SEOUL — As the tense nuclear standoff between North Korea and the United States continues to escalate, the risk of military conflict grows, while hopes for a peaceful solution remain remote. On Sunday U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said diplomatic efforts to persuade the Kim Jong Un government to give up its nuclear and long […]
THE WHITE HOUSE — North Korea’s foreign minister says President Donald Trump “lit a fuse of war” on the Korean peninsula with his threat that the U.S. would “totally destroy” Pyongyang if attacked. Trump made those remarks in address to the U.N. General Assembly last month. “We can say that Trump has lit a fuse of […]
President Donald Trump is likely to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran and turn it back to Congress for possible renewed sanctions, senior U.S. officials said Thursday. Trump is expected to announce his plans in a speech next week in which he will say the agreement is not in the U.S. national interest, the officials […]
PENTAGON —The U.S. military has confirmed three U.S. service members were killed and two others injured when a joint U.S.-Niger military patrol was attacked Wednesday in southwestern Niger. A U.S. defense official confirmed to VOA Thursday that the soldiers killed in the attack were members of the U.S. Army’s special forces, also known as Green […]