North Korea shot back at President Trump’s rough rhetoric by saying the United States should oust him from power “to get rid of the abyss of doom,” state-run media reports. State-run media in North Korea is referring to Trump as a “lunatic old man,” according to the Associated Press. Trump is in China as part…
A CHINESE academic with close links to officials inside the country’s defence establishment has revealed that China is prepared to “go to war” with North Korea. In a shocking bombshell interview, an academic with close ties to the Chinese government has warned war with North Korea was on the table. Chong Sho-Hu, who is a professor of…
A SENIOR Russian official has offered to mediate between North and South Korea to try to come to an agreement and prevent war from breaking out on the Korean peninsula. Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Russian Senate upper house, is set to discuss the concerns surrounding Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes in separate meetings with…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today warned his US counterpart Rex Tillerson that Washington risks sparking an unacceptable escalation in tensions with North Korea. In a phone call with US Secretary of State Tillerson, Lavrov “stressed the unacceptability of an escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula, which the American military preparations in the region…
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson arrived for a meeting with the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Beijing on Saturday. CreditPool photo by Andy Wong BEIJING — The Trump administration acknowledged on Saturday for the first time that it was in direct communication with the government of North Korea over its missile and nuclear tests,…
Walk through any airport in the Arabic-speaking world and one can’t help notice that there is a theme that pops up as frequently as the usual adverts for expensive watches and rather nice jewellery. One Belt, One Road, One Bank reads one. The Silk Roads are the future, reads another. The world is changing. Three…
RUSSIA appears to be preparing for wars as troops have lined up on the North Korea border just one day after Vladimir Putin’s nation fired a ballistic missile. A large number of soldiers were seen arriving near the Khasan crossing point between the two nations on Tuesday. Photos captured some of the troops patrolling the…
WASHINGTON — North Korea on Friday fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japanese airspace before crashing into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and U.S. military officials said. The ballistic missile was launched at 6:57 a.m. Friday Seoul time (5:57 p.m. Thursday ET) from the Sunan area of Pyongyang. It flew in an eastern direction…
The communiques out of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations were exultant on Monday. They lauded the unanimous passage in the Security Council of the “strongest sanctions ever imposed” on North Korea for its nuclear weapons program. Among other prohibitions, North Korea has now been prevented from exporting textiles—one of its few industries. It…
The US could impose economic sanctions on China if it does not implement the new sanctions regime against North Korea, the US Treasury Secretary has warned. Steven Mnuchin said the restrictions could involve cutting off Beijing’s access to the US financial system. “North Korea economic warfare works,” Mnuchin said Tuesday at the Delivering Alpha Conference…