SEOUL — North Korea shut down its Punggye-ri nuclear test site on Thursday to demonstrate its commitment to denuclearization in advance of the planned U.S.-North Korea summit. The development came hours before President Donald Trump called off the highly anticipated meeting. The South Korean government welcomed the North’s unilateral nuclear concession to help facilitate a broader […]
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 […]
UNITED NATIONS — North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said Monday the United States has declared war on his country and Pyongyang would take counter-actions if threatened, including shooting down American war planes in the region. Ri directly linked U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments Saturday night on social media platform Twitter to the threat. In […]
North Korea said Thursday it is finalizing a plan to launch a salvo of four ballistic missiles off the shores of the U.S. territory of Guam, the newest provocation in the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington. The reclusive communist state, in an unusually detailed announcement, said that within a week North Korean leader […]