Press TV - North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has announced plans to stop the country's nuclear and missile tests and close a nuclear test site. "From April 21, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles," South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted North Korean state media as saying on Saturday. "The ...

RT- The North Korean issue is causing global concern and the US-Russian spat is paving way to yet another arms race. Is a world free of nuclear weapons a beautiful pipedream or an achievable target? We ask Jayantha Dhanapala, the former United Nations Under-Secretary for Disarmament Affairs. Sophie Shevardnadze: Jayantha Dhanapala, the former United ...

Press TV - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says his country has developed the capability to hit all of US mainland with its nuclear weapons, and that the "nuclear launch button" is on his desk. During a televised New Years day speech on Monday, Kim said,"These weapons will be used only if our security is threatened." "The entire United States ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Washington Post | Nathan Gardels: Negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear and missile program is the only alternative to war. But attempting to renegotiate the Iran deal, as U.S. President Donald Trump has called for, would open a can of worms that would likely kill the hard-won agreement to stem nuclear proliferation in the Middle East....

Press TV - North Korea says the US has flown heavy strategic bombers over the Korean Peninsula and carried out bombing drills simulating attacks on major targets in the country. The B-1B bombers, escorted by US and South Korean fighter jets, flew on Thursday from a US Air Force base in Guam to conduct a surprise strike drill, Norths official ...

IFP - Iranian president says Pyongyang is not that much crazy to engage in negotiations with the Trump administration, which does not live up to its commitments under any international agreement. The US calls on North Korea to sit for talks but Pyongyang is not that much crazy to do so because the US has shown in word and practice that ...

The Sydney Morning Herald - Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has said there is a "powerful argument" that US President Donald Trump's threat to scrap the Iran nuclear deal could imperil efforts to negotiate a peaceful outcome with North Korea. In a significant sharpening of Australia's public rhetoric on the Obama-era Iran agreement, Ms Bishop ...

Press TV - Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said the United States would never accept a nuclear North Korea, warning of a "massive military response" to any use of nuclear weaponsagainst Washington or its allies. "Make no mistake -- any attack on the United States or our allies will be defeated," the Pentagon chief said Saturday at a press ...

Press TV - Russia and the European Union (EU) have slapped tougher restrictions onNorth Korea as part of the international efforts to stop Pyongyangs nuclear weapons program. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree for punitive measures against Pyongyang based on a UN Security Council Resolution adopted in December 2016. The ...

FNA- Iran on Monday rejected any relationship between Tehran and Pyongyang's nuclear programs and the country's assistance to North Korea to develop its missile program. "The positions taken by the US (against Iran) on the nuclear, missile and regional issues are irrelevant allegations that will receive a necessary response at a proper time. It ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has rejected diplomatic means for dealing with North Koreas escalating missile and nuclear weapon testing, suggesting that a military response is the only option against Pyongyang. Sorry, but only one thing will work, Trump wrote in a Saturday tweet after insisting that US authorities have negotiated and ...

Press TV- The White House is sending mixed signals about negotiations with North Korea after US President Donald Trumps comment, indicating that diplomacy with the Asian nuclear power is a waste of time. Weve been clear that now is not the time to talk, saidWhite House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a daily press briefing on Monday....

Time |Tim Kaine: North Koreatested itssixth nuclear deviceearlier this month. Experts estimated that the blast from this test was significantly stronger than the 1945 Hiroshima bomb. This test puts a rogue regime one step closer to placing anuclear bombon an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the continental United States. Yet ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump saysWashington is "totally prepared" to take a devastating military action against Pyongyangas rhetoric heats up between the two countries following the recent spate of tit-for-tat barbs. We are totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred option, Trump said at a White House news conference on ...

Press TV - A South Korean report says North Korea has been reinforcing defenses on its east coast, amid a rising risk of a military confrontation with the United States. South Koreas Yonhap news agency said in a report on Tuesday that Pyongyang had been moving aircraft to its east coast and taking other measures to boost its defenses. Tensions ...

Press TV - In an open letter to international leaders, a North Korean parliamentary committee has called for sharp vigilance with regards to the United States, saying recent remarks by US President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) constituted a declaration of war against Pyongyang. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the ...

Press TV - The US Air Force has flown its B-1B Lancer bombers, escorted by F-15 jet fighters, off North Koreas coast farthest north of the Demilitarized Zone, in what the Pentagon describes as a show of US resolve while Pyongyangs top diplomat insists at the UN that targeting US mainland with missiles isinevitable. "This mission is a demonstration ...