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Top official in North Korean missile, nuclear weapons program dies
A veteran North Korean official who was sanctioned for his suspected role in development of the country's nuclear and missile technology has died, the North announced Tuesday. The state-run KCNA news agency said "academician and professor" Ju Kyu Chang died Monday at the age of ...
Trump leads on North Korea as G-7 ministers meet: U.S. envoy
The U.S. ambassador to Canada said Sunday that President Donald Trump is leading international efforts to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. Ambassador Kelly Craft offered that assessment as foreign ministers from the G7 group of industrialized nations began meetings in Toronto ...
Kim told Xi he wanted to resume six-party disarmament talks: Nikkei
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping during talks in Beijing last week that he agreed to return to six-party talks on his nation's nuclear arms program and missile tests, the Nikkei newspaper said on Thursday. Months of chill between Beijing ...
Japan's next ambassador to U.S. firm on stance against North Korea
Shinsuke Sugiyama, the next Japanese ambassador to the United States, said Thursday that he will do all he can to resolve issues pertaining to North Korea's nuclear arms and missile programs and its abductions of Japanese nationals. "I'll make my utmost effort to resolve the ...
U.S. intel chief Dan Coats says North Korea 'decision time' is near
The U.S. director of national intelligence warned on Tuesday that time was running out for the United States to act on the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons program. North Korea presents "a potentially existential" threat to the United States and is likely to ...
U.S. wants low-yield nukes to prod Russia to respect atomic arms pacts: Pentagon chief Jim Mattis
The U.S. plan to deploy new low-yield nuclear weapons is aimed at convincing Russia to respect existing agreements on limiting the weapons, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Tuesday. Mattis told a hearing in Congress that Moscow is violating the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty and ...
North Korea may perfect ICBM within months, U.S. general says
North Korea has taken fresh strides in its nuclear missile program but has not shown all the technologies needed to strike America, a U.S. general said Tuesday. Another top official warned that such a capability is just months away. Pyongyang has demonstrated that its rockets ...
North Korea shipped coal to Russia last year that was then delivered to South Korea and Japan in a likely violation of U.N. sanctions, three Western European intelligence sources said. The U.N. Security Council banned North Korean exports of coal last Aug. 5 under sanctions ...
Nuclear-armed North Korea the 'immediate challenge' of our time: Henry Kissinger
North Korea poses the most immediate threat to global security, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told Congress Thursday, stressing that denuclearization of the regime must be a "fundamental" American foreign policy goal. Kissinger also pointed to Iran as a primary challenge, and said ...
Washington now hails Seoul-Pyongyang talks despite Kim's refusal to discuss its nuclear threat
North and South Korea held their first talks in over two years on Tuesday, and Washington welcomed them as a first step to solving the North Korean nuclear weapons crisis, even though Pyongyang said those were aimed only at the United States and not ...
Americans should fret over Kim's mental fitness, not Trump's, White House says after tweet rant
The White House on Wednesday defended Donald Trump's tweet about the size of his nuclear button, saying Americans should be concerned about the North Korean leader's mental fitness, not their president's. On Tuesday, Trump responded to a New Year's Day speech in which North Korean ...
U.N. political chief makes rare visit to North Korea for 'wide-ranging' discussions
The U.N.'s political chief, and America's highest-ranking national in the U.N. Secretariat, arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to begin a rare four-day visit at the invitation of Pyongyang, for a "wide-ranging" discussion on policy issues "of mutual interest and concern." The trip comes a ...
