South Korea and the United States launched their largest-ever joint aerial drills on Monday, officials said, a week after North Korea said it had tested its most advanced missile as part of a weapons program that has raised global tensions, according to Reuters.
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.
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 States flew two B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force after recent North Korean missile tests, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement on Sunday, July 30, according to Reuters.
Ukraine's Minister for Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has announced Ukraine and South Korea may set up joint ventures in engineering and metallurgy and start aerospace cooperation, which is expected to effectively realize both countries' potential.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday China should do more to rein in North Korea's nuclear program and he would call on President Xi Jinping to lift measures against South Korean companies taken in retaliation against Seoul's decision to host a U.S. anti-missile defense system, according to Reuters.
Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv announces that South Korea is mulling over investment in the development of 4G and 5G wireless networks in Ukraine, according to the ministry's press service.
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.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday the threat of an attack by Pyongyang against Japan and South Korea is real and urged the U.N. Security Council to act "before North Korea does," according to Reuters.