The U.S. media is trying really, really hard to make sense out of the military saber rattling that is becoming a daily event in Pyongyang. Read more »
North Korea is different. Under its untested new leader, Kim Jong-un, believed to be 29 or 30, the always-belligerent pariah state has raised its level of threats in... Read more »
The parading of U.S. air and naval power within view of the Korean peninsula — first a few long-range bombers, then stealth fighters, then ships — is as... Read more »
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday warned North Korea to halt a recent spate of rhetoric and actions, calling them provocative, dangerous and reckless. He also... Read more »
North Korea said Tuesday it will escalate production of nuclear weapons material, including restarting a long-shuttered plutonium reactor, in what outsiders see as... Read more »
North Korea on Monday shifted, at least temporarily, away from weeks of warlike rhetoric, appointing a new premier seen as an economic reformer after a high-level... Read more »
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