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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has broken its silence on the diplomatic thaw with Washington and Seoul, saying it is driving the “peace offensive” and rejecting suggestions that sanctions forced it to the negotiating table. The commentary from the state-run KCNA news agency came with a rapid rapprochement on the Korean peninsula underway, after a period of heightened tensions stoked by a missile and nuclear tests. But as diplomats scurry to arrange two […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The United States and South Korea announced Tuesday that their annual joint military drills would go ahead next month, with no significant downsize in scale despite an ongoing diplomatic thaw with North Korea. The large-scale exercises involving tens of thousands of ground troops are a perennial source of tension between the two Koreas, with Pyongyang condemning them as provocative rehearsals for an invasion of the North. With talks underway to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “taking stock” of US President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to accept his invitation for talks on denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s foreign minister said in an interview that aired Sunday. There has been no public North Korean response to Trump in the nearly two weeks since he stunned the world by agreeing to meet with Kim, a diplomatic gambit with huge stakes […]
by Jerome Cartillier Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump will host Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in Washington Tuesday, giving the president a receptive audience to denounce rival Iran and a chance to take stock of significant changes the prince is engineering in the kingdom. Ten months after the last face-to-face meeting between Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh, the 71-year-old president and the 32-year-old strongman prince are expected […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea and the United States will scale down and shorten annual joint military exercises in light of a diplomatic thaw with Pyongyang, a report said Friday. The Key Resolve and Foal Eagle drills held every spring regularly infuriate the nuclear-armed North, which usually condemns them as preparations for invasion and responds with provocations of its own, ratcheting tensions higher. But the two Koreas and the US are in the […]
(Eagle News) — Many Filipinos are worried that the current tension between the United States and North Korea will escalate into an armed conflict, the Social Weather Stations said. According to the pollster, based on its December 2017 survey, a whopping 84 percent expressed this concern. Sixteen percent were not worried, 12% were not too worried, and 4% were not worried at all, the SWS said. The survey also found that 88 percent were worried that the Philippines would […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — The United States has still “not heard anything directly back” from Pyongyang over plans for a US-North Korean summit, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday as he urged patience. “There will be several steps (which) will be necessary to agree on the location and the scope of those discussions. We have not heard anything directly back from North Korea although we expect to hear something,” he said in the […]
by Alex PIGMAN Agence France-Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium – The EU on Monday said Europe would not waver against trade “bullies” as a row with US President Donald Trump over controversial steel and aluminium tariffs deepened. The jab from Brussels came after the US tycoon singled out Europe in the surging trade dispute, threatening to tax German cars if the European Union doesn’t lower barriers to US products. European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said that in some places, […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse MOON TOWNSHIP, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump predicted “tremendous success” Saturday in upcoming groundbreaking talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and suggested the reclusive state wants to “make peace” despite a years-long nuclear standoff. The comments came after the American leader said he has received encouragement from the leaders of China and Japan, and assurance that North Korea had promised not to shoot missiles in […]
by Julien Girault Agence France Presse China warned Sunday that it was ready to hit back if the United States damaged its economic interests, fueling fears of a trade war after President Donald Trump unveiled tariffs on steel and aluminium. Trump’s announcement on Thursday sparked a flurry of counter-threats from other nations. But Washington’s main trade rival had avoided any overt warnings of potential retaliation until now. “China doesn’t want a trade war with the […]
by Dave Clark with Theo Merz in Moscow Agence France Agence WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday accused Moscow of openly breaching Cold War-era treaties by developing what Russian President Vladimir Putin called a new generation of “invincible” hypersonic weapons and submarines. Putin unveiled the new arsenal earlier Thursday in a state of the nation address, challenging Washington to a new arms race ahead of a presidential election that will all […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday advocated the death penalty for drug dealers, escalating his tough-on-crime rhetoric amid an opioid crisis that kills an estimated 200 Americans a day. “The drug dealers, the drug pushers, they are really doing damage,” Trump said during a White House meeting on the crisis. “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty. The ultimate penalty and, by the way, they, they have much less […]
