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Former U.S. ambassador says North Korea's latest missile launch suggests an attempt to separate the U.S. from the Korean peninsula.
North Korea launched a missile Tuesday, with the Japan saying it might have landed in Japan's EEZ.
Trump meets with South Korea's Moon, says the era of strategic patience with North Korea "is over."
US sanctions on a Chinese bank aiding Pyongyang are "extremely long overdue" and bigger banks should maybe be next, says an ex-CIA official.
A North Korean diplomat on Wednesday raised the possibility of the hermit regime holding talks with the United States.
A North Korea war would be "catastrophic" but the U.S. would ultimately prevail, the US Defense secretary told Congress Thursday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday that North Korea's advancing missile and nuclear programs were the "most urgent" threat to national security.
Former National Basketball Association player Dennis Rodman is expected to arrive in North Korea on Tuesday. He has met Kim Jong Un previously on several trips.
San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams said he sees a total of three interest rate increases for this year as his baseline scenario.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said steps will be taken in coordination with the U.S. to deter future provocations.
According to the New York Times, Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that he sent two nuclear submarines to Korean waters.
North Korea says its latest missile test has confirmed the reliability of late-stage guidance to deliver a potential nuclear warhead.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday, South Korea and Japan said, a week after an intermediate-range missile test.
Bitcoin hits $1,900 to reach record high with market cap up $4 billion this week alone.
Iran is continuing to help North Korea with weapons technology as Pyongyang's new missile test emboldens the hermit regime.
South Koreans went to the polls on Tuesday, in an election that may have already swayed under bombastic rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump.
The U.S. is engaged in a war of words on trade and needs to back up its language with "smart" diplomacy, Michael Ivanovitch says.
Fitch's head of Asia-Pacific Sovereigns, Stephen Schwartz, says getting the May 9 presidential election out of the way will help sentiment over political concerns.
Investors have been very worried about geopolitical risks but PineBridge Investments' MD Michael Kelly says such tensions are peaking.
U.S. strategic B-1B bombers flew over the Korean Peninsula this week in a joint drill with the South Korean air force, prompting a strong retort from North Korea.
