Euronews | Bandy X. Lee and Mark Bruzonsky: Its an historic mistake - potentially catastrophic - to leave the fate of the Koreas, as well as of Iran and the Middle East - indeed international peace itself - in the hands of an individual who has demonstrated seriously erratic political and psychological behaviour. Our world has rarely been in so precarious ...

Sputnik - Former Defence Secretary James Mattis declined to carry out orders from President Trump or otherwise limited his options in order to manage the escalation of tensions with North Korea, Iran and Syria, a report from The New Yorker has suggested. "The president thinks out loud. Do you treat it like an order? Or do you treat it as part of ...

Idaho State Journal | Nick Gier: There is unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive us. current U.S. intelligence official on North Korea Pyongyangs nuclear and missile pledges are about as disposable as toilet paper. Harry Kazianis of Fox News Just as Trump abandoned a good Iranian nuclear agreement,...

Press TV - North Korea has threatened to cancel an unprecedented summit between its leader Kim Jung-un and US President Donald Trump. Washington will "have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-US summit in light of this provocative military" said the North's official news agency KCNA on Tuesday. "This ...

KUNA-- North Korea on Monday highlighted its 45-year-long ties with Iran and defended Tehran's stance toward a nuclear deal with major powers that US President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap, the Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency reported. "Iran is developing its missile programs without giving in to outside pressure as they are not constrained ...

The Washington Post | Fareed Zakaria: If confirmed as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo will arrive at a State Department that has been battered byproposed budget cuts, hollowed out by resignations and vacancies, and neutered by President Trumps impulsive and personal decision-making style. But Pompeos most immediate challenge will not be rebuilding ...

Press TV - North Korea will send its nominal head of state to South Korea later this week to attend the Winter Olympic Games, which have provided a rare opportunity for the two Koreas to set aside long-running hostilities. Since a thaw emerged in inter-Korean relations on New Years Day, athletes have exchanged visits to train jointly and diplomats ...

Press TV - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has hailed the progress made in the talks between North and South Koreas for easing tensions on the peninsula, an attitude that has "sidelined" US President Donald Trump, according to a New York-based political commentator. Guterres welcomed "the agreement to work to ease military tensions, hold ...

Press TV - All eyes are on the two Koreas as the approaching Winter Olympics provides a perfect opportunity for the two unfriendly neighbors to engage in some fence mending. Preliminary reports suggest North Korea has said it will send a delegation of high-ranking officials, athletes, and a cheering squad to the Pyeongchang games in the South next ...

The New York Times | DAVID E. SANGERandWILLIAM J. BROAD: At the start of Donald Trumps presidency, American intelligence agencies told the new administration that while North Korea had built the bomb, there was still ample time upward of four years to slow or stop its development of a missile capable of hitting an American city with a nuclear warhead....

Press TV - A South Korean government source says North Korea plans to launch a new satellite, as Pyongyang stresses its right to a peaceful space program. Through various channels, weve recently learned that the North has completed a new satellite and named it Kwangmyongsong-5, the South Korean newspaper Joongang Ilbo quoted the unnamed source ...

IRNA US measures against Iran's nuclear agreement send a destructive message to the Korean Peninsula crisis, said the Russian minister of foreign affairs on Tuesday. 'The US position on the Iranian nuclear deal does not help with North Korea,' Sergey Lavrov told Russia Today. Lavrov added, 'By undermining the Iranian deal Washington is sending ...

IFP - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, December 24, and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A major story in several newspapers today was the air pollution in Tehran and other megacities, and a protest rally held by the citizens ...

Press TV - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has voted unanimously in favor of imposing new sanctions on North Korea following itslatest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, a move that could exert crippling pressure on the peninsular countrys struggling economy. Members of the UN Security Council voted 15-0 on Friday in ...

Reuters - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a possible breakdown of the Iran nuclear deal would send the wrong signal when it came to trying to resolve the situation around North Korea, the RIA and Interfax news agencies reported on Friday. Any attempts to provoke a military scenario for North Korea would lead to catastrophe, the agencies ...

Press TV - North Korean leaderKimJong-un has said that he will turn his country into the "world's strongest nuclear power." According to North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency,Kim made the remarks while addressing workers behind the north's latest missile test on Tuesday, adding that Pyongyang "will victoriously advance and leap ...

Press TV - The US ambassador to the United Nations steps up rhetoric against North Korea following its latest missile test, threatening to utterly destroy the regime if war breaks out. Nikki Haley made the comments during a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, parroting US President Donald Trumps earlier threats against Pyongyang. [caption ...

Press TV - North Korea has confirmed that it has now achieved full nuclear statehood after successfully launching a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which it said is capable of reaching anywhere in the United States. Pyongyang launched a new type of ICBM, called the Hwasong-15, which flew high into space for 53 minutes before landing ...

Press TV - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Washington is still hopeful for diplomacy with North Korea amid mounting s pressure against nuclear-powered Pyongyang. The former ExxonMobil CEO made the comments after US President Donald Trump declared North Korea a state sponsor of terror on Monday. "We still hope for diplomacy," Tillerson ...

Iran Review | Ramin Nadimi: A large body of literature has emerged with regard to crises in the international system with its main theme being Iran's nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of world powers, which is also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). To that literature, one must add an effort by the US administration under President ...