North and South Korea have agreed to march together under a single "unified Korea" flag at next month's Winter Olympics in the South, according to the BBC.
A top UN official told senior North Korean figures there was an "urgent need" to keep channels open to avoid the risk of war, the organisation says, according to the BBC.
Speaking at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley warned North Korea’s leadership it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out, after Pyongyang test fired its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile, putting the U.S. mainland within range, Reuters wrote.
North Korea fired what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that landed close to Japan on Wednesday, officials said, Pyongyang's first test launch since sending a missile over its neighbor in mid-September, according to Reuters.
The U.S. Army has "got to be ready" to confront the North Korean threat if diplomatic efforts are unable to resolve the U.S. dispute with Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Monday, Newsweek reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a familiar warning to North Korea on Tuesday, saying the U.S. is prepared to use "devastating" military action if necessary – as two defense officials tell CNN that the rogue nation has moved a small number of fighter jets, external fuel tanks and air-to-air missiles to a base on its eastern coast to boost military readiness.
North Korea has boosted defenses on its east coast, a South Korean lawmaker said on Tuesday, after the North said U.S. President Donald Trump had declared war and that it would shoot down U.S. bombers flying near the peninsula, according to Reuters.
North Korea's foreign minister on Monday accused President Donald Trump of declaring war, saying that gives the rogue regime the right to shoot down U.S. strategic bombers, according to CNBC.
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says that North Korea will be destroyed if it keeps on its "reckless behavior," according to CNN.
In two articles published online this week, Moscow analyst Aleksandr Nemets details the evidence many have assembled showing that Moscow is heavily involved in both the rocket program of North Korea and Pyongyang’s “aggressive plans” to use it against other countries, Euromaidan Press reports.
A recent New York Times article accused Ukraine of illegally supplying rocket technology to the rogue state of North Korea, yet the answer to the question of how this little country, most of whose citizens live in poverty, managed to cause such a global security issue, calls for critical thinking and the recollection of assertions made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, according to the Atlantic Council.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the solution to containing North Korea as the regime conducts continued nuclear weapons tests "must be political" as the "potential consequences to military action are too horrific," CBC News reports.
Oil markets were volatile on Monday, with U.S. crude rising on production shutdowns while international Brent was pulled down by a flight into gold futures following a powerful North Korean nuclear test explosion, according to Reuters.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Sunday that he's preparing a sanctions package against North Korea that would cut off "all trade and other business," with the rogue nation following its overnight nuclear test, its sixth and most powerful, according to Fox News.
A large earth tremor has been detected in North Korea, raising speculation that the country has carried out its sixth nuclear test, according to the BBC.
The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the latest ballistic missile launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which flew over Japan, as well as the series of launches that took place on 25 August, UN News Centre reported.
The Japanese government has earlier warned that a North Korean missile is headed toward the Tohoku region at the northern end of the country, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK, CNBC News reported.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed the Foreign Ministry to initiate hearings within the UN Security Council to prove Ukraine's noninvolvement in the missile program of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), according to the presidential press service.
Ukraine could not have contributed to the development of North Korea’s missile program, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times as a response to the report of August 14 alleging supplies of missile technology from Ukraine to DPRK.
Following reports hinting at a Ukrainian trace in deliveries of missile engines to North Korea, President Petro Poroshenko instructed the authorities to launch immediately a thorough and comprehensive investigation, according to a posting on the president’s Facebook page.
Given Moscow’s friendly relations with Pyongyang and the availability of seven to 20 pieces of ready-made "Tsyklon 2" and "Tsyklon 3" rockets, Russia has every reason and opportunity for the supply to North Korea of missile engines and technology that can be used for military purposes, acting chief of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Yury Radchenko told a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
North Korea on Wednesday escalated already heightened tensions with the United States, warning that a plan to attack waters near Guam will be in place by mid-August and that President Trump understands "only absolute force," The Hill reports.
North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, the latest in a fast-paced series of missile tests defying world pressure and threats of more sanctions, according to Reuters.