Trump and ‘The Madman Theory’: Charles Krauthammer
At the heart of Donald Trump's foreign policy team lies a glaring contradiction. On the one hand, it is composed of men of experience, judgment and traditionalism.
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US, China diplomats discussed North Korea following coal ban
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi affirmed the importance of a constructive bilateral relationship during a phone call, a statement from the US State Department said on Tuesday . A day before the announcement of the coal import suspension, Tillerson urged China to "use all available tools to moderate North Korea's destabilizing behavior" during his first talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi since taking office.
Trump handling of security information at Mar-a-Lago queried by House panel
President Donald Trump's handling of U.S. security information at his Florida resort came under congressional scrutiny on Tuesday as a watchdog panel asked the White House to explain reports that Trump dealt with a sensitive foreign policy issue in view of club guests. Representative Jason Chaffetz, head of the House of Representatives oversight committee, sent a letter asking the White House for details on how Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded to a North Korean ballistic missile test while visiting the Mar-a-Lago golf resort over the weekend.
Few good options in Trump arsenal to counter defiant North Korea
Despite his campaign vows to take a tougher line with North Korea, President Donald Trump's restrained public reaction to Pyongyang's first ballistic missile launch on his watch underscores that he has few good options to curb its missile and nuclear programs. The responses under consideration - which range from additional sanctions to U.S. shows of force to beefed-up missile defense, according to one administration official - do not seem to differ significantly so far from the North Korea playbook followed by Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama.
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US, North Korea trade warnings over potential ICBM test
With Donald Trump getting ready to take office as president, North Korea is talking about launching a newly perfected intercontinental ballistic missile. Officials in Washington are saying that if Pyongyang launches anything that threatens the territory of the U.S. or its allies, it will be shot down.
Darrell Delamaide’s Political Capital: Trump will play Congress like a fiddle
The full scope of Hillary Clinton's loss and Donald Trump's victory will become apparent this week as the newly elected Congress convenes. We all know the Republicans swept the elections, winning the White House and retaining control of both houses of Congress.
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NK shows interest in US presidential election, prefers Trump to Clinton: report
North Korea hopes that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will win the race for the White House over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, a US broadcaster reported Wednesday, citing a Japanese journalist who has made a visit to the North. Keisuke Fukuda, an editor at Japan's Toyo Keizai magazine specializing in Korean affairs, said in an interview with the Voice of America, "People at the North Korean government and public institutions show an interest in the US presidential election and appears to wait for its outcome cautiously."
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Responding to Trump, China says committed to Korea stability
China said Tuesday it is making every effort to ensure stability on the Korean Peninsula, responding to implications from U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump that it isn't putting enough pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear program. Beijing didn't cause the nuclear crisis currently gripping the peninsula, but would oppose the spread of nuclear weapons, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters at a daily news briefing.
Ex-Sen. Lieberman: UN Should Treat Rouhani As Pariah, Not Honored Guest
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani should be treated as an international pariah, not an honored guest, former Sen. Joe Lieberman said at a rally outside United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, a day before Rouhani is scheduled to speak there. Lieberman compared the Iranian regime to that led by Kim Jong-un in North Korea, saying both were "brutal" and totalitarian and spend "much too much money building weapons to threaten to their neighbors."
US, China to step up cooperation on North Korea
US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang agreed on Monday to step up cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law-enforcement channels after North Korea's fifth nuclear test, the White House said. China and the United States are also targeting the finances of Liaoning Hongxiang Industrial, a Chinese conglomerate headed by a Communist Party cadre, that the Obama administration thinks has a role in assisting North Korea's nuclear program, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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North Korea's fifth nuclear test in defiance of international efforts has once again raised the question: why does a seemingly united world not stop the rogue nation from making trouble? Since it started testing missiles in 1993, the isolated state's nuclear and missile programmes, though erratic and often failures, have stirred up one crisis after another, despite sanctions unanimously imposed by members of the United Nations Security Council since 2006. Over the past decade, Pyongyang has been conducting nuclear tests at intervals of two or three years.
North Korea rips US bomber flyover as bluff
North Korea on Wednesday scoffed at the US Air Force's show of force a day earlier, saying Washington was "bluffing" and "blustering" with the flyover of B-1 bombers. "They are bluffing that B-1Bs are enough for fighting an all-out nuclear war," said a statement from Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency.
Int’l community voices strong condemnation of DPRK nuclear test
After the Democratic People's Republic of Korea announced it has successfully carried out another nuclear test on Friday, the international community voiced its strong condemnation over the event. The DPRK's state-run television made the announcement early Friday, making the test the fifth of its kind in the country.
North Korea nuke test becomes election weapon
The test -- Pyongyang's fifth and most powerful -- had enough force to "rip the heart out of a city," one expert said. It marks one more step in North Korea's efforts to develop the missiles and miniaturized warheads needed to reach its perceived enemies.
China’s in the hot seat on 2 major foreign-policy issues
In July, the US agreed to equip South Korea with America's most advanced missile defense system in order to counter North Korean threats. China, Pyongyang's closest ally, has said that since the bilateral decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery the North's missile tests have expanded and are poised to increase.
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Washington The US imposed sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and 10 other top officials on Wednesday for human rights abuses in an escalation of Washington's effort to isolate the authoritarian government. Although North Korea is already sanctioned to the hilt because of its nuclear weapons program, it is the first time that Kim has been personally sanctioned, and the first time that any North Korean officials have been blacklisted in connection with rights abuses, such as running the nation's notorious gulag and running down defectors.