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17 eerie images show what it's like to live on the China-North Korea border
As North Korea ramps up its ballistic missile and nuclear testing programs, the world is watching the isolated peninsula with trepidation. Days after the US deployed a naval strike group to the region,...
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The US and China are weighing responses to North Korea's failed missile launch
WASHINGTON/PYONGYANG (Reuters) - The United States, its allies and China are working together on a range of responses to North Korea's latest attempted ballistic missile test, U.S. President Donald...
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PENCE WARNS NORTH KOREA: 'The era of strategic patience is over'
DEMILITARISED ZONE, South Korea — US Vice President Mike Pence stared across the demilitarized border between North Korea and South Korea on Monday, a day after the North's failed missile launch,...
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PENCE WARNS NORTH KOREA: 'The era of strategic patience is over'
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) — Viewing his adversaries in the distance, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of...
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North Korea reportedly snubbed China's top diplomats
North Korea did not respond this month to requests from senior Chinese diplomats, including the country's foreign minister, to meet North Korean counterparts, amid rising tension with the US, Bloomberg...
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North Korea's embarrassing missile failure may have been due to US cyber...
North Korea attempted to fire a missile Sunday, but it blew up within seconds.It happened one day after the anniversary of the country's founding.While North Korea's missile program may be the...
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EX-PENTAGON CHIEF: North Korea is 'evil' but 'not crazy' — so it won't strike...
North Korea rolled out what it claimed were intercontinental ballistic missiles at a parade on Saturday, but according to former Defense Secretary William Perry, it would never use them in a first...
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North Korea expert: What we're seeing is 'the Cuban missile crisis in slow...
Tensions between the US and North Korea have reached historic levels, Robert Litwak at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars told the New York Times. After North Korea's military parade...
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US warns of 'significant international response' if North Korea conducts...
A State Department official on Monday said there would be a "significant international response" if North Korea were to mount another nuclear test.In a conference call with reporters, State Department...
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The US's show of force towards North Korea may be 'just adding fuel to the fire'
Vice President Mike Pence visited the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea on Monday, stressing that the US's strategic patience with North Korea was over, and that the US is considering...
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MATTIS: 'The leader of North Korea again recklessly tried to provoke...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says North Korea's latest failed missile launch was a reckless act of provocation.Mattis commented on the weekend missile launch in an interview with...
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Here's how to trade a geopolitical shock
Geopolitical risk is creeping back into the markets.The Russian ruble and markets fell after US President Donald Trump's surprise strike on Syria, and US stocks retreated after the US bombed...
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3 maps that explain North Korea's strategy
To understand North Korean strategy today, we must first understand the implications of its geography.Korea is a peninsula jutting southward from Manchuria surrounded by the Yellow and Japan seas. It...
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15 fascinating facts about North Korea.Join the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: Here's the surprising reason highways have those concrete walls alongside them
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The US and South Korea are kicking off a big exercise just as North Korea...
The US and South Korean militaries are teaming up for a massive 11-day exercise featuring a large portion of their fighter aircraft fleet.On Monday, Exercise Max Thunder kicked off to "enhance...
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How North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, 33, became one of the world's scariest...
For the past 50 years, the world has grown used to crazy threats from North Korea that don't lead anywhere.But the threats have taken a decidedly sharper and more ominous tone under Kim Jong Un, the...
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14 fascinating facts about North Korea
North Korea is back in the headlines amid rising geopolitical risk.Tensions between North Korea and the new US administration have been rising, and it's unclear what the Hermit Kingdom will do next, or...
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Trump says North Korea ‘outplayed’ Obama — but the truth is much more...
President Donald Trump said on Fox News Monday that former Presidents Obama and Clinton were both "outplayed" by North Korea, though he did not reveal how his policy might diverge from theirs.Trump's...
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8 heads of state under 40: Meet the world's youngest leaders
The world's youngest leaders hail from across the globe — from democracies, monarchies, and dictatorships in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.While seven of the eight leaders are...
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North Korea reportedly formed special-operations forces 'for the first time'...
Amid ongoing tensions with the US, North Korea has created special-operations forces "for the first time," according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.Pyongyang announced the Korean People's Army...
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