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 - 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 - 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 ...

Press TV - American and South Korean warships have launched war games off the coast of the Korean Peninsula in an unusually strong display of force aimed at North Korea. The November 11-14 joint drills, which began on Saturday in the western Pacific, involve three US aircraft carriers -- USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has once again returned tofiery rhetoric against North Korea, threatening Pyongyang with destruction if it continues nuclear provocations. Addressing South Koreas National Assembly on Wednesday, Trump attempted to portray his administration as much more willing than former US administrations to resort to ...

Press TV - Russian authorities have denied reports that Moscow and Washington have started cooperating on an escalating standoff over North Korea. In a Saturday statement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected there was any cooperation between Russia, a main North Korea ally, and the US, a main adversary, on the situation on the Korean Peninsula,...

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 ...

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 ...

Sputnik News- US President Donald Trump has commented on several issues, including the North Korean crisis, the NAFTA agreement and the influence of Chinese President Xi Jinping, during an interview with Fox News. US President Donald Trump said onSunday that the United States was prepared forany course ofevents withregard tothe development ...

Press TV - North Koreas leader Kim Jong-un has defended Pyongyangs nuclear program as a powerful deterrent against US threats, playing down the effect of theWashington-backed UN sanctions slapped on hiscountry over its military activities. At a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers Party, Kim addressed the complicated international ...

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 United States diplomatic channels with North Korea are not open forever, says the US State Department. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert warned North Korean leader Kim Jong-un Sunday that the US may close the channels. "Diplomatic channels are open for #KimJongUn for now. They won't be open forever," she tweeted. Nauert further ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has warned the North Korean foreign minister after his speech to the United Nations that "they won't be around much longer" if he "echoes thoughts" of his boss, Kim Jong-un. "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N.," Trump tweeted late on Saturday. "If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man,...

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 ...

Press TV- South Korean President Moon Jae-in says any US military action against North Korea must be taken with Seouls prior consent, adding that the United States has agreed to consult South Korea before taking any military measure on the Korean Peninsula. I am saying any military action to be taken on the Korean Peninsula requires South Koreas ...

RT |Neil Clark : Will World War III kick off this week because of the bellicose actions of a buffoonish leader with a dodgy hair-cut and his sinister nuclear-armed warmongering rogue state? Or, can Donald Trump and the US be deterred? Of course, in State Department-friendly Western media, its North Korea and its leadership who are routinely portrayed ...

American Herald Tribune | Robert Fantina: United States President Donald Trump has been acting more and more juvenile, emulating a schoolyard bully, since North Korea has been rattling its small saber. He has threatened to send fire and fury upon North Korea (perhaps reminiscent of the Shock and Awe attack perpetrated by the U.S. on Iraq), and followed ...

Alwaght- The nuclear war rhetoric between the United States and North Korea has moved to new levels after Donald Trump warned Pyongyang would face fire and fury like the world has never seen. On Tuesday, Trump responded to news of North Korea's expanded nuclear capability by stating that: "North Korea had best not make any more threats to the United ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has said a military option against North Korea is "locked and loaded," ratcheting up his war of words against the Asian nation. "Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" Trump tweeted on Friday. A day earlier,...

IFP - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday, August 10, and picked headlines from 18 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Many newspapers today analysed the list of President Hassan Rouhanis proposed ministers, and the female vice-presidents he has ...