Contents: China and Russia vociferously hostile to South Korea’s THAAD deployment; South Korea’s fears of an attack from North Korea; Problems, issues and capabilities surrounding the Thaad system
The government of North Korea has announced that it will cease communicating with American officials through its mission in New York and instead shift to “relations under the wartime law of the DPRK,” following the announcement of the first direct sanctions on dictator Kim Jong-un by the American government last week.
Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s flip-flopping position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is at the center of a new attack ad from the Republican National Committee (RNC) as Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump criticized Clinton for a persistent legacy of troubled trade deals in a Tuesday policy speech.
North Korea still has a perfect failure record launching ballistic Musudan missiles, according to American and South Korean intelligence reports, but one of two missiles launched on Wednesday reached an altitude of 620 miles, the best yet on record.
London’s thesis is that President Obama is “unwilling to engage the world, in the way in which it really exists.”
An unnamed U.S. official has confirmed to Reuters that evidence indicates North Korea has begun to once again produce plutonium fuel, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
The North Korean government conducted its fourth failed launch of a medium-range Musudan missile on Monday morning local time, a sign experts are interpreting as indicating increased desperation on the part of the Kim Jong-un regime in the midst of some of the sternest global sanctions in history.
“The world thinks Japan is the atomic bomb victim. That is wrong,” Shim Jin-Tae, a Korean national who survived the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, told reporters at a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Seoul.
After months under some of the harshest UN sanctions in history, North Korea is pushing to bring its biggest rivals, South Korea and the United States, to the negotiating table.
On Wednesday, South Korean officials rejected yet another call from Pyongyang for bilateral talks, as the communist Kim Jong-un regime pushes for a “reunification” plan that would put Seoul under his command.
Dr. Herbert London of the London Center for Policy Research joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to present his evaluation of a world in chaos due to the withdrawal of American power.
North Korea wrapped up its four-day Workers’ Party conference on Monday by declaring it would continue working on nuclear weapons — for “defensive” purposes, of course — and threatening to wipe out South Korea, if their neighbor “opts for war.”
In an apparent rebuke to the United States for discussing the possibility of an anti-missile shield with South Korea, China and Russia have announced they will hold their first joint anti-missile drill.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has asked Iran to help convince North Korea to cooperate with U.N. Security Council resolutions for nuclear disarmament.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani publicly opposed North Korea’s nuclear program this week during a historic three-day summit between him and South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye in Tehran, Iran.
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North Korea made another attempt to launch a mid-range missile on Thursday and, like the previous effort a few weeks ago, the missile appears to have crashed shortly after takeoff.
South Korean military officials have obtained satellite photos of what appears to be a replica of Seoul’s presidential office, the Blue House (Cheongwadae), built in North Korea, apparently intended to be used for missile target practice.
President Obama teased a missile shield for South Korea in an interview on Tuesday, a tacit acknowledgement that the North Korean threat is growing more serious.
North Korea attempted yet another failed missile launch Saturday, this time of an allegedly submarine-launched ballistic missile. The news follows promises from Pyongyang that a new submarine is in development.
During a visit to Seoul, South Korea, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the North Koreans should be “inspired” to give up their nuclear weapons by the deal that was struck with Iran.
An expose charges horrendous human rights abuses perpetrated by the South Korean government in the years surrounding the 1988 Olympics.
Reports coming out of North Korea indicate that Pyongyang has enacted further crackdowns on culture throughout the country, with sources inside the country saying the government has now banned piercings and “Western” clothing.
American and South Korean military officials are reporting that North Korea’s latest missile test, timed to coincide with the 104th birthday of “Eternal President” Kim Il Sung, was an embarrassing failure.
The government of North Korea has announced that it is seeking to conduct its fifth-ever nuclear test, placing a miniaturized warhead on a ballistic missile, “in a short time,” following weeks of threats that Pyongyang will attack South Korea and the United States with nuclear bombs if it feels such a move necessary.
The North Korean government is calling a mass defection by 13 restaurant workers who fled to South Korea a “group abduction,” accusing Seoul of kidnapping their citizens “in broad daylight.”
North Korea’s insane media operation decided to send President Barack Obama a letter from Abraham Lincoln this week, in which Honest Abe scolds Obama for nuclear hypocrisy from beyond the grave.
On Monday, the South Korean government confirmed that a high-ranking North Korean intelligence officer defected to the South last year.
The South Korean Defense Ministry has evidence that North Korea now possesses what is being described as a “large-caliber multiple launch rocket system” that could help them fulfill their repeated promises to “scorch” Seoul’s presidential palace “in a jiffy.”
Even as China announced a new round of sanctions against its unruly client, North Korea, due to its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs, international monitors have noted “suspicious activity” at the Yongbyong nuclear site. Also, South Korea complains that the North has been jamming its GPS navigation systems in a bid to raise tensions on the Korean peninsula even further.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s remarks suggesting support for the nuclear armament of Japan and South Korea have sparked intense conversation in the media of both nations. Many believe the absence of America in Asia will lead to war, with Japan fearing Chinese aggression, South Korea fearing Japan, and both hoping North Korea’s strength does not match its words.
President Barack Obama criticized Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, saying he “doesn’t know much about foreign policy, or nuclear policy, or the Korean Peninsula, or the world generally.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama urged global leaders Friday not to be complacent in the face of an evolving threat from terrorists who he said are eager to unleash a devastating nuclear attack. “It would change our world,” he declared.
The government of North Korea has warned citizens through its official newspaper to prepare for another “arduous march,” using the term for the extreme famine that killed an estimated million citizens in the 1990s. The state-run Rodong Sinmun reminded all North Koreans they must be willing to die for dictator Kim Jong-un if necessary.
North Korea has once again asserted that it will use its nuclear weapons arsenal against the United States. Unlike previous statements, however, a note from the rogue state’s foreign minister on Monday insisted that North Korea is fully equipped and ready to use a nuclear weapon on the United States, not just willing to do so.
One of the Syrian opposition delegates to peace talks in Geneva has claimed that North Korean military units are deployed in Syria, fighting on behalf of dictator Bashar Assad.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula are still running high, as the North Koreans announced the successful test of a solid-fuel rocket booster and threatened to assassinate South Korean president Park Geun-Hye by “scorching” her offices with an “ultra-precision strike.”
Bangladesh authorities have confirmed they found the Zika virus in a blood sample from an elderly man who did not leave the country.
North Korea carried out another launch of missiles on Monday – a salvo of five short-range projectiles that brings its total number of shots from the past month to 15. Meanwhile, South Korea is touting the formation of a rapid-response force, trained with the assistance of the United States, that could carry out operations anywhere on the Korean peninsula within 24 hours of a threat emerging.
North Korea tried a little more saber-rattling in its ongoing tantrum against the U.S. and UN on Friday, firing two medium-range ballistic missiles in Japan’s general direction. Unfortunately for the irate dictatorship, one of the missiles blew up in flight, making it a less impressive demonstration of military might.
