The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to impose tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang's latest missile test. The sanctions, passed on Friday, include a ban on nearly 90 percent of refined petroleum exports to North Korea. The restrictions, proposed by the US, are designed to prevent Pyongyang from furthering its nuclear programme. Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna, reporting from the UN, said the move was a […]
US President Donald Trump has arrived in China for talks likely to be dominated by tensions over North Korea's nuclear programme. He landed in Beijing, where Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping has a lavish welcome planned for him. Earlier, in a speech to the South Korean parliament, Mr Trump urged China to sever ties with North Korea. Trump is in China as part of a five-nation tour of Asia. He has […]
North Korea has been boosting defenses on its east coast, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday, after the North said U.S. President Donald Trump had declared war and that it would shoot down U.S. bombers flying near the Korean peninsula. Tensions have escalated on the Korean peninsula since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new […]
The United States will prohibit entry of citizens from North Korea to the US as part of a sweeping new travel ban that also slaps restrictions on Iran, Chad, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen and Somalia, the Trump administration said in a statement on Sunday. The addition of North Korea and Venezuela broadens the restrictions from the original, mostly Muslim-majority list. It also removes Sudan, one of the countries in the […]
North Korea has warned that US President Donald Trump's bellicose remarks against the Asian country and its leader will make the US mainland an "inevitable" target for rocket attacks. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho's remarks on Saturday in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly came hours after the US flew bomber jets near North Korea. "Through such a prolonged and arduous struggle, now we are finally only […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called US President Donald Trump "mentally deranged" and said he will "pay dearly" for the recent threats against his country. In a rare statement directly attributed to the North's leader, Kim said on Friday that Trump is "unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country", describing the president as "a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire". Hours later, […]
US President Donald Trump's highly-combative remarks against North Korea and its leader at the United Nations will only harden Pyongyang's resolve to continue developing its nuclear programme, analysts have warned. Using what was described as "unprecedented" language, Trump made his debut address at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday. In a wide-ranging, 45-minute speech, his most anticipated foreign policy address of his tenure, Trump vowed that the US would […]
The US will launch a "massive military response" to any threats from North Korea, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said after Pyongyang conducted its most powerful nuclear test yet. "Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam, or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming," Mattis told reporters on Sunday. He added: "Kim Jong-un should take heed of the […]
North Korea's leader received a report from his army on plans to fire missiles towards Guam and said he will watch the actions of the United States before making a decision to fire, the North's official news agency said on Tuesday. Kim Jong-un ordered the army to be ready to launch should he make the decision for military action. North Korea said last week it was finalising plans to launch […]
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