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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2017 18:32:15 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2017 18:23:52 GMT
A report that Kim Jong Un is dead and that it was an American sniper who killed him is fake news, despite an alarming headline and short story posted on dailysidnews.com. A July 6, 2017, post headlined, "Kim Jong Un dead: North Koreans calling Trump an assassin," claims the North Korean leader died "of an apparent high-powered gunshot wound to the head" and that state media reports the "bullet came from the sniper rifle of an American positioned more than a mile away." Though the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is secretive and the government controls information and the media, there have been no reports by international independent, official news organizations of Kim Jong Un’s death.
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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2017 18:40:03 GMT
North Korea has fired another intercontinental ballistic missile, the U.S. Department of Defense says. The missile, which launched just before midnight local time, traveled roughly 620 miles — from the country's northern province of Jagang to the Sea of Japan, where it finally splashed into the waters off Japan's west coast. There have been no immediate reports of damage, and Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis says the North American Aerospace Defense Command "determined the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America." "Testing an ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] represents a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region and the world," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement at the time. "Global action is required to stop a global threat." It also comes less than two weeks after the South Korean government made a rare diplomatic overture to Pyongyang, seeking new military talks with Kim Jong Un's regime. That offer was never accepted.
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Post by Admin on Jul 31, 2017 18:31:36 GMT
Vice President Mike Pence said the administration thinks China should be doing more to combat North Korea’s aggression. During a trip to Estonia on Sunday, Pence conducted an interview with Fox News and answered questions from pool reporters. "We believe China should do more,” Pence said when asked about recent North Korean aggression. “The president has been clear about that in his conversations with President Xi [Jinping] that while China has taken unprecedented steps to begin to isolate North Korea economically and to bring diplomatic pressure, we believe China has a unique relationship with the regime in North Korea and has a unique ability to influence decisions by that regime and we call on China to use that influence along with other nations in the region to encourage North Korea to join the family of nations, to embrace a nuclear-free Korean peninsula and abandon its provocative actions and its ballistic missile program," he said.
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2017 18:29:58 GMT
A new assessment by the Defense Department's Defense Intelligence Agency estimates that North Korea could be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The confidential assessment cuts about two years off the estimate for when Pyongyang could reach U.S. cities with atomic weapons, the Post says. North Korea stunned the world earlier this month when it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, but apparently not the intelligence community. A spokesperson for the agency declined a request from USA TODAY for comment on the assessment. So did the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, but it did provide a broad statement from Scott Bray, the office's national intelligence manager for East Asia. The range of that missile appeared to put Alaska within reach, but apparently not yet the continental U.S. Still, the House Armed Services Committee held a classified briefing Tuesday focused on the pace of North Korea's ICBM development.
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