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US, South Korea and Japan urge stronger international push to curb North Korean nuclear program
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan called on Saturday for a stronger international push to suppress North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles and its military cooperation with other countries amid concerns about...
South Korea defense chief threatens strikes on 'heart and head' of North Korea if provoked
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s defense minister on Friday threatened massive retaliatory missile strikes on “the heart and head” of North Korea in the event of provocation, as the rivals escalate their rhetoric over their respective spy satellite launches in recent days. ...
National security advisers of US, South Korea and Japan will meet to discuss North Korean threat
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan will meet in Seoul this week to discuss North Korea’s growing military threat and other regional security issues as they continue to promote trilateral cooperation in Asia. South...
The North Korean leader calls for women to have more children to halt a fall in the birthrate
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s births in order to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his government steps up the call for the people to have more children. While getting...
Trump calls Biden the 'destroyer' of democracy despite his own efforts to overturn 2020 election
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to turn the tables on his likely rival in November, President Joe Biden, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump tried to overturn is “the destroyer of American democracy.” Trump's...
South Korea launches its first spy satellite after rival North Korea does the same
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — South Korea launched its first military spy satellite into space Friday, a little over a week after North Korea claimed to put its own spy satellite into orbit for the first time as tensions rise between the rivals. Launched from...
Kim's sister rejects US offer of dialogue with North Korea and vows more satellite launches
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday dismissed U.S. calls for a return to diplomacy and lambasted its condemnations of the North’s recent spy satellite launch, vowing more launches in violation of U.N. bans. During a U.N....
North Korea restores border guard posts as tensions rise over its satellite launch, Seoul says
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is restoring front-line guard posts that it had dismantled during a previous period of inter-Korean rapprochement, South Korea's military said Monday, after animosities spiked between the rivals over the North's recent spy satellite launch. The...
Nicaragua's Miss Universe title win exposes deep political divide in the Central American country
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition. But the "legitimate joy and pride” President Daniel Ortega's...
South Korea says Russian support likely enabled North Korea to successfully launch a spy satellite
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has concluded that Russian support likely enabled North Korea to put a spy satellite into orbit for the first time this week, and it should be clear in several days whether it is functioning properly, officials said Thursday. The launch has...
