflict, so we can avoid the worst.”
The assistance provided by Chinese entities to North Korea goes as far back as the 1960s, and includes some state-run operations
Saturday 15 April 2017
The missile blew up almost immediately
His travels to the region, including stops in South Korea and Japan beginning Sunday, come amid indications that North Korea is potentially preparing its sixth nuclear test in a decade
North Korea has been working on solid fuel, which means missiles are ready to fire and don’t need loading with propellant like its previous liquid-fueled missiles
Friday 14 April 2017
“The United States and South Korea and North Korea are engaging in tit for tat, with swords drawn and bows bent, and there have been storm clouds gathering”
“If they let war break out on the peninsula, they must shoulder that historical culpability and pay the corresponding price for this”
"I think that all relevant parties should be highly vigilant with regards to this situation."
Tensions have been steadily mounting in recent weeks, as North Korea prepares for what it is calling a “big” event to mark the anniversary of the founder’s birthday Saturday
Thursday 13 April 2017
Along with motor parts and wiring, investigators discerned a pattern. Many key components were foreign-made, acquired from businesses based in China.
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Xi then patiently explained Chinese-Korean history to Trump — who then promptly changed his mind.
Tuesday 11 April 2017
"We will hold the U.S. wholly accountable for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its outrageous actions"
Sunday 9 April 2017
“The number one threat in the region continues to the North Korea, due to its reckless, irresponsible and destabilizing program of missile tests and pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability”
Thursday 6 April 2017
...as they meet for the first time to discuss trade tensions, North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and other issues.
Wednesday 5 April 2017
North Korea has made no secret of its desire to build an inter-continental ballistic missile, or ICBM, capable of reaching the continental United States.
Tuesday 4 April 2017
The missile test is likely to intensify differences between Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi over how to deal with the recalcitrant government in North Korea.
Monday 3 April 2017
But experts say the lithium ad — with its implication that the North is happy to sell an excess supply of the precious material — suggests that it is far too late to prevent the nation from becoming an advanced nuclear power.
Sunday 2 April 2017
...if Beijing won't help solve it, then "we will" alone.
Wednesday 22 March 2017
Neither the US nor South Korea have released information on what type of missile was fired, or why it failed.
Friday 17 March 2017
In a break with decades of precedent, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson opted against allowing a press pool on his plane during his first trip to Asia as America’s top diplomat.
"If they elevate the threat of their threat weapons program to a level that we believe requires action then that option is on the table"
Tuesday 7 March 2017
Monday 6 March 2017
North Korea has repeatedly claimed to be working on an ICBM capable of reaching the west coast of the United States and has been making observable progress toward this goal.
Friday 24 February 2017
"a neighboring country, which often calls itself a 'friendly neighbor'" ... "dancing to the tune of the U.S."
Wednesday 22 February 2017
The two young women were what South Korean intelligence calls “lizard’s tails,” expendable assets to be cast off after an operation.
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Nearly all of the North Korean dictator’s potential rivals are now dead.
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Two unidentified women killed Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur’s airport with a poison needle before fleeing in a taxi
Monday 13 February 2017
It may not be illegal for the president to receive a sensitive security briefing about an enemy missile-launch in a public space surrounded by unvetted third parties, but if so, that's because no one ever dreamed that someone would be stupid enough to do so.
Saturday 11 February 2017
The launch marks the first test of Trump's vow to get tough on a North Korean regime that last year tested nuclear devices and ballistic missiles at an unprecedented rate in violation of United Nations sanctions.
