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The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. North Korea has warned that a “big event” is near, and U.S. officials say signs…
Tillerson: ‘The Policy of Strategic Patience Has Ended’ Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, in a visit to South Korea, said if North Korea increased “the threat of their weapons program” to an unacceptable level, the Trump administration would consider action. “The policy of strategic patience has ended,” Mr. Tillerson said. By REUTERS. Photo by…
SEOUL South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country’s conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China. The ruling sparked protests from hundreds of Park’s supporters, two of whom were killed in clashes with police outside the court, and…
KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL North Korea barred Malaysians from leaving the country on Tuesday, sparking tit-for-tat action by Malaysia, as police investigating the murder of Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur sought to question three men hiding in the North Korean embassy. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak accused North Korea of “effectively holding our citizens hostage”…
Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times It is now two and one-half minutes to midnight. Our organization, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is marking the 70th anniversary of its Doomsday Clock on Thursday by moving it 30 seconds closer to midnight. In 2016, the global security landscape darkened as the international community failed to…
Exclusive: North Korean Official Says Country Will “Strike” US if Necessary A senior North Korean foreign ministry official told NBC News exclusively that the DPRK would “strike first” if it saw “US nuclear forces moving against our country.” Source: Exclusive: North Korean Official Says Country Will “Strike” US if Necessary – NBC News
Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Under The Sun is really two films, threaded together: one a carefully crafted lie, and the other something closer to the truth. A child of the former Soviet Union, Mansky has spent much of his career recording life in post-communist Russia, while occasionally taking his cameras to places like Cuba, where some…
Image copyright ReutersImage caption The event is being held at the House of Culture in Pyongyang North Korea is holding its most important political gathering in a generation, where Kim Jong-un will cement his status as leader. The country’s first full congress in decades is being closely watched for any shift in policies or changes…
N. Korea Sentences Virginia Student To 15 Years Of Prison, Hard Labor Otto Frederick Warmbier, a 21-year-old American student, speaks during a news conference in Pyongyang on February 29. Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Otto Frederick Warmbier, a 21-year-old American student, speaks…
Above, is an excerpt from the 38 North Digital Atlas. 38 North is a project of the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Copyright © 2009-2016. Image courtesy of Curtis Melvin. Begin Press Release: Library of Congress to Hold Lecture on the Crowd-Sourced Mapping…