US urges new sanctions on NKorea and warns of catastrophe

In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017 photo released by the U.S. Navy, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, center, leads the U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain, right front, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Atago-class guided-missile destroyer JS Ashigara, left front, and the JMSDF Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare during a transit of the Philippine Sea toward the Korean Peninsula for an exercise with South Korea. The United States called for new sanctions on North Korea Friday and threatened to punish international companies doing banned business with the pariah nation's nuclear and missile programs.

The Latest: US to urge UN to increase pressure on NKorea

In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017 photo released by the U.S. Navy, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, center, leads the U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain, right front, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Atago-class guided-missile destroyer JS Ashigara, left front, and the JMSDF Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare during a transit of the Philippine Sea toward the Korean Peninsula for an exercise with South Korea.

US admiral says N. Korea crisis is at worst point he’s seen

The senior U.S. Navy officer overseeing military operations in the Pacific said Thursday that the crisis with North Korea is at the worst point he's ever seen, but he declined to compare the situation to the Cuban missile crisis decades ago. "It's real," Adm.

Trump administration talks tough on North Korea, but frustrated lawmakers want details

From Second from left, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. prepare to board a bus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, as they head to the White House to get a briefing on North Korea.

White House briefs Senate amid tense times with North Korea

This photo distributed on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows what was said to be a "Combined Fire Demonstration" held to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the North Korean army, in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service.

A submarine that carries US Navy SEALs just arrived off the coast of North Korea

SEALs and divers from SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 swim back to the guided-missile submarine USS Michigan during an exercise for certification on SEAL delivery vehicle operations in the southern Pacific Ocean. South Korea's Yonhap News agency reported on Monday that the USS Michigan, a submarine that sometimes moves special forces like the US Navy SEALs, would join the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group off of North Korea's coast.

a Mismatcha between N. Korean rhetoric and actual capability, says Pacific Command chief

The virulent rhetoric coming from the North Korea which has dramatically escalated tensions with the U.S. and its allies in the Pacific current has far outpaced the regime's ability to deliver on those threats, the top U.S. commander in the region told Congress Wednesday. American and allied commanders in the region are trying to navigate their way through the aggressive posture North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has taken on the country's nuclear weapons program, versus the true nature of the country's combat capability, U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm.

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North Korean leader takes the salute as his army fires rockets and torpedoes at mock enemy warships during country's 'largest ever' live-fire artillery drills Father of kidnapped Tennessee teenager divorces her mother and accuses her of 'beating the girl, locking her in the basement' and making her 'vulnerable' to 50-year-old teacher U.S. Navy fires warning flare at an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions between the two countries U.S. Air Force launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California as a test amid rising tensions with North Korea 'See you in the Supreme Court!' Trump blasts 'egregious overreach' of San Francisco judge who blocked his sanctuary city crackdown and says liberal lawmakers who protect illegal immigrant criminals 'have blood on their hands' I'm a North Korean... Get me out of here! 'Super-hot' defectors are celebs in South Korea ... (more)

Al Pacino, 77, kisses Lucila Sola, 38, in Mexico

North Korean leader takes the salute as his army fires rockets and torpedoes at mock enemy warships during country's 'largest ever' live-fire artillery drills Father of kidnapped Tennessee teenager divorces her mother and accuses her of 'beating the girl, locking her in the basement' and making her 'vulnerable' to 50-year-old teacher U.S. Navy fires warning flare at an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions between the two countries U.S. Air Force launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California as a test amid rising tensions with North Korea 'See you in the Supreme Court!' Trump blasts 'egregious overreach' of San Francisco judge who blocked his sanctuary city crackdown and says liberal lawmakers who protect illegal immigrant criminals 'have blood on their hands' I'm a North Korean... Get me out of here! 'Super-hot' defectors are celebs in South Korea ... (more)

US sets up missile defense in S. Korea as North shows power

U.S. military vehicle moves as South Korean police officers try to block residents and protesters who oppose a plan to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, in ... . In this Monday, April 24, 2017 photo released by the U.S. Navy, the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan is greeted as it arrives in Busan, South Korea, for a sc... .

Pence cites ‘challenging times’ to troops in American Samoa

U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence has thanked American service members based in American Samoa, citing "challenging times" for the military in the Asia-Pacific. Completing a visit to the region and en route back to the United States, Pence addressed some 200 soldiers during a refuelling stop in Pago Pago.

Parker: Strategy, policy are foreign to Trump – Sun, 23 Apr 2017 PST

Foreign leaders and local interlocutors, aka pundits, might as well take a vacation for the next few minutes until Donald Trump's next foreign policy "strategy" surfaces from deep within his amygdala. For to presume a strategy when Trump toys with potentially lethal nations - threatening to tear apart the nuclear agreement with Iran or putting North Korea on notice that doom may befall it any moment - is to imagine that a toddler has given grave consideration to the gravitational aspects of toppling his brother's Lego edifice.

North Korea tells United States and its allies: ‘Don’t mess with us’

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned North Korea's latest missile test and demanded Pyongyang not conduct any more nuclear tests in a statement that was delayed as the United States and Russian Federation sparred over its language. North Korea has been under United Nations sanctions aimed at impeding the development of its nuclear and missile programs since 2006.