All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • Obama State of Union
    Aide: Obama seeks to starve N. Korean leader of attention

    WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un triggered a diplomatic earthquake with his nation’s latest nuclear test a week ago. But it didn’t register when President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech....

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • resident Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
    No mention of N. Korea in Obama’s final State of Union address

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — U.S. President Barack Obama made no mention of North Korea in his final State of the Union address on Tuesday, a snub seen as intended to show that Washington remains unfazed by Pyongyang’s nuclear...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • N. Korean drone sent back after infiltrating S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A North Korean drone briefly infiltrated the border with South Korea on Wednesday before returning home upon the southern military’s warning shots, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The unidentified aerial vehicle appeared in...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
    US House overwhelmingly passes N. Korea sanctions legislation

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a tough sanctions bill on North Korea on Tuesday in the first tangible action taken by the United States to punish the communist...

    • Posted January 12, 2016
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    N. Korea threatens to strike US with H-bombs

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea said Tuesday that it is ready to detonate hydrogen bombs capable of wiping out the United States “all at once,” claiming that it has succeeded in developing miniaturized nuclear weapons. North Korea’s...

    • Posted January 12, 2016
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  • Kim Jong-un and his administration deny accusations of human rights violations from the United Nations. (Yonhap/KCNA)
    N. Korea to collapse if China cuts off fuel: expert

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea will face a total collapse if China cuts off all oil supplies to the neighboring nation in the wake of Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test last week, a South Korean expert said Monday....

    • Posted January 11, 2016
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  • SLBM, kim jong-un, North Korea
    N. Korea releases video of recent SLBM test

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea released a video footage of a new submarine-based ballistic missile test Friday in which a fired missile flew a longer distance than the country’s similar test last year. A new documentary aired...

    • Posted January 8, 2016
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