Pope heads to Asia in search of Buddhist ties and nuclear arms ban
Pope Francis departed Rome on Tuesday for Thailand and Japan, majority Buddhist countries where the Jesuit pontiff is to plead for interreligious dialogue and nuclear disarmament. The pope's third trip to Asia, and his 32nd trip abroad, takes him to two countries with minority Catholic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Seoul frets over further missile tests by Pyongyang this year in threat to U.S.
North Korea may conduct additional missile tests this year to polish up its long-range missile technology and ramp up the threat against the United States, South Korea's spy agency said on Monday, adding that it was monitoring developments closely. North Korea is pursuing nuclear weapons ...
UAE follows Qatar and Kuwait lead and terminates North Korea diplomatic mission
The United Arab Emirates said on Thursday it was ending the mission of North Korea's nonresident ambassador and terminating its own envoy's services in Pyongyang, the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM. The UAE would also stop issuing new ...
North Korea apparently used Chinese timber truck for to carry ICBM, evading sanctions
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. ...
Nuclear weapons ban treaty likely to be adopted this week at U.N.
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 ...
Defector alleges wage skimming at Koreas' joint industrial zone funding Kim Jong Un's arms quest
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 ...
