North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed Wednesday his nation will "demonstrate its mettle to the U.S." and never put its weapons programs up for negotiations, a day after successfully testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile. The hard line suggests that North Korea will conduct ...
To transport and erect the ballistic missile launched on Tuesday, North Korea apparently used a Chinese timber-hauling truck, highlighting the challenge of enforcing sanctions to curb the North's weapons program. North Korea state television showed a large truck painted in military camouflage carrying the missile. ...
The United Nations appears set to adopt a landmark nuclear weapons ban treaty this week after the third and final draft of the accord circulated Monday following intensive negotiations over the weekend. "Each one of us has assumed the historic responsibility to give humankind an ...
North Korea's party organization funding the leadership siphoned nearly all dollars paid in cash by South Korean companies as salaries for the laborers over an economic cooperative project in the border city of Kaesong, a defector told Kyodo News. Office 39 takes away the salaries ...
President Donald Trump called on Monday for the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs to be "rapidly" tackled, as he thanked visiting Indian leader Narendra Modi for rallying behind sanctions on Pyongyang. "The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and ...
North Korea must still overcome "important shortfalls" in developing a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile before it can field a weapon capable of hitting the U.S., according to the Pentagon's intelligence agency. Kim Jong Un's regime "continues efforts to expand its stockpile of weapons-grade fissile materials," ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet with Kim Jong Un amid heightened tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program if the circumstances were right. "If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to ...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday accused Iran of "alarming ongoing provocations" to destabilize countries in the Middle East as the Trump administration launched a review of its policy toward Tehran. Tillerson told reporters the review, which he announced on Tuesday, would not ...
As a U.S. strike group led by an aircraft carrier steamed toward the Korean Peninsula Sunday, a senior official said President Donald Trump has asked to be provided with a range of options for eliminating the North Korean nuclear threat. The U.S. naval move will ...
President Donald Trump warned in an interview published Sunday that the United States is prepared to act unilaterally to deal with North Korea's nuclear program if China proves unwilling to help. "Well, if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is ...
It is time for the so-called realists to get real about the existential dangers of a world brimming with nuclear weapons.
The United States must see "some sort of positive action" from North Korea before it can take Kim Jong Un's regime seriously and discuss ways to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday. China earlier Wednesday called for North Korea ...
