With deliberate and crude timing, Russian forces fired roughly 100 missiles, drones and rockets, causing the biggest single strike on Ukrainian cities and districts. Roughly seven million citizens …
Leaders quietly work to ramp up pressure on N. Korea at G-20
With all the big issues dominating this week’s meeting of leaders of the world’s biggest economies — war, famine, poverty, to name just a few — there’s been little public discussion of North Korea and …
S Korean leader urges China’s Xi to play larger N Korea role
Officials say South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol asked China to play a more active, constructive role in curbing the nuclear threat from North Korea when he met Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G …
North Korea: Biden warns Xi US will have to step up military presence if nuclear and missile tests continue
Joe Biden has told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that Beijing carried the obligation to tell North Korea to not engage in long range nuclear testing, failing which Washington will step up its …
North Korea sees more use of cell phones, WiFi networks -U.S. researchers
Up to 7 million North Koreans use cell phones daily, and WiFi networks have sharply expanded in recent years as the mobile devices increasingly became a key tool for market activity in the isolated …
Biden says unclear if China can stop another North Korea nuclear test
US president says he told Xi Jinping that Beijing had an ‘obligation’ to tell Kim Jong-un to avoid a seventh test …
History Proves China Will Never Help Biden On North Korea
Just weeks after President Joe Biden took his oath of office, he dispatched Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to Anchorage to meet State Councilor Wang Yi …
Biden: Hard to Say If China Can Control North Korea
President Joe Biden says he cautioned China’s Xi Jinping on North Korea, a Chinese ally that has recently accelerated tests of ballistic missiles, alarming South Korea and Japan. Biden said he made it …
From Missions to Missiles: North Korea’s Diplomats and Sanctions-Busting
The UN sanctions regime on North Korea is one of the most extensive multilateral sanctions regimes in history. Restrictive measures have targeted WMD programmes and been used to counter …
Biden: Partnership with Japan, South Korea ‘more important’ in face of North Korea threat
President Biden, speaking alongside his Japanese and South Korean counterparts on Sunday, said that the countries’ trilateral partnership is more important in the wake of “provocative” behavior from …