WASHINGTON (AP) ” The Latest on the North Korea crisis (all times EDT): 12:35 a.m. Chinese state media say President Xi Jinping, in a call with President Donald Trump, said all sides should avoid rhetoric or action that would worsen tensions on the Korean Peninsula. China Central Television on Saturday […]
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HAGÅTÑA, Guam — In the wake of North Korea’s threat to launch a missile attack against Guam, the territory’s Homeland Security department issued new guidelines to prepare for an imminent missile threat. The two-page fact sheet includes tips such as: “Do not look at the flash or fireball – It can […]
AFP The Chinese navy and air force flexed their muscles in live-fire drills in seas adjacent to the Korean Peninsula, the defence ministry said, amid regional tensions over North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weaponry. The “large-scale” exercises were being conducted in the seas and skies off China’s east coast in […]
The Age Lindsay Murdoch Vietnam wants the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to stand stronger against China’s aggressive expansionism in the South China Sea. Weeks after China threatened to attack Vietnam over oil and gas drilling in the flash point waters, Vietnam insisted that ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Manila refer to China’s build-up and arming of islands in a customary joint […]
”We do not seek a regime change, we do not seek the collapse of the regime, we do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel [the border with South Korea]. “But you are presenting […]
DONALD Trump has issued a thinly-veiled threat to China for their lack inactivity in helping to reign in North Korea. By Charlie Bayliss PUBLISHED: 00:44, Sun, Jul 30, 2017 | UPDATED: 03:36, Sun, Jul 30, 2017 The hermit state has carried out two missile blasts within the space of a […]
Donald Trump has mocked Kim Jong-un after North Korea has launched a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast ahead of the G20 summit later this week. The missile was launched at around 9.10am local time from an airfield in Panghyon, about 100 km (60 miles) northwest of […]
Despite President Donald Trump’s bold proclamation that a North Korean nuclear missile capable of hitting the US “won’t happen,” Kim Jong Un appears to be well on his way to an intercontinental ballistic missile that can flatten Washington faster than many thought he could. But a nuclear-armed North Korea wouldn’t […]
From Wired.com: As the WannaCry ransomware epidemic wreaked havoc across the globe over the past three days, cybersecurity researchers and victims alike have asked themselves what cybercriminal group would paralyze so many critical systems for such relatively small profit? Some researchers are now starting to point to the first, still-tenuous […]
North Korea says CIA sent lumberjack to assassinate Kim Jong-un with radioactive material at Day of the Sun parade North Korea has accused the CIA and South Korea of trying to assassinate Kim Jong-Un with a biochemical weapon. The secretive country made the astonishing claim today as tensions continue to […]