North Korea says US carrier groups raise nuclear war threat

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North Korea warned Monday that the unprecedented deployment of three U.S. aircraft carrier groups “taking up a strike posture” around the Korean peninsula is making it impossible to predict when nuclear war will break out. North Korea’s U.N. ambassador, Ja Song … Read More

Japanese warships join three U.S. aircraft carriers for massive display of military might

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The USS Ronald Reagan, USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz carrier strike groups transit the western Pacific Ocean with ships from the Maritime Self-Defense Force during operations in international waters as part of a three-carrier strike force exercise on Sunday. … Read More

North Korea says U.S. should oust ‘lunatic old man’ Trump from power

North Korea shot back at President Trump’s rough rhetoric by saying the United States should oust him from power “to get rid of the abyss of doom,” state-run media reports. State-run media in North Korea is referring to Trump as … Read More

Trump warns North Korea not to ‘try us’ with nuclear weapons

SEOUL — Arguing that the world cannot tolerate a “rogue regime” that threatens “nuclear devastation,” President Trump called on all countries Wednesday to ratchet up economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea and demand that Kim Jong Un’s government give … Read More

War With Kim Jong Un ‘Must Not Happen,’ South Korea Says

Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program must be halted by diplomacy and not military action, South Korea’s foreign minister told NBC News ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the country. “Another war on the Korean Peninsula must not happen,” … Read More

Pentagon: Ground invasion would be required to destroy North Korea nuclear weapons

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WASHINGTON – The only way to locate and destroy with complete certainty all components of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is through a ground invasion. That blunt assessment from the Pentagon is in response to a letter from two Democratic … Read More

North Korea vows to launch more satellites into orbit

North Korea vowed to launch more satellites into space Monday, in what the United States and the U.N. view as a covert test of the reclusive regime’s ballistic missile technology. The nation says its five-year space development program is aimed … Read More

Pentagon chief in South Korea amid North Korean nuclear threats

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OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea Pentagon boss Jim Mattis arrived in South Korea on Friday to meet with the nation’s top defense officials and American military commanders on the front line in countering North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Mattis is … Read More

North Korea threats at ‘unprecedented, critical’ level, Japan official says

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Bolton: Time running out to deal with North Korea threat Amb. John Bolton, Fox News contributor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, says the rogue nation is getting closer to having the U.S. over a barrel. The threat … Read More

North Korea rejects diplomacy with US for now, source says

Washington (CNN) A North Korean official reaffirmed Pyongyang’s commitment to developing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching “all the way to the East coast of the mainland US,” on Monday, telling CNN that the rogue nation is currently not interested … Read More

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