The United Nations and the United States have again warned North Korea to stop nuclear testing. Jeffrey Feltman of the UN (political affairs department) said in a conversation with the North Korean ambassador Ja Song-nam that Pyongyang 'should not take any more destabilizing steps \u0026 amp ;, after North Korea returned to a ballistic missile Tuesday after two months tested.
In a speech about his proposed tax reform, US President Donald Trump took the opportunity to address the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un verbally. In the middle of his speech he switched briefly to Pyongyang.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council on North Korea. The reason was the launch of a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile by Pyongyang. The projectile landed in the Japanese Sea, a few hundred kilometers off the coast. Abe promised to protect the Japanese population.
North Korea has again launched a ballistic missile. The South Korean news agency Yonhap has just reported this on the basis of sources from the South Korean army. More details are missing.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe supports the extra measures of US President Donald Trump against North Korea. To enable additional sanctions against the regime in Pyongyang, Trump has labeled the country Monday as a state that supports terrorism. The pressure on North Korea is thus increased, according to Abe.
Sudan has announced Thursday that it will break all trade and military ties with North Korea. That has been announced by the US Department of State. Washington wants to isolate the regime in Pyongyang even more because of the country's nuclear and ballistic programs.
An American scientist who secretly has contacts with the North Korean regime says Pyongyang wants to know if President Trump is really crazy.
US President Donald Trump called on his Chinese colleague Xi Jinping to solve the North Korean nuclear crisis together. In a joint statement during the US President's visit to China, both government leaders emphasized their involvement in the denuclearization of North Korea.
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The warning of the North Korean Foreign Minister for a nuclear test in the atmosphere above the Pacific should be taken seriously. That said the experienced North Korean diplomat Ri Yong Pil said on Wednesday in an interview with CNN. 'The minister is very well aware of the intentions of our chief leader, so I think you should literally understand his words.'
The North Korean army is not at all as professional as it seems. That image stems from photos that a photographer could smuggle the country from.
US President Jimmy Carter is willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the US government to help reduce tension between Washington and the government in Pyongyang. The 93-year-old Carter told The New York Times that he had informed Herbert McMaster, Donald Trump's security advisor, that he was available.
North Korea does not intend to negotiate with the United States about its nuclear program. For the government in Pyongyang, possession of nuclear weapons is a matter of life and death, said a high-ranking North Korean diplomat according to the Russian press office RIA.
The United States responded reluctantly to the resumption of shipping between Russia and North Korea. Katina Adams, Foreign Affairs spokesman, said Monday that Washington expects every UN member, including Russia, to abide by the sanctions imposed on Pyongyang because of the nuclear threat and rocket program.
The European Union announced Monday new sanctions against North Korea in response to recent nuclear tests and rocket trials. The EU Foreign Ministers want to further increase pressure on Pyongyang.
The White House is considering President Trump to visit the heavily guarded demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea next month as a statement to Kim Jong-un. Meanwhile, tensions between the US and Pyongyang continue to increase, at the moment, it seems that Trump has demanded a tenfold increase in the US nuclear weapons arena.
North Korea wants to increase the range of its ballistic missiles to 9000 kilometers. It is still unclear what time the North Koreans think about such projectiles, a Russian parliamentarian said after visiting Pyongyang against the press agency Interfax.
Former US President Jimmy Carter is willing to go to Pyongyang to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on 'final peace.' 93-year-old Carter has said that to South Korean professor Park Han Shik.
For Russia, any form of escalation on the Korean peninsula is unacceptable. That is what the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday to his American ambassador Rex Tillerson during a telephone interview. Moscow responded to the warning from Donald Trump that 'only one thing works' in the deal with Pyongyang. Trump thus aimed at military intervention.
North Korea is again preparing a long-range rocket test that, according to Pyongyang, is capable of striking targets in the US. That reported a Russian parliamentarian, Anton Morozov, after returning from a visit to the country.
US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agree that North Korea must be under pressure. They conducted a telephone call on Wednesday about the tense situation on the Korean peninsula.
The Trump government is currently not in touch with North Korea unless it concerns the release of American citizens who are stuck there. That has let the White House know Monday. 'We have been very clear that this is not the time to talk,' said spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
US President Donald Trump calls it 'waste of time' to seek advancement to North Korea. 'I told Rex Tillerson, our great minister of foreign affairs, that he wasted his time by trying to negotiate with the small rocket man,' wrote Trump on Twitter.
The world can warn what it wants, but now there's no more strain on Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un when it's threatening each other. The question is who first loses his head.
US President Donald Trump does not allow North Korea to develop any other choice than missiles that can hit the targets on the US mainland. That said the North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho on Saturday for the United Nations in New York.
American bombers were flown close to the east coast of North Korea on Saturday. According to the Pentagon, President Donald Trump has done this to show how strong USA is. This is reported to the BBC.
If Pyongyang actually explode a hydrogen bomb across the Pacific, as dictator Kim Jong-un threatens to do, military intervention on the Asian Peninsula is very close.
A new threat of Donald Trump to Kim Jong-un. On Twitter, the US president returns to the North Korean leader. 'Kim Jong-un will be tested as never before'.
'We will be fighting with the hardest means if the United States attacks us.' That said the Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in a response to statements by US President Donald Trump earlier this week that his country North Korea was 'complete' will destroy 'if that country does not bind.
China called on neighboring North Korea not to continue in a 'dangerous direction' with its nuclear program. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday at the United Nations General Assembly that negotiating is the only way to solve the crisis of weapon development by Pyongyang.
