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U.S. and North Korea in holding pattern ahead of Kim New Year's address and second leaders' summit
The United States and North Korea have reached a holding pattern in denuclearization talks as both sides seek the upper hand ahead of a key New Year's address by leader Kim Jong Un and a second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump ...
North Korea says U.S. stance on sanctions could derail denuclearization talks
In a sign of Pyongyang's growing impatience with stalled nuclear talks with Washington, North Korea has warned the United States that its stance on crippling sanctions could "block the path to denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula forever." In a statement published Sunday by the North's ...
Russia deploys two nuclear-capable strategic bombers to Venezuela as U.S. tensions soar
Two Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers arrived in Venezuela on Monday, a deployment that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions. Russia's Defense Ministry said a pair Tu-160 bombers landed at Maiquetia airport outside Caracas on Monday following a 10,000-km (6,200-mile) flight. It didn't say if the bombers ...
South Korea charges four with illegally importing North Korean coal
South Korean prosecutors said Monday that they have charged four people with illegally importing North Korean coal via Russia in violation of U.N. sanctions. The indictments, handed down on Friday, came four months after customs authorities accused three of the four of using forged documents ...
Top U.S. envoy to North Korea can't get face time with counterparts
More than three months after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo picked Stephen Biegun to lead negotiations with North Korea, the former Ford Motor Co. executive has barely met officials from Pyongyang face-to-face. The standstill is a sign of how negotiations between the U.S. and North ...
U.S. drops bid for December U.N. meeting on North Korean rights abuses, diplomats say
The United States has dropped a push for the United Nations Security Council to hold its fifth annual meeting on human rights abuses in North Korea this month as it does not have enough support, diplomats said Friday. At least nine countries on the 15-member ...
Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow, an iconic anti-nuclear activist who survived the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to meet with people whose views differ with his own after she was unable to secure a meeting with the leader on ...
The U.N. General Assembly endorsed a Japanese anti-nuclear resolution by a wide margin on Wednesday, but the United States abstained in a shift of position from the previous year. The U.N. organ also adopted an Austria-led resolution calling on member countries to ratify a landmark ...
Satellite images show expansion at key North Korean long-range missile base: CNN
North Korea has expanded a key long-range missile base in the months since a summit between the country's leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, according to satellite images published by CNN on Wednesday. The two men met in Singapore in June and ...
After ditching nuke treaty, Trump wants talks with Putin and Xi to end 'uncontrollable arms race'
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday proposed talks with the leaders of China and Russia aimed at halting what he described as an "uncontrollable" arms race. Trump's comment follows an October announcement in which he said he would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ...
Trump will grant Kim Jong Un's wishes after Pyongyang denuclearizes, Moon says
U.S. President Donald Trump will grant North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un his wishes if he delivers on denuclearization, the South Korean president said Sunday, following talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit. As officials work to arrange a second meeting between Trump and ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemns Iran missile test
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday condemned what he described as Iran's testing of a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple warheads as a violation of the international agreement on Tehran's nuclear program. Amid tension between Washington and Tehran over ballistic missiles, ...
