July 26, 2017
1:57 am

US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (C) leaves a news conference following the weekly House GOP Conference meeting at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill July 18, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

US House votes to slap sanctions on Russia, Iran, North Korea

In sign of growing distrust over Kremlin links, measure constrains President Trump’s ability to waive the penalty package

By Michael Mathes

July 23, 2017
7:32 pm

US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

US Congress to vote on Russia sanctions, tying Trump’s hands

White House indicates support following revisions to bill, which also targets Iran, North Korea

By AFP

July 15, 2017
8:30 am

The Yongbyon nuclear facility (photo credit: W. Keith Luse, public domain)

Monitor: N. Korea likely has more plutonium than previously thought

US experts say thermal imagery of Yongbyon complex shows potential increase in Pyongyang’s nuclear stockpile

By AFP

April 27, 2017
6:22 am

US Vice President Mike Pence, center, visits the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the border between North and South Korea on April 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)

Trump team softens war talk, vows other pressure on N. Korea

Amid saber-rattling and tightened sanctions, White House tells senators it wants to end Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions

By Matthew Pennington and VIVIAN SALAMA

April 26, 2017
7:38 pm

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) arriving for a military parade in Pyongyang marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, in an April 15, 2017 picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 16, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

What the North Korea crisis says about the Iranian nuclear deal

Despite more stringent restrictions on Iran’s program, its regional ambitions could make it a greater threat with nukes than Kim Jong-un’s rogue state

By Ron Kampeas

April 26, 2017
5:38 am

A US military vehicle moves past banners opposing a plan to deploy an advanced US missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, as South Korean police officers stand guard in Seongju, South Korea, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. (Kim Jun-hum/Yonhap via AP)

US begins setting up missile defense in S. Korea

Amid rising tensions with North, US sends warships, seeks harsher sanctions at UN Security Council

By Foster Klug

April 18, 2017
3:31 am

Pence warns North Korea not to ‘test Trump’s resolve’

While US seeks a peaceful denuclearization of the peninsula, ‘all options are on the table,’ says vice president

By Andrew BEATTY

March 18, 2017
3:00 pm

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on March 18, 2017. (AFP/Pool)

US, China to cooperate on ‘dangerous’ N. Korea situation

In meeting with Chinese counterpart, Tillerson says nations ‘share a common view’ on need to lower regional tensions

By Patrick Baert

December 15, 2016
12:37 am

Rex Tillerson speaks to the media after the Exxon annual shareholder's meeting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX, on May 25, 2011. (JTA/Jason Janik/Bloomberg News)

Trump’s choice for top diplomat is no fan of sanctions

Rex Tillerson is likely to be grilled on his close relationship with Putin at Senate confirmation hearings

By Bradley Klapper

December 1, 2016
9:19 pm

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, fourth from right, and Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, fifth from right, meet with a number of foreign diplomats at the United Nations, December 1, 2016.

Liberman to UN: Never mind Israel — what about Syria, N. Korean nukes?

Defense minister berates foreign ambassadors to the world body at a briefing hosted by the Israeli envoy

By Times of Israel staff

November 30, 2016
8:42 pm

Members of the UN Security Council vote during a meeting on sanctions against North Korea on March 2, 2016 at the United Nations in New York. (AFP/Don Emmert)

UN hits North Korea with toughest ever sanctions

China drops support for dictatorship in unanimous Security Council vote to boycott regime, limit coal exports, after second nuclear test

By Andre Viollaz

October 16, 2016
2:09 am

A man watches a television screen reporting news of North Korea's latest submarine-launched ballistic missile test at a railway station in Seoul, August 25, 2016. (AFP/JUNG YEON-JE)

US detects what it says is failed N. Korean missile launch

Move brings tally of Pyongyang’s ballistic missile tests to over 20 this year, along with a nuclear bomb test last month

By AP

September 9, 2016
6:20 am

A South Korean marine watches a TV screen reporting about North Korea's possible nuclear test at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sep. 9, 2016. (Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap via AP)

North Korea believed to have carried out 5th, most powerful nuke test

Rival South Korea says 10-kiloton bomb was likely detonated underground after unusual seismic activity detected

By Jung Ha-Won

July 9, 2016
9:02 am

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un looks on as a submarine-launched missile emerges from the water in 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Seoul: North Korea test-fires submarine-launched missile

South says ballistic missile appears to have failed and exploded in early stages of flight

By AFP

July 6, 2016
8:38 pm

Undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 11, 2014 shows Kim Jong-Un (C) during the national conference of subworkteam leaders in the agricultural sector in an undisclosed location in North Korea (KCNA via KNS/AFP/File)

US sanctions North Korean leader for ‘intolerable cruelty’

String of abuses by Kim Jong-Un include killings, torture of political prisoners; 10 other officials also blacklisted

By Paul Handley

Topic: North Korea sanctions

US House votes to slap sanctions on Russia, Iran, North Korea

In sign of growing distrust over Kremlin links, measure constrains President Trump’s ability to waive the penalty package

US Congress to vote on Russia sanctions, tying Trump’s hands

White House indicates support following revisions to bill, which also targets Iran, North Korea

Monitor: N. Korea likely has more plutonium than previously thought

US experts say thermal imagery of Yongbyon complex shows potential increase in Pyongyang’s nuclear stockpile

Trump team softens war talk, vows other pressure on N. Korea

Amid saber-rattling and tightened sanctions, White House tells senators it wants to end Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions

What the North Korea crisis says about the Iranian nuclear deal

Despite more stringent restrictions on Iran’s program, its regional ambitions could make it a greater threat with nukes than Kim Jong-un’s rogue state

US begins setting up missile defense in S. Korea

Amid rising tensions with North, US sends warships, seeks harsher sanctions at UN Security Council

Pence warns North Korea not to ‘test Trump’s resolve’

While US seeks a peaceful denuclearization of the peninsula, ‘all options are on the table,’ says vice president

US, China to cooperate on ‘dangerous’ N. Korea situation

In meeting with Chinese counterpart, Tillerson says nations ‘share a common view’ on need to lower regional tensions

Trump’s choice for top diplomat is no fan of sanctions

Rex Tillerson is likely to be grilled on his close relationship with Putin at Senate confirmation hearings

Liberman to UN: Never mind Israel — what about Syria, N. Korean nukes?

Defense minister berates foreign ambassadors to the world body at a briefing hosted by the Israeli envoy

UN hits North Korea with toughest ever sanctions

China drops support for dictatorship in unanimous Security Council vote to boycott regime, limit coal exports, after second nuclear test

US detects what it says is failed N. Korean missile launch

Move brings tally of Pyongyang’s ballistic missile tests to over 20 this year, along with a nuclear bomb test last month

North Korea believed to have carried out 5th, most powerful nuke test

Rival South Korea says 10-kiloton bomb was likely detonated underground after unusual seismic activity detected

Seoul: North Korea test-fires submarine-launched missile

South says ballistic missile appears to have failed and exploded in early stages of flight

US sanctions North Korean leader for ‘intolerable cruelty’

String of abuses by Kim Jong-Un include killings, torture of political prisoners; 10 other officials also blacklisted

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