Source:CNN US warships and submarines are on the move. North Korea has carried out its largest ever live-fire drill. Washington and Pyongyang are trading inflammatory rhetoric on a weekly basis.With all of this, it’s hard to know if war is actually imminent or if these are the growing pains of […]
Source: BBC North Korea has warned the US not to take provocative action in the region, saying it is “ready to hit back with nuclear attacks”. The comments came as […]
Source: Daily Mail As millions of North Koreans celebrate the Day of the Sun today, marking the birth of their cruel dynasty’s founding dictator, Kim Il-sung, his grandson’s nuclear ambitions have put the nation’s fate on a knife-edge and threatens peace throughout East Asia.The chubby young tyrant, Kim Jong-un, has […]
Source: Daily Mail President Donald Trump’s ‘troublemaking’ and ‘aggressive’ tweets have pushed the world to the brink of thermo-nuclear war, North Korea warned today. Pyongyang’s Vice Minister Han Song Ryol accused Trump of building up a ‘vicious cycle’ of tensions and warned the US against provoking North Korea militarily. He said: ‘We […]
Source: CNN North Korea has issued a forceful response to the deployment of a US naval strike group to the region, saying it would counter “reckless acts of aggression” with “whatever methods the US wants to take.”In a statement provided to CNN by officials in North Korea, Pyongyang said the […]
Source: CNN A US aircraft carrier-led strike group is headed toward the Western Pacific Ocean near the Korean Peninsula, a US defense official confirmed to CNN.The move of the Vinson strike group is in response to recent North Korean provocations, the official said.Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of US Pacific […]
Source: Time Charlie Campbell / Beijing 4:08 AM ET North Korea’s nuclear program will be high on the agenda when President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Florida […]
Source: Dawn Military action by the United States against nuclear-armed North Korea is an “option on the table” if the threat from the rogue regime escalates, Washington’s top diplomat Rex Tillerson said on Friday. The strong comments from the secretary of state, in Asia for his first foray into crisis […]
Source: CNN The United States and North Korea are set for a “head-on collision” with neither side willing to give way, China’s top diplomat has warned. In a week of heightened tensions in the region, Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautioned the US in unusually frank language against the deployment of […]
25 February 2017 From the section Asia Image copyrightEPAImage captionSiti Aisyah “met some people who looked Japanese or Korean”, Indonesian officials said An Indonesian woman arrested for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader has said she was given 400 Malaysian ringgits ($90; £72) to carry out a prank. […]
Source: CNN By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN)The chemical substance used to kill Kim Jong Nam was a VX nerve agent, an internationally-banned chemical weapon that can kill within minutes, according […]
Source: BBC Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, was killed by a highly toxic nerve agent, says Malaysia. Mr Kim died last week after two women accosted him briefly in a check-in hall at a Kuala Lumpur airport. Malaysian toxicology reports indicate he was attacked using VX nerve […]
Source: Time By Jill Colvin (PALM BEACH, Fla.) — Already in a domestic battle over his immigration order, President Donald Trump now faces a fresh foreign provocation in his first weeks […]
Source: CNN Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was thousands of miles away from home, but Kim Jong Un’s message was loud and clear — think twice before getting too cozy with the new US President. Abe, who is visiting the United States, and Japan were likely the main audience for […]
By Juan Cole | Jan. 18, 2017 | By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk of nuclear escalation. Not since the end of the Cold War has a […]
Source: Time By Tara John North Korea declared that it can launch a intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) “at any time” and from any location, while blaming the U.S. for its development […]
Source: Time The resolution is in response to North Korea’s fifth nuclear test in September. The U.N. Security Council’s five veto powers are close to approving new sanctions on North […]
Source: BBC South Korea has a plan to annihilate the North Korean capital if it shows any signs of mounting a nuclear attack, according to reports from Seoul. A military source told the Yonhap news agency every part of Pyongyang “will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosives shells”. […]
Source: ET SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has had two senior officials executed by an anti-aircraft gun, according to South Korean media.The conservative daily, the JoongAng Ilbo, reported on Tuesday that former agriculture minister Hwang Min and Ri Yong-jin, a senior official at the education ministry, were executed by an […]
Source: The Daily Beast The North Korean People’s Army has threatened to attack lighting equipment used by South Korean and American troops in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas. North Korean authorities claim U.S. and South Korean troops have been carrying out “deliberate provocations” by aiming their lights at […]