Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang\’s nuclear program, Trump told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
The U.S. State Department urged North Korea on Tuesday to refrain from actions that destabilize the region and said it would consider \”other\” options if Pyongyang continued its nuclear and ballistic missile testing.
North Korea will pursue its nuclear and ballistic missile program in defiance of the United States and its allies, a top Pyongyang envoy said on Friday, adding that a state of \”semi-war\” now existed on the divided Korean peninsula.
North Korea, which conducted its fourth nuclear test last month and launched a long-range rocket on Saturday, could begin to recover plutonium from a restarted nuclear reactor within weeks, the director of U.S. National Intelligence said on Tuesday.
The U.N. Security Council said on Wednesday it would begin working immediately on significant new measures in response to North Korea\’s fourth nuclear test, a threat diplomats said could mean an expansion of U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang.
Sony Corp. Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai ordered the film \”The Interview\” to be toned down after Pyongyang denounced it for depicting the assassination of North Korea\’s leader, according to emails apparently stolen from Sony\’s Hollywood studio.
A group that claimed to be responsible for the massive computer hack at Sony Pictures Entertainment demanded the company cancel the release of \”The Interview,\” a film comedy that depicts an assassination plot against North Korea\’s leader.
North Korea on Wednesday denounced a forthcoming American comedy film featuring a plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong Un as an act of terrorism and threatened to unleash a \”merciless counter-measure\” if Washington failed to ban the movie.
As Shin Dong-hyuk crawled over his friend’s lifeless body, the 23-year-old North Korean could feel the electric current shooting through him.
If you have nuclear weapons, all sorts of bad behavior will be tolerated.
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