SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired an unidentified missile eastwards over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, Seoul and Tokyo said, its latest provocation amid high tensions over its banned weapons programs. The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the country over its ballistic missile and atomic weapons programmes. That was in response to its sixth nuclear test — by far […]
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China’s top diplomat holds talks with Trump on N. Korea
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China’s top diplomat told President Donald Trump that Beijing was willing to keep working with Washington to defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula — days after the United States leader implied that Chinese efforts had failed. The meeting between State Councillor Yang Jiechi and Trump at the White House on Thursday also came after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged China to step up diplomatic and economic pressure on […]
President Duterte on tensions in Korean Peninsula: “We are getting the help of everybody”
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte revealed on Thursday that they were “getting the help of everybody” in addressing the heightening tensions in the Korean Peninsula. Duterte said in his speech during the Orthopedic Association Convention on Thursday that he called Chinese President Xi Jinping upon the request of United States President Donald Trump for something to be done about the North Korean leader “situation.” Kim Jong Un has been conducting nuclear missile tests that have irked Washington, which […]
US Presses Iran for Clarification of Nuclear Program
The United States demanded Iran to respond on the allegations that Iran’s nuclear program has a possible military purpose.





