President
Trump warned during his first State of the Union address that North Korea could soon be able to strike the United States with a nuclear weapon.
"No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea," Trump said Tuesday. "North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland. We are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from ever happening."
"Past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation," Trump said. "I will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this very dangerous position."
Trump: North Korea 'could very soon threaten our homeland'
North Korean officials desperate to feed Kim Jong Un’s hungry army are ransacking the homes of drought-stricken farmers to collect every last grain of food inside, according to a report that highlights rising tensions between the regime and the public.
North Korean officials ransacking farmers' homes to find food for Kim's hungry army, report says
North Korea is stepping up its execution of top political officers to prevent the regime from deteriorating under immense pressure caused by international sanctions, a U.S. general said after recent reports suggested that a key member of Kim Jong Un’s inner circle was reported executed by death squad.
North Korea increasing executions of top political officers amid sanctions strain, US general says
(Reuters) - North Korea has canceled a joint cultural performance with South Korea scheduled for Feb. 4 blaming South Korean media for encouraging "insulting" public sentiment regarding the North, South Korea's unification ministry said on Monday.
North Korea cancels joint performance with South Korea, blames South m
The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on six North Korean ships, 16 individuals and nine companies that it said had facilitated Pyongyang's weapons programs in a continuing effort to further isolate the regime.
The sanctions are part of a strategy by the Trump administration to pressure North Korea into abandoning its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Increasingly, the administration has been turning its attention to the smuggling going on despite a round of U.N. sanctions.
U.S. imposes sanctions on North Korean ships suspected of smuggling goods
When Senator Tammy Duckworth returned from a recent trip to South Korea and Japan, she brought back a sobering
message: “Americans simply are not in touch with just how close we are to war on the Korean peninsula.” In a
speech at Georgetown University, she laid out the U.S. military maneuvers over the past several months—including a nuclear-powered submarine
heading to South Korea, the
movement of three aircraft carriers to the Western Pacific, and the Army
testing out“mobilization centers” for deploying troops and
training soldiers to fight in tunnels like those beneath North Korea—that inform this worry. In an interview with me, she said the U.S. military seems to be operating with the attitude that a conflict “‘will probably happen, and we better be ready to go.’”
'The Military Has Seen the Writing on the Wall'
President Donald Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, also flatly rejected the clearest path to peace by saying the US would never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea. He recommitted the US to using force if necessary.
"We're not committed to a peaceful resolution - we're committed to a resolution,"
McMaster told the BBC. "We have to be prepared, if necessary, to compel the denuclearization of North Korea without the cooperation of that regime."
The US and China are preparing for all hell to break loose in North Korea