The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted new sanctions against North Korea on Monday, imposing caps on its imports of oil but stopping short of measures that could cripple the regime.The move comes in the wake of North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3.The sanctions in
South Korea is not considering the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons into the country, the presidential office said Sunday, in response to a U.S. media report that hinted the Trump government is willing to take it as a viable option should Seoul ask for it."There is no change in the governme
An influential American senator on Sunday called for serious consideration of redeploying U.S. nuclear weapons to South Korea.In an interview with CNN, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he thinks "it ought to be seriously considered" in the wake of North Korea
North Korea warned Monday that the United States will suffer the "greatest pain" if it pushes ahead with new tougher U.N. sanctions over its sixth nuclear test.Pyongyang's threat comes as the U.S. asked the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) last week to vote on new sanctions Monday in res
A bipartisan group of U.S. House lawmakers have introduced a resolution condemning North Korea's threat against the U.S. territory of Guam.Last month, the North threatened to fire intermediate-range ballistic missiles into waters just 30-40 kilometers off the Pacific island, a key strategic poin
South Korea's military is watching North Korea closely for signs of provocations, officials said Saturday, amid concern the regime could undertake a missile launch or even another nuclear test on its founding anniversary. The anniversary, which marks the 1948 establishment of the North
The Philippines has suspended trade with North Korea as part of efforts to enforce a U.N. Security Council resolution against the regime, according to news reports.On Friday, Foreign Minister Alan Peter Cayetano told reporters in the capital of the decision in the wake of North Korea's sixth and
Traces of xenon gas, a radionuclide, were detected in South Korea, the nuclear safety agency said Friday, five days after North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test.The the radioactive material, the xenon-133 isotope, was found in the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission's analysis o
South Korean President Moon Jae-in defended the government's decision to fully deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system here Friday, saying it was an inevitable decision to protect his people from evolving nuclear and missile provocations from North Korea.The president,
South Korea will explore all measures to prevent North Korea from perfecting a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the unification minister said Friday.Minister Cho Myoung-gyon also said that now is not the right time to seek talks with North Korea amid tensions sparked by its
South Korea's unification ministry said Friday it plans to seek trilateral economic cooperation involving the two Koreas and Russia after taking into account international sanctions and public sentiment.President Moon Jae-in has unveiled the so-called new Northern Policy designed to expand econo
The United States has tentatively concluded that North Korea detonated an H-bomb over the weekend, as the regime has claimed, a senior U.S. administration official said Thursday.The remark underscores the gravity of the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, as an
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis assured South Korea Thursday that it will not face the North Korean nuclear threat alone.Mattis was responding to Yonhap News Agency's question about reports the North could test another long-range missile on the anniversary of its founding day on Saturday."We,
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that it is keeping close tabs on any possible escalation of retaliation by China against South Korea over its deployment of additional launchers for the U.S. THAAD missile defense system.Earlier, the defense ministry here announced that the deployment of
Top diplomats from South Korea and Japan underlined the need to intensify sanctions and pressure against North Korea to resolve the North's evolving nuclear and missile threats, the foreign ministry here said Thursday.Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Japanese counterpart Taro Kono continu
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that military action is not his first choice for dealing with the nuclear threat from North Korea.He made the remark before boarding a plane to North Dakota, in response to reporters' questions about North Korea and his phone call earlier in the day wit
North Korea has held a public event to celebrate its latest detonation of what it calls a hydrogen bomb that can fit on a long-range missile, calling the test an "auspicious" national event, its state media said Thursday.Citizens and servicemen were gathered Wednesday at a plaza named after late f
South Korean Marines have conducted a massive exercise on defending a front-line island near the tense western sea border with North Korea, their command said Thursday.The three-day drill took place on Baengnyeong Island, just south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea, involving "all
The U.S. military will deploy additional missile interceptor launchers to its base in a southern town early Thursday despite strong opposition from residents and activists, according to local villagers.The residents' group in Seonju said Wednesday Seoul's defense ministry has informed the me
South Korea said Wednesday that it is closely monitoring possible radiation traces from North Korea's latest nuclear test, as a post-test tremor occurred due to a collapse in an underground tunnel at the test site.Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon told lawmakers Tuesday that North Koreans liv