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UN: North Korea Tried to Sell Nuclear Weapon Material

Another alarming North Korea development: The country tried to sell a key material for fueling nuclear weapons to unidentified international buyers last year, according to a United Nations report. UN...

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Images of North Korea Nuclear Test Site Show ... Volleyball

What are North Korean workers doing when not preparing for a nuclear test? Letting loose on the volleyball court, apparently. "Unusual" satellite images of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, snapped on...

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McMaster: N. Korea Is a 'Grave Threat'

White House National Security Adviser HR McMaster says North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He says North Korea poses "a grave threat" not...

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North Korea: China Can't Stop Our Nukes

Don't expect pressure from China to have an effect on North Korea's nuclear weapons program. That was the message in an editorial published by the North's state news media Wednesday, described by an...

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If N. Korea Missile Test Details True, US Territory Is Within Reach

North Korea has been bragging about its latest missile launch —and experts say the boasts are more than just empty bluster. The Hwasong-12 missile fired Sunday traveled nearly 500 miles before landing...

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Trump Warns North Korea of 'Fire and Fury'

The Washington Post is out with a chilling report about North Korea's nuclear capabilities: It says Pyongyang has figured out how to make a nuclear warhead small enough to be carried by a missile. The...

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Look to Ukraine for N. Korea's Missile Engines: Expert

Many are worried over North Korea's ICBM launch last month, which analysts say indicate its weapons can now reach the US. And what may be behind this apparent success: liquid-propellant rocket engines...

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Landslides Suggest N. Korea's Latest Test Was a Monster

Two developments on the North Korean front: sobering confirmation of how just how powerful the last test was, and more words of caution from Vladimir Putin. In an analysis for 38 North , three...

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We May Have Underestimated N. Korea's Latest Nuke Test

In the immediate aftermath of North Korea's sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3, experts described the blast as six or seven times as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima. That measure might not even...

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North Korea Threatens to Sink Japan

North Korea has made more of the kind of blood-curdling threats that the world found easier to shrug off before Pyongyang stepped up its nuclear program. The "Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee," North...

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US: Magnitude 3.5 Quake Detected in N. Korea

A small earthquake shook North Korea early Saturday, according to South Korean officials, raising fears that the country had carried out another nuclear test amid its escalating dispute with the US....

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North Korea: Nuclear War May Break Out 'Any Moment'

North Korea had hoped for a nuclear-free world, the country's deputy United Nations ambassador claimed Monday—but because of the "extreme" threat from the US, the country has been forced to become a...

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New North Korea Concern: 'Tired Mountain Syndrome'

Satellite images taken before and after North Korea's last nuclear test beneath Mount Mantap show the mountain actually lost elevation. As the Washington Post reports, the depression of a 85-acre...

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Report: 200 Dead Near Site of North Korea's Nuke Test

North Korea's latest nuclear test might've done more than just destabilize Mount Mantap . Citing unnamed sources, Japan's TV Asahi reports a tunnel under construction at the Punggye-ri nuclear site,...

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How to Secure N. Korea's Nukes: Ground War

The only way to locate and destroy with complete certainty all components of North Korea's nuclear program is through a ground invasion, reports the AP , according to a blunt assessment from the...

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S. Korea: Idea of North Destroying Its Nukes Is Problematic

Even if North Korea were on board, it would be "realistically difficult" to destroy the country's nuclear capabilities because they're so developed, according to South Korean President Moon Jae-in....

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After Trump Visit, China Sends Top Envoy to North Korea

China dispatched its highest-level envoy to North Korea in two years on Friday in a bid to improve chilly relations, after President Trump last week urged Beijing to use its influence to convince...

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North Korea's Response to Terror Relisting in 5 Quotes

What does North Korea think of the US' Monday decision to relist it as a state sponsor of terror ? Now we know: In the country's first public statement on the subject, a rep for the Foreign Ministry...

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Hawaii Resumes Procedure Not Seen Since Cold War

"If anybody told me four or five months ago we would be doing this, I would have said you are crazy." And yet the administrator for Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency says the state will resume...

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North Korean Defectors Reveal 'Ghost Disease' Back Home

Horrific tales are being shared by North Korean defectors who fled their homes near the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site, with stories of sickened residents and wildlife, and even a deformed baby born...

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