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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea launched a ballistic missile Tuesday, the South’s military said, just days after Seoul’s new leader Moon Jae-In and United States President Donald Trump focused on the threat from Pyongyang in their first summit. The launch, which comes as the US prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, was the latest in a series of provocations that have ratcheted up tensions over the nuclear-armed North’s weapons ambitions. The […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — China’s United Nations ambassador on Monday warned of “disastrous” consequences if world powers fail to find a way to ease tensions with North Korea which he said could “get out of control.” Ambassador Liu Jieyi made the remarks a day after United States President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the threat posed by North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests. “Currently tensions are high […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (AFP) – The United States and Japan are united in their efforts to clamp down on North Korea’s “growing threat,” as the regime ramps up its nuclear drive and other belligerent efforts, the White House said Sunday. During a phone call, President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “reaffirmed that the United States-Japan Alliance stands ready to defend (against) and respond to any threat or action taken by North […]
by Jerome Cartillier Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump declared that the United States had run out of patience with North Korea over its nuclear drive Friday as he welcomed South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In to talks at the White House. While Moon has been arguing for greater engagement with Pyongyang as the best way to put the brakes on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Trump made clear […]
by Sebastien Berger Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea threatened on Wednesday to impose the death penalty on the South’s former president Park Geun-Hye over an alleged plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-Un. Park had “pushed forward” a supposed plan by Seoul’s intelligence services to eliminate the North’s leadership, Pyongyang’s security ministries and prosecutors said in a joint statement carried by its official Korean Central News Agency. “We declare at […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday delivered a rare statement at the United Nations Security Council, accusing the United States of attaching “unjust” conditions to its offer of talks on Pyongyang’s military programs. Deputy Ambassador Kim in Ryong said it would be a “fatal miscalculation” by countries to believe that the latest sanctions imposed by the council will deter North Korea from developing its nuclear forces. “Their mean and indiscreet act […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Newly appointed United States Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said on Wednesday (June 28) there is a need to work together with China on some pressing issues, such as North Korea and expanding trade. Branstad also told reporters in Beijing that the US would like to see Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has late-stage liver cancer, receive treatment elsewhere if that would help. A former Iowa […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea likened United States President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on Tuesday in its latest diatribe amid high tensions over Pyongyang’s military ambitions and ahead of a visit to Washington by the South’s new leader. The latest attack came a week after nuclear-armed Pyongyang called Trump a “lunatic” as tensions rose following the death of US student Otto Warmbier, who was detained for 18 months in the North and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump called on Monday for the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic programs to be “rapidly” tackled, as he thanked visiting Indian leader Narendra Modi for rallying behind sanctions on Pyongyang. “The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly,” Trump told reporters in the White House Rose Garden after holding his first […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China reiterated their opposition to any violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and urged all parties to exercise restraint on Friday (June 23), a day after North Korea carried out another test of a rocket engine. A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity on Thursday (June 22), said the test, the latest in a series of engine and missile trials this year, could be part of the isolated […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Friday denied it had tortured or mistreated Otto Warmbier, the US student who died after being released in a coma from the North. “Our relevant agencies treat all criminals… thoroughly in accordance with domestic laws and international standards,” a spokesperson of the National Reconciliation Council was quoted as saying by Pyongyang’s KCNA news agency. © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has tested a rocket engine that could be fitted to an intercontinental ballistic missile, a United States official said, in an apparent provocation ahead of a summit between United States President Donald Trump and the leader of South Korea. President Moon Jae-In heads to Washington next week to meet Trump for the first time since taking office in May, as tensions soar on the Korean peninsula over Kim […]
