South Korea said it is suspending all activities at an industrial complex it operates jointly with North Korea, in response to the North’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch. Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo told reporters Wednesday that Seoul is taking the action to prevent Pyongyang from using the proceeds from the Kaesong Industrial Complex to fund […]
BEIJING—North Korea’s key diplomatic ally China has voiced firm opposition to what Pyongyang said was its first hydrogen bomb test Wednesday. Beijing said it will lodge a formal protest and has called on its northern neighbor to give up on its ambitions for nuclear weapons. Analysts said that while China is likely to take some […]
A U.S. defense official says Defense Secretary Ash Carter and his Malaysian counterpart, Hishammuddin Hussein, will board a U.S. warship sailing in the South China Sea Thursday amid diplomatic tensions over China’s maritime expansion in the region. The two will board the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt as it sails off the coast of […]
The original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north – perhaps for thousands of years – before spreading in two distinct populations throughout North and South America, according to a new genomic analysis. […]