"Today the U.S.-led racket of brutal sanctions and pressure against the DPRK constitutes contemporary human rights violation and genocide," the North Korean mission to the United Nations in Geneva said in a statement. The sanctions regime "threatens and impedes the enjoyment by the people of DP...
Kim Jong Un's media moments 33 photos UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea's U.N. mission claimed Wednesday that its successful nuclear bomb test showed that it could now "wipe out" the United States, as the U.N. Security Council grappled with a response to the underground blast....
North Korea linked signing the safeguards agreement to the withdrawal of United States nuclear forces from South Korea and American promises not to use nuclear arms against the North. A statement from the North Korean Observer Mission at the UN announced in 1990 that North Korea would sign the ...
Ri said Trump himself was on a "suicide mission" after the U.S. president had said Kim was on such a mission. "'President Evil' is holding the seat of the U.S. President," Ri said, warning that Pyongyang was ready to defend itself if the Un...
Sharing details of the mission, the South Korean spy agency said in a statement that Russian Navy ships transferred the 1,500 North Korean special operation forces to the Russian port city of Vladivostok, eastern Russia, from 8 October to 13 October. ...
Events following theSeptember 11 attacksin 2001 led to the forging of a newdynamicwithin the alliance, one that increasingly favoured the military engagement of members outside Europe, initially with a mission againstTalibanforces inAfghanistanbeginning in the summer of 2003 and subsequently with air ...
On August 18th, 1976, a group of American and South Korean officers decided a poplar tree that partially blocked the view from a UN observatory post should be trimmed. A work force went to go and do it, but were turned away by North Korean soldiers, who said the tree had been planted...
60,000 North Korean Children May Starve, Sanctions Slow Aid: UNICEF More Reuters FILE PHOTO - A North Korean flag flies on a mast at the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva October 2, 2014. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) -...
CNN has requested comment from North Korea’s observer mission to the United Nations in New York and the North Korean Embassy in London. A Treasury Department spokesperson told CNN the department does not comment on potential or hypothetical sanctions violations. “Treasury remains concerned about...
North Korea has accused the United States of “trying to drive the situation of the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war” after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted new sanctions Saturday in response to Pyongyang’s long-range ballistic missile tests last month. ...