America might be losing its place on the world stage — and diplomats worry...
Hundreds of senior posts at the State Department remain empty, and many positions have been permanently vacated.Massive cuts Secretary Tillerson has proposed would slash the Foreign Service and...
View ArticleThese maps show how much damage a North Korean thermonuclear weapon could do...
Nuclear weapons may be humanity's most terrifying creations, but most people would be hard-pressed to say what, exactly, such an explosion might do to their town or city.To help the public get a handle...
View ArticleThis missile testing site in North Korea doubles as a beachside resort
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's government has been building the coastal city of Wonsan into a beachside resort town, according to a report from Reuters.Wonsan occupies a special place in North...
View ArticleTop Republican senator: Trump is 'castrating' Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said Friday that his biggest worry is that President Donald Trump is rendering Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ineffective at his job. Corker, who has been a...
View ArticleNorth Korea has used its embassies for wild business ventures — and neighbors...
North Koreans have created various business enterprises on embassy grounds in foreign countries, at times annoying their host nation's citizens, The New York Times reported.Neighbors in Sofia,...
View ArticleTILLERSON: US diplomacy with North Korea will continue until the 'first bomb...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that President Donald Trump had instructed him to continue diplomatic efforts to calm rising tensions with North Korea, saying "those...
View Article9 tweets that prove that there really is an old Trump tweet for everything
President Donald Trump had made Twitter a defining part of his public relations style even before the 2016 presidential campaign, but now that he has been in office for over 8 months, many of his...
View ArticleHillary Clinton warns that Trump may start a nuclear war
Hillary Clinton tells a London audience she's worried that President Donald Trump could in 'a moment of pique' launch a nuclear missile.The former Democratic presidential candidate accused the Trump of...
View ArticleSee propaganda leaflets North Korea floated into South Korea calling for...
SEOUL (Reuters) - Propaganda fliers presumed to be from North Korea and calling U.S. President Donald Trump a "mad dog" have turned up across central Seoul, including near the presidential Blue House,...
View ArticleTrump will visit Asia in November to call for increased pressure on North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will travel to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Hawaii between Nov. 3-14, the White House said on Monday, amid rising tensions...
View ArticleThe monster nuclear submarine the US sent to South Korea looks like it may be...
The US Navy maintains that the USS Michigan, a submarine known for carrying special-ops teams, stopped in the South Korean city of Busan for a "routine port visit," but pictures of the event suggest a...
View ArticleTrump begs in Rose Garden press conference: 'Hillary, please run again!'
President Donald Trump said Monday that he hopes Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2020."Oh I hope Hillary runs," Trump said during a press conference at the Rose Garden. "Is she going to run? I...
View ArticleCybersecurity firm: North Korea was likely behind cyber heist in Taiwan
TORONTO (Reuters) - Cyber-security firm BAE Systems Plc said on Monday it believes the North Korean Lazarus hacking group is likely responsible for a recent cyber heist in Taiwan, the latest in a...
View ArticleRussia reopens ferry route to North Korea
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sea trips between Vladivostok, Russia and isolated North Korea have resumed after a two-month break, with the transport of cargo, the RIA news agency reported on Monday, quoting the...
View ArticleNorth Korea says 'a nuclear war may break out any moment'
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.”Kim...
View ArticleNorth Korean official says diplomacy is off the table until it builds a...
North Korea is not interested in diplomacy until it develops a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting the US East coast, a North Korean official said to CNN on...
View ArticleNorth Korea says 'nuclear war may break out any moment' — but that's the last...
North Korea's deputy UN ambassador warned on Monday that tensions on the peninsula have escalated so high that "a nuclear war may break out any moment."This is exactly the kind of bluster Pyongyang has...
View ArticleA North Korean defector says the regime is crippled by sanctions and won't...
A former North Korean government official who defected to the US says North Korea is struggling against tough sanctions — and doubts the hermit state can last a year.“The sanctions that the White House...
View ArticleA North Korean defector trekked 6,000 miles on crutches to flee — now he...
Ji Seong-ho sat down to talk with Business Insider about his 6,000 mile journey from North Korea after his inspiring speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum. Following is a transcript of the video.Since...
View ArticleNearly half of Republicans would support a preemptive strike on North Korea
Almost half of Republicans would support a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea after President Trump's saber-rattling toward the hermit kingdom.The Quinnipiac University Poll, released Thursday,...
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