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‘Inaccurate’ to say North Korea has nuclear missiles: U.S.
The United States on Thursday insisted North Korea did not have nuclear-armed missiles as officials sought to play down a leaked intelligence report warning Pyongyang had likely succeeded in building atomic warheads that could be fit on a ballistic missile. Pentagon spokesman George Little said “it would be inaccurate to…
Obama tells North Korea to end ‘belligerent approach’
US President Barack Obama on Thursday called on North Korea to end its “belligerent approach,” as the world waited for Pyongyang to carry out an expected missile launch. Obama, who spoke alongside UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon after talks in the Oval Office, said “nobody wants to see a conflict”…
Chuck Hagel: North Korea ‘skating very close to a dangerous line’
North Korea is “skating very close to a dangerous line” with its heated rhetoric and provocative actions, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters Wednesday. The United States and its allies hoped Pyongyang would tone down its inflammatory language but the American military was prepared for any possibility, Hagel said.…
Top admiral worries North Korea crisis could escalate ‘pretty quickly’
US Navy Adm. Samuel Locklear waits to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the US Pacific Command and US Forces Korea in review of the Defense authorization request for fiscal year 2014 in Washington Tuesday. (Gary Cameron/Reuters) North Korea is… …
South Korean lawmaker: We need our own nuclear weapons
A prominent South Korean lawmaker said on Tuesday his country should consider developing nuclear weapons or bringing back a former US arsenal as a way to pressure North Korea and its ally China. Chung Mong-Joon, a billionaire businessman who belongs to the ruling conservative New Frontier Party, said on a…
U.S. official: Warlike rhetoric of North Korea ‘perfectly predictable’
With tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring to include threats of nuclear war, frustration is mounting at what US policy experts see as the failure of all efforts to rein in North Korea. Decades of threats have waxed and waned despite myriad attempts to reach out for talks or punish…
North Korea pulls 53,000 workers out of shared industrial zone with South Korea
North Korea announced Monday it would pull all its 53,000 workers out of the Kaesong joint industrial zone with South Korea and suspend all commercial operations in the complex, blaming “military warmongers”. North Korea “will withdraw all its employees from the zone”, Kim Yang-Gon, a senior ruling party official, said…
Iran blames U.S. for provoking North Korea showdown
Iran’s foreign ministry on Sunday urged against “provocative conduct” in the Korean peninsula, saying stability there has been compromised by an American military build-up, media reported. “Our advice to all sides involved is to not stoke tensions by engaging in provocative conduct,” ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in remarks reported…
South Korea says North’s missile launch may be imminent
A top South Korean security official said Sunday that North Korea may test-launch a missile this week, as the United States delayed its own missile test due to soaring tensions on the peninsula. Kim Jang-Soo, chief national security adviser to President Park Geun-Hye, said a test-launch or other provocation could…
Hagel delays U.S. missile test amid rising tensions with North Korea
The Pentagon has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test due to take place in California next week amid soaring nuclear tensions with North Korea, an official said. The defense official told AFP that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel decided to to reschedule the Minuteman 3 test at Vandenberg Air Force Base…
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