While the world rightly shows angst over the missile capabilities a US private form, Rocket Lab. last week successfully launched its 56-foot-tall Electron rocket for the first time. The relatively tiny vehicle designed to ferry small payloads to orbit reached outer space around 20 minutes past [...]
Posts Tagged ‘North Korea’
May 24th, 2017 - 6:53 am § in Donald Trump
North Korea: “Inevitable” path to obtaining a nuclear-armed missile capable of striking the United States
“If left on its current trajectory the regime will ultimately succeed in fielding a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States homeland. While nearly impossible to predict when this capability will be operational, the North Korean regime is committed and is on a pathway w[...]
May 7th, 2017 - 8:23 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Another American detained in North Korea
An American teacher was detained by North Korea over the weekend, Pyongyang announced on Sunday. Kim Hak-song, who worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology was detained on Saturday, was held on Saturday on suspicion of acting against the state, according to the North’s KCNA ne[...]
May 1st, 2017 - 10:16 am § in Donald Trump
Daily Trump Tweet: Trump Would Be Honored To Meet With Kim Jung UN
“If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump said Monday in an interview with Bloomberg News. “If it’s under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that.”[...]
May 1st, 2017 - 8:07 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
China Warns Its Citizens to Leave North Korea
Radio Free Asia. a US based station, reports that a Korean-Chinese living in the PyongYang left for China late last month after the embassy contacted him. The Chinese Embassy in North Korea had advised Korean-Chinese residents to return home amid concern that the North’s military p[...]
NORTH KOREA THREAT “It’s Real”
Washington – The senior U.S. Navy officer overseeing military operations in the Pacific said Thursday that the crisis with North Korea is at the worst point he’s ever seen, but he declined to compare the situation to the Cuban missile crisis decades ago. “It’s real,” Adm. Harry Harris [...]
April 26th, 2017 - 8:44 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
Xi tells Donald to Behave Himself
Kirsty Needham (Sydney Morning Herlad, Beijing, 24 APRIL 2017) Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his US counterpart Donald Trump that Beijing opposes any action on the Korean Peninsula that goes against UN Security Council resolutions. The phone call between the two leaders came as Chinese med[...]
Rogue Dear Leader vs. Rogue Mr. President…
Opinion | The North Korea-Trump Nightmare It’s scary to consider what a frustrated president could do. NYTIMES.COM[...]
April 16th, 2017 - 8:57 am § in Foreign Affairs, Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Rumors from North Korea
Ngovi Kitau shared a link to the group: North Korea Study Group. Anyone with more information on this report byTaiwan Central News Agency republished by KBS?: “The report said that Pyongyang is demanding China ensure the North’s security and economic gain and give a period of three yea[...]
April 15th, 2017 - 7:22 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
AFTER TRUMP: Reignite Korean War?
China fears North Korea-US conflict ‘at any moment’ – BBC News The concern comes as the US takes a tough line on North Korea, which may test… BBC.COM|BY BBC NEWS[...]