North Korea Promises More Nuclear Tests To Boost Deterrence

U.S. President Donald Trump has said a “major, major conflict” with North Korea is possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

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North Korea's regime defied an increasingly broader chorus of voices, including the US, Japan, China, South Korea and Russia, saying on Monday that it will continue its nuclear weapons tests, and warned it would "speed up to the maximum” its measures for bolstering its nuclear deterrence in response to the U.S. increasing "aggression and hysteria"

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South Korea Rejects Trump’s Demand To Pay For US Missile Defense

Trump’s notion that he might be about to get South Korea to pay for the costly system is the latest in a string of such notions that has come very much after the fact.

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Protesters stage a rally to oppose a plan to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, in Seongju, where the THAAD will be deployed, South Korea, March 18, 2017. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

President Trump has repeatedly made clear that he likes the idea of getting other countries to pay for US military operations that benefit them, and that showed up today in the ongoing buildup on the Korean Peninsula, with Trump talking up how incredible the THAAD missile defense system is, and that it “would be appropriate” for South Korea to pay

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China To Test New Weapons, Stage Live Fire Drills In Retaliation For US THAAD Deployment

China said on Thursday that it would stage live-fire drills and test new weapons to protect its national security.

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Trucks carrying parts of U.S. missile launchers and other equipment needed to set up Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system arrive at Osan air base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, March 6, 2017. (U.S. Force Korea/AP)

Two days after the US military began to move the controversial THAAD anti-missile system into its deployment site in a South Korean golf course (over the protests of hundreds of locals who were promptly quieted when the police showed up), despite vocal protests from China which is "resolutely opposed" to the THAAD deployment and  believes such a

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U.S. Moves Naval Assets To Korean Peninsula, North Korea Warns Against “Dangerous Act”

The aggressive stance taken by the U.S. against North Korea in recent weeks has prompted the country to demonstrate that it could retaliate against any potential attack by the U.S. Meanwhile, media reports in Japan and the U.S. are fomenting domestic fears of a possible nuclear attack.

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A South Korean protester holds up a placard opposing a plan to deploy the a U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, April 27, 2017. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

MINNEAPOLIS -- Soon after the Trump administration took unilateral action against Syria, the focus of U.S. foreign policy quickly shifted thousands of miles away to the isolated, authoritarian government of North Korea – drumming up fears that more U.S. unilateral military action could take place. The U.S. has so far refrained from taking any

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