U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday, talking about how they can work together to resolve the situation involving North Korea’s nuclear program, the White House said, according to Politico.
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.
Japan, South Korea, and the United States on Tuesday called for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Italian council presidency said, according to Daily Sabah.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stated that there was "no alternative" to Minsk agreements for the Donbas settlement, the Kremlin press service has told UNIAN.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he was in fact speaking about North Korea, when he told reporters at a White House military dinner recently about "the calm before the storm," according to his latest interview with Fox News.
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.
North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of defiance to its rivals, according to the Associated Press.
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.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was "begging for war" as she urged the UN Security Council to adopt the strongest sanctions measures possible to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, according to CNN.
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.
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.
North Korea fired several short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast early on Saturday, South Korea and the U.S. military said, as the two allies conducted annual joint military drills that the North denounces as preparation for war, according to Reuters
The Russian Federation has tried to cover up its likely involvement in the implementation of the North Korean ballistic missile programs by spreading allegations of Ukraine's supplies of missile technology to the DPRK, according to the press service of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
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.
The United States Embassy in Ukraine welcomed Ukraine’s “thorough” approach to investigating recent reports on the alleged supply of missile engines to North Korea, the embassy’s press service wrote on Twitter.
Categorically refuting the allegations reported by The New York Times and the IISS claiming that North Korea’s ICBM successes were due to Ukraine’s involvement, Dnipro-based Yuzhnoye Design Office in a harsh statement, the copy of which was posted on Twitter by an RFE/RL correspondent Christopher Miller, said publishing such "highly speculative material" is "unprofessional and inflammatory."
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.
Ukraine’s state-owned Yuzhmash plant has not had anything to do with the North Korean space or defense missile programs, according to a statement published on a company website in connection with the publication by The New York Times of Aug.14 2017 "North Korea's Missile Success Is Linked to the Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say."
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said that the information alleging Ukrainian supplies of rocket engines to North Korea is part of an anti-Ukrainian campaign incited by Russian intelligence.
The United States said on Tuesday it shot down a simulated, incoming intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) similar to the ones being developed by countries like North Korea, in a new test of the nation's THAAD missile defenses, Reuters reports.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told lawmakers on Wednesday that his department would work to increase sanctions pressure on Iran, Syria, and North Korea and is reviewing licenses needed for Boeing Co and Airbus to sell aircraft to Iran, according to Reuters.
North Korea said on Monday it had successfully tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile to confirm the reliability of the late-stage guidance of the warhead, indicating further advances in the ability to hit U.S. targets, according to Reuters.
North Korea has accused U.S. and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, BBC News reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he "will not be happy" if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, and he declined to rule out a U.S. military response to such a provocation, CBS reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday a major conflict with North Korea is possible in the standoff over its nuclear and missile programs, but he would prefer a diplomatic outcome to the dispute, according to Reuters.
The United States successfully test fired the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, Fox Business reports.
In a rare move, the entire U.S. Senate is being called to the White House for a briefing on North Korea, according to the BBC.
U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed by phone a peaceful solution of the Donbas conflict, according to the White House.
The Pentagon on Thursday declined to comment on an NBC report about possible pre-emptive action against North Korea, saying, as a policy, it does not discuss future operations "nor publicly speculate on possible scenarios."
South Korea said on Thursday it believed it would be consulted by the United States before any possible pre-emptive U.S. strike against Pyongyang, where foreign journalists gathered for "a big and important event," Reuters reports.