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North Korea still far from backing up nuke threats
North Korea's vow to restart its mothballed nuclear facilities raises fears about assembly lines churning out fuel for a fearsome arsenal of nuclear ...
Myanmar communal unrest threatens reforms
Few imagined Myanmar would embrace democracy when the U.S. began its historic engagement with the military regime. The country's rapid changes were ...
NKorea clears its military to attack US with nukes
North Korea warned Thursday that its military has been cleared to attack the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons, while the ...
US missile defense shield to counter NKorea threat
The Pentagon said Wednesday it was deploying a missile defense shield to Guam to protect the U.S. and its allies in the region in response to ...
US institute: Work under way at NKorea reactor
North Korea has already begun construction at a shuttered plutonium reactor that it is vowing to restart and it could be back in operation sooner than ...
Prospects for arms treaty all but dead in Senate
Senate opponents of a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade said Wednesday they have the votes to block ratification of the ...
NKorea refuses to let SKoreans enter joint factory
In past deadly confrontations between North and South Korea, a jointly operated industrial park stayed open, churning out goods. But in the latest ...
US moves on NKorea aimed at deterring new leader
The parading of U.S. air and naval power within view of the Korean peninsula — first a few long-range bombers, then stealth fighters, then ships — is ...
Timeline: A month of provocations from North Korea
North Korea has delivered a drumbeat of war threats and ominous announcements since March 7, when the United Nations Security Council imposed ...
Hagel cites 'growing threat' from NKorean nukes
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is calling North Korea's development of nuclear weapons a "growing threat" to the U.S. and its allies. In a telephone ...
Kerry warns NKorea on 'reckless' provocations
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday warned North Korea to halt a recent spate of rhetoric and actions, calling them provocative, dangerous and ...
UN to vote Tuesday on treaty regulating arms trade
The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote Tuesday on what would be the first U.N. treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms ...
NKorea taps reformist premier amid nuclear tension
North Korea's parliament approved the appointment of a new premier seen by outside experts as an economic reformer one day after top party officials ...
White House: No military moves seen in N. Korea
The White House says that despite bellicose rhetoric from North Korea the Obama administration has not seen changes in the regime's military posture.
NKorea's parliament meets amid nuclear tension
After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place ...
NKorea says it is in a 'state of war' with SKorea
North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex ...
White House takes North Korea's threats seriously
The White House said Saturday it is taking seriously new threats by North Korea but also noted Pyongyang's history of "bellicose rhetoric." North ...
NKorean propaganda mill serves up soft side of Kim
The outside world focuses on the messages of doom and gloom from North Korea: bombastic threats of nuclear war, fantasy videos of U.S. cities in ...
Analysis: NKorea threat may be more bark than bite
Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and ...
NKorea orders rocket prep after US B-2 drill
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Friday that his rocket forces were ready "to settle accounts with the U.S.," unleashing a new round of ...
Mass rally in Pyongyang in support of Kim Jong Un
Thousands of North Koreans have turned out for a mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader's call to arms. Chanting "Death ...
Iran, NKorea, Syria block UN arms trade treaty
Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade for the first time, ...
Hagel: B-2s not intended to provoke North Korea
America's unprecedented decision to send nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to drop dummy munitions during military drills with South Korea this week ...
Stumbles of SKorean leader distract month into job
South Korean President Park Geun-hye's honeymoon was over before it even began. Only a month on the job, Park has stumbled repeatedly in the face of ...
NKorean defector groups report computer attacks
Websites and organizations run by North Korean defectors in South Korea say they have suffered cyberattacks, one week after computer systems at some ...