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Iran nuke deal offers a model for North Korea, Kerry says

(CNSNews.com) – The "successful" achievement of a nuclear deal with Iran provides a "model" for how the international community should deal with North Korea, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday in Beijing. He was speaking on the same day the International Atomic Energy

American

North Korea sends another US citizen to prison

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday sentenced a U.S. citizen of Korean heritage to 10 years in prison after convicting him of espionage and subversion, the second American it has put behind bars this year. Kim Dong Chul had been detained in the North on suspicion of

Barack Obama

Seeing slow progress, leaders face disparate nuclear threats

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of world leaders assembling Friday for a nuclear security summit will confront a disparate array of modern-day threats, ranging from government actors like North Korea to murkier groups like the Islamic State. Frustration over the slow pace of reducing nuclear stockpiles shadowed the final day of the

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North Korea threatens South, US with nuke strikes

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate "pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice" on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction to the start of huge U.S.-South Korean military drills. Such threats have been a staple of

American

North Korea puts tearful detained American before cameras

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church back home who wanted it as a "trophy"

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N. Korea orders military takeover of inter-Korean factories

PAJU, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday ordered a military takeover of a factory park that had been the last major symbol of cooperation with South Korea, saying Seoul's earlier suspension of operations at the jointly run facility as punishment for the North's recent rocket

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Plutonium reactor restarted in N. Korea, U.S. spymaster says

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea has expanded a uranium enrichment plant and restarted a plutonium reactor that could begin recovering material for nuclear weapons in weeks or months, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday in delivering an annual threat assessment by intelligence agencies, which lists the top dangers facing the

terrorism

Missile launch by N. Korea met with tepid response, again

WASHINGTON (CNSNews.com) – North Korea's rocket launch Sunday sparked a now familiar pattern of responses to provocative actions by the Kim regime, with the U.S. leading a chorus of condemnation and calling for a "firm" U.N. Security Council response, and China signaling it wants