US flies bombers over Korea as Trump discusses options
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military flew two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force late on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump met with top defense officials to...
View ArticleKim Jong Nam was reportedly carrying $100,000 in his bag when he was killed
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was carrying $100,000 in cash in his backpack at the time of his murder, the police officer investigating the case told a...
View ArticleTrump rages at NBC after report said Tillerson called him a 'moron' after he...
President Donald Trump attacked NBC News after the network reported on Wednesday that Trump called for a tenfold increase in the US's nuclear arsenal during a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon.The...
View ArticleRussian media: North Korea's foreign minister referred to nuclear weapons as...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian state news agency Tass says North Korea's foreign minister has described his nation's nuclear weapons as a "sword of justice."Tass quoted North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho...
View ArticleTrump has 'lit the wick of war,' North Korean foreign minister says,...
US President Donald Trump has “lit the wick of war” with North Korea and his country will be made to pay with “a hail of fire,” a Russian news agency quoted North Korea’s foreign minister as saying on...
View ArticleNorth Korean special forces are training to invade South Korea with paragliders
North Korean special forces have been training to invade South Korea with paragliders, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.The drills were conducted in mid-September at a training site with a...
View ArticleDemocrats are getting nervous about Trump's decision on the Iran deal — and...
WASHINGTON — Amid reports that President Donald Trump will soon decertify the Joint Coalition Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were sent into a...
View ArticleFour other suspects in killing of North Korean Kim Jong Nam have been named...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Four suspects charged with two women accused of killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader were identified for the first time in a Malaysian court on Thursday....
View ArticleTrump may be dangerously overconfident in US missile defenses against North...
President Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday night discussed the North Korean crisis and displayed what is perhaps a dangerous overconfidence in US missile...
View ArticleHow a homemade tool helped advance North Korea's missile and nuclear programs
SEOUL, (Reuters) - In 2009, a pop video from North Korea celebrated a new national hero — one that outside experts would later realize was at the heart of the secretive state's banned nuclear and...
View ArticleA 'ridiculous mistake' gave North Korea access to the US and South Korea's...
A South Korea lawmaker recently disclosed that hackers suspected to be North Korean gained access to Seoul's highly secured military intranet in September 2016 and made off with the US and South...
View ArticleA New York Times columnist went to North Korea, and said he's never seen so...
The threat of war between the United States and North Korea, exacerbated by intensifying rhetoric between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is palpable on the streets of...
View Article'Let's hope that diplomacy works': White House believes the North Korean...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said on Thursday the Trump administration thinks the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons capability is currently manageable but...
View ArticleHow a homemade tool helped North Korea's missile program
SEOUL, (Reuters) - In 2009, a pop video from North Korea celebrated a new national hero - one that outside experts would later realize was at the heart of the secretive state's banned nuclear and...
View ArticleSolving climate change could help bring North and South Korea closer
The Paris Agreement, signed in 2015 requires every country to make pledges to tackle climate change. North Korea is no exception.Given that air pollution doesn’t recognize borders, there are already...
View ArticleNorth Korea has been having small earthquakes ever since its massive nuclear...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has detected a fourth small earthquake near North Korea's main nuclear test site after the country's sixth and most powerful nuclear test explosion last...
View ArticlePHOTOS: NATO navies hold massive missile defence drill in Scotland as...
Eight NATO powers have joined forces to take part in a massive missile defence training exercise — and the photos from it look extraordinary.Britain, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,...
View ArticleKim Jong Un has his hand near the 'trigger' on a possible launch at US...
After US B-1B jets buzzed North Korea and practiced a bombing run, Pyongyang responded by saying Kim Jong Un may finally decide to launch missiles towards Guam.North Korea originally threatened to fire...
View ArticleTrump's new Iran strategy somehow ignores the lesson he should have learned...
The White House released its new Iran strategy on Friday morning, ahead of an expected announcement by President Donald Trump that current policy isn't working.Trump is expected to say that the 2015...
View ArticleIt looks like a US Navy armada will return to waters near North Korea
The US Navy's USS Michigan attack submarine arrived in Busan, South Korea's southern port city, on Friday, and it looks like it will be joined by a US aircraft carrier in a bold challenge to a defiant...
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